Travel booking giant Expedia is integrating ChatGPT into its app as a beta test starting Tuesday to see how users interact with the ability to use generative AI when it comes to planning trips.
The chatbot, available in English on iOS, can give advice on where to go, where to stay, what to see, and what to do. The tool will also save any hotels discussed during the conversation in the app to remind bookers what was addressed.
“We view this as a really interesting ca
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here.
Scrintal is a promising new app for organizing ideas. Use it like a digital bulletin board to organize notes on a visual canvas. I’ve used it to brainstorm ideas and plan out writing projects.
- What to use it for: Map out a creative project and organize ideas visually
While I’ve been intrigued by cloud gaming services ever since the launch of OnLive in 2010, I’ve never had much luck using them.
Services like Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon’s Luna promise to let you play the latest video games on practically any device, using remote servers that do all the heavy graphics processing. With a fast and reliable internet connection, you can stream games at console quality on phones, lightweight laptops, and smart TV
There was once a stigma attached to online dating: Less than a decade ago, many couples who had met online would make up stories for how they met rather than admit that they had done so via an app.
Not so anymore. Online dating is so mainstream that you’re an outlier if you haven’t met your partner on Tinder, Grindr, or Hinge.
We bring up online dating to show just how quickly conventions around romance can change. With rapid adv
As some industry leaders call for a “pause” on AI developments, many companies are going forward full-speed ahead, implementing new AI tech into existing products and services.
That includes TurboTax, one of the largest tax-preparation service providers in the country. TurboTax is experimenting with a new AI-driven “express lane,” which allows some customers to file their tax returns in as little as 10 minutes. TurboTax’s parent company, Intuit
Tinder is pushing forward with its $500-per-month subscription offering, tentatively called “Tinder Vault.”
The feature is still in the early days, says the company’s chief product officer, Mark Van Ryswyk. Tinder could still pull plans to release it, or at least drastically cut prices. It’s still unclear as to when Tinder would want to release the offering broadly.
“I’m always like, ‘I want it yesterday.’ And, of cou
Kallie Davis and Jenna Wood are the self-proclaimed queens of Target. Their TikTok, Best Of Target, started as a pandemic project in April of 2020, before Bullseye even had an account. “We both naturally love Target.” says Davis, who is in her early twenties. “The brand is something that we always had a passion for. I mean, on a Friday night, I would love to go walking in Target with my husband or even by myself. It’s kind of like therapy to shop there.”
Trying to slow down or reverse the effects of aging is nothing new. Whether it’s taking a good old-fashioned walk in the park or injecting your furrowed brow with chemicals to freeze your face, attempts to hold onto youth can vary from the everyday to the extreme. And now, aging isn’t just viewed as a normal part of life. It’s being looked at like a “disease.” And while the idea is controversial, it’s found some traction. The World Health Organization
Self-driving truck startup Aurora announced on Monday that it has reached its “feature complete” milestone. The long-awaited benchmark means the company believes it has its core technology in place and can focus on fine-tuning its autonomous trucks as it races toward making them completely roadworthy, a step it calls “Aurora driver ready.” It expects to begin commercial deployment in 2024, starting with the highway corridor from Dallas to Houston.
With th
Last fall, John Timmerman, founder and CEO of digital marketing agency Good Monster, had a problem. He’d lost three clients through no fault of his own—acquisitions, startups running out of funding, the list goes on—but now he was responsible for the decision that came next. Lay off good performers or keep them even though the company was already losing thousands? Timmerman texted the group chat. Or, rather, in this case, he asked his cohort at Hampton, a new community fo