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Add keto-friendly cookies to the growing list of Ryan Reynolds’ business pursuits–and a strung out panda to his voice acting resume (at least, we’re pretty sure that’s him). Reynolds quietly released Maximum Effort’s first ad for sugarless cookie brand HighKey on social yesterday ahead of today’s announcement that the production company is now a minority…Read More

Scientists from Cornell University have developed a way for robots to identify physical interactions just by analyzing a user’s shadows. Their ShadowSense system uses an off-the-shelf USB camera to capture the shadows produced by hand gestures on a robot’s skin. Algorithms then classify the movements to infer the user’s specific interaction. Study lead author Guy Hoffman said the method provides a natural way of interacting with robots without relying on large and costly sensor arrays: Touch is such an important mode of communication for most organisms, but it has been virtually absent from human-robot interaction. One of the reasons is that full-body touch used…

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Artificial intelligence often doesn’t work the same for Black people as it does for white people. Sometimes it’s a matter of vastly different user experiences, like when voice assistants struggle to understand words from Black voices. Other times, such as when cancer detection systems don’t account for race, it’s a matter of life and death. So who’s fault is it? Setting aside intentionally malicious uses of AI software, such as facial recognition and crime prediction systems for law enforcement, we can assume the problem is with bias. When we think about bias in AI, we’re usually reminded of incidents such as…

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May’s upfronts week–which was canceled last year due to the pandemic–is rapidly roaring back to life. Following Wednesday’s announcements that Disney and ViacomCBS would resume the annual May tradition for marketers and return to their usual upfronts week spots to hold a virtual presentation, a third media company has joined them: Discovery Inc. The company…Read More

We’ve known for a while that Google Photos has been considering ways to monetize some of its best features, and today we got a good look at how that’ll happen. The company has begun sharing some of the Pixel’s best photo editing tricks, including Portrait Blur and Portrait Light, with other Android devices. You’ll just have to pay for a Google One subscription to get access. While Google Photos previously allowed users to modify blur effects on images that were already taken in portrait mode, the new update expands the effect to images that never had depth information in the…

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South by Southwest today announced that Stacey Abrams will keynote its March event, a virtual version of its annual conglomeration of festivals in Austin, Texas. The political leader, entrepreneur, author and Nobel Peace Prize nominee will appear in conversation with author N.K. Jemisin. The announcement also added dozens of featured speakers to this year’s lineup,…Read More

Drive-thru activations remain the safest way for brands to engage potential customers in person during the pandemic. To launch a new product line, personal care brand OGX took its products out of the bathroom and into a car wash. The Vogue International-owned shampoo and body wash brand took over 1907 Car Wash in Los Angeles…Read More

Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! When we think about communicating more, most of us imagine it’s about talking more. But communication is really about exchanging information — that includes receiving it. You can’t listen when you’re talking, or as Larry King once put it: “I never learned anything while I was talking.” Despite this, most conversations are composed of two people just…

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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. Eight of Europe’s leading micromobility companies have created a coalition to address what they say is “a gap in the representation of industry” in transport and mobility policy discussions. Micro-Mobility for Europe (MMfE) — which comprises Bird, Bolt, Dott, FreeNow, Lime, TIER, Voi, and Wind — plans to contribute to the development of a…

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Google has launched a new AI tool that lets you listen to the sounds that famed artist Vassily Kandinsky may have heard as he painted. The experiment explores the artist’s synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes one sense to trigger another. In Kandinsky’s case, he’d see colors and shape when he heard music, and hear music when he painted. The abstract art pioneer tried to evoke the sensation through his artworks and writings: The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.…

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