Master inventor

An ex-Microsoft exec founded all these sites but one. Is that one … A.) Zillow, B.) Expedia, C.) Glassdoor or D.) Pinterest?

D.) Pinterest. Rich Barton helped launch Expedia in 1996, Zillow in 2004 and Glassdoor in 2007. OK, he’s been busy.

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The dark days of winter …

… are a real drag. It’s rainy here this weekend, so I may curl up under a blanket. Who am I kidding? I can’t sit still.

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🛑 Attention all Tesla owners: 2.2 million vehicles are being recalled. The font size for the brake, park and antilock brake system warning light is too small. Models in the hot seat: 2012-2023 Model S, 2016-2024 Model X, 2017-2023 Model 3, 2019-2024 Model Y and the 2024 Cybertruck.

Take that to the bank: Mark Zuckerberg is about to cash in big time — $700 million yearly in dividends. The payday follows Meta slashing 21,000 jobs and seeing its stock prices nearly triple. Yeesh.

🛰️ Wrong turn: An LA couple is suing Google after Maps routed them through a notoriously high-crime neighborhood in South Africa called Nyanga, where they were ambushed and assaulted. Surprise, Google only updated directions after the attack. Traveling? Investigate the route before you get in the car.

💋 Kiss my asteroid: A stadium-sized asteroid is cruising by Earth today, missing us by, well, 1,770,000 miles. NASA says it’s “potentially hazardous” but will likely whizz on by. It’s one of 2,350 space rocks keeping NASA on its toes.

Dream control? Meet Halo, an AI headband promising to let you control your dreams. It detects REM sleep and nudges your brain into lucid dreaming mode. For a mere $2,000 (plus a $100 deposit), you might get to live out your “Inception” fantasies by 2025.

⛔ It worked for Netflix: Starting March 14, no more password sharing on Hulu, Disney+ or ESPN+. Disney is banning using someone else’s account — aka “borrowing.” Mickey needs the money.

“This is the year that I want to fall in love — 100%.” That’s what actress Sharon Stone said, even after her bad luck with online dating. Lowlights include meeting a felon and a guy with 20,000 heroin injections. If I saw Sharon Stone on Tinder, I’d def think it was fake.

🎨 Feel like Bob Ross: Thanks to the Imagen 2 engine, Google’s Bard chatbot now does AI art. It’s free to use, and Google is adding watermarks to avoid AI image drama (ahem, Taylor Swift pics).

Nothing to see here: The Consumer Product Safety Commission is about to tag Amazon as a “distributor,” making it accountable for all those third-party products. Amazon has played the “just-a-middleman” card all these years. The new label could mean lawsuits and recall headaches for Bezos and Co.