Walmart has seen its e-commerce business grow enormously during the coronavirus pandemic, as millions of people have avoided venturing into stores. The big box retailer is now doubling down on its ambitious e-retail goals to help it keep expanding online and to help shoppers get digital orders faster. On Monday, Walmart said it’s building out …
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As furor continues to surround its App Store, Apple on Monday followed through with some of its previously announced changes to improve its digital storefront for developers. As part of the move, which the company again detailed on its developer site on Monday, bug fixes will no longer be delayed due to App Store “guideline violations,” except “for those related …
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After the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) submitted a draft regulatory code, designed to let Australian news publications “negotiate for fair payment for their journalists’ work”, Facebook’s Australia is pushing back. Facebook Australia’s Managing Director, Will Easton, published a statement today claiming the regulations “misunderstands the dynamics of the internet and will do damage to the very news organisations the …
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If you haven’t noticed, Amazon really wants you to buy more groceries from its stores. It’s already introduced a bunch of new store formats and services to entice food shoppers, and the company has now come out with another one. It’s called Amazon Fresh, essentially a traditional supermarket but with a few Amazon-centric touches like Alexa as a shopping assistant …
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Google Assistant got a bit more helpful today thanks to some new features for Google Assistant Snapshot on Android devices and in the Google Assistant app on iOS. First released two years ago, Google Assistant Snapshot pulls personal info like calendar appointments, flight times and expected package deliveries into a single, easily digestable overview that updates automatically throughout the day. Now Google …
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Apple is developing augmented reality content to accompany its Apple TV Plus offerings, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The move is apparently intended to stoke interest in AR technology, as well as drawing more subscribers to the streaming service. The AR feature, which was revealed to Bloomberg by anonymous sources, would display elements of a TV show in the room where the viewer …
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Welcome to this week’s episode of The Cheapskate Show, a podcast devoted to helping you save money. One of the best ways to save a bundle on new tech gear is by buying it refurbished. But you’d be forgiven for wondering if a refurb is a good deal or just a way to inherit other people’s problems. We’ve got answers, …
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When big technologies like mobile phones, 5G networks and e-commerce arrive, it’s important to get in on the ground floor. That’s why the US government is establishing 12 new research centers, funded with hundreds of millions of dollars, to boost artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Congress already has appropriated most of the funds for the projects. But the White House …
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Amazon has made its augmented-reality shopping tools more powerful, now letting you create full rooms of AR furniture when planning out what to buy. The e-retailer in 2017 started offering AR shopping features with “AR view,” which allows people to see 3D images of furniture in their homes by using their phone cameras. But you could only look at one …
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Epic Games escalated its Fortnite legal battle with Apple over the weekend, accusing the iPhone maker of posing an unfair threat to game developers community. The charge, appearing in a filing submitted Sunday in a Northern California federal court, centers on Apple’s threat to ban the Unreal Engine code it offers to outside game developers to help them make apps …
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