Something to look forward to: Walmart over the past 18 months has been quietly working on a paid membership program to combat Amazon Prime, offering perks that the e-commerce giant simply can’t duplicate. Is it a real competitor, and does Walmart even want to draw those comparisons?

Sources familiar with the matter told Recode that Walmart wants to start publicly testing the membership program as early as next month. Walmart+, as it is to be called, is more or less a rebrand of the company’

Big quote: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." — First Amendment, US Constitution

It is a common misconception that the First Amendment of the US Constitution protects citizen’s right to say anything thing they want anywhere they want. However, its purpose and language are to prevent the

In brief: One of the places where Bitcoin is showing up is Square Cash, where a significant chunk of all transactions are now made using the popular cryptocurrency. The company impressed investors and is optimistic about the huge potential market for Square Cash, despite the coronavirus crisis.

Bitcoin's price may have dipped below $9,000 on Wednesday, but it still has a market capitalization equivalent to that of Nvidia. And if that doesn't sound like a big deal, companies like Square see a significant

Bottom line: Nokia is reportedly exploring strategic options ranging from the sale of assets to mergers, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. 5G could be the company’s saving grace but it may be a case of “too little, too late” and at too great a cost.

The Finnish telecommunications company has hired advisers to help with deliberations which could also include shifting investments and making adjustments on its balance sheet, one person said.

A spokesperson for Nokia declined to comment when pinged by the publication .

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In brief: The Raspberry Pi Foundation is celebrating the eighth anniversary of its popular microcomputer with a price cut that’s sure to get your attention. You can thank falling RAM prices for the discount.

The original Raspberry Pi launched on February 29, 2012 – Leap Day – priced at just $35. The hobby board, with its 700MHz ARM11 processor and 256MB of RAM, was a hit with enthusiasts and sold out within hours .

The foundation has

In a nutshell: Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has published the latest update on the state of the GPU market, and it’s good news for AMD. In the fourth quarter of last year, Team Red saw its shipments increase 22.6 percent from the previous quarter. Nvidia, meanwhile, experienced a 1.9 percent decline.

We’ve seen AMD stealing market share away from Intel in the CPU segment since the arrival of its Ryzen processors, and it’s repeating the feat in the

Forward-looking: Iger leaves Disney in a great position, having acquired both Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and LucasFilm in 2012. More recently, he led the launch of ESPN+ and Disney+ and helped acquire assets from 21st Century Fox.

Disney has announced that longtime CEO Bob Iger has stepped down from his position and is being replaced by Bob Chapek, effective immediately.

Iger joined the Disney family in 1996 when the company purchased Capital Cities / ABC. In 1

A hot potato: Remember when virtually every smartphone had an easily replaceable battery? It’s something you rarely see these days, but that could change if a European Commission draft proposal gets passed.

It’s been a few years since most (but not all ) companies started making handsets with fixed, non-removable backs, meaning swapping out the batteries became a very difficult task. It did bring benefits such as improved waterproofing and larger batteries, but not everyone was happy about the change. The EU, however

What just happened? Investigators examining a fatal crash in which the driver of a Tesla had Autopilot engaged say he was playing a smartphone game at the time. The National Transport and Safety Board (NTSB) found that 38-year-old Apple software engineer Walter Huang made no attempt to stop the vehicle before it hit the crash barrier in the March 2018 incident.

A month after the crash , Tesla said its own internal investigation showed Haung kept his hands off the Model X’s wheel despite the