Say Hello to the ‘Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai Tea Latte’: Starbucks New Fall Menu Leaked Online
Instagram influencer exposes an alleged menu from the mega-coffee chain that has some customers delighted and depresso.
Modernizing the $10T Global Housing Market
Geoship is rethinking housing from first principles to deliver faster, healthier, climate-resilient homes at scale.
AutogenAI, a generative AI tool for writing bids and pitches, secures $22.3M
Business is regularly won and lost on the strength of a proposal. Now, a startup out of London called AutogenAI has built a tool based on generative AI that it claims can help businesses write stronger pitches to improve that strike rate, and it has won some money of its own: $22.3 million from Blossom […]
Facebook surpasses 3 billion monthly active users
Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta’s latest quarterly report. That’s quite the staggering number. Even though Facebook has declined in popularity among younger people, the platform is far from dead. Across Meta’s entire family of apps — which includes WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and now Threads — there were 3.88 billion […]
Why Digital Biology Has the Power to Change the Game Across Industries
Is digital biology the next big thing?
Audiobook platform Libro.fm announces its international launch
Libro.fm, the audiobook retailer and listening app for local bookshops, launched internationally on Wednesday to give even more bookstores the ability to earn income via audiobook sales. The platform is now available worldwide in six currencies: USD, CAD, EUR, AUD, GBP and NZD. Libro.fm currently partners with over 2,200 independent bookshops, with 146 of those […]
Congress dives into UFOs in a hearing featuring eyewitness testimony
A year after the first Congressional hearing on UFOs in 50 years, a House subcommittee revisited some enduring questions around a topic that once would have been laughed off. The hearing, held Wednesday by the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, explored a range of issues related to the baffling realm […]
Meta reports 11% revenue growth, but the metaverse still suffers
Meta had one of its best quarters since before it changed its name from Facebook. The company reported 11% year-over-year revenue growth, which is a sigh of relief for investors, because this time last year, Mark Zuckerberg’s company posted its first ever quarterly revenue decline. Meta’s stock price reflects this — while the stock took […]
We Will Inevitably Lose Skills to AI, But Do The Benefits Outweigh The Risks?
The discourse around AI has often been painted in a tone of gloom and doom, with critics suggesting that we are bound to lose essential skills to our AI counterparts, a phenomenon we can call the “ChatGPT effect.” Yet the reality is that losing certain skills to AI, much like the advent of calculators and the internet, is not only inevitable but also beneficial to human progress.
‘Just Follow the Rules’: Man Left Concussed, Bloody After Cell Phone Flies Off Roller Coaster and Hits Him in the Head
The incident took place over the weekend at Cedar Point in Ohio.
Finding CEO: It’s the new ‘Finding Nemo’
As daunting as it might seem to step back as CEO and let go of the thing that you love, it’s often the right thing to do.