TECHNOLOGY
Apple Car project head Doug Field leaves to join for Ford
Ford named Field as the company's chief advanced technology and embedded systems officer. Field joins Ford from Apple, where he served as VP, Special Projects. Before that, he was senior vice president, Engineering, at Tesla and he will report to Ford President and CEO Jim Farley.
Twitter launches Communities, an alternative to FB Groups
Twitter Community will have its own moderators who are able to set rules and invite or remove people. Twitter invited a handful of users to create the first Communities and will let anyone apply to create their own on its website.
US govt readying landmark case against Google "crown jewel": Reports
Politico reports that the Google ad tech probe is close to the "finish line". Making the final call along with Attorney General Merrick Garland will be his deputy - Indian American Vanita Gupta, according to the same report. Current research shows that upwards of 85 per cent of online display advertising space in the US is bought and sold in real-time on electronic trading exchanges where Google operates both the top trading platform plus the main conduits through which buyers and sellers must go to trade.
Maruti Suzuki's Aug production falls 8% amid global chip shortage
It produced a total of 1,13,937 units last month, compared to 1,23,769 units in August 2020, the company said in a regulatory filing. In the sub-segment of mini cars, which includes S-Presso and Alto models, the automaker produced 20,332 units during the period under review, compared to 22,208 in the same period last year.
Twitter tests new timeline with edge-to-edge picture, video
In an email to The Verge, the micro-blogging site wrote that it is testing the change because it wants to better support conversations that are both visual and text-based. This change, if it rolls out beyond a select group of iOS users, also helps Twitter address concerns over image cropping that it's been dealing with over the last few years, the report said.
Tesla planning wider release of its 'Full Self-Driving' software
According to The Verge, the news comes as an older version of the software leaked online. Musk said on Twitter that the company would begin rolling out FSD version 10 to customers in its early access programme at midnight on September 10. Then, the software "will need another few weeks after that for tuning (and) bug fixes," which Musk estimated would take four weeks.
OPPO Enco Buds with up to 24 hour battery life launched
"The Enco Buds leverage on OPPO's decades of experience and expertise in developing award-winning audio products as diverse as MP3 and MP4 players, music phones, and Blu-ray players to cater to young consumers who want to upgrade from wired earphones to TWS for the first time without compromising on premium features and great design," Damyant Singh Khanoria, Chief Marketing Officer.
TikTok reportedly overtakes YouTube in US average watch time
According to app analytics firm App Annie, in the US, TikTok first overtook YouTube in August last year and as of June 2021, its users watched over 24 hours of content per month, compared with 22 hours and 40 minutes on YouTube.
Apple MacBook Pro with mini-LED to launch in Oct/Nov: Report
The new MacBooks are apparently scheduled for October or November of this year, and that suppliers are preparing to supply four million of them this year, reports DigiTimes. According to Industry sources, the shipments for LEDs and associated components to Apple assembly partners relating to the MacBook Pro models are on schedule as expected.
Twitter testing official 'soft block' feature
The remove follower feature of Twitter is currently being tested on the web and seems to canonize the "soft block" concept as an official Twitter tool, reports The Verge. According to the tweet announcing the test, users can remove followers from the follower list on their profile page. They can just click the three-dot menu next to a follower's name, click aceRemove follower".
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