Back at WWDC, Apple announced it was giving every iPhone a ruler in the form of an AR app called Measure. Now Google is firing back with an app also called Measure. Actually Google technically beat Apple to the punch. Measure has been available for a while on Tango devices (remember Tango?). But this is the first...
Clinton’s words from one of the presidential debates were chillingly accurate. If you spend enough time on Twitter, you’ll eventually see the truism that “there’s a Trump tweet for everything.” Like in 2014 when then-citizen Trump lashed out at then-President Barack Obama for golfing...
Pymetrics is a New York-based AI hiring-platform, that allows companies to hire more diverse candidates. The company boasts clients of very large sizes, such as Unilever, Google, Airbnb, and Twitter. And now, they were just named ‘Technology Pioneers’ by the World Economic Forum (WOF). Pymetrics’ hiring...
If so, it’s about time. Facebook has long told the world that it wants to improve its content moderation game, and the world has waited for results. Today, the company announced a slew of new tools to combat fake news. They include more robust fact-checking in more countries, new technological techniques for...
LinkedIn surfaced the things most important to candidates that employers may be missing. Employers who labor over their carefully crafted job posting explaining their mission and company culture, should be aware of a simple fact: Job seekers are skimming the listing and honing in on one thing immediately: salary...
We spoke with the Grammy- and Oscar-winning entertainer about his new passion project, Legend Vintage Exclusives. How do you come down from the high of performing in concert for thousands of adoring fans? One option available to John Legend is: with a glass of wine straight from his own collection.Read Full Story
The “summer fundles” include both best-selling products and trending summer items popular on social media for sale on Amazon. Maybelline wants to give you everything you need for an instagrammable summer. Today, the cosmetics giant has launched “summer fundles”–beauty bundles...
Having defined femininity for decades, cosmetics retailers are starting to court trans and gender-nonconforming customers. For many, it’s a tricky about-face. In 2013, U.K.-based makeup artist and influencer Joseph Harwood entered “The You Generation,” an online talent contest jointly hosted by...
The program aims to compensate group admins for their time. The social media giant has announced that it is piloting a subscription-based program that will allow group admins to charge users $4.99 to $29.99 per month for access to special sub-groups. The company says it’s doing this after feedback from some...
Remember MSN.com? It’s still around – and Microsoft is trying to bring it back by relaunching its mobile apps with a new moniker. Available for Android and iOS, Microsoft News brings you stories from the company’s MSN News effort, that’s been online for several years – with a modern interface that should be...
At first glance, a YouTube competitor that lives within Instagram seems like a smart idea. It’s not. Or, it might be. I don’t know. The move makes a lot of sense. Facebook-owned Instagram, according to a recent Pew Research survey, is trailing only YouTube in use among teens. Some 85 percent of Americans aged 13...
Instagram is making a play for YouTube’s video throne with the launch of IGTV, a new app where users can upload videos longer than one minute. The app, revealed at an event today by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, hosts videos up to one hour in length. Anyone can upload videos, either from the dedicated app or from...
DuVernay said on Twitter: “lovely room to be in. But can’t wait for more sisters to be here too.” With A Wrinkle In Time, Ava DuVernay has become the first black female director whose movie grossed more than $100 million at the domestic box office.Read Full Story
Facebook today announced a pilot program that would allow group administrators to charge members for exclusive content. In a blog post, the company revealed the test would include a small number of groups in the parenting and homemaking niches — including college planning, meal prep, and home cleaning. According to...
The social network just announced its long-rumored video service. At an Instagram event this morning in San Francisco, CEO Kevin Systrom strode onstage and began talking about “old and outdated,” “clunky and unnatural” video services that make you watch horizontal-oriented videos on a...
The official Department of Homeland Security twitter account had harsh words for airlines taking a stand. Reaction to the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families continues apace. Today, a few airlines weighed in on the issue: American, Frontier, and United Airlines all announced they would...
Whole Foods announced a new campaign to raise awareness for endangered bees. Whole Foods confused its fans this week when the retailer mysteriously deleted its robust archive of Instagram images. In its place, the scrubbed account simply featured several white blank posts and changed its bio to bee emojis. It also...
Facebook is testing autoplaying video ads inside of Messenger, and holy crap this is a bad idea. The context: Facebook confirmed to Quartz yesterday it was rolling out the ads next Monday to a small group of users. While a spokesperson insisted the user would be “in control” of their ad experience, that basically...
Despite tough talk in Washington about passing legislation like the Honest Ads Act, there appears to be little appetite to actually do so. And Facebook stock just rocketed past $200, an all-time high. When Mark Zuckerberg went to Washington, D.C., in April to explain how Facebook was responding to the Cambridge...
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Amid the attention industry at Cannes Lions, former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris and Hearts & Minds CEO Scott Hagedorn delivered a warning. We spend an average of five hours every day on mobile apps. We interact with apps about 88 times per day. That’s compared to an average of 1.4 hours of TV....
This hack comes little more than a week after the last. Hackers were able to infiltrate the systems of Seoul-based crypto-coin exchange Bithumb and make off with $31.6 million worth of cryptocurrencies, the BBC reports. The exchange notified South Korean regulators before tweeting out: “Some crypto-currencies...
New analysis shows that the more Musk tweets, especially recently, the more followers he loses–or he gains fewer followers than normal. That’s according to car news site Autowise, which has followed up their SpaceX Tesla retro video game with an analysis of Elon Musk’s tweets over the last...
Alchemy 43 wants to take Botox and lip plumping out of the doctor’s office and into a nationwide chain of salons that does one thing: anti-aging injections. On Los Angeles’s trendy West 3rd Street, between the fancy donut shops and designer boutiques, and not far from The Grove, you’ll find a...
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