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Jul 17, 2019
The Web has transformed over the past quarter century from a place we go to learn and listen into a place we go to taunt and talk.
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Jul 17, 2019
In the social era's world of self-service fame, the more outrageous one's behavior, the more likely one is to achieve stardom. Could this be one of the driving forces of online toxicity?
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Jul 17, 2019
Consumers are using more than just words to express their compliments and complaints to companies. More and more, they are using emojis - just as if they were texting to a friend.
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Jul 17, 2019
Eunice Foote's largely unnoticed work laid the foundation for modern climate science, but she is a "hidden figure" of science.
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Jul 17, 2019
No, influencers are not going to rule the world. At least not the kind of influencers we've seen so far. Some people will attain positions where they can help change things or sell products and services, but it won't be thanks to some trashy industry based on poorly planned activity.
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Jul 16, 2019
Faced with a reality where publishers will be priced out of the market entirely or being able to create a product that benefits both them and their readership, the choice is clear - textbooks are going virtual.
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Jul 16, 2019
The social network announced Libra in June as a tool intended to make it easier for people to send money around the world quickly and cheaply.
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Jul 16, 2019
While the original intent of the event may have been to get some likes and laughs, hotels and campsites in the area have reportedly received a boost in reservations because of the event, and the Air Force issued a stern warning to any potential raiders.
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Jul 16, 2019
While the original intent of the event may have been to get some likes and laughs, hotels and campsites in the area have reportedly received a boost in reservations because of the event, and the Air Force issued a stern warning to any potential raiders.
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Jul 16, 2019
Amazon's Minnesota fulfillment center walkouts both elevated and masked important issues regarding the increasing demands being put on workers to meet performance requirements.
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Jul 16, 2019
Emojis can instantly clarify emotional intent and have been consistently shown to drive higher rates of engagement. But there's a right and wrong way to use emojis at work.
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Jul 16, 2019
Daytime and nighttime heat indices in the eastern U.S. will be at life-threatening levels this week. Here's why.
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Jul 16, 2019
T-Mobile and Taco Bell are taking their partnership one step further by opening T-MoBell stores in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago on July 23-25.
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Jul 16, 2019
Facebook has launched a new tool for reporting scam ads in the UK, and says it may roll it out to other countries if it works.
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Jul 16, 2019
Blockstack made history by becoming the first blockchain company to receive SEC approval for a Reg A digital token offering. However, the hard work for the company is only beginning as it seeks to use these new funds to drive users and developers into the platform.
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Jul 15, 2019
The show will be partnering with Smule to offer a curated playlist of songs that can be used to create video auditions (contestants must be at least 18 years of age).
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Jul 15, 2019
Netflix's stock is in the same position Tesla's stock was last year.
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Jul 15, 2019
Trump, meanwhile, doubles down, arguing 'IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE!'
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Jul 15, 2019
Trump, meanwhile, doubles down, arguing "many people agree with me."
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Jul 15, 2019
A meteorological breakdown of whether the forecast for Hurricane Barry was a success, bust, or both.
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Jul 15, 2019
The Federal Trade Commission finally decided to fine Facebook $5 billion for a plethora of issues and scandals around the lack of user data privacy. This stems from the Cambridge Analytica fallout, which exploited Facebook's data of black adults its largest user group and 87 million Americans.
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Jul 14, 2019
With a 48-hour Prime Day event, Amazon could bring in more than $6 billion in revenue. The company could disburse more than $30 million through its AmazonSmile program.
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Jul 14, 2019
With LinkedIn membership approaching a billion, your profile will get lost in the crowd if you don't actively work to make it stand out. Here's how to make your LinkedIn profile one-of-a-kind.
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Jul 14, 2019
With LinkedIn membership approaching a billion, your profile will get lost in the crowd if you don't actively work to make it stand out. Here's how to make your LinkedIn profile one-of-a-kind.
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Jul 14, 2019
As their success relies on finding global buyers in each generation, Sotheby's leverages the power of Instagram to connect with millennials and Gen Z. Instagram allows Sotheby's to share the vast range of the art and objects with an audience that is eager to see behind the scenes at Sotheby's.
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Jul 13, 2019
Amazon's intention to reskill its employees suggests what regulators, legislators and the public should pay attention to—how today's behemoths behave, not how big they are.
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Jul 13, 2019
Delta Sigma Theta cut short its national convention in New Orleans because of Tropical Storm Barry. Why this is a model response for weather hazards.
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Jul 12, 2019
In my years of working with notable public figures, I have never seen anyone even come close to receiving the adulation of the second man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin.
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Jul 12, 2019
The settlement dwarfs the FTC's largest penalty to date against a tech company over privacy issues, a record formerly held by the $22.5 million settlement reached with Google in 2012.
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Jul 12, 2019
In 2019, improvements to the Facebook integration have led to a dramatic 2,300% i uptick in peer-to-peer donations for the largest athletic fundraiser in the U.S., the Pan-Mass Challenge.
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Jul 12, 2019
The 2019 charity:water Ride for Water team traversed the George Washington Bridge and crossed its own finish line in Manhattan, 52 days after beginning their trek with a tire-dip in the Pacific Ocean.
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Jul 12, 2019
As the Gulf Coast braces for Tropical Storm Barry, here are 4 facts about New Orleans and flooding that may surprise you.
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Jul 11, 2019
The rapid rise of Messaging as a Platform (MaaP) is changing the way some nonprofits, like TedXMileHigh, approach annual event marketing.
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Jul 11, 2019
The team at Give Lively, a philanthropist-funded startup, decided to take on the challenge of simplifying donations head-on, beginning with a partnership with Malala Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to girls' education.
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Jul 11, 2019
It's not just Facebook and Twitter missing from the White House's social media summit on Thursday. Many of the most controversial conservative pundits—those banned by major social platforms—are also be excluded from the event.
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Jul 11, 2019
Google seems to be trying to get into the social network landscape again after it shut down Google in April. This time is a hyperlocal network, Shoelace, now being tested in New York.
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Jul 11, 2019
The storm in the Gulf of Mexico will strengthen today. There is some "good" news but far more potentially "bad" news. Here's why.
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Jul 11, 2019
Facebook's 2019 diversity report reveals more progress must be made. What are some additional ways that the company can create a more diverse and inclusive environment?
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Jul 10, 2019
Trade wars and easy money are turning major cryptocurrencies into the new "safe havens." Sort of.
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Jul 10, 2019
"The Shops" at New York's $25 billion Hudson Yards development, feature the second level "Floor of Discovery". This collection of digital first brands and "unique to New York" concepts should give both tourists and locals a fresh mix of refined specialty retailers, not found elsewhere.
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Jul 10, 2019
The company's latest changes signal a renewed interest in its organic content, addressing many of the concerns of its existing creators and bringing in new talent.
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Jul 10, 2019
A potential hurricane may develop in the Gulf of Mexico this week. Here's what you need to know right now.
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Jul 09, 2019
Another video of a white person unjustifiably calling the police on a black person has gone viral, and it poses a particular challenge for YouTube as 2019 continues to test the company's commitment to its values both internally and on its platform.
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Jul 09, 2019
Another video of a white person unjustifiably calling the police on a black person has gone viral, and it poses a particular challenge for YouTube as 2019 continues to test the company's commitment to its values both internally and on its platform.
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Jul 09, 2019
When we first learned that Friends would be leaving Netflix some time in 2020, the collective freak out among millennials and generation X was near deafening. Now it's landing on HBO Max from WarnerMedia.
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Jul 09, 2019
Silicon Valley is still at the end of the day ruled by technologists guided by technological determinism and who lack the adult supervision and diversity of viewpoints to understand the existential ways in which society shapes their platforms and harnesses them for bad as well as good.
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Jul 09, 2019
And other lies we've been told...
A few years ago, I attended a tech conference for women. One of the title sponsors was asked to say a few words. She just had a baby and came up holding her sleeping newborn. She gave her speech while gently swaying and patting that sweet baby's bottom.
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Jul 09, 2019
Google has confirmed several new features for the popular Cloud-based photo service.
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Jul 09, 2019
In our rush to combat digital falsehoods, we have rushed headfirst into our Orwellian future.
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Jul 08, 2019
Flooding in the Washington D.C. area this week revealed 3 familiar things. What are they?
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Jul 08, 2019
Don't be afraid to take on the masters of the universe in your industry. There are probably a lot of people who feel the same way as you do.
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Jul 08, 2019
A tropical system has an 80% chance of forming in the Gulf of Mexico this week. Here's where hurricanes form in July.
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Jul 07, 2019
We no longer actively explore the informational landscape, we passively await the decisions of algorithms to tell us what to read, what to watch, what to share and what to buy.
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Jul 07, 2019
Beneath all "fake news," misinformation, disinformation, digital falsehoods and foreign influence lies society's failure to teach its citizenry information literacy: how to think critically about the deluge of information that confronts them in our modern digital age.
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Jul 07, 2019
For small business marketing, it's all about the customers. But, smaller marketing budgets can lead to significant customer challenges. Kipp Bodnar, CMO of Hubspot, a leading growth platform, shares 3 big customer pitfalls smaller businesses should avoid.
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Jul 07, 2019
For small business marketing, it's all about the customers. But, smaller marketing budgets can lead to significant customer challenges. Kipp Bodnar, CMO of Hubspot, a leading growth platform, shares 3 big customer pitfalls smaller businesses should avoid.
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Jul 07, 2019
A simple iMessage can turn your iPhone into an unusable brick according to a Google security research project which has just disclosed the methodology behind the attack. Here's what you need to know, and what you need to do next to make sure your iPhone doesn't fall victim to this attack.
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Jul 06, 2019
In stark contrast with the enormous resources being poured into combating AI bias, accessibility bias has received little attention, reminding us that only those biases most visible to the general public receive attention.
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Jul 06, 2019
Facebook's image outage earlier this week offered the general public a brief glimpse at how today's deep learning algorithms "see" images. For all the hype and hyperbole about the AI revolution, today's deep learning algorithms still describe images as simple lists of keywords.
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Jul 06, 2019
Something "tropical" may develop in the Gulf of Mexico next week. Its origins may be over land right now. How is that possible?
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Jul 06, 2019
People often misinterpret hurricane and earthquake intensity scales. Here's why.
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Jul 05, 2019
Facebook's brief image outage earlier this week exposed the general public just how bad accessibly really is in our modern visual-first social Web. While governments and the technology community are investing heavily in AI bias, they care little about accessibility bias.
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Jul 05, 2019
For someone who frequently uses social media, grabbing a 30-second clip of a chorus or particularly great guitar solo is an irresistible moment — who doesn't want to share awesome live music? Enter Opkix.
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Jul 05, 2019
The Earth was furthest from the Sun on July 4th so why is it hot in the Northern Hemisphere?
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Jul 05, 2019
Apple wants iOS 13 to be the most private and secure operating system to date. However, some security professionals and industry bodies are claiming it might expose users to greater security and privacy risk. Here's why…
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Jul 05, 2019
Apple wants iOS 13 to be the most private and secure operating system to date. However, some security professionals and industry bodies are claiming it might expose users to greater security and privacy risk. Here's why…
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Jul 05, 2019
Apple wants iOS 13 to be the most private and secure operating system to date. However, some security professionals and industry bodies are claiming it might expose users to greater security and privacy risk. Here's why…
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Jul 04, 2019
The story of my journey from musician to tech entrepreneur and what I learned along the way about people and communities. What I
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Jul 04, 2019
Paying money for a product or service no longer grants us privacy. Whether something is provided free of charge or whether we pay for it, the only difference is whether we see ads. The sad reality is that our data is simply too valuable today to allow us to purchase our privacy.
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Jul 04, 2019
For years, I've believed that the future of commerce is personality-led. I've now started questioning whether these personalities will be made up of flesh and bones or, rather, algorithms and pixels.
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Jul 04, 2019
For years, I've believed that the future of commerce is personality-led. I've now started questioning whether these personalities will be made up of flesh and bones or, rather, algorithms and pixels.
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Jul 04, 2019
More brands are considering influencer marketing. There's a lot at stake.
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Jul 04, 2019
Neither Russian operatives nor Cambridge Analytica influenced the Brexit referendum, a Facebook executive said.
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Jul 04, 2019
TikTok has been a phenomenal success, but we have the right to expect the owners of the platforms our children use to be responsible for any possible misuses, which in some cases, they encourage.
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Jul 03, 2019
Trade wars and ultra low interest rates have helped major cryptocurrencies rise, as alternatives to the US dollar global ecosystem.
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Jul 03, 2019
Born in the 1970s, the concept of mind mapping has become a standard within business and new tech, but how might mind-mapping inform our current social and cultural practices?
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Jul 03, 2019
AI will soon become such a mainstay of our daily interactions future generations won't be able to imagine what life was like without it. It's time to contemplate how AI is poised to transform the social media landscape, influencing what goes viral and our relationship to the addictive technology.
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Jul 03, 2019
Dodge barbs on the path to reaching your marketing goals with a little inspiration from industry peers.
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Jul 03, 2019
The one-time chief of Ford Motor and of Chrysler knew how to change minds and market vehicles. Few in industry today can match his strengths.
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Jul 03, 2019
Meet the new Logan Paul. He is no longer the YouTuber involved in scandal every other week. He's grown up.
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Jul 03, 2019
According to a Business Insider survey, 62% of Gen Z are daily YouTube users.
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Jul 02, 2019
Oculus Quest has fixed the single biggest problem with VR: the five-minute fix.
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Jul 02, 2019
It blames Twitter for the Adidas account's broadcasting of abusive Twitter handles, but, given the platform's dark side, it's boggling why the company would make the an AI social media campaign to begin with.
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Jul 02, 2019
Facebook, Inc. has become a new world superpower; but instead of nukes, it combines technologies in order to accelerate disruption and expand its influence at a scale we simply can't grasp.
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Jul 02, 2019
Facebook's latest move to improve the trustworthiness of news feeds is to target sensational claims based on health benefits.
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Jul 02, 2019
With capitalism and privacy seemingly at odds with one another, what are the ramifications for our right to privacy today in this era where private companies are offering biometric services and where it is increasingly difficult to avoid the hijacking of privacy by the private sector?
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Jul 01, 2019
How can I put my AI /ML into production to drive ROI? What are the best practices for doing production ML? This post covers 5 trends in machine learning ops, as demonstrated at the first production ML conference, USENIX OpML 2019.
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Jul 01, 2019
Those hail pictures from Mexico are really cool, but some perspective is required on what happened.
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Jul 01, 2019
Why Chennai and other Indian cities are running out of water right now: A visual and scientific explanation.
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Jul 01, 2019
How To Create An Operations Manual On Yourself: The goal of having an operations manual on you, is to make it easier for your team to do their job. You've taken away a major roadblock (you) and greased the wheels so they can focus on doing their job and innovating their processes.
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Jun 30, 2019
Show-Score is giving critics two thumbs down.
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Jun 30, 2019
In our share-first world, if influencers could no longer share images that were created in a way that harmed nature, they would likely simply stop and focus their efforts on more environmentally sound photo ops that they can still monetize.
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Jun 30, 2019
Imagine you're a woman of 17 in the 1890's in the hills of Kentucky when women's only power came through their husbands Imagine you end up in a passionate 10-year affair with a wealthy, powerful, handsome older man, a prominent member of Congress. But when he betrays you, you decide to get even.
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Jun 30, 2019
At first, underdogs are dismissed as inconsequential. Then, they take the hill. If you look beneath the surface, you see a pattern of women quietly seizing and leveraging resources in ways that can lead to historic results. Here are commonalities among these successful underdogs.
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Jun 30, 2019
At first, underdogs are dismissed as inconsequential. Then, they take the hill. If you look beneath the surface, you see a pattern of women quietly seizing and leveraging resources in ways that can lead to historic results. Here are commonalities among these successful underdogs.
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Jun 30, 2019
How do we approach online transactions and websites requiring our personal and financial information today? This article looks at the state of insecurity today within online culture.
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Jun 30, 2019
In June, Facebook again faced criticism over content, from a ban on one of rock's most iconic (nude) album covers to police officers' Islamophobic posts.
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Jun 30, 2019
Thanks to ongoing brain development and sensitivity to dopamine (neurotransmitter associated with pleasure), teens are more likely to crave reward-based experiences. In the age of smartphones, followers and likes, reward-seeking behaviors is increasingly associated with social media approval.
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Jun 30, 2019
The University of Alaska system faces a 41% budget cut. Why that is devastating to education, science, and society.
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Jun 30, 2019
The world of influencer marketing is changing, with consumers becoming wary about what influencers post and their reasons for doing so. Jenny Tough is an influencer challenging this proception and her brand partnerships really can be life and death.
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