Amazon closed 3,000 online merchant account accounts backed by 600 Chinese companies as the company's campaign is intended to not target China. This comes as the firm kicked off a clean up campaign against questionable practices such as paying for good reviews often going unchecked on the Chinese e-commerce platform.
Rumors are circulating of another Microsoft acquisition, with only a few big enough companies that warrant that type of buzz. This may be Take-Two Interactive, who has a catalog of 2K games and other notable franchises such as Grand Theft Auto and Bioshock. However, this is not the only option.
Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in harmful activities on its platform, using the tactics usually taken by Facebook's security teams for wholesale shutdowns of networks engaged in influence operations that use false accounts to manipulate public debate, such as Russian troll farms.
NFTs are unique digital tokens attributed to art which have risen in popularity over the past year, with some selling for millions. CEO Devin Finzer said the incident was "incredibly disappointing" and did not represent the team's values. An independent review has been launched, although Mr Finzer confirmed an employee bought items that were set to display on our front page before they appeared publicly.
Lucid has revealed the EPA range of its first, limited edition Air EV, which will go 520 miles on a charge, delivering 100-plus miles of additional range. The Air Dream Edition models offer 113kWh battery packs, which are significantly larger than Tesla’s Model S Long Range Plus.
The GoPro Hero10 is an iterative update that builds on the foundation laid by the 9.5-year Hero9. While the $500 Hero10 looks almost identical to the Hero9, there is one big change that sets the stage for much bigger things to come, with GoPro claiming the Hero10 can upload footage to your phone or the cloud 30 percent faster.
The EU will use legislation to push for greater resilience and sovereignty in regional semiconductor supply chains, with Ursula von der Leyen suggesting that gaining greater autonomy in chipmaking is now a key component of the EU’s overarching digital strategy. The global shortage of semiconductors has led to slowdowns in production for a range of products that rely on chips to drive data processing, driving EU lawmakers’ concern about European capacity in this area.
According to the Wall Street Journal, its studies showed teenagers blamed Instagram for increased levels of anxiety and depression, proving that the company puts profit first, showing its commitment to understanding complex and difficult issues. The report is not disputed by Facebook, but Instagram conducted multiple focus groups, online surveys, and diary studies over a number of years.
The Inspiration4 crew rode out of the Kennedy Space Center in a Dragon capsule provided by SpaceX rocket company. The quartet will spend the next three days circling the Earth, another milestone in the space tourism market which is experiencing a resurgence after a decade's hiatus.
The Federal Trade Commission took a dive into the kinds of deals that make Big Tech, including hundreds of small acquisitions that companies such as Facebook, Amazon and Google undertook with little government oversight, which helped those titanic businesses reach their current size and power. The report found that those transactions evaded regulator scrutiny thanks to loopholes in the law.