Brian Lovell has only had his Tesla Cybertruck for a week and already the 48-year-old has experienced a range of unfettered reactions from passersby: Some people point and gape, others rush over to take a photo, and a few even ask if he would take them for a quick spin in the much-hyped EV.
“I might as well be driving a UFO,” says Lovell, who’s based in Murrieta, California.
It’s not exactly surprising that people are aghast to see something tha
We all know the pain of misguided sales spam—and lots of it—cluttering our inboxes. Whether it’s emails to our personal addresses that assume our buying habits of a decade ago are the same today, or sales pitches to our work addresses that are completely irrelevant to our roles and responsibilities, we’ve become overwhelmed with poorly targeted emails. Statista found that spam accounted for 45% of the 333 billion emails sent daily in 2022, while research
Shares of rent-to-own appliance and furniture giant Aaron’s nosedived after the company posted much lower than expected revenues and earnings.
As of mid-afternoon Tuesday, shares of Aaron’s Company stock (NYSE: AAN) were down 18% to less than $9 per share. That followed the release of the company’s fourth quarter earnings late Monday. Even news of a $0.125 per share quarterly dividend failed to appease investors.
Analysts had expected Aaron’s Co
Academic researchers are complaining that X has repeatedly refused them access to its API, limiting their ability to conduct studies on the platform.
Researchers who study social media platforms, such as X (formerly Twitter), have found it more difficult to conduct their work since Musk bought the platform in October 2022 for $44 billion. In March 2023, the company removed what had previously been free access to Twitter’s API, or application programming interface, which provi
It’s a clear day in Zermatt, a remote Swiss town anchored in a sharp valley under the gaze of the Matterhorn. We’ve taken off from Air Zermatt, home to some of the best high-altitude rescue pilots in the world. I’d flown in helicopters before but never piloted one. And this location was hardly a beginner course.
“Are you ready to take the reins?” the controller asks.
“Um, I think . . .?” I said nervously.
“I
In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day.Around the country, educators say students routinely send Snapchat messages in class, listen to music and shop online, among countless other examples of how smartphones distract from teaching and learning.The hold that phones have on adolescents in America today is well-documented, but teac
For the past month, I’ve been letting an AI app called Rize analyze everything I do on my work computer.
It sees every app I open, every website I visit, and every appointment on my calendar. It knows, down to the minute, how much time I spend writing and how often I’m checking email, and it’s well-aware of when I’m wasting time on social media. I’m reminded of these things every time Rize encourages me to focus or blocks my biggest distractions.
Klarna is bullish on bots.
One month after taking its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant global, the Swedish buy-now, pay-later company has released new data touting its ability to handle customer communications, make shoppers happier, and even drive better financial results.
The app-based AI chatbot already handles two-thirds of all customer service chats, the company said Tuesday—some 2.3 million conversations so far—with the virtual assistant earning custome
If you grew up shopping at Gap, you can likely remember some of the great moments in its brand marketing history, from ads featuring a young Spike Lee in the 1980s to the slogan “For every generation” to the famous “Who Wore Khakis” series of print ads, featuring unexpectedly preppy styling from the likes of Miles Davis, Picasso, and James Dean. But it’s been a while since the Gap brand really crossed over to enter the sweater-buying pubic’s conscious
My colleagues and I have built a robot composed of many building blocks like the cells of a multicellular organism. Without a “brain” or a central controller in the system, our robot, dubbed Loopy, relies on the collective behavior of all of its cells to interact with the world.
In this sense, we call Loopy a robotic swarm. But Loopy can also be seen as a single robot since all the cells are connected; therefore, Loopy is also “a swarm of one.” This research