Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out,' Tesla's 'nightmare' Won't End, And A Rival Gains: Tech News Roundup

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

He Jiankui speaking during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the University of Hong Kong in 2018.

A Chinese scientist once jailed for helping to create the world’s first genome-edited babies seems to have not missed a beat. In a recent interview, He Jiankui revealed that he is once again working in the field of human genetic engineering. These newest experiments are reportedly in compliance with ethical standards and He Jiankui has pledged that he will not work to produce any further modified humans.

People look at Xiaomi’s SU7 electric car at a Xiaomi store in Beijing, China on March 25.

Tesla in March began giving customers free trials of its driver assistance software, Full Self-Driving.

File photo of a woman checking her phone during an Instagram outage in 2021.

Meta platforms Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are experiencing a global outage with thousands of reports of the app not working properly since roughly 2 p.m. ET Wednesday.WhatsApp appears to have gone down first, with Instagram and Facebook following suit about 30 minutes later.

When you buy a brand-new car, you buy it knowing it’s going to depreciate. At least as long as it’s a relatively normal car and not something like a Porsche 911 R. That said, it’s not as bad as many “never buy a new car for any reason ever” financial influencers make it sound. You probably won’t get back every penny if you tried to sell a new car the next day, but you won’t actually lose 30% the moment you drive it off the lot. Unless you’re Edmunds and recently bought a Fisker Ocean for testing, that is.

Microsoft tests an animated AI chatbot for Xbox

The company is reportedly building an “embodied AI character” that can respond to queries and other support tasks

U.S. wants South Korea to stop sending AI chips to China

American officials are asking South Korea to restrict exports to China of equipment and technology used to make memory chips and advanced logic chips to China