This week: Peter Thiel's grudge match with Silicon Valley and the tech industry's civil war
It often feels like we're living in a multi-screen world these days with big political scandals, pandemics, and natural disasters all happening at the same time and competing for our limited attention.
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Now, this surfeit of simultaneous major news is trickling into the tech industry. The past week has provided a dizzying dose of developments in the world of tech — and as you can see, things are getting more contentious.
Elon Musk's Neuralink, which is developing chips that go into people's brains, is scheduled to give the first live demo of a working device on Friday. At least, that's what Musk tweeted. Your guess is as good as anyone's about what he has in store for us. Will this live demo involve a chip implanted in a chimp? A human, or, perhaps more accurately, a cyborg?
If you find yourself in Singapore in the future, you'll want to check out Apple's wild-looking new retail store. It's round, it's big, and it floats. Apple hasn't given an opening date yet, other than "coming soon," but based on recent pictures, it looks like it should be opening soon — coronavirus permitting, of course.
"We're not in a good M&A environment, I just don't see it. Things always are changing but I think this isn't part of our plan right now, we don't see that."
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Apple's new iPhone operating system is making it harder for Facebook to track people, and Facebook says it will decimate part of its business
Google's sister company Verily announced it will start selling insurance — but says it won't use data from its COVID-19 sites for its 'data-driven' insurance product
Airbnb extends employee work-from-home until the end of August 2021, the latest of any major tech company