Uber once sold riders on a simple promise: Order a car right from your phone for less than a taxi. One major change happened behind the scenes: up-front pricing. Instead of relying on a predictable rate based largely on time and distance, Uber now uses algorithms and a range of real-time factors to determine what
Smokey John’s has been serving barbecue in Dallas, Texas, since 1976. It was already losing money when a devastating fire destroyed the entire restaurant in 2017. So, brothers Brent and Juan Reaves had to rebuild it from scratch. Their bet paid off. Today, Smokey John’s makes nearly $4 million in annual revenue and goes through
Brought to you by Hulu’s new original series “Furious.” Candice DeLong is a former FBI agent and profiler. He has interviewed dozens of female murderers and at least one convicted serial killer, Vickie Dawn Jackson. DeLong joined the FBI in the 1980s after working as a psychiatric nurse, bringing her mental health experience to her
OpenAI’s Sora may have gone out of business, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will let you create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on
Do you remember going to the video? For those of you who weren’t paying attention to the media industry a decade ago: that’s when publishers spent an enormous amount of time and money trying to become video creators, hoping to cash in on the traffic and revenue bonanza fueled by Facebook. That one didn’t work.
