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Chip and Joanna Gaines’ long-awaited Discovery cable channel, Magnolia Network, has a new debut date–but don’t expect to see it on linear for nearly another year. The lifestyle power couple’s Magnolia Network, which had been slated to premiere last October, will instead have a digital launch as part of Discovery’s new streaming service, Discovery+, on…Read More

The mere six-month gap between the rescheduled 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing provides a challenge in terms of content creation and advertising opportunities, and Discovery and Snap Inc. are teaming up to meet that challenge head-on. The two parties entered into a content and advertising partnership that…Read More

Facebook found itself on the defense over its handling of groups prior to, during and after the violent attacks on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 during a press call to detail the release of its Community Standards Enforcement Report for the fourth quarter of 2020. Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a livestreamed interview…Read More

In 2009, Craig Dubitsky had a radical idea: Personal care products should be friendly to consumers, animals and the environment. Thus Hello Products–a line of natural personal care products including a charcoal toothpaste Dubitsky says you can eat–was born. And it is in delighting customers with affordable, cruelty-free, natural products that are made in America…Read More

It was just over a year ago that Hallmark Channel found itself in an unusual position: embroiled in controversy. In December 2019, the network sparked outrage for briefly pulling several ads featuring a same-sex couple kissing, at the same time it was weathering criticism for a lack of racial, sexual and religious diversity in its…Read More

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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