Many people in the US have opted not to get the life-saving COVID-19 vaccine, despite its widespread availability throughout the spring and summer. Apple has already told employees it's delaying return-to-office plans until October at the earliest, mirroring moves from 2020 when companies began shifting schedules.

Google has two months to improve the way it presents internet search results for flights and hotels and explain how it ranks these or face possible sanctions. The world's most popular internet search engine has long faced scrutiny from antitrust enforcers and consumer groups around the world over its business practices, which in some cases have landed it with hefty fines.

Since 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack, PiggyVest, and TeamApt. He is announcing the launch of Voltron Capital, a Pan-African venture capital firm he co-founded with Abe Choi, a U.S.-based entrepreneur and investor.

A counterterrorism program will start targeting white supremacist and far-right militia material, flagging content for moderation on Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and several other services. This comes in an interview with Nicholas Rasmussen, executive director of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), which maintains a database of terrorist content that helps member companies find it for review or removal.

With global electric vehicles sales expected to boom in the next 12 months, nearly 90% of consumers in India are willing to pay a premium for buying an EV, also finding that 40% of respondents were ready to pay up to 20% for an electric vehicle. According to the survey, three in 10 respondents would prefer to buy an electric/hydrogen vehicle.

Amazon may allow users to pay in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin soon as the e-commerce giant is hiring a digital currency and blockchain product lead for its payments team. Amazon's Payments Acceptance & Experience team is seeking an experienced product leader to develop Amazon's Digital Currency and blockchain strategy and product roadmap.

In April, travelers at London’s Heathrow airport had to wait as long as six hours to be cleared to fly, a result of airline agents struggling to make sense of the various Covid-19 health clearances travelers were presenting. The backend technology authenticates credentials against requirements of each country.

DeepMind has released a groundbreaking map of human protein structures developed with its breakthrough AI systems. This comes from the company that taught AI to defeat humanity’s greatest chess and Go masters, and that it can speed up this process exponentially. Mapping them is incredibly useful, because it allows us to figure out what they do, but board games have nothing to do with this.

The European Central Bank’s decision to become more tolerant of inflation before raising interest rates has sparked immediate criticism from some of its more hawkish policymakers in an indication of the divisions within the central bank over when to scale back bond-buying. The ECB said it would keep buying bonds and maintain deeply negative interest rates.

Wall Street has tried to determine the impact of Apple’s privacy changes on digital ad companies like Facebook and Snap. The digital ad sector has grown massively in recent quarters, as stay-at-home trends like e-commerce have benefited those players. However, analysts say that the impact could bring a tougher blow during the third quarter for these companies.

India’s central bank is considering launching a digital currency, giving a clear indication of its intentions for the first time after previously stating that it was studying the idea. The digital currency will lower the economy's reliance on cash, enable cheaper and smoother international settlements, and protect people from the volatility of privacy cryptocurrencies, the deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India.

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter banned harmful covid-related misinformation as the pandemic took hold throughout the world, but the false claims are still proliferating. Six out of 12 anti-vaccine activists are responsible for creating more than half the anti- vaccine content shared on social media are easily searchable.