Google’s engineers must’ve been hungry when designing these latest updates, as Google Lens is getting a feast of new features that make it easier to find delicious-looking food. Google Lens is Google’s picture-based search tool that allows you to use images instead of text; you can snap a picture or screenshot something and search for…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
The popular single-page website builder Linktree has released its Payment Lock feature into open beta, allowing users to gate content behind a paywall and deliver it to users by email. The feature, announced on the Linktree blog, allows users to gate specific links containing documents such as PDF files behind a one-time purchase up to…
Tuvalu may be completely submerged by the end of the century. Mario Tama/Getty Images Tuvalu wants to replicate itself in the metaverse before rising sea levels wipe it off the map. Climate change poses an existential threat to Tuvalu, which is forecast to be submerged by 2100. “It appears we have no choice but to…
Elon Musk is chief executive of SpaceX as well as Tesla. Yasin Ozturk/Getty Images SpaceX fired nine employees who shared an open letter in June, criticizing Elon Musk, per the NYT. Employees called on SpaceX to denounce Musk’s “harmful Twitter behavior,” per the report. Musk has recently fired Twitter employees for openly criticizing him on…
The 2023 Toyota Prius Toyota Toyota unveiled a sleek new Prius for 2023. It will have the best fuel economy of any Prius, according to Toyota’s estimates, at 57mpg. The 2023 Prius hybrid and Prius Prime plug-in hybrid also got big horsepower boosts. Toyota took the wraps off of a new version of the iconic…
Taylor Swift. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti said he’s looking into the Taylor Swift Eras presale meltdown. On Tuesday, Swift fans complained of long wait times and outages on Ticketmaster. “You would think Ticketmaster would be prepared,” Skrmetti said. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said Wednesday that he’s probing the Taylor Swift…
Getty Images FTX Digital Markets’ co-CEO threw up when he learnt of FTX’s problems, sources told the WSJ. FTX filed for bankruptcy Friday. Subsidiary FDM filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. Other staff say they learned about FTX’s collapse through Twitter and the media rather than via the company. The co-CEO of one of…
Brittney Griner. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Brittney Griner was moved to a penal colony in Russia’s Mordovia, Reuters reported. She was sentenced to nine years in August on drugs charges in a case the US says is unjust. Her agent has expressed concerns for her health in detention. WNBA star Brittney Griner was moved to a women’s…
Sam Bankman-Fried was the cofounder of FTX. Jabin Botsford/Getty Images FTX’s new CEO issued scathing remarks about Sam Bankman-Fried in a bankruptcy filing on Thursday. He cited “inexperienced” execs, auto-deleting messages, and “a complete failure of corporate controls.” Read the highlights here. FTX’s new CEO has issued a scathing rebuke of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange’s…
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Gabe Ginsberg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images I visited Home Depot and Lowe’s to compare the two home improvement giants. Home Depot is targeted at professionals, while Lowe’s aims for DIYers. Home Depot continues to have higher sales. Home Depot and Lowes are home improvement competitors who’ve both benefitted from the…