Apple is going to install software on iPhones in the United States, which will scan photo galleries of their owners Apple, which has been building all its marketing to protect user privacy for several years, seems to be preparing to shoot in the leg. As FT found out , the company is going to scan American iPhones and the ICloud cloud service for photographs, which depicts violence against children. In case of violations of the law, the company will report this to the authorities.

Commercial electric vehicle developer Arrival has announced a partnership with Microsoft to store and process data from the company's truck fleets in the Azure cloud. It is expected that the transfer of standardized geodata and telemetry to a common repository will allow users to "safely and responsibly analyze information and use the results in their business." The data can be accessed by insurers for claims processing or rate optimization, or city planning agencies.

One of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, American Exxon, is eyeing the idea of ​​achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, found out . The Wall Street Journal Back in 2020, Exxon CEO Darren Woods called the similar goals of European competitors a “beauty contest” in the sense that there were no specific plans for them, recalls WSJ. But this year, hedge funds ran green candidates for Exxon's board of directors, and now Woods is seriously discussing carbon neutrality with him.

The agreement on stabilization of prices for sunflower oil, which expires on October 1, will not be extended. This was announced by the Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov. “We believe that those constantly working mechanisms that have been adopted will be enough, so the agreement will expire and become a thing of the past,” Reshetnikov said ( quoted by TASS). The minister recalled that a damper price mechanism for sunflower seeds and sunflower oil will start working in autumn.

Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates called his divorce from wife Melinda a "very sad" milestone. And communication with the American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of persuading minors into prostitution, was a "big mistake" for him. Bill Gates commented on the completion of the divorce on CNN.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow found the founder of Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey, and other defendants in the case guilty of embezzling 2.5 billion rubles from Vostochny Bank. The court will announce the punishment for the accused later, RBC reports from the courtroom. The prosecution asked for suspended sentences for Calvey and other defendants in the case. The prosecutor asked the founder of Baring Vostok to appoint six years, the partner of the fund, Philippe Delpal, five.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko instructed the security forces to strengthen border security. From August 5, “not a single foot on the territory of Belarus from the adjacent side” should not set foot, reports Belta Lukashenko’s statement: “Close every meter of the border.

Car sales in Russia in July began to decline in annual terms, follows from the data of the Association of European Businesses. The market still shows modest growth by the pre-crisis 2019 and a pronounced one by the crisis 2020. Sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles fell 4.1% year-on-year to 136,040 units in July. In January-July, 957,160 cars were sold, which is 28.9% more than in the same period last year.

The price of Brent fell below $70 a barrel for the first time in two weeks. At the low of the session on August 5, the futures price for benchmark oil for October delivery fell to $69.75, WTI - to $67.62. Quotes fall for the fourth day in a row on fears about the delta strain of coronavirus. Traders are worried about the consequences of the introduction of new restrictions, writes Bloomberg.

The Orel, a nuclear submarine of the same design as the Kursk that sank in August 2000, was losing speed off the coast of Denmark while returning to the Northern Fleet from a July 25 naval parade in St. Petersburg. This became known only through the patrol forces of the Danish Navy, the Russian Ministry of Defense did not comment on what happened on Thursday morning.

The new rules for the use of biometrics discriminate against the largest Russian IT companies, according to the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). Car sharing services and foreign platforms were also under attack, experts warned. The draft amendments, developed by the Ministry of Digital Development, prohibit the collection of biometric data and their use by companies with a foreign participation share of more than 49% and a capital of less than 500 million rubles.

Yandex.Market has launched a lending service for its customers. The first partner of the service was Tinkoff, although Market already has access to its own banking license. You can apply for a loan in the amount of 3,000 to 200,000 rubles and for a period of three to 24 months. The rate starts from 18% per annum and depends on the chosen term. Yandex has repeatedly spoken about plans to develop its own fintech direction.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade and Rostec will enter the management of the State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK) with a portfolio of almost 1.3 trillion rubles. The Ministry of Transport will remain the owner of the company, through which the main flow of state orders for aircraft will now go. with a copy of the "road map" on the effectiveness of interaction between STLC and industrial enterprises RBC got acquainted .

Yandex unmanned business was generously estimated at $ 7 billion Morgan Stanley analysts rated Yandex to develop unmanned vehicles of $ 7 billion and as one of the world leaders in this direction, Forbes writes . For the global market, such an assessment is justified, but for Russian it can be too large. To maintain leading positions, the Russian IT giant is recommended to invest more in an unmanned direction, and possibly with the help of an external investor.

Open Media stop working on August 5, a similar decision was made by the Human Rights Postcards. The night before, both projects were blocked by Roskomnadzor at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. “We consider it important to state that we have never worked with unwanted structures,” reports the Open Media Telegram channel .