Airbnb has acquired GamePlanner.AI, a stealth startup that the company said will help the home sharing company accelerate “select AI projects.”
“What makes GamePlanner.AI so special is that they combine expertise in AI, design, and community,” Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said in a statement Tuesday. “AI will rapidly alter our world more than any other technology in our lifetime, but we need to ensure that it augments humanity in a positive way. Airbnb
You can’t talk about the new PlayStation Portal without talking about the Nintendo Switch.
Sony has long wanted to be a bigger player in the portable gaming market. It had some success with the PSP and Vita, but the sun has long set on both of those systems—and Nintendo upped the game with the Switch, letting people play on their TV or take their game on the go. The Portal seeks to emulate that sort of flexibility, but it’s hamstrung by a few limitations that ul
By 2030, to avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change, global emissions need to be 43% lower than they were in 2019—a massive drop. That’s necessary to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal that a U.N. climate report said was critical in 2018. At the time, news headlines talked about having 12 years left to cut emissions in half. Now there are only seven years left (or fewer, if you assume that most changes need to be in place by the beg
Digital payments app Venmo is rolling out a new feature that allows users to create groups to track and settle up multiple expenses.
The feature is meant to cut out the need for spreadsheets and other third-party apps, such as Splitwise, before sending expenses to friends. It will automatically calculate each individual amount due based on the overall spend of each person in the group.
Venmo’s Groups launches Tuesday and will continue to roll out within the coming w
Marques Brownlee ushers me into his robot room, where I stand face-to-face with Colossus. An imposing yet graceful contraption, the aptly named $250,000 mechanical arm towers over my 6’3″ host, who is giving me a guided tour through his studio in Kearny, New Jersey, on a late-August morning.
Brownlee is YouTube’s preeminent maker of videos about newly released technology, and he acquired the rig to perform swoopy camera pans with more balletic precision than any
Jeaniene Brownlee says that she wasn’t paying that much attention when her son Marques began making YouTube videos in the family home as a high schooler. She wasn’t even instinctively impressed by his love of technology. But as he kept at it—and his gadget reviews became wildly popular—she became a cheerleader, as any mother would. When he turned his talents into a real business, she leveraged her background in finance to provide guidance. Fifteen years into his ca
If you’d like to see for yourself how Marques Brownlee mastered the art of explaining consumer technology in YouTube videos, it’s easy. Just head to his MKBHD channel, click the “Oldest” button, and check out his first tech video, which the high school sophomore uploaded on January 1, 2009. And then just keep traveling through time with Brownlee as he covers everything from relics such as the Zune and Google+ to the new MacBook Pro that Apple announced just a coupl
X’s substandard content moderation has come into even sharper relief with the explosion of violence in Israel and Gaza over the past five weeks. In fact, a new study suggests that the platform is unable or unwilling to delete posts that defy its own community rules on hate and misinformation.
The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) says it flagged 200 tweets concerning the Israel-Gaza conflict that clearly violated X’s own rules prohibiting racist slurs
It’s been almost a decade since the dating app Bumble—where women always make the first move—launched online. But according to founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, the company’s core mission hasn’t changed much.
“I wanted to give women control over their relationships, create a safer experience for them on the internet, and change the paradigm of how women felt they could show up in the world and in their relationships,” Wolfe Herd says.  
Despite mounting pressure on corporations to deploy some kind of AI strategy within the next year, a new survey conducted by Cisco finds that the vast majority of business leaders lack either the infrastructure, policies, talent, culture, or data to do it.
The survey, called Cisco’s AI Readiness Index, includes responses from more than 8,000 business leaders at companies with more than 500 employees across 30 markets. It finds that while 97% of respondents said the urgency to