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For its newest campaign, Dom P?rignon partnered with Lady Gaga to build out an entirely new branding experience for its ros? champagne–complete with an otherworldly film and limited-edition bottles. Top line To launch the partnership, the pop star, actor and activist worked with fashion photographer Nick Knight to build out the aesthetic of the brand…Read More

Four years ago when Kymm Martinez landed her current post at the University of St. Thomas, she had to make a number of adjustments. Martinez had spent 20 years as a marketer for General Mills, much of that time on the vp level. She was used to managing brands that were household names and working…Read More

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 News. The world’s ‘fastest all-electric’ passenger ferry is set to launch on Stockholm’s waterways in 2022, as part of a joint pilot between Swedish boat-maker Candela and the Swedish Transport Administration. The 30-passenger ferries will shuttle passengers to and from the city’s islands at speeds up to 30 knots (55 km/h), with the intention…

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As a talentless artist who likes to imagine myself as a masterful painter, I always appreciate AI tools that turn my embarrassing sketches into masterpieces. Computer artist Glenn Marshall recently developed one of my favorite techniques yet: a text-to-image generator that transforms any picture into the style of famous artists. The system morphs an input image towards the suggestion of a text prompt, such as “Salvador Dalí Art.” Over repeated mutations and iterations of each frame, the AI gradually finds features and shapes that match the text description until it produces a final composition. “The results were like nothing I’ve ever seen…

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YouTube will begin sharing a new metric in its Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, Violative View Rate, in an effort to provide transparency on what percentage of views on the Google-owned video site comes from content that violates its policies. The report will now have a separate Views section, where people can see historical and fourth-quarter-2020…Read More

It’s that time of year again! David Clarke Cause, IBM, United Nations Human Rights, and the Linux Foundation have kicked off the 2021 Call For Code. This year’s focus is on climate change. Developers participating in the $200K competition have three key areas to develop novel solutions (with a little help from IBM) for: Clean water and sanitation World hunger Green production and consumption Per IBM’s developer blog: This year, Call for Code aims to tackle the imminent and existential threat to Planet Earth: climate change. As the United Nations describes, “The impacts of climate change are global in scope…

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Local SEO has evolved in recent years, going from being a small component of an overall website SEO strategy to being its own specialization, with very different techniques and practices. Now, instead of simply stuffing the name of your city into every nook and cranny of your site, local SEO means managing your Google My…Read More

It’s one of the more mundane paradoxes of the pandemic: There’s a distinct feeling that we don’t have a moment to spare. That’s despite not going to offices, restaurants or gyms. Any traveling or visiting of loved ones has tended to occur in isolated episodes compared to the “before time.” Although the brand was conceived…Read More

A team of researchers in China recently figured out how to turn the E coli bacteria into a hybrid robot that smuggles drugs past the blood-brain barrier by pretending to be a white blood cell. These little robots in disguise represent a breakthrough in our ability to treat diseases such as cancer. Background: There’s a party going on in our brains 24/7, but the guest list is very exclusive. The blood-brain barrier, a protective border that keeps out the riff-raff, takes its job very seriously. In fact, it’s difficult for doctors to treat diseases such as some types of cancer…

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LONDON–Most people in the U.K. have cereal or toast for breakfast, unless they’re frying up a full English, crushing some avocado, or whipping up something fancy on the weekend. But McDonald’s, in its latest spot by Leo Burnett, reckons its breakfast is the champion of all morning meals. The cinematic 60-second digital and social ad,…Read More