In light of protests for racial justice, facial recognition has come under scrutiny for how it's used by police, leading to IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft pulling back on this tech.
The move comes as TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, is drawing scrutiny over its ties to China and the potential for the Chinese government to access user data.
The moves this year are in character for Apple, which has prioritized privacy engineering on a product level and privacy more generally as a key selling point for its products.
Andy Hinton left Google in late March and is becoming an advisor to a start-up called #NotMe, which allows employees to make anonymous complaints about workplace issues, including the types of complaints Google has faced in recent years.
Marc Benioff once considered Oracle's Larry Ellison his mentor at Oracle. Then Benioff started his own company. Now Salesforce is worth more than Oracle.
It's a test version of the full software that will roll out to all iPhones this fall, and it includes a lot of fun new features. There are widgets on the home screen, for example, so you can see little windows that show the weather, photos, music controls and more.
Google says it will no longer allow ads for products or services marketed for the purposes of tracking or monitoring another person without their authorization.
Apple's iOS 14 public beta enables users who want to see what changes Apple has made this year and access new features, such as a redesigned home screen with automatically updating widgets, automatically organizing apps, and a new Siri interface.
Macs with Apple processors will allow the company to more closely control the Mac release schedule and deliver improvements, but it may face challenges to ensure apps run on its computers.
TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, flagged earlier this week it would be exiting Hong Kong "in light of recent events," referencing the national security law passed at the end of June.
Amazon plans to create at least $100 million in stock awards to retain the 900-plus employees of Zoox, the self-driving car startup it offered to buy last month, and can walk away from the deal if large numbers of them turn down job offers from the technology giant.
The issues under negotiation present a window into what's important to media and technology companies as they build an infrastructure for the next generation of television.
Loon said its balloon-powered internet service will initially cover 50,000 square kilometers in western and central parts of Kenya.
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