With the recent announcement from Google that it will not use alternate identifiers to track data in its products, even after third-party cookies are phased out, brands and publishers are feeling the heat. Ad-tech company Adform and market research firm Dynata conducted a survey across 12 markets in Europe and the U.S. between Sept. 1-30…Read More
Ad-tech executives and product designers should be breathing a sigh of relief now that Google has announced it will not support a cross domain identifier when Chrome deprecates the third-party cookie by 2022. Until now, the industry has been focused on finding backward compatible work-arounds, such as redesigning device graphs to work in the first…Read More
For most people, diagnosing a dodgy internet connection is nigh on impossible. After all, the internet is a complex hodgepodge of hardware and software, and the odd jumpy Zoom call is often accepted as an inexplicable feature of a network we don’t well understand. But internet connection issues are actually quite easy to explain. They arise when the flow of data along internet cables is interrupted, most frequently when the demand to use the cables is very high. That’s why your connection seems worst during “peak TV viewing” hours, when everyone’s trying to stream videos using the same cables at…
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When you look at the following short video sequence, you can make inferences about causal relations between different elements. For instance, you can see the bat and the baseball player’s arm moving in unison, but you also know that it is the player’s arm that is causing the bat’s movement and not the other way around. You also don’t need to be told that the bat is causing the sudden change in the ball’s direction. Likewise, you can think about counterfactuals, such as what would happen if the ball flew a bit higher and didn’t hit the bat. Such inferences…
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When does this rule apply?
It doesn’t apply to anyone we’ve ever hired.
It doesn’t apply to anything we’ve ever purchased.
It doesn’t apply to any project we’ve sponsored.
Or anyone we’ve ever voted for, dated or befriended, either.
In fact, it’s a great excuse for the things we’re afraid to do, or where our inclination is to say no anyway. If you’re hoping for inaction, look for perfect.
People can now take a taxi tour through Singapore without leaving the couch. The Singapore Tourism Board teamed up with creative agency TBWAChiatDay New York on Singapore by Stream, a series of four livestreams on Twitch totaling two hours and led by the most authentic of guides: a local taxi driver. Each tour will be…Read More
A few weeks ago, we reported that Twitter was testing some kind of ‘Undo Send’ timer for tweets. This isn’t exactly the edit button everyone has been wishing for, but it would give users a few seconds to take back a bad tweet without anyone noticing. Developer Jane Manchun Wong has now surfaced more evidence that Twitter is working on the feature, but it comes with one caveat: you might have to pay for it. Twitter is working on app subscription for paid features like “Undo Tweet” https://t.co/CrqnzIPcOH pic.twitter.com/Ct16Gk2RL1 — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 19, 2021 As noted by…
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Human space missions to Mars are the next great leap in space exploration, with NASA targeting the 2030s as a reasonable time frame for taking the first humans there. But boarding on a journey to Mars is not like catching a flight to New York. Space is an extremely hostile environment for human life – from the lack of gravity and harmful radiation to isolation and the absence of night and day. Deep space missions to Mars will be much more physically and mentally demanding than the journeys we’ve made so far during 60 years of human space exploration. A…
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In an historic move, organizers of the Tokyo Olympics games have decided to keep foreign spectators away from the summer games. During a meeting today, the Tokyo 2020 committee informed the IOC that overseas spectators for the Olympic and Paralympic Games will not be allowed in the country because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. “Based…Read More
You may have noticed an influx of ads for furniture on your Instagram feed after looking for a new chair for your work-from-home setup, or promoted posts for a coffee shop that you’ve only ever walked past. Your phone’s apps collect and share a lot of information—from your location, to your browsing habits, to your search history. But for iPhone owners, that’s about to change in significant ways. Apple announced in June 2020 that this spring it would begin requiring iPhone, iPad, and tvOS apps to get consent to share people’s data with third parties like data brokers and other…
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