A few days ago,Nissan donatedan all-electric LEAF sedan to the Vatican to help the small state in its environmental goal to gradually replace its service vehicles with an all-electric fleet. It’s part of Pope Francis’ commitment to turn the Vatican carbon neutral by 2050,as he announced in December 2020. The Church also plans to increase thenumber of charging stations, especially around several of the major basilicas in Rome. Pope Francis has supported environmental initiatives since the beginning of his service, and it comes as no surprise that the Nissan LEAF isn’t the first green vehicle gifted to him....

Meta’s incoming CTO, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, is making quite the splash. The kind of splash you make by cannonballing into your swimming pool, soaking all your guests, and then blaming them for getting wet. In a Sunday interview withAxios on HBO, Bosworth was grilled aboutmisinformationon social media. The Facebook veteran mounted a stern defense of his company. According to Bosworth, it’s not platforms that are responsible for misinformation — it’s their users:...

Many TV shows have a scene where a customer attempts to buy a potentially embarrassing product – a pornographic magazine perhaps or a diarrhea treatment – only to have the assistant loudly check the price or ask questions for other people to hear. Situations like this do happen in pharmacies and other shops. And they tend to make people squirm. But, what if they could interact with a robot instead of a human employee?...

Small business owners grapple with uncertainty in nearly every aspect of their business. From sales conversions to marketing campaigns, to employee morale and outliers like the political climate or municipal regulation. All the unease can be overwhelming. While sophisticated technology advancements, such as AI and automation, (don’t mix these two) get big play among large enterprises, they are in fact integral to small businesses as well. And while they are much more likely to be small and hyper-specialized, these technologies are solving integral day-to-day issues for many industries....

The ultimate goal of the internet, or rather Twitter, is to shitpost your way into the sunset. And if you’re hesitant to do it on your main profile currently, Twitter is exploring new ways you do that without thinking about damage to your public image. A designer from the Twitter team showed some concepts thatdepict different profiles — called “Facets” — for different kinds of tweeting. The first idea shows a user named Brad with different profiles such as Brad, Brad at work, and Daddy Braddy (which is a private profile mode)....