CATEGORIES

Amazon Teams With Affirm To Offer Buy Now-Pay-Later Option

Amazon is teaming with payments company Affirm to offer online shoppers a buy-now-pay later option that does not involve credit cards.

China Limits Children To 3 Hours Of Online Gaming A Week

China is banning children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, the harshest restriction so far on the game industry as Chinese regulators continue cracking down on the technology sector.

GOOGLE TO INVEST $1.2B IN GERMANY CLOUD COMPUTING PROGRAM

Google said that it is investing 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable energy.

MICROSOFT FIXES CLOUD PLATFORM VULNERABILITY AFTER WARNING

Microsoft says it has fixed a flaw in its cloud computing platform that cybersecurity researchers warned could have enabled hackers to take over a cloud-based database product used by many big companies.

UN: WEATHER DISASTERS SOAR IN NUMBERS, COST, BUT DEATHS FALL

Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports.

GOOGLE APPEALS $591M FRENCH FINE IN COPYRIGHT PAYMENT SPAT

Google is appealing a 500 million euro ($591 million) fine issued by French regulators over its handling of negotiations with publishers in a dispute over copyright.

iCloud+: ENTERING NEW GROUNDS WITH NEXT SUBSCRIPTION GEN

This October, iCloud turns ten. In its decadelong lifespan, the cloud storage service has changed the way we work forever, allowing us to create documents on our iPads and use them on our Macs, store important memories with the Photos app, and conduct important business over the Mail app. This year, Apple’s taking iCloud to new heights, with the launch of iCloud+, a new subscription service that unlocks significant new features for power users.

MORE SCHOOLS JOIN TENNESSEE STATE-APPLE TECH INITIATIVE

A dozen historically Black colleges and universities will join Tennessee State University’s national coding hub as community centers, the school said.

VEHICLE PRICES REMAIN HIGH THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND

If this were a normal year, Labor Day would traditionally kick off the start of end-of-model-year vehicle clearance sales. Consumers can often find good deals as dealerships are eager to sell their remaining inventory to make room for next year’s models. But this hasn’t been a normal year in the car business.

Data Breach Exposes Student Requests For Vaccine Exemptions

Personal information from students at a California college who requested a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine has been posted online after an apparent data breach.

Google Founder Gets New Zealand Residency, Raising Questions

Google co-founder Larry Page has gained New Zealand residency, officials confirmed, stoking debate over whether extremely wealthy people can essentially buy access to the South Pacific country.

FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR WATER TO BE RELEASED VIA UNDERSEA TUNNEL

The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said this week it plans to build an undersea tunnel so that massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water can be released into the ocean about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) away from the plant to avoid interference with local fishing.

SENATORS QUESTION DOJ FUNDING FOR AI-POWERED POLICING TECH

A Democratic senator said the U.S. Justice Department needs to look into whether the algorithm-powered police technologies it funds contribute to racial bias in law enforcement and lead to wrongful arrests.

SCIENTISTS LAUNCH EFFORT TO COLLECT WATER DATA IN US WEST

The U.S. Department of Energy announced a new kind of climate observatory near the headwaters of the Colorado River that will help scientists better predict rain and snowfall in the U.S. West and determine how much of it will flow through the region.

TIKTOK TO LET USERS SHOP THROUGH APP WITH SHOPIFY DEAL

TikTok users will soon be able to buy stuff directly through the short videos on the app — something they had only been able to do through ads until now.

WHITMER PROPOSES SPENDING $1.5B TO BOOST BUSINESS CLIMATE

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed spending more than $1.5 billion in federal pandemic rescue funding to help boost the business climate, redevelop polluted sites and take steps such as accelerating the development of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

REBECCA HALL SHINES IN EERIE ‘THE NIGHT HOUSE'

Rebecca Hall occupies nearly every fame of the elegant psychological thriller “ The Night House ” and you still leave wanting more of her and her character, Beth.

VEGAS-AREA COUNTY JOINS ROOM TAX FIGHT AGAINST ONLINE FIRMS

The county with jurisdiction over the Las Vegas Strip has joined a legal fight to try to collect what attorneys maintain could be hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid hotel room taxes owed by more than 20 online travel companies.

TESLA ROBOT

THE NEXT BREAKTHROUGH FOR AI HAS BECOME REAL

CHINA'S MARS ROVER SOLDIERS ON AFTER COMPLETING PROGRAM

China’s Zhurong Mars rover is soldiering on after completing its initial program to explore the red planet and search for frozen water that could provide clues as to whether it once supported life.

Walmart Boosts Outlook As Back-to School Sales Return

Walmart raised its sales outlook for the year as Americans returned to shopping for back to-school clothes and travel goods during the second quarter.

Boeing Astronaut Capsule Grounded For Months By Valve Issue

Boeing’s astronaut capsule is grounded for months and possibly even until next year because of a vexing valve problem.

Are Honeybees Dying Off? It Depends On Whom You Ask

Talk to a local beekeeper, and the potential consequences of the decline of the honeybee population are alarming, causing problems for pollination and sending ripple effects through the food supply chain and the entire ecosystem.

HYDROGEN-POWERED VEHICLES: A REALISTIC PATH TO CLEAN ENERGY?

Each morning at a transit facility in Canton, Ohio, more than a dozen buses pull up to a fueling station before fanning out to their routes in this city south of Cleveland.

PUBLIC BETA

GAIN EARLY ACCESS TO CUTTING-EDGE NEW FEATURES

DATA OF 40 MILLION PLUS EXPOSED IN LATEST T-MOBILE BREACH

The names, Social Security numbers and information from driver’s licenses or other identification of just over 40 million people who applied for T-Mobile credit were exposed in a recent data breach, the company said.

US PROBING AUTOPILOT PROBLEMS ON 765,000 TESLA VEHICLES

The U.S. government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles.

FOLLOWING PROTESTS, CUBA LAYS OUT LAWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA USE

Cuba’s government spelled out its laws against using social media or the internet to stir up protests or insult the state — and offered people a form to report offenders.

FED'S POWELL: THERE'S NO RETURNING TO PRE-PANDEMIC ECONOMY

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the U.S. economy has been permanently changed by the COVID pandemic and it is important that the central bank adapt to those changes.

CENSUS HIT BY CYBERATTACK, US COUNT UNAFFECTED

U.S. Census Bureau computer servers were exploited last year during a cybersecurity attack, but it didn’t involve the 2020 census, and hackers’ attempts to keep access to the system were unsuccessful, according to a watchdog report released this week.