According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon will soon open its own department stores, with a focus on apparel, electronics and household goods. The Seattle Times reports: The first stores are expected to be located in Ohio and California and will be a…
Toyota To Cut Global Production By 40% Due To Global Microchip Shortage
Toyota is to slash worldwide vehicle production by 40% in September because of the global microchip shortage. The BBC reports: The world’s biggest carmaker had planned to make almost 900,000 cars next month, but has now reduced that to 540,000 vehicles…
OnlyFans To Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting In October
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business. The company will prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October. Creators will still be allowed to post nude photos…
Scientists Grew Stem Cell ‘Mini Brains’ That Developed Rudimentary Eyes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: Mini brains grown in a lab from stem cells have spontaneously developed rudimentary eye structures scientists report in a fascinating new paper. On tiny, human-derived brain organoids grown in dish…
‘Apple’s Device Surveillance Plan Is a Threat To User Privacy — And Press Freedom’
The Freedom of the Press Foundation is calling Apple’s plan to scan photos on user devices to detect known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) a “dangerous precedent” that “could be misused when Apple and its partners come under outside pressure from go…
COVID-19 Vaccines May Trigger Superimmunity In People Who Had SARS Long Ago
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Almost 20 years before SARS-CoV-2, a related and even more lethal coronavirus sowed panic, killing nearly 10% of the 8000 people who became infected. But the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory …
Amazon Killed the Name Alexa
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Atlantic: Alexa used to be a name primarily given to human babies. Now it’s mainly for robots. Seven years ago, Amazon released Alexa, its voice assistant, and as the number of devices answering to that name…
Apple Is Preparing To Begin Construction Activities At Its North San Jose Office With a Portion Devoted To Affordable Housing
NicknamesAreStupid writes: As a follow-up to [last week’s story about a large homeless encampment growing on the site Apple earmarked for its North San Jose campus], Apple appears to be using the promise of building affordable homes as a part of moving…
TSMC Overtakes Tencent To Become Asia’s Most Valuable Company
The world’s largest chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has overtaken Chinese tech behemoth Tencent to become Asia’s most valuable firm. CNBC reports: It comes as Beijing’s regulatory crackdown on the country’s tech sector in th…
Google’s Fuchsia OS Is Rolling Out Widely To 1st-Gen Nest Hubs
More owners of the first-generation Nest Hub are receiving the update to Google’s Fuchsia operating system as it expands beyond the Preview program. 9to5Google reports: Back in May, Google formally released Fuchsia, its effort to develop a “not Linux” …