For the past decade, it seems that while technology has become increasingly advanced, the online shopping experience has remained largely the same: endless scrolling, reviews we don’t fully trust and price comparisons that often create more confusion than clarity. Despite improvements in logistics and payments, the core workflow—search, scroll, compare, repeat—has barely evolved. With the…
Modern Know Your Customer (KYC) systems were sold as a trust upgrade for financial services. In practice, however, they have become one of the industry’s most fragile trust assumptions. The greatest risk no longer comes from anonymous hackers probing the perimeter, but from insiders and vendors who now sit squarely inside the system. As KYC…
One might think running OpenAI would be enough to keep Sam Altman occupied. But the CEO is also behind a diverse array of other startups, including Tools for Humanity, the company running the biometric data effort Worldcoin, and the nuclear fusion project Helion. Now, Altman is adding Merge Labs to that list. Co-founded by Altman,…
Over the past several years, contact centers turned to artificial intelligence with a fairly straightforward goal: make the work less draining. A.I. was expected to absorb repetitive tasks, surface relevant information faster and free human agents to focus on what machines still struggle with: listening carefully, exercising judgment and navigating situations that don’t follow a…
By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A new year is often challenging. Despite knowing we should throw out old, bad habits along with the New Year’s Eve party favors, change is hard. Related Articles Gretchen’s Table: Re-create Anthony Bourdain’s beef bourguignon This beef taco recipe from the cookbook ‘Plantas’ uses salsa for seasoning the meat Crisp…
By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette One benefit of being a food editor is that I get the opportunity to try out recipes from the latest cookbooks, often before they have even made it onto store shelves. It keeps me on my toes with what’s trending, and over the years it has had the fringe benefit…
Traffic to Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia, naturally ebbs and flows with the rhythms of daily life—rising and falling with the school calendar, the news cycle or even the day of the week—making routine fluctuations unremarkable for a site that draws roughly 15 billion page views a month. But sustained declines tell a different…
A group of trainers training service dogs to be at the Vancouver International Airport. | Liang Sen/Xinhua via Getty Images This past month I, like many Americans, flew back home for the holidays. On the first leg of that trip, from New York to Los Angeles, a dog in a “service dog” vest barked at…
By ALEXA SOTO, Associated Press “Taco night” for many across the United States consists of an Americanized idea of Mexican food: ground beef cooked with a packaged seasoning mix, taco shells, lettuce, tomato and sour cream. Related Articles Crisp winter days call for this dessert These grain-based dishes great for your diet and budget Nonalcoholic…
Civilian travel to the Moon remains years away, but a California startup is already making plans to host overnight guests there. GRU Space, founded by 22-year-old entrepreneur Skyler Chan, is taking deposits ranging from $250,000 to $1 million for a lunar hotel that has yet to be built. “If we solve off-world surface habitation, it’s…
