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TLDR: This collection of great Cyber Monday discounts should not be ignored. Look, we don’t want to make a big deal about this, but…Cyber Monday is not an ongoing holiday. Sure, Cyber Monday deals aren’t often restricted to just the Monday after Thanksgiving, but they aren’t indefinite either. After a few...

After more than 50 years on the market, Coca-Cola is dropping Tab. Here’s a look back at its rise and fall. Tab, the Coca-Cola company’s original diet soda brand, is headed to the soda graveyard, joining retired brands such as Like, Leed, and Limette.Read Full Story

If you’re not over Twitter‘s shaky Fleets rollout, I have more “Stories” news for you. After social networks ranging from Facebook to LinkedIn have adopted this format, music streaming giant Spotify is testing the waters with ephemeral images and videos feature. As Twitter user TmarTn noted, if you search...

A mini massager, artisanal jigsaw puzzles, and the softest cotton robe you can find. These holiday gifts are made for chilling out. 2020 has been… a challenge—for us, for you, for literally everyone you know and then some. Google Trends reported an all-time high in searches for “self-care”...

Last month, Facebook announced a crackdown: The platform would no longer permit content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust” as part of its larger policy prohibiting hate speech. While noting that successful enforcement could take time, Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president of content policy, explained...

Google is still an advertising company. But as ad growth gets tougher, there are plenty of signs that it sees subscriptions as a big part of its future. There are two ways to look at Google’s recent announcement that it will discontinue unlimited Google Photos storage starting next June.Read Full Story

Square, the fintech stock led by Twitter billionaire and beard-of-the-people Jack Dorsey, is on fire. In the past three days, Square‘s share price has set three consecutive all-time highs, both intraday and closing. It peaked at $208 on Monday, hit $209.36 on Tuesday, and broke $214 on Wednesday to close the day up...

Rumor of a merger resulted in Slack’s stock spiking and Salesforce’s being suspended for volatility. Salesforce is among the most acquisitive companies in the tech business, so it’s never a shocker when there’s rumor of it buying something. But a Wall Street Journal report that it has held...

YouTube‘s video chapters could soon get a time-saving AI upgrade. The streaming giant recently started testing using machine learning to automatically add chapters to videos. The company announced the trial on the YouTube test features and experiments page of the Google Support website: We want to make it easier...

Trees improve urban life, but they’re not equitably distributed. As cities try to fix this, they now can quickly get a sense of what neighborhoods and streets need them most. A new map of Los Angeles highlights one form of inequality: which of the city’s streets and homes get the benefit of shade from...

Virtual Thanksgiving means visual eye candy is on the menu this year. While Zoom is great for conference calls, it’s no Smell-O-Vision. That means your virtual Thanksgiving guests won’t get to experience all the sensory pleasures of your meal. But there’s a silver lining for design aficionados:...

Emoji are important. Heck, they were the biggest reason I wanted to write about the recent iOS 14.2 update. More emoji = better expression. Whenever Unicode consortium, a non-profit organization that handles dissemination and approval of emoji, releases a new set, there’s palpable excitement to start using them...

Stand out & save time with the latest graphic design tools - from creating custom typography, to editing social media images & videos plus producing mock-ups. The post Top 10 Design & Creativity Tools for Designers first appeared on JUST™ Creative.

As surely as the student succeeds the master, the cannibalized social media service shall, in turn, cannibalize another. It’s the axiom of social survival in the ongoing battle for the attention of the Youth. What did the Youth love before? Snapchat. What do they love now? TikTok. So now Snapchat’s ripping off...

If you’re an aspiring poet who doesn’t know your sonnets from your stanzas, a new Google AI app could transform you into a legendary wordsmith. Or at least, a decent impersonation of one. Verse by Verse is described by the Big G as “an experimental AI-powered muse that helps you compose poetry inspired by...

A survey of 11,000 designers from around the world reveals how hard it has been to be a freelancer in 2020. How have freelance designers survived the pandemic? A new survey of more than 11,000 of them across 147 countries tells a bleak story.Read Full Story

In the Indian smartphone market, the ₹10,000-₹20,000 ($135-270) price bracket is extremely popular. Many folks get their first or second handset in that range. However, when they are upgrading, they might have to look for devices beyond the ₹35,000 ($470) mark to get a good value for money products. However...

Despite Facebook’s efforts to tamp down on the fringe conspiracy QAnon movement, its backers are still finding ways to push its message on the platform — even paying Facebook to do so. Just days after announcing last month that it would ban QAnon theories from the site, Facebook allowed an advertisement featuring...

If you’ve ever wanted to work for Google, now’s your best chance. The company has a new app called Task Mate that lets you earn money by completing tasks such as taking pictures of storefronts or recording short voice clips. At the moment, the app is live only for users in India. Plus, you’ll need an invitation...

The US election may be all but over, but social media networks are still trying to fight rampant misinformation spreading on their platforms. Twitter today revealed that it will warn users if they try to so much as like a tweet that contains information believed to be misleading. Giving context on why a labeled Tweet...

Facebook today announced a new feature called Drives. No, that’s not a ‘drive’ in the sense of yet another cloud storage service, but instead in the sense of “clothing drive” or “food drive.” It builds on the social network’s fundraising tools for emergencies and community causes, except this time...

The United Farm Workers shared a series of videos of their members at work. They’re mesmerizing. If cooking Thanksgiving dinner involves a lot of labor, harvesting the ingredients is harder. In a Twitter thread, United Farmworkers—the largest union for farmworkers in the U.S.—shared short videos...

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Here’s how to back up your old phone, then wipe it clean—along with some of the best options for turning it into some cash. The fall season’s new smartphones are here, and with them a slight to moderate twinge of gadget envy for some of us.Read Full Story

Since their inception, websites are used to share information. Whether it is a Wikipedia article, YouTube channel, Instagram account, or a Twitter handle. They all are packed with interesting data that is available for everyone with access to the internet and a web browser. But, what if we want to get any...

The software stack of a startup in 2020 looks much different than a company starting in 2007. In 2007, a new company would require large capital expenditures to build a Windows infrastructure for email, file storage, accounting, and marketing tools. It would cost tens of thousands of dollars and require hiring IT...

TLDR: These 10 collections of marketing training explore how to create solid ad copy, build audiences through social media and drive thousands of new customers to your business. If you’re an entrepreneur or somehow responsible for the marketing of a brand or product, 2020 was likely a scary time for you. Many old...

From social media headlines to conversations with friends and family, information overload may leave many of us feeling as though we have no energy to engage. An endless flow of information is coming at us constantly: It might be an article a friend shared on Facebook with a sensational headline or wrong information...

HBO today revealed the first details on the live-action TV adaptation of The Last of Us game. We now know who’s going to be writing and producing the show, though nothing else about who might be involved. .@HBO gives series order to #TheLastOfUs. @clmazin and @Neil_Druckmann set to write and executive produce....

This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today...

‘Life Meets Art’ goes into the homes of design icons such as Alexander McQueen, Finn Juhl, and Richard Neutra. We could all use a little inspiration right about now, and this new book certainly fits the bill.Read Full Story

The company has gotten much better about preventing hate from ever showing up. But moderators are unhappy about being pushed to return to office work. On Thursday, Facebook published its first set of numbers on how many people are exposed to hate content on its platform. But between its AI systems and its human...

It’s no secret it is hard for a startup to get coverage in top tier tech media. However, PRs learned to be creative and come up with tools and techniques which make even their colleagues’ brows raise. The most wondrous pitches and moves get a moment of fame eventually. Usually, in a reporter’s Twitter post. ...

We often joke around that hackers or government agencies are listening to our calls. Facebook just patched a bug that would’ve allowed anyone to snoop on your calls on Messenger. The bug was found by Google Project Zero researcher Natalie Silvanovich last month, and it affected Messenger‘s Android users. To...

Learn how to start your own private label brand, from finding a manufacturer to setting up an eCommerce store & reaching new customers, with YouTube & more. The post How to Create, Sell & Promote Private Label Products first appeared on JUST™ Creative.

Apple doubles down on its delayed anti-ad tracking features: “Privacy-focused ad networks were the universal standard in advertising before the practice of unfettered data collection began over the last decade or so.” Back in June during Apple’s first online-only Worldwide Developer’s...

The outgoing president has now lost multiple dozens of post-election court cases, with one lone exception, despite frequent claims of voter fraud evidence. To use a phrase made semi-famous by a recent Trump court case, the outgoing president’s legal efforts to overturn the election have had a “non-zero...

Kerry Washington joins jewelry brand Aurate as an investor, designer, and activist. You may know Kerry Washington as an award-winning actress and producer. But she’s also an investor in companies like Byte, the Wing, and Community. Most recently, she’s backed the women-owned jewelry startup Aurate and...

Don’t swat your screen—it’s a digital leaf, not an insect. Google’s got a fun little animation on their home page today—but it seems to be having the unintended consequence of freaking people out.Read Full Story

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We reported earlier about Google Chrome being available on Apple’s new M1-toting Macs, but something even better than that has happened. Yes, take a deep breath… Google Chrome got a new icon in Big Sur. That’s right, pals, gone is this old, boring, and played out logo: In its place, we’ve been blessed with...

You have likely seen the LinkedIn posts and tech finance blogs spouting about how Uber and AirBnB were born out of the ashes of the 2008 credit crunch that put millions of people out of a job and led to a decade of slow recovery. “One can only imagine,” the posts are saying, “what new companies will come out of...

WarnerMedia today announced that its next big superhero movie, Wonder Woman 1984, will debut in global theaters on December 16. And if you live in an area where the theaters are still closed because of COVID, relax — the company is releasing the film on HBO Max exclusively for one month. For the first time ever,...

Google Chrome is finally available for Apple’s new Macs with its M1 chip after a few roadblocks. The company had to pause the rollout yesterday after many users complained about app crashes. The Big G originally released the popular browser tuned for Apple’s new chips yesterday. But folks who downloaded it,...

Google Pay is getting its biggest update ever today. The company today announced it is completely revamping the app for its wireless payment system, maintaining the same abilities as before to send and receive payments, but also turning it into an all-in-one money management app. In Google’s own words “the new...

The U.S., on the other hand, is doing almost 1.6 million tests per day. For months, public health experts have argued that the U.S. should be running more COVID-19 tests—perhaps as many as 20 to 30 million tests each day, versus the roughly 1.6 million daily tests happening now—to help people learn their...

As antitrust concerns nip at the company’s heels, Google is doubling down on its mobile wallet—and the data it collects—as it continues to move into financial services. Google loyalists are sure to thrill at the company’s newly redesigned mobile payments app.Read Full Story

Google has released a prototype AI app that turns your sketches into fantastical monsters — with varying degrees of success. The Big G developed the Chimera Painter to produce an endless stream of creatures for a fantasy card game in which the different monsters battle. The system is powered by generative...