Tech Roundup: Apple iPhone 7, Facebook Antitrust Scrutiny & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

Alphabet/Google:

• Partners with fashion stores to buy clothes straight from search results.
• Issues security updates for the month of September that fixes an array of critical vulnerabilities that allow attackers to infect Android smartphones with malware.
• Adds support for Android Pay in Chrome 53.
• To buy Apigee for $625 million USD to expand enterprise cloud business as tech consolidation continues.

Facebook:

• Invites European Competition Commission scrutiny following its last month announcement that it will begin showing ads on Instagram and the social network by pulling user data from WhatsApp. (It is to be noted that Facebook's $19 billion USD acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014 was approved on the condition that data between the two social media platforms wouldn't be shared with each other.)
• Reverses stance on censoring iconic Napalm photo after uproar.
• Gets rid of photo maps on photo-sharing network Instagram, says the feature wasn't widely used.

In other news:

• Apple makes a 'courageous' move to wireless headphones with $159 AirPods (RIP, 3.5mm audio jack!), and announces jet black iPhone 7/7 Plus that scratches very easily; base storage shifts to 32 GB.
• Costa Rica powers itself solely on renewable sources of energy for 76 days straight since June 16, 2016.
• European Space Agency's Rosetta mission announce rediscovery of Philae spaceprobe on comet 67P after losing contact in May 2015.
• SpaceX crowdsources photos, videos and audio clips from witnesses after a launch site explosion destroys Falcon 9 rocket and the Israeli satellite it was meant to put in orbit.
• Samsung Galaxy Note 7 users worldwide are urged to turn off their phones during air travel due to fire risk as a costly recall process commences.
• Mobile service provider Three's plans for ad blocking violates net-neutrality, rules European Regulator Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (Berec).
• Amazon enters restaurant delivery service in the U.K. (following successful trials in Seattle and other U.S. cities) with Prime Perk.
• Sony announces new improved PlayStation consoles PS4 and PS4 Pro.
• Nintendo stock price soars 18% after Super Mario Run mobile game is announced for iOS (and Android sometime in future) for release later this year in December.