Apple unveiled four new iPhone 14 models, three smartwatches, and the updated AirPods Pro 2 during its annual launch event on Wednesday. The entry-level iPhone 14 starts at $799 in the U.S., the same initial price as the iPhone 13. The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max are also the same as last year's U.S. launch versions at $999 and $1099, respectively. More: - In the U.S. and China, iPhone 14 prices have notably stayed the same despite supply chain issues and rampant inflation.
- Pre-orders for phones will open up this Friday, Sept. 9. The iPhone 14, Pro, and Pro Max will ship on Sept. 16, followed by the iPhone 14 Plus on Oct. 7.
- As expected, the Pro models replace the notch with a more integrated cutout and have a more powerful A16 chip along with always-on displays. The basic iPhone 14 still has a notch and an A15-series chip.
- All the new iPhones claim "all-day" battery life, longer than the iPhone 13 series. They add a satellite SOS feature for emergencies and sensor-based crash detection, and now support eSIMs.
- The company still raised the price of the iPhone 14 in other markets, including the U.K., Australia, and Japan.
Zoom-out: - Apple also unveiled its second-gen AirPods Pro noise-canceling headphones, which will launch Sept. 23 for $249 (£249, AU$399).
- It announced an Apple Watch Ultra for extreme sports ($799), the next-gen Apple Watch Series 8 ($399 for GPS and $499 for cellular), and the next-gen Apple Watch SE ($249 with GPS or $299 with cellular).
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Uber Eats will offer deliveries using Nuro's autonomous vehicles under a 10-year commercial partnership announced between the companies. The robotic deliveries will begin in Houston and Mountain View, California, this fall before expanding to other regions including the greater San Francisco Bay Area. More: - Nuro was founded in 2016 by two former employees of Waymo, formerly the Google self-driving car project.
- The company has developed small autonomous vehicles designed specifically for deliveries on public roads. They lack a steering wheel and space for a driver or passengers.
- Nuro currently has a permit from the California DMV to operate in parts of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties but would need permission to expand into San Francisco.
- Uber Eats customers in Houston and Mountain View will not be charged additional money for deliveries made with a Nuro bot versus a human worker.
- Uber also has partnerships to test autonomous deliveries with Motional in Santa Monica and Serve Robotics in Los Angeles.
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Texas-based Axiom Space was awarded a $228.5M contract from NASA to develop a spacesuit for the first crewed moon landing under the Artemis program. NASA reviewed proposals from Axiom and North Carolina-based Collins Aerospace and chose Axiom to develop the “moonwalking system” for the Artemis III lunar mission. More: - NASA's Artemis program seeks to bring astronauts, including the first woman and first person of color, to the lunar south pole by 2025 or 2026.
- The task order for Axiom covers the design, creation, and production of the spacesuits that the astronauts will wear during the first crewed mission.
- Axiom Space, a private space infrastructure developer, has planned private missions to the ISS and is building its own private space station.
Zoom-out: - NASA previously awarded contracts to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to develop spacesuits.
- Combined, the contracts have a ceiling of $3.5B through 2034. Most of the funding is being paid through task orders.
- Both firms are still eligible for future orders to develop ISS spacesuits and those for later lunar missions.
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The Internal Revenue Service will explore a free electronic-file tax return system using $15M from the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act. The agency will look into the best options for a government-run e-file platform for U.S. taxpayers, which would be an alternative to commercial software offered by Intuit's TurboTax and other tax preparation companies. More: - An agreement between the IRS and some tax software companies has so far prevented the federal agency from offering its own free tax return system.
- Under the Free File Alliance program, the IRS agreed not to create its own platform if the commercial firms provide free services for taxpayers who make $73,000 or less per year.
- The program, however, has been difficult to use and has low participation rates. Only 3% of the 70% taxpayers eligible through the Free File Alliance actually use the service, according to the Government Accountability Office.
- TurboTax and H&R Block, the most used tax-filing software programs, also no longer participate in Free File. The alliance expires in Oct. 2023.
- As a replacement, the IRS will now explore how much its own free tax-filing software would cost and what the design could be. It will also seek public feedback on the system.
Zoom-out: - In 2021, 90% of individual tax returns were filed digitally. The tax prep service industry's market is estimated at $11.9B in 2022.
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Vodeo Games, the first gaming studio in North America to unionize, announced that it is shutting down. In a tweet posted Wednesday, the indie studio said it was unable to secure funding from investors and publishers for its next game. More: - As a result, the studio has run out of funds. Vodeo said it will formally shut down after releasing its first and only game, Beast Breaker, on Steam at a later unspecified date.
- In December, Vodeo’s team of 13 remote employees unionized with Code-CWA, the Communication Workers of America's Campaign to Organize Digital Employees, though a bargaining agreement was never reached with Vodeo management.
- Since then, other gaming studios have followed suit. In May, a small group of employees from Activision Blizzard's Raven Software voted to unionize, marking the first union at a major video game company in the U.S.
- In July, Los Angeles-based indie studio Tender Claws said it would unionize with the Communications Workers of America’s campaign. 20 quality assurance staffers at Blizzard Albany, formerly Vicarious Visions, have also filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.
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An AI system developed by Google and other researchers can detect tuberculosis in X-rays as accurately as human radiologists, a new study indicates. The AI system could be used to screen patients in low-income countries where there is a lack of radiologists and other resources. More: - The model was created for patient screening, not diagnoses. X-ray images that are flagged would still be sent to a lab for follow-up testing.
- The system provides a score from 0 to 1, indicating the likelihood that a patient may have tuberculosis.
- It was trained on a diverse dataset that only included TB cases that were confirmed through testing rather than radiology.
- The study was published this week in Radiology, the journal of the Radiological Society of North America.
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- During Vox Media’s Code 2022 event on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the company's adoption of RCS text messaging, which would eliminate the "green bubble" on iPhones from Android texts. "I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy into that," Cook said.
- Nvidia sent out invites for a GeForce Beyond keynote during its GTC 2022 conference on Sept. 20. The company is expected to announce its new RTX 40 series graphics cards at the special event.
- U.K.-based SolarBotanic Trees launched a prototype for a tree-shaped photovoltaic system for electric vehicle charging.
- Meta will host its virtual Connect conference on Oct. 11. The company plans to explore the building of the metaverse and the future of AR and VR and is expected to unveil its next-gen VR headset.
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