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- 32% of U.S. consumers now own a smart speaker, up from 28% at start of year 21 hours ago – Smart speaker ownership continues to grow, according to new research from Adobe Analytics out this morning. The company found that as of August 2018, 32% of consumers now own a smart speaker, up from 28% in January. That’s a 14% increase in just a matter of months – and those months didn’t includ...
- Adobe looks to AI to lift customer experience business a day ago – For years, marketers have been trying to optimize the online shopping experience to better understand their customers and deliver more customized interactions that ultimately drive more sales. Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate that, and today Adobe announced enhancements to Adobe...
- The Boring Company proves life can be a video game a day ago – The Boring Company just posted a video on Twitter showing its latest digging machine can be controlled by an Xbox One controller. Because, if you’re going to dig holes, why not make it a bit of fun? Software makes it easy to map PC controls to an Xbox pad. Instead of developing and fabricating a ...
- Uber appoints Coca-Cola veteran Rebecca Messina as its chief marketing officer 19 hours ago – Uber announced today that it has hired Coca-Cola veteran Rebecca Messina to serve as its chief marketing officer. Messina is the first person to hold that title at Uber and will work with its international marketing teams on Uber’s branding and marketing strategies. Messina will oversee marketing...
- Twitter hires former Refinery29 COO Sarah Personette as Head of Client Solutions 20 hours ago – Twitter announced this morning it has hired Sarah Personette, previously COO at Refinery29, as its new head of global Twitter Client Solutions. Personette will start in mid-October. She will be based in New York, where she’ll report to Head of Customers Matt Derella, also previously head of Twitt...
- What makes Apple’s design culture so special 20 hours ago – A few days ago, I interviewed Ken Kocienda at TechCrunch Disrupt SF — he just released a book called Creative Selection. After working at Apple during some of the company’s best years, Kocienda looks back at what makes Apple such a special place. The book in particular starts with a demo. Kociend...
- Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat’s new startup accelerator 17 hours ago – Snapchat is hedging its bets as its social network shrinks. Today Snap Inc. revealed the first class of its startup accelerator called Yellow that offers $150,000 in funding and creativity-centric business education in exchange for what a source says is a seven to 10 percent equity stake — in lin...
- LinkedIn sucks 17 hours ago – I hate LinkedIn . I open it out of habit and accept everyone who adds me because I don’t know why I wouldn’t. There is no clear benefit to the social network. I’ve never met a recruiter on there. I’ve never gotten a job. The only messages I get are spam from offshore dev teams […]
- Vietnam’s new automaker shows off first vehicles ‘designed’ by its citizens 17 hours ago – VinFast, Vietnam’s new (and only) automaker, turned to its citizens to decide what its inaugural vehicles should look like. Now, VinFast is sharing the first images of the final product — a sedan and SUV that will debut October 2 at the Paris Motor Show. The vehicles were officially designed by I...
- SETI neural networks spot dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy 12 hours ago – The perennial optimists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, have joined the rest of the world in deploying AI to help manage huge datasets — and their efforts almost instantly bore fruit. 72 new "fast radio bursts" from a mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away were d...
- Impossible Aerospace raises $9.4M to sell drones stuffed with battery cells 13 hours ago – Much like smartphone manufacturers, drone companies have been adding to devices plenty of features over the past several years while making only modest improvements to battery life. But while your phone may boast “all-day” usage, a lot of the top drones only register flight times between 20-35 mi...
- At Sounding Board, an executive coaching startup, the coaches get coaching, too 13 hours ago – Everyone could use an executive coach — even executive coaches. Such is the thinking of Christine Tao and Lori Mazan, co-founders of Sounding Board, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace focused on leadership coaching that has so far raised $1 million in seed funding led by Bloomberg Be...
- Google back in court arguing against a global ‘right to be forgotten’ an hour ago – Google’s lawyers are in Europe’s top court today arguing against applying the region’s so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling globally domains, rather only geo-limiting delistings to European sub-domains (as it does now). The original rtbf ruling was also a European Court of Justice (ECJ) decis...
- Alibaba goes big on Russia with joint venture focused on gaming, shopping and more 2 hours ago – Alibaba is doubling down on Russia after the Chinese e-commerce giant launched a joint venture valued at around $2 billion with one of the country’s leading internet companies. Russia is said to have over 70 million internet users, around half of its population, with countless more attracted from...
- British Airways breach caused by credit card skimming malware, researchers say 4 hours ago – A security firm says credit card skimming malware installed by hackers on British Airways’ website a few months ago was to blame for a data breach of over 380,000 credit cards. Payments through the airline’s website and mobile app were stolen over the three week period, but a key clue was that tr...
The Verge
- Happy birthday, Google: this week in tech, 20 years ago 3 days ago – One of 1998’s biggest tech stories was the massive antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. It’s Monopoly Week on The Verge, so I wrote a bit about that lawsuit’s place in the ‘90s legal landscape. I also reviewed Antitrust, the 2001 thriller about a fictionalized Microsoft that murders software deve...
- Dell’s annual sale, 4K TV discounts and more of the week’s best tech deals 3 days ago – Summer is coming to an end, which means that soon we’ll all be retreating to our living rooms and getting cozy for the winter. Whether you’re looking forward to football season or pilot season, now is the perfect time to upgrade your TV setup. Walmart and Amazon are both running discounts on 4K T...
Watch SpaceX launch a communications satellite tonight
2 days ago –
After more than a month away from spaceflight, SpaceX is back to
launching rockets again with a new mission set for this evening from
Florida. Late Sunday night, SpaceX plans to launch a communications
satellite into orbit from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station in Florida, within...
- TIFF 2018: reviews and reports from the Toronto International Film Festival 21 hours ago – Films coming to theaters soon, Netflix’s ongoing bid for legitimacy, 2018 award contenders, and more Continue reading…
- Outlaw King is a purposeful but empty bid for Netflix’s filmmaking legitimacy 19 hours ago – Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Netflix is currently fighting a battle on at least three fronts. Even in the wake of a huge number of fr...
- We won’t find out if Mark Zuckerberg can fix Facebook by asking him an hour ago – Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy? That’s the headline on Evan Osnos’ 14,000-word profile of the Facebook CEO, after two years’ worth of scandals, in the New Yorker. That question is maybe unanswerable — what would it mean to fix Facebook, or democracy? — but the article...We won’t find out if Mark Zuckerberg can fix Facebook by asking him an hour ago – Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy? That’s the headline on Evan Osnos’ 14,000-word profile of the Facebook CEO, after two years’ worth of scandals, in the New Yorker. That question is maybe unanswerable — what would it mean to fix Facebook, or democracy? — but the article...
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