TikTok Wednesday implemented several privacy and safety measures aimed at protecting its users under the age of 18. The default privacy setting for all registered accounts for users between the ages of 13 and 15 was set to private, meaning that only people approved by those users can view their videos. The comment setting for…Read More
The global wave of privacy legislation has led to the curtailment of ad targeting, but its effects on the online landscape are much broader than that. The latest investigation into Google’s proposed web browser changes exposes the trade-offs lawmakers concerned with consumer protection and regulators looking to preserve competition will have to ponder. Last week…Read More
A trio of researchers from the Google Brain team recently unveiled the next big thing in AI language models: a massive one trillion-parameter transformer system. The next biggest model out there, as far as we’re aware, is OpenAI’s GPT-3, which uses a measly 175 billion parameters. Background: Language models are capable of performing a variety of functions but perhaps the most popular is the generation of novel text. For example, you can go here and talk to a “philosopher AI” language model that’ll attempt to answer any question you ask it (with numerous notable exceptions). [Read next: How Netflix shapes mainstream…
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YouTube formed a new health partnerships team to address the evolving digital health needs of consumers and continue connecting people with credible health information. The team is being led by new director and global head of healthcare and public health partnerships Garth Graham, who joined the Google-owned video site from CVS Health, where he served…Read More
Marketing automation platform Klaviyo has integrated with PrestaShop, an open-source ecommerce platform used to build online shops. The new partnership allows ecommerce merchants to automate personalized marketing and communications to customers using their data from transactions on PrestaShop. The integration also expands Klaviyo’s reach among merchants in European countries and other international markets. Klaviyo, which…Read More
Mobile data and application analytics company App Annie released its State of Mobile 2021 report, which analyzed the ways consumers interacted with mobile apps in 2020. According to the report, new app downloads, app store spending, daily time spent and mobile ad spending all increased in 2020 when compared with 2019. For instance, mobile ad…Read More
It’s been nearly a year since the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 resulted from panicked consumers fortifying their homes in response to the uncertainty of a global pandemic. Thereafter, we saw store closures and bankruptcies, along with innovations like curbside pickup and contactless payments as the retail industry struggled–and then pivoted–to serve customers who…Read More
Facebook introduced a new Business Equality resource center for businesses focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. The social network said in a blog post that the site contains information on steps businesses need to take to create a more inclusive and diverse environment, accelerate inclusive representation in advertising and media, expand economic mobility for diverse…Read More
Data privacy has taken center stage in recent years, as the European Union and the state of California have each adopted landmark consumer protection laws that have paved the way for wide-scale change. And while major tech companies are still adjusting to a growing patchwork of regional regulations, they are also readying for a potential…Read More
TLDR: With training in Python, Hadoop, Apache, MongoDB, Excel, and even machine learning, the 2021 All-in-One Data Scientist Mega Bundle can turn you into a true data analyst. Leave it to data scientists to find data that tells us something meaningful about data science. A new study determined that without diversity in the ranks of data science engineers, the data itself can often fall prey to bias and imbalanced reporting. That’s a science-based way of letting you know that if you’re considering a new career or ever wanted to understand the technologies that are driving some of today’s most fascinating…
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