Technology

With people depending on deliveries more than ever, FedEx is calling in robots and adopting other gadgets to efficiently get packages where they’re going.

Logitech International LOGN.S shares led Europe's gainers on Tuesday as the computer peripherals maker reported a big jump in second-quarter profit and again hiked its guidance amid a work-from-home boom.

Social media influencers were the fourth-most cited reason for someone making a toy purchase. More than 100 million Americans are monthly active users of TikTok. With that many eyeballs, it’s no wonder that toy companies are partnering with content creators to showcase products on the app. A number of toy companies have cited paid partnerships with TikTok creators as reasons for toy sale surges.

Nokia has created an automated system that uses a thermal camera and real-time video analytics to determine if a person has COVID-19 symptoms and is wearing a mask, part of efforts to protect employees as they return to work.

Caterpillar’s autonomous driving technology, which can be bolted on to existing machines, is helping the U.S. heavy equipment maker mitigate the heavy impact of the coronavirus crisis on sales of its traditional workhorses.

CEOs of the Fortune 500, surveyed in the last two weeks of April, believe it will be years before the effects of COVID-19 are purged from the U.S. economy.

Leaders of more than two dozen of the New York City area's largest employers — including JPMorgan Chase, Ernst & Young, IBM, McKinsey & Company and Accenture — aim to hire 100,000 low-income residents and people of color by 2030 and will help prep them for tech jobs.

More employees are working from home than ever before due to the coronavirus. Security chiefs from McLaren, Revolut, and Facebook explained what they’re doing to keep their companies safe during the lockdown. Measures range from using privacy screens to extra vetting on new staff.

Major League Baseball will look to Big Tech companies like Apple and Google to help with its shortened season that is scheduled to resume on July 23. Google will provide cloud computing services that the MLB can use to track stats and shorten the time umpires need to review a contested play. Sony will offer artificial crowd noise that can be picked up by broadcasts, since all teams will play in empty stadiums.

Cathy Li and Hesham Zafar discuss how COVID-19 has affected the media industry, its response, consumer trust and the importance of innovation and adaptation.