The only realization more painful than finding a Lego piece with your bare foot is that producing those blocks sustainably is hard. The Danish toymaker informed the world yesterday that it’ll have to abandon its plan to manufacture its trademark bricks out of recycled plastic bottles, since it would increase Lego’s energy usage. Building (green) blocks Lego…
Striking up a romance with an AI assistant hasn’t been easy—you can quickly reach your flirting limit when the only topics of conversation are the weather and setting a 10-minute timer. That’s about to change, because OpenAI revealed an update to ChatGPT yesterday that enables it to respond to your questions with spoken words, resulting…
Book publishers — like today’s teachers — have a sneaking suspicion that consumers might be spending more time scrolling on social media than reading books. So to reach new customers, traditional publishing houses are getting in on TikTok’s #booktok obsession and creating formal influencer programs: And there are many more like those. Influencers aren’t just promoting books……
Like many sites that deal in reviews, Yelp has been battling bogus ones for some time. Since 2012, the review site has caught ~5k businesses paying people to post reviews on the site, per Engadget. Now, it’s turning to the shame bell For transparency, Yelp slaps an alert on business profiles where something weird is afoot. That includes businesses…