Laura Newcombe

1 month ago | gizmodo.com | Laura Newcombe |Rhett Jones

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (or CZI) has been quietly suspending grants to nonprofits across California and the country, especially those that might be construed as reflecting support for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. While CZI claims that it has long planned to move its focus away from social issues and towards the sciences, current and former employees had a different story to tell the San Francisco Standard.

1 month ago | gizmodo.com | Laura Newcombe |Rhett Jones

Apple is in the early stages of developing brain-computer interfaces that would allow people, especially those with mobility issues, to control their iPhones, iPads, and Vision Pro headsets with neural signals captured by a new kind of brain implant.  According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is partnering with Synchron—a privately held, New York City-based company backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates—on the in project.

1 month ago | gizmodo.com | Laura Newcombe |Rhett Jones

On Monday, the United States and China made a joint statement announcing a new stage in the trade war that temporarily pauses the tariffs the two nations imposed on each other earlier this year. For the next 90 days, China will ease duties on US imports from 125% to 10%. Over the same timeframe, the US will decrease tariffs on Chinese imports from 145% to 30%.