Instacart announced Thursday its acquisition of Eversight, an AI company that helps consumer packaged goods brands and retailers determine pricing and promotions.
Eversight’s AI allows consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and retailers to continuously test pricing and promotions at scale, streamlining what has traditionally been a time-consuming process. The tech gives CPG brands real-time insights into the promotions that could resonate with customers. For retailers, Eversight
2022 has been Twitter’s weirdest year yet, but here’s news that will make some people very happy: The company says that paying Twitter Blue customers in New Zealand will get access to an edit button
The companies that survived the dot-com boom had one thing in common: they had gone meta. Tim O’Reilly, the technology book publisher, called it Web 2.0. He said that Web 2.0 companies, like Google and eBay, treated the web as a platform, and leveraged the activity of users rather than spending money on their own people and merchandise. Unlike Yahoo, Google didn’t hir
We’ve only got so many hours in the day to get stuff done. So any chance to compress that time by doing things more efficiently is more than welcome. And if you spend most of your day in a web browser, you’re likely missing valuable time-saving opportunities that, little by little, can add up to a lot of time saved.
In that spirit, these five Chrome extensions–which also work on Chrome-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge–can work wonders when it comes
Lyft is facing legal action filed by 17 passengers and drivers who claim they were sexually or physically assaulted while using the rideshare platform.
Attorneys say the alleged incidents, occurring across a number of states, include 13 sexual assault and four physical assault victims.
“Lyft has created a national crisis,” Adam Wolf, partner at Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise (which filed the lawsuits and arbitration claims), told reporters Wednesday in a pres
Since it was announced in April, the text-to-image AI tool DALL-E 2 has been wowing artists, researchers, and media types its high-quality images. Now, four months later, developer OpenAI is giving DALL-E 2 a new trick: the ability to extend the original images
In a medical landscape that’s full of precision drugs and detailed diagnoses, neurology is something of an outlier. Given how difficult it is to diagnose disorders of the nervous system, neurology has proven a particularly tricky branch of medicine. (Much of the public’s skepticism is understandable: Research suggests Parkinson’s, for example, has a
People can debate all they want about the Metaverse, whether it’s one virtual world or multiple worlds, whether it intrinsically has value, or is destined to destroy us. They can have all the opinions they want about cryptocurrency as well, whether it’s a terrible investment or an incredible opportunity, it’s the future, or itȁ
One of the earliest figures in healthcare technology is making a comeback.
In 1997, Jonathan Bush founded a women’s health and natal care clinic called Athena Women’s Health, but pivoted less than two years later to build practice management and physician billing tools as Athenahealth. Over the ensuing 20 years, Athenahealth became a major provider of electronic medical records and medical billing technology with more than 100,000 providers using the company’s tool
The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Kochava Inc. on Aug. 29, 2022, accusing the data broker of selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices. Consumers are often unaware that their location data is being sold and that their past movements can