Where Amazon Prime dared to go starting almost two decades ago, other big retailers with online presences have followed. Now consumers have more options than ever when it comes to premium shopping experiences.
Here’s a look at the programs on offer from four big retailers: Amazon Prime, My BestBuy, Target Circle, and Walmart+. There’s a little something for everyone, from members-only savings to expedited shipping and a whole lot more—all at various yearly price
The term Luddite emerged in England in the early 1800s. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and garments out of cotton and wool. As the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum, however, steam-powered mills threatened the livelihood of thousands of artisanal textile workers.
Faced with an industrialized future that threatened their jobs and their professional identity, a growi
Humans are racing to harness the ocean’s vast potential to power global economic growth. Worldwide, ocean-based industries such as fishing, shipping, and energy production generate at least U.S.$1.5 trillion in economic activity each year and support 31 million jobs. This value has been increasing exponentially over the past 50 years and is expected to double by 2030.
Transparency in monitoring this “blue acceleration” is crucial to prev
It’s been a rough two years for the bitcoiners. Most of the news from Crypto Land had the odor of fraud, scams, meltdowns, price crashes, and villains, such as Sam Bankman-Fried. NFTs fizzled. The “metaverse” became a punchline. AI stole the spotlight.
But quietly, without much hype, Bitcoin has once again emerged from the dead. “In terms of price, [2023 was] an absolutely fucking remarkable year for Bitcoin,” says investor Meltem Demirors, as the
You might think a biotech company that created a new vaccine, using novel tech like mRNA-based therapeutics, in record time to help the world fight a historic pandemic like COVID-19 would still be flying high. That hasn’t been the case so far for Moderna, whose only FDA-approved product to date remains its COVID vaccine Spikevax and its various forms for teens and children. But a new analyst report from Oppenheimer released this week asserts the company’s pipeline of mRNA-based
The term “artificial intelligence” is likely to have stiff competition this year when it comes to being the buzziest phrase in tech. That’s because Apple is expected to launch its Vision Pro mixed reality headset, and simultaneously, Apple hopes, bring the words “spatial computing” into the mainstream.
Here’s what you need to know about this new frontier in tech and how businesses may use it.
What is spatial computing?
While Peloton has garnered a lot of attention and a bit of a stock pop this week with its TikTok deal, the buzz has not been strong enough to drown out the pronounced vocal outrage among Peloton app users about a dramatic change the company implemented last month.
Starting on December 5, Peloton introduced two new membership options to replace legacy subscribers’ existing $12.99 per month version. Members like myself could either stick with what is now called Peloton App One
The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who has become the first player to officially “beat” the original Nintendo version of the game—by breaking it.
Technically, Willis—aka “blue scuti” in the gaming world—made it to what gamers call a “kill screen,” a point where the Tetris code glitches, crashing the game. That might not sound like much of a victory to anyone thinking that
China and India scored moon landings, while Russia, Japan, and Israel ended up in the lunar trash heap.
Now two private companies are hustling to get the U.S. back in the game, more than five decades after the Apollo program ended.
It’s part of a NASA-supported effort to kick-start commercial moon deliveries, as the space agency focuses on getting astronauts back there.
“They’re scouts going to the moon ahead of us,” said NASA Administ
BEIJING (AP) — Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million Model S, X, 3 and Y electric vehicles exported to China for problems with their automatic assisted steering and door latch controls.
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation announced the recall on Friday. It said Tesla Motors in Beijing and Shanghai would use remote upgrades to fix the problems, so in most cases car owners would not need to visit Tesla service centers.
The recall due to proble