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YouTube is turning your TV into a shopping cart, and it’s exactly as bad as it sounds

YouTube is turning your TV into a shopping cart, and it’s exactly as bad as it sounds

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Summary YouTube is adding a new way to purchase items directly from ads on your TV. New AI tools will allow for more targeted advertising by brands across the YouTube ecosystem Removes buying friction but risks impulse buys and turning TVs into storefronts YouTube is about to make impulse buying from your couch a whole lot easier by allowing you to purchase items you see in advertisements directly from your TV. Related The Worst Google Search Feature Is Coming to YouTube Seriously, Google? Search was bad enough. Why search for products when you can just click Impulse buying is about to get a big boost Credit: YouTube During its Brandcast 2026 event this week, YouTube revealed several new features focused around this new functionality, including a slew of brand-related changes that will let advertisers get their paws on more of our screens. This includes new functionality like custom sponsorships, which the company says will allow brands to use AI to surface videos that are tailored to fit the brand’s current ad. On top of that, a …

Study Proves The Shopping Cart Theory Can Actually Reveal Someone’s Character

Study Proves The Shopping Cart Theory Can Actually Reveal Someone’s Character

Published by Jenni Sidey

The “shopping cart theory” has been circulating on the internet for a few years now, according to a frequently shared Reddit post, but it’s not just a joke. A 2008 study in the journal Science suggests there’s actually truth to it. We’ve all gone to the grocery store before and seen the shopping carts all scattered about, blocking parking spaces and making some poor employee have to wrangle them all in the summer heat. In recent years, this dilemma has turned into something of a philosophical debate online, with many believing people’s shopping cart behavior reveals some core truths about their character. It turns out the meaning of our shopping cart habits is fascinatingly complex. The shopping cart theory proposes that you can tell who is and isn’t a good person by whether they put their shopping cart away. Reddit The shopping cart theory has been around for a few years now, and resurfaces seemingly every few months as the debate is re-sparked. It’s one of those weirdly simple ways to separate the good guys from the shady …

A Certified Sleep Coach Shares the Sleep Week Deals She’s Adding to Cart (2026)

A Certified Sleep Coach Shares the Sleep Week Deals She’s Adding to Cart (2026)

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Bryte Balance Pro Photograph: Julia Forbes The Bear Elite Hybrid comes in three firmness levels, but the firmest option has provided the support our spines have needed without feeling like we’re lying on a brick, thanks to optimal pressure relief. Special for Sleep Week, use code WIRED40 for 40 percent off. I’m very nitpicky when it comes to mattresses (I guess I’m in the right job), but when I find a mattress I love, I become insufferable about it. Nolah Evolution is a longtime favorite (it’s what I sleep on myself) with its balanced approach to pressure relief, lumbar support, and temperature regulation. As part of its Sleep Week promo, and because the brand knows how much I love this mattress, Nolah has a special deal just for you: Take 30 percent off sitewide, plus an additional $50 off when you use code WIRED50 through March 16. Saatva recently played a big role for Team USA at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, and there are many mattresses in its line that we’re fans of. Its …

Is Amazon down? Why customers can’t check out or add to cart – and Amazon’s response

Is Amazon down? Why customers can’t check out or add to cart – and Amazon’s response

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Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways  Amazon is experiencing a disruption.  Users report checkout, product page, and mobile app issues.  Amazon is working to fix the issue.  If you’re having trouble viewing an Amazon product’s price or using the Amazon app, you’re not the only one. Amazon is experiencing a disruption, according to Downdetector. Over 150,000 reports have been submitted to the site, Thursday. Downdetector’s map shows the partial outage impacting major US cities, including New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, and Seattle. The service, which corrals user reports, is owned by ZDNET’s parent company, Ziff Davis.  As of roughly 4:15 p.m. ET, the total number of reports in the analysis period was 159,997, with a spike of more than 21,000 at one point early Thursday afternoon, Downdetector said. Customers reported, including on social media, issues with checkout, the mobile app, and product pages. Checkout issues were the most common problem. The actual number of those impacted by this partial outage may vary.  Downdetector Amazon acknowledged the issue …

Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation

Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation

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Uber Eats announced a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” on Wednesday designed to fill customers’ grocery carts faster and easier. The beta version is now available in the app.​ To use the new chatbot, users search for a grocery store in the Uber Eats app and tap the purple Cart Assistant icon on the store’s page to begin shopping.  Customers can enter a list or upload an image of one, and Cart Assistant will automatically add the necessary items to their basket. This includes photos of handwritten lists or screenshots of recipes and their ingredients. Users can then customize the basket by swapping items for preferred brands or adding more products from the store.​ Image Credits:Uber Eats Uber Eats notes that Cart Assistant uses previous orders to prioritize familiar items — like your usual milk or favorite oatmeal — to make the experience more personalized.​ “Users were telling us they wanted a quicker way to shop, and we know how precious your time is,” Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said in a statement. “Cart Assistant …

How PopWheels helped a food cart ditch generators for e-bike batteries

How PopWheels helped a food cart ditch generators for e-bike batteries

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Food carts are a staple of New York City dining, dispensing everything from dosa and doner kebabs to dogs and dim sum in short order. But no matter how enticing the aroma of a cart’s food, the smelly gas generators that keep the lights on threaten to put customers off their meals. Cart owners and customers may not have to suck on fumes much longer. A Brooklyn-based startup is testing the use of its e-bike batteries to power food carts, starting with La Chona Mexican on the corner of 30th and Broadway in Manhattan. “This really started out as a lark last summer,” David Hammer, co-founder and CEO of PopWheels, told TechCrunch. “I’m an ex-Googler from the early days, and this felt like a classic, old-school 20% project.” Normally, PopWheels battery packs are zipping around the city strapped to food delivery bikes. The team soon realized that connecting them to food carts was an avenue worth pursuing. “Are e-bike packs the perfect energy type to be powering food carts? Maybe, maybe not,” Hammer said. “I …