Google, no longer content simply serving as the front door of the Internet, will show up at your actual front door — with fresh peaches and a gallon of milk. The search giant started a pilot program Wednesday in Los Angeles and San Francisco to offer same-day delivery of fruits, vegetables, meat, seafood, dairy and …
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In a documentary segment of “The New Yorker Presents,” gay Mexican wrestler Saúl Armendáriz flashes through an arena crowd while wearing a mile-long sequined coat. Then he struts around the ring to the beat of disco anthem “I Will Survive.” A skit in another episode of the TV show tackles the rumor that novelist Honoré de Balzac drank 50 cups …
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People seem to love HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and “Girls.” But maybe not that much if they have to pay to watch them. HBO Now, the premium channel’s online-only subscription service, was expected to be a big hit with people who are cutting back on cable subscriptions, but adoption of the new service for now looks to be underwhelming. The …
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Beliebers just want to go to Justin Bieber concerts. They don’t really care if their tickets came from the box office or an independent seller. That feeling is likely true for more than Bieber lovers, and it’s why StubHub decided to start regularly selling box office tickets for the first time in the ticket resale company’s 15-year history. “Consumers no …
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Ever wanted to use PayPal to make purchases on Amazon? Don’t hold your breath. That’s the message Amazon Payments’ vice president Patrick Gauthier offered in an interview with CNET on Monday when asked whether his company might someday bring PayPal’s digital payments service to Amazon.com. “It’s quite simple,” Gauthier said. “Amazon starts with the customer. If our customers were asking …
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Devices, rejoice! Amazon has come to liberate you from your forgetful human overlords. The online retailer announced Tuesday that the first devices compatible with its Dash Replenishment program, which lets gadgets and appliances reorder their own supplies, can be set up to make purchases on Amazon. The Seattle-based company is hoping that’s just the start, saying it ended its limited …
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The Amazon Echo has a New Year’s resolution: Slim down and lose the power cord. The online retailer plans to release a smaller, portable and cheaper version of the Echo, a digital voice assistant crammed into a cylinder speaker, in the coming weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing anonymous sources. The current Echo can be voice-activated to play …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. A new take on the smartphone is hatching next month. Nextbit, a San Francisco-based startup run by Google and HTC veterans, plans to start shipping its first smartphone, called the Robin, on Feb. …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. And just like that, Netflix is now available from Azerbaijan to Vietnam and just about every country in between. Reed Hastings, CEO and co-founder of the video-streaming company, said Wednesday that Netflix has …
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As college students, Marc Lore and his childhood friend Lakshman “Lax” Chandra toted a good-luck charm when they bet on horses at the Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Their amulet: a laptop computer. The pair would check which betting pools other spectators were putting their money into and fed that data into software Lore had designed to help …
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