Amid ongoing preparations for the decline of third-party cookies on the web, the Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact ad tech with Criteo today citing it as the primary cause for Q3 revenue dipping 10% to $470 million. Criteo CEO Megan Clarken described Q3 income as “better performance than expected” and cited how the numbers were…Read More
Despite what you might think of him, Guy Raz, host of the ultra-popular NPR podcast How I Built This, doesn’t see himself as a great reporter. “I am not a great reporter in the sense that I’m not the person you’re going to go to for an investigative story or for breaking news,” he told…Read More
The GPT-3 language model has inspired both awe and fear since OpenAI unveiled the system in June. But one person who isn’t overly impressed is Facebook‘s Yann LeCun. In a Facebook post published Tuesday, the social network’s chief AI scientist said the text generator is “not very good” as a question-answering or dialog system, and that other approaches produce better results. “It’s entertaining, and perhaps mildly useful as a creative help,” LeCun wrote. “But trying to build intelligent machines by scaling up language models is like building high-altitude airplanes to go to the moon. You might beat altitude records, but…
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Everyone loves a sure thing, especially someone who’s paying for an ad. In a world where many business leaders waste money on ads by going with their gut feelings or worse–collecting as much data as possible on ad audiences and inevitably targeting them with irrelevant advertisements–what are the best ways for performance marketers to use…Read More
It’s a good news day for UK-based electric vehicle drivers. Earlier today, EV charging infrastructure tracker and locator Zap-Map announced that it had just logged the nation’s 20,000tht electric car charging device. EV charging #milestone reached!⚡️🚗 There are now 20,000 charge devices across the UK #EV Find them on Zap-Map➡️https://t.co/rGNYvocPZj pic.twitter.com/IImRuVgf4C — Zap-Map (@zap_map) October 28, 2020 The news comes as the UK closes in on getting its 35,000th individual connector. Over the past 30 days, Zap-Map has tracked 500 new devices being put online, which has made 894 more connectors available across the country. For the sake of clarity,…
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Earlier this week, I wrote about the future of Apple Watch design. In it, I asked a simple question: why hasn’t the Apple Watch design changed much? The device has remained strangely static, especially when compared to something like the iPhone. I had some ideas about this, but it was simply opinion. Wanting to dig a bit deeper, I got in touch with Ben Stanton, a Senior Analyst at Canalys. One of his areas of expertise is the smartwatch market, so I put to him the same question: why hasn’t the Apple Watch design changed? [Read: What audience intelligence data tells us about the 2020 US…
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LONDON–Halloween might feel a little different this year, thanks to the coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean brands have taken their foot off the gas when it comes to finding socially distanced ways to keep the festive season from falling flat. Samsung in the U.K. has used a 300-year-old house, which dates back to the 18th…Read More
Augmented reality might seem like a daunting new frontier for the average business, but adopting this new technology is a lot easier than it seems. With an anticipated 3.8 billion smartphone users in 2021, more people are using mobile tech to experience the world, from enhanced museum tours to Animoji. If you haven’t already considered it, AR can be a smart, practical form of smart marketing and branding. First, it’s important to distinguish between augmented reality and virtual reality. Virtual reality is an almost wholly-digital experience that requires special hardware to immerse yourself in a new environment. Augmented reality is…
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When you apply for a job on LinkedIn, the professional social network will save the resume you submitted, as well as your answers to “self-ID” questions (related to things like your race and gender). If you want to stop LinkedIn from saving your resumes and answers, our guide will show you how this is done….Read More
TLDR: The Ultimate FinTech and Blockchain Bootcamp Bundle explores the ways technology and innovation are changing financial markets in front of our eyes. With many financial institutions assuming a wait-and-see posture as the world recovers from the COVID-19 economic fallout, there’s one group that seems to be embracing Wall Street’s current uncertainty with gusto: the retail investor. According to global market maker Citadel Securities, these amateur stock traders are currently fueling about 20 percent of the stock market activity, up from only 10 percent last year. Those findings show a place for the lone, savvy investor in today’s financial markets.…
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