Amazon announced a slew of new connected devices with new privacy features that users will be able to take advantage of, including the new privacy feature that will allow users to choose to have all of their voice commands processed on their Alexa devices. This means these audio clips won't be sent to the cloud and they'll be automatically deleted after the Alexa device processes them.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have figured out a method of using machine learning to comb through the viruses’ genomes and predict their likelihood of infecting humans. The method may help scientists develop vaccines to protect against the most likely candidates before they reach humans.

The fallout from The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series continues, with Facebook announcing that it will “pause” plans to build Instagram Kids while it consults with more outside groups. The company published a point-by-point rebuttal to the Journal”s story on Instagram’’ effects on teenage girls.

Netflix's Korean horror-thriller series Squid Game is likely to become its most popular show yet, according to co-CEO Ted Sarandos. The show would be Netflix's biggest non-English language show in the world. But Sarandos said that there's a good chance it will be our biggest show ever.

Ford and SK Innovation will spend a combined $11.4 billion to build several new factories in Tennessee and Kentucky focused on the development and production of electric vehicles and batteries that power them. The new facilities represent the first new plants built by Ford, completely from scratch, in over 50 years.

Huobi Global will close all user accounts in mainland China by the end of the year after the country's central bank declared all crypto-related transactions illegal. The exchange will also retire existing accounts in China by 2021 to protect its assets.

TikTok hit 1 billion monthly active users globally this summer, marking a 45% jump since July 2020. The United States, Europe, Brazil, and Southeast Asia are the biggest markets for the popular short-video app. The company previously said it had about 55 million global users by January 2018, but that number rose to 271 million by December 2018, 508 million and 689 million by July 2020, according to the company.

Facebook is putting a hold on the development of a kids’ version of Instagram, geared toward children under 13, to address concerns that have been raised about the vulnerability of younger users, following an investigative series by The Wall Street Journal which reported that Facebook was aware that the use of Instagram by some teenage girls led to mental health issues and anxiety.

Google started its appeal to overturn a $5 billion antitrust fine imposed by the European Union, contending that its Android operating system for mobile devices has boosted competition rather than foreclosing it.

According to the director of marketing and communications at a live shopping startup in North America, the continent's adopters have soared to success and learn big lessons about how to choose the face of these live-shopping events and how a new industry standard for selection, payment and expertise can be implemented. The North American set is still new to this innovation, where influencers transform star power to selling power in moving millions of dollars of perfume, produce and even seats on a rocket launcher.

For the last 15 years, radio's total revenue has remained flat or dropped slightly, but digital audio is expected to iFor the last 15 years, radio's total revenue has remained flat or dropped slightly, but digital audio is expected to increase by 28% to $10 billion as digital audio continues to rise to $5.59 billion in 2021, while podcasting fueled the growth.

Several key Apple(AAPL.O) and Tesla (TSLA.O)suppliers said they had halted production on Sunday at some of their Chinese facilities to comply with the country's tighter energy consumption policy.