Amazon Targets Faster Deliveries With Vision Assisted Package Retrieval

Amazon Targets Faster Deliveries With Vision Assisted Package Retrieval

Amazon, in its quest for greater efficiency, has developed new systems to shave seconds off each package delivery and to help customers make faster buying choices, even for new product types that they may know little about.  The company announced Wednesday it has created spotlights within its trucks to guide…

US plan to break up Google’s search dominance will hit profits | Technology News

US plan to break up Google’s search dominance will hit profits | Technology News

Some experts said the broad remedies suggested by the DOJ will not survive the appeals process. The United States Department of Justice’s proposed remedies to break up Google’s search dominance could weaken its main profit engine and stall its advances in artificial intelligence, even though a final outcome may be…

TikTok faces new lawsuits in the US accusing it of harming children | Technology News

TikTok faces new lawsuits in the US accusing it of harming children | Technology News

The popular social media platform TikTok has been accused of harming and failing to protect young people in a slew of new lawsuits filed by several US states. The lawsuits, filed on Tuesday in New York, California, and 11 other states, as well as the District of Columbia, add to…

US judge orders Google to open up app store to competition | Technology News

US judge orders Google to open up app store to competition | Technology News

A US judge said that for three years, Google must allow users to download competing third-party Android app platforms or stores. A United States judge has ordered Alphabet’s Google to overhaul its mobile app business to give Android users more options to download apps and pay for transactions within them,…

Elon Musk’s wars: Brazil to Australia, UK to US, the X owner’s many battles | Explainer News

Elon Musk’s wars: Brazil to Australia, UK to US, the X owner’s many battles | Explainer News

Throughout history, the world’s richest people — almost all men — have often operated from the shadows, taking on governments they don’t like quietly. Not the world’s current richest man. In recent months, Elon Musk has taken on government after government, mostly left or liberal administrations, in public online wars…

Components for pagers used in Lebanon blasts not from Taiwan, minister says | Israel-Palestine conflict

Components for pagers used in Lebanon blasts not from Taiwan, minister says | Israel-Palestine conflict

CEO of Taiwan-based Gold Apollo released after questioning over role in deadly explosions. Components used in thousands of pagers that detonated on Tuesday in Lebanon in a deadly blow to Hezbollah were not made in Taiwan, Taiwan’s economy minister has said. Taiwan-based Gold Apollo said this week it did not manufacture the devices…

Lebanon blasts raise alarm about supply chain security, safety of tech | Technology

Lebanon blasts raise alarm about supply chain security, safety of tech | Technology

The use of pagers and walkie-talkies in back-to-back coordinated explosions in Lebanon has drawn scrutiny to the security of global supply chains and their vulnerability to tampering by governments or other actors. The utilisation of thousands of electronic devices in the attacks, which are widely believed to have been orchestrated…

Taiwan dragged into Middle East politics after deadly pager blasts | Technology

Taiwan dragged into Middle East politics after deadly pager blasts | Technology

Taipei, Taiwan – Taiwan’s crucial tech industry has been unwittingly drawn into Middle East politics after revelations that thousands of exploding pagers used to kill members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group were manufactured using the branding of a Taiwanese firm. Taiwanese tech company Gold Apollo on Wednesday denied that it had…