Intel announces standalone foundry services group, updates technology roadmap, and more

Mozilla is supporting Apple’s opt-in permission initiative, Walmart’s driverless trucks are coming to Arkansas, and Google doubles down on work from home initiatives.

Canadian small businesses revolt against AWS, schools in the U.S. are buying surveillance tech, and what’s up with these big tech firms leaving California?

Hyundai scoops up Boston Dynamics, Airbnb makes a huge splash after it opens for trading; and Facebook’s in trouble for tying the use of the Oculus to Facebook accounts.

Google Canada has released its annual ‘Year in Search’ lists for 2020, the FTC is suing Facebook, and hundreds of Nvidia-based RTXS 3090 graphics cards get stolen

Apple is already working on its next-generation chips, Uber sells its self-driving business to Aurora, and Apple’s new AirPods Max have quite the price tag.

Apple might need to include chargers with iPhone sales in Brazil, Nokia is set to introduce telecom legislation that might shun China’s networks, and 5G truthers are putting Faraday cages around their routers, because why not.

The European Space Agency’s satellite sheds light on the Milky Way, Google employees sign a letter demanding to know why an AI researcher was fired, and Steve Wozniak is starting another company.

The U.S. labour board dunks on Google for allegedly spying on workers who were organizing employee protests and firing them, LinkedIn gets chatty about business travel, and a COVID vaccine supply chain gets targeted by hackers.

Salesforce says it’s acquiring Slack, space debris removal with the help of a giant claw starts in 2025, and Shopify sales skyrocket.

Apple’s iPhones are not as water-resistant as you think, Reddit reveals its daily user count for the first time, and Amazon has the biggest holiday shopping season in its history.

AI solves a 50-year-old mystery, the United States’ FCC chairman says he’s stepping down in January and the internet is already beginning to celebrate, and people are bullish about Bitcoin right now.

Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, some of Canada’s big banks extend WFH policies, and we’ve got some Black Friday data from Shopify.