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One of the benefits of using infotainment systems like Apple’s CarPlay or Android Auto is that you can download and use apps within your car. This means that if you prefer using Google Maps over your car’s own mapping service, you can. You will also be able to stream using your favorite music apps like Apple Music, Spotify, and so on.

That being said, it looks like Tesla could now be considering something similar for their own cars as well. This is according to a report from TheDriven in which they claim to have heard that Tesla is apparently working on developing their own app store which could be used in their cars in the future.

This means that next time, developers could submit their apps to Tesla for approval and be downloaded and used within their cars. It has been suggested that this app store could have been in the works since at least 2021, but it is unclear when it could be launched.

Creating their own app store could be rather interesting and could also potentially be a new way for Tesla to generate revenue, assuming they plan on taking commissions from app purchases like everyone else is doing. Also, we can imagine that this could be a thing for future smarter cars, plus with Apple reportedly working on their own car, perhaps that could be a feature we can expect in the future as well.

Tesla Reportedly Working On Its Own App Store For Its Cars

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In 2020, NVIDIA announced that they would be acquiring ARM. However, fast forward to today, a report from the Financial Times has revealed that the company will be backing out of the deal after facing pressure not just from regulators, but also others within the tech industry.

We had heard back in January that NVIDIA was already considering backing out of the deal, and now it seems that they have. For those unfamiliar, ARM is the company whose designs are used by many companies that make their own custom chipset. We’re talking about Qualcomm, MediaTek, Huawei, Apple, Samsung, and so on.

There were concerns that NVIDIA acquiring arm could result in these companies being forced to pay more for patents and licenses, even though NVIDIA had assured that would not be the case. However, there were also concerns raised by various governments around the world, which ultimately led to NVIDIA backing down.

As to what will happen now, it seems that SoftBank who owns ARM is apparently planning on launching an IPO to take ARM public before the end of 2022. NVIDIA backing out will no doubt dampen the company’s plans to play a bigger role in the chip space, but with all the regulatory pressure, we’re not sure if it could have gone forward anyway.

NVIDIA Officially Backs Out Of ARM Acquisition

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It’s not just Republican senators upset over the Internal Revenue Service’s plans to adopt ID.me facial recognition. Democratic House Representatives Ted Lieu, Anna Eshoo, Pramila Jayapal and Yvette Clarke have sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig demanding his agency drop plans to use facial recognition starting this summer. They’re concerned the plan will compromise privacy and security by forcing uploads of sensitive data to a database that could be a “prime target” for cyberattacks like the one that exposed license plates at Customs and Border Protection in 2019.

The members of Congress were also worried about lingering accuracy and bias problems with facial recognition systems. While ID.me maintains its technology is equitable and inclusive, the Democrats pointed to a National Institute of Standards and Technology study that showed many more false positives for Asian and Black faces, even in one-to-one matching systems like the one ID.me sometimes uses. The requirement for facial recognition also discriminated against those who couldn’t afford “reliable” broadband and video capabilities, according to the letter.

Transparency was also a point of contention. The House reps were concerned ID.me backtracked on claims it didn’t use potentially more invasive one-to-many face recognition tech, and that the IRS wasn’t transparent regarding its contract.

The House group asked the IRS to answer several questions on top of rethinking its policy. The politicians wanted the tax service to explain the methodology leading to the contract, including examples of fraud that would justify facial recognition and the lack of disclosures surrounding ID.me’s tech. Lieu and allies similarly wanted to know if the IRS had taken measures to address the potentials for bias and security breaches. There was no deadline for answering these questions.

Letters like this won’t guarantee action. There’s no immediate threat of legislation or other efforts that could force the IRS to change course. They do reflect mounting bipartisan (and bicameral) opposition to the service’s facial recognition strategy, though, and they come as part of a broader effort to ban the technology at the federal level. If politicians deem the IRS’ response inadequate, they might escalate their legislative efforts.