It took eight years for the designers of Google Chrome to announce a grand change to the logo today.

They took away the shadows, and now may rest for another eight years.

There was harassment again. And again, in the meta-universe.

Nina Jane Patel, a mother of three, logged into the game Horizon Venues. In just a minute she was surrounded by three realistic male avatars and began to rub up against her, making obscene gestures and appropriate hints. And they touched her avatar.

It was too realistic for a woman - now she suffers from anxiety and worries about the safety of women on the Internet.

Actually, Horizon Venues was supposed to have a "security bubble," but it didn't work.

Boston Dynamics' Spot robots are superstars in the world of high-tech. And what are stars without advertising contracts?

Bridgestone tire commercials:

"Check your tires. Save a life ."

A worn-out tread is like a straight line on a life-support machine screen .

"Smoking dulls your senses of taste and smell."

Pretty original anti-smoking public service announcement.

The BBC has prepared and rolled out an incredibly beautiful promo for the Olympics in Beijing. You won't believe but the reel features almost no graphics and the scenes are made on locations created by 3D-printing.

Stockholm Design Lab made a sardine tin for IKEA 🐟

Nothing flashy in the design, a laconic package with a noteworthy feature - the flap for opening the can is integrated into the overall design, which immediately makes the package thoughtful to the smallest detail.

The billboard of the Italian brand Bottega Veneta is placed on the Great Wall of China. It is timed to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

On the screen appears the name of the brand and the inscription, which in Chinese means "Happy New Year!

Lawmakers Press Amazon on Sales of Chemical Used in Suicides

The pleas to Amazon were explicit. A food preservative sold by the online retailer and other e-commerce sites was being used as a poison to die by suicide.

The New York Times has identified 10 people who have committed suicide using this chemical compound. Most absurdly, Amazon's recommendation algorithms suggest that those who bought this product also buy other products that will help them commit suicide. That is literally: did you buy the soap? And here's the rope for you.

Even after a bunch of complaints, Amazon has not responded in any way. Now members of the U.S. Congress have taken up the case. They have requested a report asking for all the details of how the company responded to the complaints and why it has not yet removed the dangerous products. It's a shame that officials didn't take up the case until after the outcry.

Zuckerberg has shifted his holding company's focus to the Metaworld, and he's doing well. As of January 2022, the number of virtual reality headsets connected to Steam VR exceeded 3.4 million, and the month-on-month growth rate is 29%. That's not a bad, promising market - you can't really get numbers like that with social media anymore.

At the Beijing Olympics, an entire robotic restaurant was built for the athletes. The cooking is done by an automated system.

Alas, the robostaurant does not work without a person - he's on the bar.

Amazon spends the most on advertising 💸

Amazon has become the largest advertiser in history. Last year, the company spent a record $16.7 billion. But the main dough they spend not on bloggers, but on more familiar and old channels: search engine ads, context and TV spots.

Moreover, Amazon makes a lot of money on advertising, too. According to the report, in 2021, it earned 31 billion dollars.

Apple prepares to revolutionize music: the company bought AI Music.

It is a startup that changes and adapts music for marketers, publishers, athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and any other profession/hobby. The technology can even adapt music to your heartbeat.

The algorithms could make any track faster, funnier, or slower. For example: there's a cool beat, but it's not right for a commercial or workout in some places. AI Music will make the it fit right in.

Hulu: Releases a tweet with a Futurama comeback with Bender in the announcement.

24 hours later: turns out Bender will be voiced by a different actor. It's not John DiMaggio; Hulu hasn't made a deal with him.

Fans are furious and have already launched #JohnDiMaggioIsBender, where they demand that Hulu bring the actor back, otherwise Futurama is not Futurama.

Cadbury's clever marketing experts have invented a lockable chocolate package - and they pompously present it as know-how. They say that this way you can eat the chocolate in portions instead of the whole one. The packaging will not let it fall apart in your pocket.

Cadbury talks about conscious consumption and caring for people on a diet. But it looks like a marketing ploy to sell people on a diet a chocolate bar¯\_(ツ)_/¯

American farmers have released a perfume that smells like French fries.

Frites by Idaho contains potato essential oils. The 50 ml bottle is on sale only in February, for a nominal $1.89 - like buying an average French fry.

If the perfume is popular, farmers will release another one with a baked potato scent.

Lol, the world map by cities with the weather forecast as emoji instead of degrees.

You can play around here: https://maps.darksky.net/@emoji,38.273,759.199,3