Walmart is looking to add a large video streaming service to its Walmart+ membership program. The retailer is in talks with executives at Walt Disney, Comcast, and Paramount Global. The move comes as the retailer ramps up its competition with Amazon.com and other streaming video providers.

Global tech investor SoftBank reported a record quarterly loss of more than $23 billion Monday after an investment spree that Chief Executive Masayoshi Son described as delirious turned sour. The results for the three months through June brought a mea culpa from Mr. Son, who sprayed unprecedented levels of funding on startups across the world over the past half-decade, particularly just as prices crested last year.

WhatsApp has added a new "online presence control" feature. It lets you send messages while appearing to be offline. The feature will roll out to all users across desktop and mobile later this month. The aim is to eventually make WhatsApp "as private and secure as face-to-face conversations"

South Korea's communication watchdog will investigate Apple and Google over potential violations of the country's in-app payment rule. The agency is also investigating SK Group's homegrown app store called ONE Store. The watchdog said it had looked into the practices of all three app stores since May 17 and determined that they might have breached the country’s telecommunication act.

Apple has added the battery percent indicator back to the status bar in the latest iOS 16 beta. As my colleague Victoria Song wrote, the new icon is hideous. One particularly egregious issue is that the icon’s ‘battery’ is full no matter what the percentage says.

Paramount+ has set a release date for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. The movie will be released on December 20th, 2024. A Sonic-themed Fall Guys event starts on Thursday and runs until Monday. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Super Sonic and Dr. Robotnik outfits will be available in the store.

Intel launches three new Arc Pro graphics cards for workstations. The new models have ray tracing and machine learning capabilities. They will be available later this year from mobile and desktop partners. Intel has yet to reveal how much these new discrete cards will cost, but they will cost around $200.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a landmark bill to provide $52.7 billion in subsidies for U.S. semiconductor production and research and to boost efforts to make the United States more competitive with China's science and technology efforts.

Ford Motor is the latest automaker to raise the price of electric vehicles. The company is raising prices of its popular F-150 Lightning because of rising materials costs. Ford has taken reservations for more than 200,000 of the electric trucks. The higher prices will go into effect for the 2023 model year.

Tesla has disclosed that it is lobbying the Ontario government for a potential new factory in Canada. The automaker is looking for a quick permitting experience to get approval to build. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has hinted that the company is looking to build a Gigafactory in North America.

Baidu has secured permits to offer a fully driverless commercial robotaxi service in Chongqing and Wuhan. The company scored a permit to provide driverless ride-hailing services in Beijing last month. The new permits will allow B aidu to launch its service in both cities.

SNK has confirmed a new Fatal Fury game is in the works. The first Fatal Fury was released in 1991. The company claims it will be a "new turning point" in the fighting game genre. The teaser trailer reveals nothing about the gameplay, plot or release date.