🧠 Mercedes-Benz has a car that can read your mind
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Mercedes-Benz has a car that can read your mind. Are you annoyed by constantly going through the menus on your car's touchscreen? Mercedes-Benz has a very futuristic solution. On Monday, at the IAA Mobility 2021 show in Munich, Germany, the company displayed the next iteration of its Vision AVTR concept car, first shown at CES 2020. (Stan Schroeder via helios.web)
Wallets are over. Your phone is your everything now. If you need someone to predict the future, Spike Feresten is your guy. In the summer of 1997, in the “Seinfeld” writers room, Mr. Feresten boldly told Jerry Seinfeld that wallets were over. Jerry disagreed. (Joanna Stern via Wall Street Journal)
Tech giants are rushing to develop their own chips. Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla and Baidu are all shunning established chip firms and bringing certain aspects of chip development in-house, according to company announcements and media reports. (Sam Shead via CNBC)
Tesla and Apple are a clear match, but their products oddly don't work well together. This is the free version of Power On. If you like it, consider subscribing to Bloomberg.com — you'll receive this newsletter several hours earlier and get exclusive access to a Q&A section with me. (Mark Gurman via Bloomberg)
Apple slams the brakes on plans to scan user images for child abuse content. Apple has paused plans to scan devices for child abuse and exploitation material after the tool prompted concern among users and privacy groups. Announced last month, the new safety features were intended for inclusion in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey. (Charlie Osborne via ZDNet)
Europe Faces Energy Price Shock With Gas and Power at Records.Wholesale prices could lead to 20% increase in bills for homes ‘Europe will face a very tight winter': Engie EnergyScan Europe is facing an energy price shock as the cost of natural gas and electricity surges to record levels. (Vanessa Dezem via Bloomberg)
Food sharing app OLIO raises $43M Series B, as the world switches on to the food waste crisis. It was curious enough that OLIO, a UK startup with an app that lets users post a photo of unwanted food and share it with the local neighborhood, picked up $6 million in Series A funding back in 2018. (Mike Butcher via TechCrunch)
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