This Week Top Automation stories share updates about Apple’s WWDC i-e Worldwide developers conference and what changes the company is introducing for the consumers. Whereas, Microsoft also added some new features and renamed their Window’s Desktop to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
Big Tech publishing sites experienced outages because of a technical issue reported by U.S. cloud computing services providers.
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10) The Big Changes Coming to Your iPhone, iPad, and Mac This Fall
Apple is hosting its annual Worldwide Developers Conference virtually for the second year in a row. I tuned in from home for the Monday keynote, where company execs outlined a slew of new updates for Apple devices due this fall via iOS 15, iPadOS 15, WatchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.
Read More: The Wall Street journal
Author: Nicole Nguyen
9) Reddit and global news sites including FT, New York Times, and Bloomberg experience outage
Reddit and global news websites including the Financial Times, New York Times, and Bloomberg experienced intermittent outages Tuesday morning, with some users unable to access the sites. Some visitors to the websites in the U.K. and the U.S. received the message “Error 503 Service Unavailable.”
Read More: CNBC
Author: Sam Shead
8) Microsoft Now Defines Windows Virtual Desktop As Azure Virtual Desktop
Microsoft has announced that Windows Virtual Desktop would be renamed Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and that additional features will be added to the service. WVD is an Azure-based service that allows users to virtualize their Windows desktop, Office programs, and other third-party software by running them on Azure virtual machines.
Read More: Automeme
7) IBM releases AI model toolkit to help developers measure uncertainty
Read More: VentureBeat
Author: Kyle Wiggers
6) Instagram chief explains how the service decides what you see
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri shed some light on how the social network decides what you see in a new blog post published on Tuesday. The explanation seems to be meant at least in part to combat persistent rumors that Instagram intentionally hides or disfavors certain posts, which Instagram says isn’t exactly true.
Read More: The Verge
Author: Jay Peters
5) The dangers of digital payments growing popular after Covid-19
Cash is no longer king. Covid-19 has turned the axiom on its head as more consumers forgo physical dosh in favor of digital payments. However, as more people forgo money for contactless payments, the risks involving scams, hack attacks, and dangers to people’s financial wellbeing have spiked too.
Read More: Verdict
Author: Eric Johansson
4) Fintech all-star Nubank raises a $750M mega-round
In 2013, Colombian businessman David Velez decided to reinvent the Brazilian banking system. He didn’t speak Portuguese, nor was he an engineer or a banker, but he did have the conviction that the system was broken and that he could fix it. And as a former Sequoia VC, he also had access to capital.
Read More: TechCrunch
Author: Marcella McCarthy
Computer scientist Raquel Urtasun, an artificial intelligence expert who led a team of Toronto-based engineers for Uber’s self-driving vehicle program, is launching tech startup Waabi with an $83.5 million funding round and a new “AI mindset” approach to commercializing automated driving.
Read More: Forbes
Author: Alan Ohnsman
2) What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?

Read More: Wired
Author: Tom Simonite
1) China’s ‘Wu Dao’ AI is 10X bigger than GPT-3, and it can sing
China’s going all-in on deep learning. The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) recently released details concerning its “Wu Dao” AI system – and there’s a lot to unpack here.
Read More: The Next Web
Author: Tristan Greene