Next year's Sundance Film Festival will mark a momentous return to Park City, Utah, after in-person festivities were cancelled last year. Sundance plans to expand The Spaceship, its virtual venue where attendees can chat together and explore VR and mixed reality art installations, and also launch a "Biodigital Bridge"
Apple has filed a lawsuit against Pegasus spyware maker NSO Group. Apple is seeking a permanent injunction to ban the group from using Apple software or services. Apple says the lawsuit is a ‘stake in the ground’ to send a signal that its users won't suffer ‘this type of abuse’
A new augmented reality game from Niantic and Fold is a game that lets players earn small amounts of Bitcoin by engaging with internet finance memes and a cryptocurrency debit card system. The game is loosely modeled on Pokémon Go, but themed around cryptocurrency, with the central mechanic involves finding cubes of binary code and tapping them until they reveal a prize.
Apple announced in September that it would allow users to store their ID in Apple Wallet. The feature will launch at select TSA checkpoints at airports and retailers. Apple says the feature won't arrive until early 2022 and won't be included in iOS 15.2 beta testing.
Meta announced that messaging encryption on apps would come in 2023 as it means only the sender and receiver can read messages, but law enforcement or Meta cannot. The National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children claims private messaging is the front line of child sexual abuse.
A tool with cutting-edge image recognition AI lets you visualize the future effects of climate change on any place in the world, including your own home. The project, titled "This Climate Does Not Exist," lets you enter the address of your current home or travel destination and see what it could look like years later once climate change has taken its toll.
Twitter will host its first live shopping livestream on November 28th at 7pm ET, a collaboration with Walmart. The livestream will be a 30-minute variety show that will feature electronics, home goods, apparel, seasonal décor, surprise special guests, and much more. Twitter joins a growing trend towards live shopping-focused livestreams on social media.
Walmart launched its first commercial drone delivery service within a 50-mile radius of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, dropping parachute-laden packages from an autonomous Zipline plane to a “hand-selected group of recipients” customers who live in Farmington, Arkansas can now order small items such as cans of tuna, baby supplies, and paper plates.
Uber is partnering with Tokyo Smoke to allow users to order food, groceries, alcohol, and pick it up in store. While weed can be delivered by retailers, third-party delivery from services like Uber Eats is not yet legal in Canada. The global legal marijuana market is expected to hit $70.6 billion by 2028.
Jeff Bezos is not a fan of the phrase "work-life balance" since it implies a strict trade-off between work and life. Instead, Bezos believes it's more productive to view the two integrated parts as a holistic relationship. The billionaire Amazon founder got a new kind of workflow when he stepped down from his role as CEO of the e-commerce giant.
In addition to product discovery and recommendation features, Meta released other tools to help shoppers make informed purchases, letting people see reviews from e-commerce sites before making Facebook and Instagram purchases. The introduction of live shopping for creators is a continuation of Meta's experimentation with livestream commerce, allowing businesses to add product images to product pages.
