Apple has promised to open up its tap-and-go mobile payment system to rivals, the European Union said Friday, as the U.S. tech company seeks to resolve an antitrust case and avoid a fine that potentially could be worth billions.
Apple proposed letting third-party mobile wallet and payment service providers access the contactless payment function on its iOS operating system, the EU said. The 27-nation bloc now is seeking feedback from “all interested parties”
Sheryl Sandberg’s announcement that she would not stand for reelection to the Meta board in May was, in many ways, the last step in her long exit from the company. While she’ll stay on as an adviser and said she will “always be there to help the Meta teams,” the days of her outsize level of influence at the company are seemingly at an end.
Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, of course, is the person whose opinion matters most at Meta. He controls more than 5
Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure.
The University of Pennsylvania announced the novel experiment Thursday, a different spin on animal-to-human organ transplants. In this case, the pig liver was used outside the donated body, not inside—as a way to create a “bridge” to support failing livers by doing the organ&#x
Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections, U.S. health officials said in a report Thursday that bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers found that over the course of a week, there was a 32% likelihood the tests would detect the presence of at least one person infected with mpox in a population ranging from thousands to millions.
Amy Kirby, who oversees the CDC’s was
Social media is broken. It feels impossible now to keep up with friends and news in the same place—to be informed, entertained, and part of a community all at once. As Ryan Broderick has written, there’s no longer anywhere to figure out what everyone’s talking about, and the addition of competing Twitter clones makes the idea of an “everyone” feel more threadbare than ever. The news element has been degraded by For You feeds, Threads’ seeming desire t
For the first time in ages, the hottest tech launch of the year won’t be a smartphone. It’ll be a spatial computer. On February 2, Apple will begin selling the Apple Vision Pro to the public via Apple Stores in the U.S. (preorders began on January 19). At $3,499, the headset isn’t cheap, but the device is expected to sell out almost immediately, considering that Apple will have fewer than 100,000 units for sale initially, according to TF International Securities analyst M
The consistent allure of sports is in the pursuit of an unknown outcome. If a competitor or team wins the championship, can they do it again? If they lose, can they come back again and win? The scenario is played out every single day or every single year across every professional sport. Billions of dollars in TV rights and fan tickets, year in and year out, are a testament to its lasting attraction.
It’s also the genius of FanDuel’s 2024 Super Bowl ad strategy.
“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Imagine you’re a litigation partner at a law firm. You have a brand-new associate who seems to surpass all expectations: works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year; reads and absorbs millions of pages of material in a fraction of a second.
What’s the catch? The associate is subject to random hallucinatio
YouTube is making millions of dollars a year from advertising on channels that make false claims about climate change because content creators are using new tactics that evade the social media platform’s policies to combat misinformation, according to a report published on Tuesday.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) used artificial intelligence to review transcripts from 12,058 videos from the past six years on 96 of Alphabet’s YouTube channels. The cha
This week, condiments brand Sir Kensington’s (part of Unilever’s portfolio) announced its desire to travel to the great beyond by launching a petition for NASA to consider stocking its wares on all its missions. The brand created a “Proposal Pack,” with a variety of its products, hoping to impress the space agency, given that human taste is significantly dulled out of our orbit.
Chris Symmes, Unilever North America’s senior marketing director of dr