The image-centric social network will hide hashtags associated with vaccine-related hoaxes and misperceptions. Instagram is many things to many people. For some, unfortunately, it’s a place to marinate in myths relating to the fallacy that vaccinations are dangerous. But the social network announced today that...
Simon Kemp is a global thought leader in digital marketing, CEO of Kepios, and the author of Hootsuite and We Are Social’s renowned Global Digital reports. In his talk ‘Don’t believe the hype: what people are really doing online’ at TNW2019 he explained how the imminent “social media apocalypse” that’s...
Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes has harsh words about Facebook and its founder. Thursday morning, the New York Times published an op-ed by Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes that pulled no punches. Hughes’s message was right there in the headline: “It’s time to break up Facebook.”Read...
Microsoft‘s attempt to kill the password is going ahead with full steam. The company has announced that Windows Hello, the passwordless authentication method that allows Windows 10 users to sign in to their devices using biometric information, is now a FIDO2 certified authenticator, joining the list of...
At TNW2019, Reddit’s Chief Technical Officer, Chris Slowe, shared some behind-the-scenes insights into what makes the message board tick. Perhaps more importantly, he spoke of two important lessons learned from tackling the challenges Reddit faces as one of the world’s most popular websites. Reddit is a giant,...
Science is changing pregnancy for women over 40. But many doctors remain cautious about age-related fertility. In 2015, Cynthia Griner delivered a baby girl at the age of 48. Griner already had four sons, but in her early forties, she felt an overwhelming desire to try one last time to have a...
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Once distinct, the Google and Nest brands are coming together in the interest of clarifying the company’s vision for its at-home hardware. When I met with Rishi Chandra, Google’s VP of product for Nest/Home products, at the company’s I/O conference yesterday, he was wearing a jacket sporting both...
I have an opinion I wish to share that you almost certainly won’t agree with. (Not like that’s stopped me in the past) Mike Cessario, a former creative director at Netflix, recently raised $1.6 million from a swathe of top-tier investors, including Twitter founder Biz Stone, to launch a canned water company. The...
The company announced it would rebrand its Google Home gadgets under the Nest umbrella, an about-face from the past several years. At Google’s annual I/O conference today, the company dropped a surprising bit of branding news: The Nest name will now be applied to Google’s Home devices. Rick Osterloh,...
Facebook activists and shareholders are doubling down on efforts to partly or fully reduce the influence of the company’s founder, CEO, and board chairman. A year ago, under Senate questioning, Mark Zuckerberg dodged, denied, and deflected criticisms of the company he cofounded. A year later, with major fines...
Now you can keep that Platinum Medallion status even if you can’t fly. A friend recently posted one of those above-the-clouds plane photos on Instagram saying that he was on a “status run” to Tokyo and asking for food suggestions. (I told him to go to the Kawaii Monster Cafe, of course.)...
A Twitter user posted a video of them asking the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, what he thought of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain yesterday. The Prince’s response? “Oh yes, it’s a very interesting development.” Asked Prince Charles what he thinks of #bitcoin….. legendary response...
Google held its annual developer conference yesterday, and it announced tons of cool stuff including new budget pixel devices, Android Q, better privacy controls, and new search features. Here’s a summary of some amazing stuff the company unveiled: New Pixel mid-range phones Google introduced a couple of budget...
Kid influencers can be big business on Instagram. Three parents share how they manage their kids’ earnings–without spoiling them. By next year, the Instagram influencer marketing business may be valued at anywhere between $5 billion and $10 billion. A growing demographic is the kid influencer, who can...
From improving fire department response times to tracking illegal logging, these organizations are using artificial intelligence in innovative ways to drive impact. Now they’ll get a technological boost from Google. As the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning grows in the business world,...
Google’s new privacy features include Incognito Mode for Maps, easier access to data deletion tools, and less intrusive machine-learning systems. In keeping with the current privacy-conscious zeitgeist, Google says it’s coming up with new ways to lock down your personal data while using its products.Read...
With the Nest Hub Max, Google is deemphasizing its own name just a bit. Fifteen months ago, Google hardware chief Rick Osterloh took charge of Nest, the smart-home pioneer that was formerly an independent arm of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. But while Nest is part of Google, that doesn’t mean that...
Google’s new Pixel phones also offer the powerful AI assistant, which, for now, puts Siri to shame. The new Google Pixel 3a phone is the anti-iPhone. It seems to include all the features missing in Apple’s signature device, and it removes the biggest annoyances–like the iPhone’s high price,...
Broadway actor Billy Porter saw the most dramatic jump in followers—his Egyptian sun god entrance earned him a nearly 20K bump in Instagram followers, a 4.21% bump, giving him a new grand total of 457.9K followers. This year’s Met Gala theme, Camp, sparked a lot of creativity on the red carpet, with...
The two artists pitch for the new Pixel 3a phone, listing off everything they need their phone to do. Today, Google announced its new Pixel 3a phone, and by all appearances it’s pitched as the anti-iPhone. As my colleague Mark Wilson pointed out, the new Pixel includes all the features missing in...
As an amateur designer and as someone who has worked with designers in marketing positions previously, I came to understand that designers of all sorts have their own creative process and each one is a little bit different. And that’s okay. Learning this as someone managing the designer‘s projects (in a project...
Looking for a hard drive to back up and store your files? Here are the best external storage drives for designers, photographers & creatives in 2019.
Google Assistant is pretty fast, but it’s hardly as conversational as a real person. That’s in large part because using the Assistant requires a constant connection to the cloud, where a server sorts through 100GB worth of AI models, and beams the relevant information back down to you. But what if you could shrink...
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