Instacart plans to terminate about 1,900 employees’ jobs, including the only unionized positions in the U.S., representing a fulsome embrace of the gig economy. From a report: The grocery delivery company already classifies most of its workers as independent contractors, whose ranks have ballooned to more than 500,000 during the coronavirus pandemic. But starting in…

Try your luck. Walmart has several of the next-gen consoles in stock — but not for long. …read more Source:: CNet

Researchers have traced the origins of a campaign – infecting SQL servers to mine cryptocurrency – back to an Iranian software firm. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Smile, Mars, you’re on camera. …read more Source:: CNet

ASOP effort could help bring GUIs to industrial, IoT, embedded gear Alibaba-owned T-Head Semiconductor says it has ported Android 10 to its own RISC-V chips, highlighting increased momentum for the open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) against proprietary alternatives.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The traditional automotive retail model is undergoing a rapid transformation that is more decentralized and digital. The automotive industry must adopt a retail approach to improving the customer experience. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Find a security camera that can go pretty much wherever you want. …read more Source:: CNet

Is it overpriced hype, or do we actually like it? …read more Source:: ZDNet

Arguably the best-sounding smart display, the Link VIew, equipped with Google Assistant, is only $90. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader writes: China produces as many artificial intelligence researchers as the US, but it lags in fundamental research. The government hopes to make up ground with a new AI lab in Beijing that brings together top researchers from AI and industry to focus on things like the mathematical foundations of machine learning and…