Google has decided to automatically delete abortion clinic visits from users’ location history following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The change will take effect in the coming weeks, but it’s unclear when and how soon the data will be deleted after a...
In a story that sounds like it’s straight out of Tom and Jerry, Italian Parmigiano Reggiano cheesemakers are embedding tiny tracking chips into their cheese wheels' rinds to certify their authenticity and thwart shady competitors who falsely claim to produce real parmesan cheese. Cheese Me if You Can: To...
Mastercard unveiled a new payment system that allows customers to pay with a smile or wave before a biometric reader. The new company aims to prevent long queues created by the customers while they are searching for their cards or phones at checkout. * The company is teaming up with Fujitsu,...
In a remarkable achievement, Alphabet’s Project Taara transmitted nearly 700TB of data across the Congo River in 20 days. Developed at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Project Taara uses light beams to deliver a high-speed internet connection. Taara’s latest test transmitted data across the Congo River between Brazzaville...
Amazon has announced that it has made a deal to purchase MGM Studios for $8.45 billion, the movie and TV studio behind world-famous productions like the James Bond, Rocky, Robocop, Pink Panther, Stargate, and Shark Tank. This deal makes it the company’s second-largest acquisition after it bought grocer...
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal claims that a series of Instagram ads it tried to run got the company banned from Facebook’s ad platform. The highly targeted and detailed ads aimed to show users the enormous amount of data Instagram and its parent company Facebook collect about them and how...
