Spotify subscribers have long used the streaming service to play their favorite movie’s soundtrack. But some now are apparently using the service to watch actual movies, too.
Several TikTok users posted videos within the past week showing how anyone o
Wegmans says shoppers were big fans of its self-checkout app that allowed them to scan groceries as they shopped and pay with a quick swipe of the phone at the end, and now we may know one reason why. The supermarket chain has announced that the app, called Scan, is being discontinued because of an unexpectedly large amount of product loss.
“Unfortunately, the losses we are experiencing prevent us from continuing to make it available in its current state,” it said in an e
The biggest news in crypto last week was “The Merge,” the name for Ethereum’s transition from a proof-of-work validation process, where people mine crypto using computers, to a proof-of-stake validation process, where crypto owners use their current ETH coins as collateral for validating new coi
Instacart on Monday announced Connected Stores, a suite of new and existing in-store tech for retailers who want to make their grocery stores smart.
The features, which U.S. and Canadian retailers can implement à la carte, are based on the idea of making the brick-and-mortar shopping experience more seamless, quick, and personalized. They include a new version of AI-powered Caper Carts, the ability to sync Instacart shopping lists to the smart carts, electronic shelf tabs (called
Where writing is concerned, the best of today’s AIs can be very, very good. But when they’re bad, they’re horrid.
They’re excellent mimics. A few years ago, a text generator called GPT-2 analyzed a sample of writing by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, then produced an imitation that hardly anyone could distinguish from the real thing. A more recent AI called Copilot, which has been customized for programming uses, is speeding up the work of practiced code
So you’re thinking of dumping cable? Don’t let me talk you out of it.
You should absolutely do it. I did it five years ago and I’ve never looked back. It’s the best thing since working from home.
That being said, without a teensy bit of planning, you’ll probably experience a few bumps in the road along the way. Here are some things I’ve learned.
The two greatest things about cord cutting
You might save money. You’l
More and more colleges are becoming “metaversities,” taking their physical campuses into a virtual online world, often called the “metaverse.” One initiative has
Whether we like it or not, there are a very small handful of tech companies that dominate the tech industry as a whole. The FAANG companies, also known as MAMAA, Big Tech, or the Big Five, originally started as a stock market term to describe the newest and hottest heavy hitters in the industry—the most prominent technology companies in the country—and has remained a popular term to de
Journalist Sarah Kendzior burst onto the scene in 2016 after predicting Trump would win the presidency. Two years after that election, her subsequent essay collection, The View From Flyover Country, detailed a despairing industrial Midwest where the populist candidate found many of his votes. Now, after a couple of bestsellers and a hit
Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) came into its own alongside the likes of Zoom cocktail hours, virtual museum tours, and same-day