Casey’s General Stores, a Midwest convenience store chain with a cult following for its pizza and donuts, unveiled a new visual identity that modernizes its look and feel. “From our stores to our menu to our digital experience, Casey’s is delighting our guests in new and exciting ways,” said Chris Jones, the retailer’s CMO, in…Read More
The Forecast iOS application that the Facebook NPE Team began testing in June is now publicly available in Canada and the U.S. Crowdsourced predictions are the driving force behind Forecast, and the app enables members of its community to pose questions about the future, make predictions and discuss the topic. Product lead Rebecca Kossnick said…Read More
Michelle Peluso knows about opportunities during a crisis. After all, she was at Citigroup during the financial crisis. And right now, in her words, “Everything about the customer experience is changing. When the world is swirling, there’s actually no better time than to think about the customer.” The CMO and svp of digital sales at…Read More
Volatility has rocked stock markets this year in ways not seen since 2008. Some sectors, like tourism, find themselves practically in the stone age, but tech stocks are through the roof — and Wall Street‘s ARK Invest are capitalizing in a big way. ARK’s ‘next generation internet’ Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) is now up a pearl-clutching 85% this year while the tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 index returned just 29%. Buoyed by solid stock picks like Tesla and Square, ARKW’s portfolio is now valued at $2.45 billion, up from $1.11 billion and 120% more than when Hard Fork first analyzed it in June. ETF Database…
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TLDR: Toshl Finance’s Pro Plan app lets you set up a budget, instantly track all your spending and help you save more cash and make better financial decisions. If you needed any greater evidence that Americans as a nation are worried about their money, consider this. While an annual survey by Debt.com showed only 70 percent of U.S. households did monthly budgeting in 2018, with that number dipping to 67 percent in 2019, things have changed in 2020. Driven by financial insecurity and fear, that number soared to 80 percent this year. And what’s the no. 1 reason people budget?…
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To market its new series about an evil artificial intelligence creation threatening society, Fox commissioned a trailer created by–an actual AI. The network partnered with digital agency Space150 to assemble a trailer for its thriller Next, debuting Tuesday, that was entirely written, edited and scored by AI. The tech-focused creative shop developed a machine learning…Read More
Facebook’s Community Help hub that enables its community to request or offer help in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is getting some artificial intelligence-powered help. The social network said last week that it is using AI to detect public posts on News Feed that mention needing or offering assistance and surfacing suggestions to the…Read More
LONDON-Two servers at rival onion-themed restaurants fall in love in a new, Wes Anderson-esque spot for Samsung smartphones by Mother London that was inspired by a real photo of a sack of onions taken on a Samsung device. The quirky, 90-second TV ad is the first for the brand by the agency, and will run…Read More
NASA has unveiled images of the first-ever craters on Mars discovered by AI. The system spotted the craters by scanning photos by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which was launched in 2005 to study the history of water on the red planet. The cluster it detected was created by several pieces of a single meteor, which had shattered into pieces while flying through the Martian sky at some point between March 2010 and May 2012. The fragments landed in a region called Noctis Fossae, a long, narrow, shallow depression on Mars. They left behind a series of craters spanning about 100 feet (30 meters) of the planet’s surface.…
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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. Uber hands thousands of vital ‘pieces of intelligence’ to UK authorities each year, complying with over 2,000 requests for data in the capital alone last year. The information emerged at a London court in September as the ride-hailing company fought to regain its license to operate in the city. The final decision was made on…
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