Ever have one of those weeks where you feel like everything is going wrong in the world? Us too. The planet is melting. There are powerful idiots all over the world with their greasy fingers hovered over big red doom buttons. Our favorite celebrities have dumb opinions we don’t agree with and choose to share them. And again someone finds a severed toe in their Big Mac. Here be gadgets Not here exactly, but on our new hardware site Plugged. Here This week seemed especially long, which a lot of people saying stupid things we disagree with, so we decided to round up the worst of the worst. We used the Google Arts & Culture’s Art Selfie app thing everyone’s so into and took photos of the things that bummed us out most. Welcome to the Internet’s Shit Museum, curated by us. Elon Musk is still Elon Musk Everyone, gather round for the first stop on the Shit Museum tour. This week, as you might have seen, Elon Musk doubled down on some truly heinous, … [Read more...] about We used Google Arts & Culture’s selfie app to make the internet’s Shit Museum
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Alibaba smartens up chatbot ahead of 11.11 shopping festival
Alibaba Group says it has tweaked its chatbot in preparation for the e-commerce platform's annual shopping festival, beefing up the automated tool's predictive and interactive capabilities.The Chinese e-commerce operator said the Alime Shop Assistant now would offer 24 by 7 automated customer support and feature better scalability for peak demand. The chatbot's predictive analytics also had been boosted to preempt what consumers might ask and prompt them in their shopping decisions, such as reminding them about discount vouchers. Alibaba takes more cloud products global, eyes APAC growth Chinese internet giant talks up new product releases such as Anti-Bot Service and its datacentre footprint in Asia-Pacific as key differentiators against cloud rivals, Amazon Web Services and Google. Its machine learning specialist also urges need for governments looking to build smart cities, such as Singapore, to ensure its citizens benefit from such initiatives. Read More The tweaks were made … [Read more...] about Alibaba smartens up chatbot ahead of 11.11 shopping festival
[Update: Now available] Deal Alert: Google Play will exclusively debut Rememory on August 24th for free
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Update 1: 2017/08/24 6:53am PDT It's live Rememory is an upcoming sci-fi mystery movie from director Mark Palansky, starring Peter Dinklage, Julia Ormond, and the late Anton Yelchin. In a rare move, it will get its debut on Google Play Movies & TV before it hits theatres. Even better, it'll be free for a limited period, from August 24th. [Spoiler Alert] The film tells the story of visionary scientific pioneer (Martin Donovan) and his invention that can record and play people's memories. He's found dead soon after its unveiling, causing his widow (Julia Ormond) to isolate herself from the outside world until a mysterious character (Peter Dinklage) appears to help solve the mystery. It's currently got a rating of 8.6 on IMDB, so could be worth seeing. Take a look at the trailer below to whet your appetite further. Lionsgate Premiere will be releasing the movie in theatres on September 8th, 2 full weeks after it'll debut on Google Play Movies & TV, so if you want to … [Read more...] about [Update: Now available] Deal Alert: Google Play will exclusively debut Rememory on August 24th for free
JD.com breaks records in mid-year shopping spree
JD.com said it has achieved 127.5 billion yuan in orders between 0:00 of June 1 and 0:10 of June 18, a record high for the Chinese company during the so-called June 18 Shopping Festival -- the mid-year online shopping spree resembling the November 11 extravaganza. More than 90 percent of orders placed on JD.com are now able to be delivered on the day or within the second day, thanks to JD.com's efficient logistics arm operated by the company directly, according to a Sina news report on Monday. JD.com's results follow US technology giant Google announcing that it has signed a strategic partnership with the Chinese second-largest ecommerce firm with the aim to break into the Chinese retail market and optimise the retail ecosystem. Google believes the Asia-Pacific region is one of the largest and fastest-growing ecommerce marketplaces in the world, with consumers from Southeast Asia alone expected to spend $88.1 billion online by 2025. JD.com figures showed that the top five most … [Read more...] about JD.com breaks records in mid-year shopping spree
Google now offering the Nexus 7 with free shipping and a $25 Play Store credit
Black Friday is just a few days away, and that means a shopping frenzy that could get you physically injured if you were to go out to a store. Luckily, there are plenty of online deals, and many of them are just as good if not better than those you'll find in stores. Google wants to be part of the festivities as well, and has unveiled a deal for its Nexus 7 that starts today. We've already seen other retailers dropping the price of the Nexus 7 recently, but Google isn't doing that. Instead, Google has announced that customers in the US and Canada (only) who order a Nexus 7 starting today will get free shipping (which can be fairly expensive in through the Play Store), as well as a $25 Google Play credit so you can fill up that tablet with apps, games, movies, music, books, magazines, or newspapers. Had the deals through Best Buy, Amazon, and eBay not already ended, we would have suggested that this deal through Google wasn't as impressive as it would sound, because those … [Read more...] about Google now offering the Nexus 7 with free shipping and a $25 Play Store credit