AI could upend food delivery

by bleffel | Oct 7, 2026 | Uncategorized

DoorDash, the leading food delivery app, processed 970 million orders in its second quarter this year and generated $4.5 billion in revenue. A 10-person startup called Bites is a blip in comparison: It has just around 300 restaurants signed up in the Bay Area, where...

At $1,279, Google’s Xreal Aura will go head-to-head with Meta’s VR Glasses

by bleffel | Oct 7, 2026 | Uncategorized

Two weeks ago, journalists in the San Francisco Bay Area got to try two hot new wearables that weigh only around 100 grams: the just-revealed Meta VR Glasses, and the long-awaited transparent Google XR glasses built in partnership with Xreal. It turns out...

Google now lets you make games with AI

by bleffel | Oct 7, 2026 | Uncategorized

Google today announced Playground, a new browser-based platform for making custom games from AI prompts. Playground will be available today in the US for users who are 18 and older at playground.google. The company is pitching it as an “experimental gaming...