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Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers his keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California June 8, 2015. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith Apple (AAPL) is diving deeper into the health space. The tech giant is working on a new pair of its best-selling AirPods that will take your temperature, police your posture, and possibly even function as a hearing aid, according to The Wall Street Journal. The global medical device market is expected to be worth $671 billion by 2027, Source link

Google’s Arts & Culture team is today launching a new online experience that lets users virtually walk the Great Wall of China. The “Walk the Great Wall of China” experience includes an exclusive 360-degree virtual tour of one of the wall’s best-preserved sections, including 370 images of the Great Wall in total and 35 stories that go into architectural details about the landmark. “As the largest man-made structure in the world, the Great Wall of China is… Source link

By Theresa Waldrop Google honored María de los Ángeles Alvariño González with a Doodle on Sunday, the 105th birthday of the marine research biologist “widely regarded as one of the most important Spanish scientists of all time,” Google said. Alvariño discovered 22 new species of zooplankton and published more than 100 scientific papers, according to Google and biographies of the scientist. The Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) appointed her as a marine… Source link

Australia’s competition watchdog is the latest to push for legal powers to curb Google’s dominance in the adtech sector. It has made the call as it published its final report on an inquiry examining competition concerns in the digital advertising sector. In the report, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) concludes that new regulatory solutions are needed to address Google’s dominance and competition to the adtech sector — “for the benefit of businesses… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Facebook (FB), the world’s largest social network with nearly 3 billion daily active users, is once again awash in controversy. But that won’t deter it from continuing to gain users or generating revenue. After a series of articles by The Wall Street Journal revealed Facebook was either… Source link

Walmart (WMT), the nation’s largest private employer, is raising wages for 565,000 of its nearly 1.2 million store associates, marking the retailer’s third wage hike for hourly associates in the last year. “Effective Sept. 25, associates in the Frontend, Food & Consumable and General Merchandise work groups will receive at least a $1 an hour raise. That means a raise for more than 565,000 store associates. It’s our third wage investment in store associates over the past year,” U.S…. Source link

Yahoo is out with its latest update for its Mail app for iPhone and iPad this week and the release brings the handy addition of M1 Mac support for a seamless and speedy experience. Yahoo announced the news in a press release detailing version 6.36 of the Yahoo Mail app offering the M1 Mac support. Here are some of the features available with the app landing on Apple Silicon Macs: The Yahoo Mail app is now available for M1-powered Macs! It’s the best way to experience email on Mac,… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Peloton Interactive Inc. tumbled Friday after delivering a disappointing sales outlook, the latest setback in a year marked by product recalls and waning consumer interest. The at-home fitness company disclosed other unwelcome news in its earnings report late Thursday, including that it’s cutting the price of its most popular bike, a move aimed at broadening its customer base but one that will also hurt its bottom line this year. Peloton also said it found a problem with the… Source link

American web services provider Yahoo shut down its services in India on Thursday, August 26, thereby ceasing the publication of content operations across the country from this day onwards. However, the web portal, owned by technology company Verizon Media, assured its users that their Yahoo accounts, e-mail, and search experiences will not be affected in any manner. “As of August 26th, 2021, Yahoo India will no longer be publishing content,” a statement on the Yahoo India homepage read…. Source link

Just when you thought you would never belly laugh harder than when Elon Musk decided to demonstrate the Cybertruck’s shatterproof windows, along comes AI Day 2021 – a day that we’re certain is going to live in Tesla-infamy for one reason or another. Naturally, having solved the issues of making cars profitably and achieving the company’s goal of 1 million robotaxis on the road, Tesla took yesterday’s event as an opportunity to reveal their next game-changing product that doesn’t exist, a… Source link