[ad_1] A journey to Galaxy’s Edge, the nerdiest place on EarthAdam Rogers,Wired By now, even people who aren’t Star Wars fans have heard something about Galaxy’s Edge: the massive and detailed new attraction at Disneyland. Wired spoke to “Imagineers” who created the 14-acre expansion at the park to offer a glimpse at the work that […]
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Jet.com is leaving the fresh grocery delivery game
[ad_1] Jet.com will no longer deliver fresh groceries in New York. It will focus, instead, on dry goods and merchandise. As part of the change, Walmart will reportedly close the fulfillment center it was using in the Bronx, eliminating between 200 and 300 jobs, a person familiar with the situation told Bloomberg. In a statement […]
Twitch loses another top streamer, this time to Facebook
[ad_1] The broadcaster told CNN Business that he’d received offers from “every major streaming platform,” but chose Facebook because it had the “most explosive potential.” An undisclosed amount of money did change hands, but this suggested that the initial payout wasn’t the only factor. While Disguised Toast isn’t as big as recent Twitch departures like […]
The Morning After: Tesla’s angular Cybertruck is electric, fast and $40k
[ad_1] It’s built for power, and it shows.MacBook Pro 16-inch review: The ultimate Apple laptop The last great MacBook Pro was the mid-2015 15-inch model, packing plenty of ports, a great keyboard and an SD card slot. No TouchBar and, importantly, no butterfly keyboard. Apple’s newest MacBook Pro gets us at least part of the […]
The creators of ‘Wallace and Gromit’ are making a Netflix musical
[ad_1] Robin Robin is an animated musical short that will be arriving on Netflix in time for Christmas 2020, focusing on a lost bird who ends up being raised by a family of mice. The creators and directors are Dan Ojari (Slow Derek) and Mikey Please (The Eagleman Stag), with Helen Argo (Wallace & Gromit’s […]
Google Cloud Print follows Reader and Inbox to the trash heap after 2020
[ad_1] If there’s anything Google loves as much as launching interesting new projects (say hello to Stadia and Duplex on the web!), it’s killing them off after a few years, and now we have an end date for Google Cloud Print. The service launched in 2010 as a way to make printers more accessible for […]
YouTube will make it easier for ‘edgy’ creators to find advertisers
[ad_1] In a letter to YouTube creators, CEO Susan Wojcicki said YouTube is looking for advertisers who might advertise next to content with the yellow icon, which means a video is “not suitable for all advertisers.” This might appeal, for instance, to a marketer that wants to promote a R-rated movie. According to Wojcicki, “in […]
Facebook can flesh out your Dating profile with existing Stories
[ad_1] You can keep looking at Stories as long as one side hasn’t blocked or passed on the other. And sharing your Stories doesn’t change your sharing settings in Facebook or Instagram — you don’t have to worry about widening access to your account just to woo someone. This isn’t a novelty. Tinder is incorporating […]
Alexa can reorder your go-to Chipotle meal
[ad_1] To push the feature, Chipotle is even trying a promotional stunt by promising free Amazon Echo Dots (hopefully not the old one from the photo above) to all Chipotle Rewards members named Alexa. We wonder how many people will take up that offer, though — if you’re named Alexa, you probably don’t want a […]
Facebook may restrict highly targeted political ads
[ad_1] A spokesman didn’t confirm or deny the claims, but did reiterate to the WSJ that Facebook was “looking at different ways [it] might refine” its stance on political ads. If the approach sounds familiar, it should. Google recently limited political ad targeting to age, gender and general location, making it difficult to manipulate specific […]