The company’s virtual assistants are designed to replicate a human conversation, even to the point of offering food recommendations when you order.The next time you call Wingstop, a voice-powered AI virtual assistant might be the one taking your order.Austin-based ConverseNow on Thursday announced a new partnership with the popular restaurant chain, which will automate phone orders at select...

A hidden farmers market invites guests to peruse through its shelves, learn about healthy eating, and walk away with a basket of fresh food for free. Snack food company KIND Healthy Snacks and television personality Padma Lakshmi set up the project to instill a better understanding of nutrition and the right types of meals that people should be eating. In an interview with Well+Good, Lakshmi no...

Is the traditional business model in the automotive industry—centered around selling combustion-engine vehicles through franchise dealerships—running out of gas? New technology, changing customer preferences, upstart mobility players, and other factors are all creating radical disruptions. The changes themselves are not a secret. What is surprising to many executives is the sheer scope and sp...

Gas-pumping robot lets you stay in your car when it’s cold out. The bot is designed to work with autonomous cars and EVs, too.Instead of getting out of their cars every time they need fuel up, drivers in Finland now have the option of relaxing in their vehicles while a gas-pumping robot fills their tank for them.The challenge: Approximately ​​39 million drivers fuel up their cars each day in...

New GM patent uses ultraviolet LED emitters and a photocatalytic coating to clean and disinfect touch screens.Screens are in, buttons are on the way out. Touching said screens inevitably leaves fingerprints at best, germs at worst, leaving the screen looking bad and potentially dangerous—especially in shared vehicles. Science to the rescue! We've covered various schemes to sanitize vehicle int...

A new report by Sandvine has revealed the web applications responsible for the world's most downstream internet traffic. Underlining the popularity of streaming services, Netflix accounts for the most megabytes with 14.9 percent.YouTube isn't too far behind with 11.4 percent. Further back but still with a significant share, Disney+ is responsible for 4.5 percent. Adding to video streaming's con...

Before its acquisition by LVMH in 2021, the jeweler was losing its luster. Under Alexandre Arnault, it’s now one of luxury’s brightest stars.Tiffany & Co. is No. 10 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2023. Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping industries and culture.From the moment Beyoncé dropped her Renaissance dance album in late Ju...

Many tech stocks have been in a tailspin for the better parts of the last 12 months, which was one factor in the reduction of the workforces of numerous companies and startups in the tech sector after the pandemic years of growth. Even tech bulwarks like Amazon, Meta and Twitter carried out mass layoffs, with Jeff Bezos' company topping the global ranking for corporations with the most laid-off...

The cuts come from Red Ventures, the private equity-backed media company that bought CNET in 2020.Just weeks after news broke that tech site CNET was quietly using artificial intelligence to produce articles, the company is doing extensive layoffs that include several longtime employees, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs total around a dozen people, a CNE...