By her own assessment, Martha Stewart has adapted well to quarantine. The doyenne of the good life, who has split her lockdown time between lush country estates, has launched a TV show and released a cake-tastic cookbook. And for her latest product, a CBD line with Canadian cannabis giant Canopy Growth, she’s prepared to help…Read More
Beauty is a visual concept, which brings more visual social platforms to mind, but Twitter is no ugly duckling, with over 118 million tweets about beauty between July 2019 and July 2020. The social network teamed up with customer experience management platform Sprinklr on its first-ever #BeautyTwitter report, which analyzed over 7 million tweets worldwide…Read More
Every morning in my inbox, there are a dozen or so unsolicited offers from technology companies that promise to solve all of my marketing problems through AI, deep learning and whatever other dark magic is the rage right now. While I am by no means a luddite, I am highly skeptical of silver bullet solutions…Read More
Quibi plans to shut down its app on or around Dec. 1, marking the official end date of the short-lived streaming video service that announced its shutdown Wednesday after failing to gain traction in its brief, six-month lifespan. In an end-of-service announcement posted Thursday on the customer support section of Quibi’s website, which otherwise directs…Read More
Last year saw the closing of Barton F. Graf, widely and fondly regarded as advertising’s weirdest agency. After the independent New York shop officially closed its doors and held its own funeral, the natural question was what its founder Gerry Graf would do next. Over a year after Barton F. Graf’s funeral proceedings, we finally…Read More
Last night’s presidential debate was a happier outlier in this sad election season. Kristen Welker’s valiant work keeping the proceedings on track is appropriately being credited with redeeming debates as an opportunity to see candidates joust over substantial issues. Sadly, she spent energy and brainpower on keeping order, not delving deeper into substantive, relevant topics…Read More
The search for dark matter – an unknown and invisible substance thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe – is at a crossroads. Although it was proposed nearly 70 years ago and has been searched for intensely – with large particle colliders, detectors deep underground, and even instruments in space – it is still nowhere to be found. But astronomers have promised to leave “no stone unturned” and have started to cast their net wider out into the galaxy. The idea is to extract information from astrophysical objects that may have witnessed chunks of it…
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Twitter this week introduced the ability for users to share Topics in tweets, through direct messages and even in other places outside of the Twitter platform. Our guide will show you how this is done. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Twitter application on iOS. Step 1: On the page for the Topic you…Read More
After a wide-ranging 16-month investigation, a congressional subcommittee examining dominance in the technology industry last week recommended more than two dozen updates to the U.S. antitrust system, including implementing nondiscrimination rules that would limit “preferential or discriminatory treatment” by dominant platforms. But such rules can be hard to enforce, experts said, and attempts by the European Union to spur competition with Google through measures of this sort have fallen short. “We’re thrilled with the report. We think now the question is, What are they going to do about it?” said Kamyl Bazbaz, vice president of communications at DuckDuckGo, a competing…
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TLDR: The Complete Entertainment Bundle ft. PlayStation Plus brings together a dozen services, apps and streaming options so there’s always something good to watch. For years, consumers railed against cable providers, screaming that their monthly cable bills were ridiculously high. So when the streaming age finally dawned about a decade ago, many users were all too happy to cut the cable cord. But now with cable suffering huge subscriber losses, many of us are finding paying for all those streaming subscriptions isn’t really that much cheaper than cable. Once you add up your monthly bills from Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus,…
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