Google’s own engineers were worried about the way the company secretly tracked the movements of people who did not want to be tracked until a 2018 Associated Press investigation discovered the shady surveillance, according to unsealed documents in a consumer fraud case. The peek behind the scenes stems from a …
Read More »Amazon is expanding beyond Whole Foods with Fresh chain for supermarkets
Amazon’s first Fresh Supermarket Store will open its doors this week. Amazon Amazon is opening the first location of its new chain of groceries, designed to target a different set of customers than Whole Foods retailers. The first Amazon Fresh store, in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, will …
Read More »Apple’s Radical MacBook Pro presents multiple issues
Updated on August 26th. Article originally posted on August 23rd. There’s no doubt that Apple’s move from Intel to ARM for its Mac family is an ambitious and multi-year project. As the first ARM-based machines reach consumers by the end of this year, there are three major challenges facing Apple’s …
Read More »Computer pioneer Arnold Spielberg, Steven’s father, dies at 103
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Arnold Spielberg, father of filmmaker Steven Spielberg and an innovative engineer whose work helped make the personal computer possible, has died at 103. Spielberg died of natural causes while being surrounded by his family in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to a statement from his four …
Read More »Chinese EV maker Xpeng increases US IPO size to $ 1.5 billion
Xpeng Motors Technology is headquartered in Guangzhou, China Giulia Marchi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese electric car maker Xpeng has increased the size of its U.S. public offering to about $ 1.49 billion, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The company will price its shares at $ …
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