Apple has announced that it will increase its charges for app developers, as it becomes the latest tech giant to pass on some of the costs of new digital taxes to smaller businesses.

The cloud division of Google's aims to invest some $100m in Amwell, developer of technology for virtual doctors' visits. The company has filed to go public, and Google's investment will be a concurrent private placement at the IPO price.

The effectiveness of wearables as Covid-19 detectors is a milestone for several studies that show promising results, Bloomberg reported. Monica Valencia, whose family member died of Covid-19 amid an extremely short illness, was among 400 employees of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System outfitted with wearable Fitbit fitness devices as a part of a study tracking early signs of Covid-19 launched in March by the Scripps Research Translational Institute in San Diego.

Looking for a new way to communicate during the pandemic? Well, now a Los Angeles company has created quite an interesting way to do that. To be exact - it has developed phone booth-sized machines to beam live holograms into your living room.

Researchers at Charles University, Svanda Theater and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague are currently working on an intriguing research project that merges artificial intelligence and robotics with theater. Dubbed, THEaiTRE, the project's main objective is to use AI to create an innovative theatrical performance, which is expected to premiere in January 2021.

A recently leaked internal Google document suggests that the company has marked the fourth quarter of next year for the release of a foldable Google Pixel phone, according to 9to5Google reports. The device, codenamed “Passport,” is said to be explicitly referred to as being “foldable,” and is included alongside a list of all Pixel devices going back to 2017’s Pixel 2.

Samsung’s anticipated Unpacked 2020 event is all packed up. The Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra are now real things, as are the Galaxy Tab S7 tablet, the Galaxy Watch 3, and the Galaxy Buds Live (FKA “Beans”). Also, it announced the new Galaxy Z Fold 2. 

Computer programmers may soon design the ultimate program: A program that designs programs. This comes after last week, a team led by Justin Gottschlich, director of the machine programming research group at Intel, announced the creation of a new machine learning system that designs its own code. They call the system MISIM, Machine Inferred Code Similarity.

The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon are heading home on Sunday, capping a two-month voyage in space that marked NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years, news wires reported. Crew Dragon “Endeavor” decoupled from the orbital station carrying Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley ahead of a Sunday afternoon splashdown off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.

Picture the scene: a slippery road, dense fog, zero visibility. You hit the brakes and hope for the best, praying that the car behind won't slam into the back of you.