Imagine walking into a store only to find there’s nobody to greet you. You walk through the store and can’t find anything. You have questions about products you’re interested in. But no one is there to answer. You leave empty-handed. Without conversational commerce, this happens online all the time. More customers are shopping online than…
Collection and speculation isn’t sustainable, and boom and bust only hurts the reputation of the blockchain game industry and developers.Read MoreRead More
It won’t just be another one of these, they claim. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Laptops are a mature category, and foldable screens are arguably one of the last frontiers. Several companies have attempted to bite that pie this year — notorious chaos agent Asus put out a surprisingly decent foldable…
In an aerial view, some pumpjacks operate while others stand idle in the Belridge oil field on November 3rd, 2021, near McKittrick, California. | Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images Concentrations of a super potent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere — methane — grew tremendously in 2021. It’s still something of a mystery why…
It seems like we’re getting a Sonic multiverse show. | Image: Netflix Netflix’s Sonic Prime, a new animated series starring Sega’s iconic blue hedgehog, will premiere on December 15th, Netflix announced on Thursday. The streaming company released some new plot details that indicate Sonic will have to deal with some major multiverse shenanigans. “It’s the…
Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images Who knew left-hand turns were so dangerous? Well, anyone who drives in a city, like an Uber driver, for example, has probably encountered their fair share of dangerous left turns. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 22 percent of crashes involve a vehicle making a left…
Enlarge / Jay Y. Lee leaves court following the bribery scandal verdict in August 2017. (credit: Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Samsung Electronics officially has a new executive chairman. The heir to the Samsung empire, Lee Jae-yong (aka Jay Y. Lee), ascended to the throne of the world’s biggest chipmaker on Thursday. Samsung announced the…
Enlarge / If you’ve got a laptop that’s sufficiently old, like this 2014 pile-up at a recycling program, or a bit “weird,” you can help test it against proposed changes to the Linux kernel’s backlight systems. Do you have a laptop that’s either “pretty old” or “weird in some other way”? Did it ship without…
Enlarge / Argo AI was one of the more promising autonomous driving startups. But now it’s ceasing operations. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Argo) The world of autonomous driving took a big blow on Wednesday with the sudden news that Argo AI will shut down. The high-profile startup had deep pockets courtesy of large investments from…
Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management has partnered with ed tech company Instructure to provide its Canvas learning platform to the Francis and Dionne Najafi 100 Million Global Learners Initiative through 2030.Read More