Soliciting student ideas to fight gun violence, Spanish gamers play for free burgers, and Powerade’s World Cup dreams. Gun violence and gun safety PSAs have long existed, but since the 2012 tragedy at Sandy Hook, that work became more frequent, and with an emotional urgency we had rarely seen before. As...
Leaked emails reveal Google was very worried as far back as September on word of their work on military projects getting out. The Intercept has obtained emails sent by high-level Google execs discussing Project Maven–the Defense Department’s controversial project that uses machine learning to speed up...
The social media services teens find most important in 2018 are widely different from what they found important in 2015. Pew has posted the results of its first new Teens, Social Media & Technology in three years and the results of the survey show that the social media services teens find most important in 2018...
It’s the end of an era: Canon has stopped selling film cameras. The company announced that consumers will no longer be able to buy the EOS-1v, the last film model it stocks. Released all the way back in 2000, production of the 35mm SLR actually stopped in 2010, but it’s taken this long for Canon to get rid of its...
Ubisoft took to Twitter to tease the next instalment in its popular game franchise, Assassin’s Creed – and it looks like it’ll see players venture into ancient Greece. That’s from the short clip in Ubisoft’s post announcing the new title Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey – it depicts what appears to be a Spartan...
A new survey suggests shoppers are ready to move to 100% online for retail purchases. The majority of shoppers are ready to shop exclusively online, according to the results of digital marketing agency Adtaxi’s 2018 Online Shopping and Technology Trends Survey. The survey took a look at the shopping habits,...
Facebook, not so long ago, ruled the social media roost. Across nearly all important demographics, the Zuckerberg-led time bomb flattened the competition. Sure, it was losing teens, but many of them were just being diverted to other Facebook-owned properties, like WhatsApp and Instagram. Now, according to Pew...
The subway system is both the best and worst thing about living in NYC. As convenient and practical as it is, it’s also prone to interminable delays, rerouting, annoying passengers/performers and general unpleasantness. Though I think we New Yorkers tend to take it for granted, there’s no question it could be...
Personal shopping by text and same-day delivery: meet Jetblack, Walmart’s newest venture. Walmart is launching a new personal shopping service called Jetblack. The $50-per-month service, which just launched in New York City, will deliver items ordered over text either same or next day. For now, memberships...
A new survey suggests shoppers are ready to move to 100% online for retail purchases. The majority of shoppers are ready to shop exclusively online, according to the results of digital marketing agency Adtaxi’s 2018 Online Shopping and Technology Trends Survey. The survey took a look at the shopping habits,...
Conservatives claim that Facebook’s algorithm changes have censored their content. The data says something different. There’ve been plenty of dramatic headlines and hand-wringing in recent months about the impact of Facebook’s latest changes to its News Feed algorithm—both on the media and...
How to contact your representative about ICE. Last month, an official from DHS admitted that the agency could not account for nearly 1,500 unaccompanied minors (note: not children who came with their parents per se) who arrived at the border, nearly 19% of the minors in their custody. While the children may not be...
New venture studio is recruiting companies and entrepreneurs for emerging tech to help fan engagement, on-field data, stadium infrastructure, and more. It boasts the highest percentage of millennial fans in the U.S., so an obvious part of Major League Soccer’s growth strategy revolves around embracing...
One year later, Kathy Griffin wrote an epic Twitter thread about the presidential tweet that uprooted her life, as a warning to others that it could happen to them. Kathy Griffin has taken a lot of photos over the years, but for the rest of her life only one of them can be immediately identified as that photo....
As smaller ad exchanges adapt to the new GDPR rules, Google is quietly cashing in. Last Friday, the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, causing every major technology company operating in Europe to completely overhaul how they gain consent to users’ data. From now on,...
Modern Fertility is one of several innovative companies redefining modern fertility care in Silicon Valley. The fertility tech sector is getting more and more sophisticated. The latest round of innovation comes from Modern Fertility, a startup attempting to democratize reproductive health. On Thursday, the San...
The move is reportedly being done to comply with GDPR rules that have gone into force in Europe. The social media company is blocking any user whose self-declared date of birth suggests they were under the age of 13 when they first signed up for an account, reports the Guardian. It’s doesn’t matter if...
The news follows reports that the Trump administration is thinking of imposing a 25% tariff on cars imported to the U.S. The president has shown he’s not afraid to get into trade wars with even America’s closest allies. And now the president has Germany in his sights, reports CNBC. The weekly German...
Telemundo’s U.S. broadcast of soccer’s elite tourney will for the first time feature analysis from an expert fan—who happens to be the first woman ever to offer World Cup commentary. In April, two women were announced as TV analysts to provide color commentary for the forthcoming World...
With a misspent childhood/adolescence/adulthood absorbing as much sci-fi as possible, I knew it was only a matter of time until smart speakers turned bad. Well, okay, maybe that’s not entirely accurate. But, AI artist and roboticist Alexander Reben did teach Google Assistant on a Google Home to fire a gun, so...
Google has launched Neighbourly, a mobile app designed to help you learn about your neighborhood by asking other residents. It’s a way to find out about local services and facilities in your area from people who live around you. The beta is presently only available on Android and open to people in the Indian city of...
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said at the Code Conference today that his company is talking to Google spin-off firm Waymo to have the self-driving vehicle tech company’s cars added to its platform. That’s interesting for a number of reasons. For starters, it was just a few short months ago when Uber and Waymo settled...
After a teasing Twitch stream which lasted almost an entire day, Bethesda finally revealed the trailer for its latest game: Fallout 76. The trailer itself didn’t reveal much beyond the fact the game concerns Vault 76 and the soundtrack might evolve past “Butcher Pete” and “Civilization” finally (though...
Google, a company whose motto used to be “don’t be evil,” has had its ethics questioned lately over its insistence on developing AI for the Pentagon. If you’re among the many people who don’t understand why, against the grain, the Mountain View company would risk such damage to its reputation, you’re not...
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