Apple After months of speculating whether or not we’ll get an iPhone 12 and Apple Watch 6 in the same timeframe as previous years, Apple has confirmed it will host a launch event later today — virtually, of course. The Apple Store is down and the company last week sent out an invite for Sept. 15 at 10 … [Read more…]
Online shopping for groceries and other goods has skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic, with Amazon and Walmart dominating our delivery needs. Walmart, for its part, just launched Walmart Plus, a new fast delivery subscription service for groceries and other products you’d normally find in the big box store — positioning the retailer to more directly compete … [Read more…]
I am in a slum in Faridabad, India, south of New Delhi, surveying rundown toilets with a man named Mayank Midha. Behind us is a standing pond of sewage. Over to our left are the narrow alleyways and tight living quarters of the slum, the outer walls of the skinny mud-brick buildings painted in cracked … [Read more…]
Ashwani Aggarwal at a design and architecture studio in New Delhi. James Martin/CNET By a roadside traffic police station across from a New Delhi elevated train line, Ashwani Aggarwal walked up to one of his toilet stalls, gave the side a firm kick and offered an assessment of his work. “It’s a little smelly, you … [Read more…]
Amazon will soon list more information about sellers. Angela Lang/CNET Amazon sellers in the US will soon be required to show their business name and address on their profile page, the e-commerce giant said Wednesday. The move goes into effect Sept. 1, and has already been in place in Europe, Japan and Mexico, … [Read more…]