Amazon opens the piggy bank for live-shopping influencers
Amazon Live (the e-commerce giant’s version of QVC) is offering thousands of dollars in guaranteed money to influencers who will leave TikTok or YouTube to work exclusively for the service.
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Invader turns traveling into an art-installation quest
Who needs the digital art of AR to gamify your life when Invader has been creating the real thing for the past 24 years.
The updated American Dream may be fractional home-ownership
A handful of startups hope to make your (fractional) home-ownership dreams come true by making down payments actually affordable.
New York closes the Bitcoin mine
A new bill heading to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk would halt issuing new permits to Bitcoin mining facilities within the state.
TikTok gets into subscription programming with Finding Jericho
Pearpop debuted its new comedy series Finding Jericho last week on TikTok LIVE, making it the first pay-subscription show on the platform.
Cruise first to cross finish line in California for driverless-taxi rollout
Autonomous taxis are officially a go in California, with Cruise scoring the first-ever commercial permit in the state.
Ex-Google engineer believes AI chatbot has achieved consciousness
Former Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, believes that the company’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) has achieved “sentience”.
Researchers experiment with how to hide your voice to protect your privacy
Privacy advocates and researchers want to save your voice from fraud and non-consensual voice and medical monitoring.
What’s on Sheryl Sandberg’s mind?
With her exit from Meta, Sheryl Sandberg leaves an outsized (and controversial) legacy.
The Jonas Brothers want to text you with Scriber
The Jonas Brothers are investing in a newly-launched subscription media startup dubbed Scriber.