Championships can do wonders for a sports franchise, but they can’t sell tickets, merchandise or sponsorships on their own. City Football Group (CFG) knows that better than almost any sports organization on earth. Its marquee soccer club, Manchester City, has won four of the last five English Premier League championships–securing its latest with a win…Read More
Most of us do.
The interesting challenge is that our brain doesn’t often make beliefs and tested reality feel like different things. It’s almost as if ‘true’ and ‘belief’ only became separate categories in our recent past.
As our actions continue to bump against reality, and our culture has dramatically more interactions between and among people from different backgrounds, this bug can become a real problem.
In many businesses, one of the biggest barriers to hiring more diverse teams is that bias can blight the recruitment process. Numerous studies have shown that factors such as ethnicity, gender or a foreign sounding name can make it more difficult for candidates to get job interviews. For example, a 2019 report from the Centre…Read More
Publisher CafeMedia, which runs sales for titles like MacRumors and Stereogum, has managed to recoup millions of dollars in previously blocked ad revenue over the last two years. Between October 2020 and June 2022, CafeMedia detected over 500 million pages with ad blockers running on them. Thanks to ad-block recovery firm Blockthrough, it was able…Read More
Snap Inc. saw revenue sputter a bit in the second quarter of 2022, tallying $1.111 billion, up 13% from the same quarter last year. The company said in its letter to investors that revenue decelerated by 25 percentage points from the first quarter of the year, occurring throughout the quarter, across both brand advertising and…Read More
A team of scientists in China recently used what’s essentially the quantum physics version of stage magic to demonstrate just how brittle our concept of reality is. Abracadabra, you don’t really exist. Up front: The big idea in play here is called “quantum advantage.” Typically we hear about this in the world of quantum computing. There, quantum advantage is the hypothetical point at which a quantum computer can outperform any existing classical computer at a given task. Outside of quantum computing, quantum advantage is used to describe a situation where the exploitation of quantum mechanics allows a person or system…
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Kraft Heinz’s Velveeta kicked off a “La Dolce Velveeta” campaign in November 2021 as a pivot from packaged food product to lifestyle brand that continued with the launch of a pair of cheese-scented nail polishes in June. This month the brand is further trying to up its status by partnering with BLT Restaurant Group to…Read More
Twitch introduced Shared Ban Info Thursday, calling it a way for streamers on its platform to share information about users they have banned from their channels with other streamers in order for its community to collaborate and weed out serial harassers. Shared Ban Info is an extension of the Suspicious User Detection tool Twitch released…Read More
Twitter released its Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Report for the second quarter of 2022 Thursday and detailed the open-sourcing of its #UntilWeAllBelong Toolkit, making its courses publicly available to anyone. Vice president of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility James Loduca said in a blog post introducing the report, “In every journey, headwinds are inevitable….Read More
A bipartisan bill to give Americans more control over their data has progressed further than any before it. The bill has now advanced to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, passing by a vote of 53-2 and is now eligible for a full House floor vote, following discussions that begin end of July. The…Read More
