Amazon’s futuristic concept for a convenience store has come to San Francisco. On Tuesday, the online retailer opened its newest Amazon Go, a cashierless store that sells sandwiches, chips and drinks, at 300 California Street. With the help of an array of cameras, the store lets customers check in at a turnstile, pick up what […]
Google Doodle didn’t take the day off Monday, when it hailed the American worker on Labor Day. It’s been a federal holiday since 1894 — when it was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland — and Americans traditionally celebrate by holding barbecues and parades, going on picnics, attending block parties and taking trips to […]
If you can say ‘Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries’ with a French accent, you’re probably qualified to apply for a new job opening with Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging Boring Company. ‘The Boring Company is building a watchtower in LA out of dirt bricks and we need a knight to yell insults […]
Starting Tuesday, Firefox will nudge you to try out options designed to make the web more interesting, more useful or more productive. Mozilla’s new Firefox 64 keeps an eye on what you’re up to and prompts you to try extensions and features that could help you with that activity, the browser maker said. For […]
There’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world. Now apparently the same goes for Wi-Fi. Students in the cafeteria at China’s Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics must solve a calculus equation to get the school Wi-Fi password, state media Global Times reported Sunday. The password lies within the answer to the problem, […]
Microsoft Azure on Thursday told Gab, a social network popular with conservatives and the alt-right, that it had 48 hours to ‘take appropriate action’ on two posts, according Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba. ‘Gab’s hosting provider, Microsoft Azure, has given us 48 hours to take action on two posts, or they will pull our […]
China’s population is big — 1.4 billion big — and its internet user population is creeping toward similar heights. A government department called the China Internet Network Information Center ran a report to find out just how many citizens were jumping online. The result was 802 million, and the agency estimates that 29.68 million of […]
Google is giving US veterans find jobs that fit the skills they learned in the military, and highlighting veteran-led businesses in searches. Those who’ve been in the military can now search ‘jobs for veterans’ in Google, then use their military job codes — such as MOS, AFSC or NEC — to narrow down the job […]
Feeling passionate about a cause? Facebook is launching a tool that lets users post and sign online petitions right in their news feeds. The social network will start rolling ‘Community Actions’ out to its US users on Monday. It’s been testing the feature for several weeks in a couple of markets, TechCrunch first reported Sunday, […]
Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox that lets you strike a better balance between maintaining privacy and breaking websites. Firefox 65 updates its controls for how the web browser manages content like tracker software and cookies — small text files a website can store on your computer that are handy for […]
