Did you know that you can help Discord improve its accessibility by allowing the application to track when you use a screen reader? If you want to allow Discord to track your screen reader usage, our guide will show you how to turn this setting on. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Discord application…Read More
When Super Bowl 55 kicks off Sunday, some familiar faces will be absent–and not just from the stands at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium. Big brands like Budweiser and Hyundai, which have produced some of the highest-rated ads in recent history–including 2017’s Born the Hard Way and 2020’s Smaht Pahk–are also staying home this year. ‘A…Read More
Pinterest will showcase Black creators and their contributions across categories including fashion/beauty, food, home and travel across its platform throughout Black History Month. The company and its Blackboard internal employee resource group teamed up with prominent Black leaders and creators including Josiane Konat?, LaToya Lanice and Kaya Marriott to offer ways to get inspired by…Read More
Iconic British car marker MINI is removing leather as an option for its future vehicles’ interiors. According to Autocar, the decision has been made as the company works to achieve its sustainability goals. Despite the ethical concerns attached to leather products, some 54% of MINI vehicles sold last year were shipped with leather interiors. [Read: How much does it cost to buy, own, and run an EV? It’s not as much as you think] “We don’t need leather anymore in the future, because we don’t believe it’s sustainable,” said MINI boss Oliver Heilmer. MINI is far from the first to…
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Armchair metalheads Wayne and Garth have never been too good for a blatant sales pitch, as illustrated in their 1992 big-screen debut and its gleeful product placements for Pizza Hut, Pepsi, Adidas and more. So this Sunday, almost 30 years after the Wayne’s World movie premiered, the duo played by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey…Read More
TLDR: The All-In-One 2021 Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle is a complete cybersecurity education, featuring 132 hours of intensive instruction to become a top-flight white hat hacker. If you grew up in the 1980’s, you lived with constant fear that simmering tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union might one day lead to nuclear armageddon. Today, even with the Soviet Union gone, there’s still fear and anxiety about US-Russia relations. But even though the bombs still exist, there’s a far greater likelihood that a conflict between those world powers today wouldn’t happen with missiles being fired. It would happen…
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Earlier this month, ten cubesats – small, cheap satellites weighing about a kilogram each – were sent into orbit around Earth. With almost 1,500 of these small satellites launched so far, adding another ten might seem trivial. But this was no ordinary launch. Instead of lifting off from the ground, the rocket carrying these Nasa satellites was slung under the wing of a modified Boeing 747, called Cosmic Girl. The plane carried them to a height of 11 km (6.8 miles) before launching the rocket. This was the first successful launch of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket, marking the start of its…
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Maya Rudolph has quadrupled herself for Klarna’s first Super Bowl ad. In the 30-second commercial, she plays not one but four shrunken cowboys, each atop their own mini horse. The cloning isn’t simply a gimmick but a clever (if bizarre) way to illustrate how the payment company works: Users have the option of several “buy…Read More
In the before times, Anheuser-Busch U.S. chief marketing officer Marcel Marcondes used to grab a beer with Wieden+Kennedy’s Neal Arthur and Karl Lieberman every week or two at a Belgian beer bar in New York City’s Flatiron District. The meetings had no agenda, it was just a time to hang out, catch up and maybe…Read More
At first glance, it appears that Michelob Ultra Organic Seltzer is making its Big Game debut with an incredibly stacked A-list cast–but looks can be deceiving. The new seltzer brand’s ad only stars one real celebrity: award-winning actor Don Cheadle. In the spot, “All Star Cast,” Cheadle ends up confronting the man pretending to be…Read More
