Google created a fake pizza brand to test out creative strategies for YouTube ads Google’s Unskippable Ads team has been testing ad effectiveness in a compelling new way: It created a fake pizza brand called Doctor Fork, used...
NYU and Facebook team up to supercharge MRI scans with AI Magnetic resonance imaging is an invaluable tool in the medical field, but it's also a slow and cumbersome process. It may take an hour to complete a scan, during...
Keeping artificial intelligence accountable to humans As a teenager in Nigeria, I tried to build an artificial intelligence system. I was inspired by the same dream that motivated the pioneers in the field: That we could... CBS brings its ad-supported streaming service to Amazon Channels CBS in the beginning of the year brought its streaming service for cord cutters, CBS All Access, to Amazon’s a la carte TV service, Prime Video Channels. At the...
What happens when hackers steal your SIM? You learn to keep your crypto offline A year ago I felt a panic that still reverberates in me today. Hackers swapped my T-Mobile SIM card without my approval and methodically shut down ... Pepsi is buying SodaStream Pepsi this morning announced its intentions to buy Tel Aviv-based beverage company SodaStream for $3.2 billion. The deal comes as more consumers are turning away from sugary beverages and toward more ...
Safety and inspection bot startup Gecko Robotics adds $7 million to the coffers Gecko Robotics aims to save human lives at our nation’s power plants with its wall-climbing robots. To continue doing so, the startup tells...
RDMD attacks rare diseases with data mined from health records You wouldn’t expect a medical app to get its start as a Snapchat competitor. Neither did video chat startup TapTalk’s founder Onno Faber. But four years ago he was ...
Minecraft: Education Edition is coming to iPad Microsoft announced this morning it’s bringing Minecraft: Education Edition to the iPad for the first time. The game, which first launched to the public in late 2016, has been...
With Charge 3, Fitbit blurs the smartwatch line Fitbit’s ability to start righting the ship can largely be credited with its dive into the smartwatch category. Ionic was a bit of a mess, to be sure, but the Versa has proven a...
Metal 3D printing startup Velo3D launches its first product For three years, Velo3D has operating in stealth mode. The bay area based startup has largely managed to fly on the radar, in spite of raising an impressive $90...