
Jeepers creepers, do I love me some lists.
Basic task juggling aside, I make lists for everything—places I want to visit, books I want to read, lists I want to make. You name it.
And this week, my list of intriguing new tools to chew over led me to a really neat app for a specific type of list thinking.
It’s a thoughtfully crafted tool that’s designed to give you a better, more pleasant setup for sharing lists—with friends, family, coworkers

We are officially reaching the phase in the tech cycle where a new technology (in this case, artificial intelligence) goes from truly wondrous to truly annoying. Every organization now seems to be using it—or the idea of it—to ride the hype wave to achieve attention, clicks, or, you know, just a few more customers. And it’s starting to annoy the hell out of m

Amazon’s announcement last week that it was ditching its Just Walk Out technology from its U.S. Fresh stores, which allowed customers to shop and leave without checking out through a register, came with an interesting silver lining: The tech behemoth was replacing that technology with another shopping innovation, this time revolving around the shopping cart itself.
As part of last week’s news, Amazon said it would be expanding its

When it comes to résumés, we’ve come a long way—especially now that we’ve got all this powerful AI at our fingertips.
What was once a long slog of typing, formatting, spell-checking, and printing can now be handled not only in mere moments, but for the low, low price of free.
Here’s a look at a handful of easy to use, AI-powered, free résumé makers to help you build your first résumé or get your existing résumé tuned up. Happy hunting!
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The logistics and supply chain world has seen its share of upheaval in recent years. Following the height of the pandemic, when manufacturing and shipping lines were snarled by worker shortages, canal blockages and rapidly shifting consumer spending habits, there had been a “collective holding of your breath,” said Carly West, senior research director at Gartner Research within its supply chain practice. “What was going to happen coming out of all the disruptions from the pandemic?” What do

Artificial intelligence companies may have to become a lot more transparent about how they train their models, if a new bill from Rep. Adam Schiff passes in Congress. Schiff has proposed the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act, which would require firms like OpenAI to list the copyrighted works they use to build generative-AI systems. The bill comes amid a growing outcry about the burgeonin

A disclaimer about this newsletter’s title: I didn’t quite watch 243 one-minute startup pitches myself during Y Combinator’s Demo Day last week. I think I probably set a personal record for pitch consumption, though. It was a rewarding experience, albeit an occasionally dizzying one.
When Y Combinator began holding Demo Days, a handful of budding tech comp

The ‘Gram is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Meta.
That’s one of the key takeaways from court documents filed by Meta last week, as the company attempts to get a federal antitrust lawsuit dismissed. Specifically, the documents say that Instagram generated advertising revenue totaling $32.4 billion in 2021, and $16.5 billion during the first half of 2022—up fr

ChatGPT was the tech story of 2023 because it put the power of language AI directly into the hands of consumers. And yet ChatGPT was just the outside wrapper, the user interface, sitting atop a stack of foundation models, server chips, and other enabling technologies all working in the background. And it’s from within the realm of these enabling technologies that some of 2023’s most meaningful advancem

Total solar eclipses are a mind-expanding demonstration of “the right place at the right time”—and for centuries, scientists and enthusiasts have voyaged to get there in the hopes that they might catch a glimpse of the sun’s corona, probe the solar wind, test theories like relativity, and simply experience the sublime wonder and dread that comes with being part of a rare cosmic alignment.
The most serious umbraphiles,