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A study from Cambridge University documents an immense drop in complaints against police officers when their departments began using body cameras. But even more surprising is that the data suggests everyone is on their best behavior whether the cameras are present or not. Read More... →

Let’s face it. Our country is not the land of equal opportunity, and the so-called American Dream — that everyone can succeed with hard work and determination — is a myth. The existence of systemic racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and anti-semitism makes it so that the American Dream will never come true for so many people. Those… Read More... →

Every member of the Facebook family of apps is pushing to bring copies of Snapchat’s best features to international audiences before Snapchat blows up abroad. There was the Facebook Camera Feed, Instagram Stories, Messenger Day, and now WhatsApp is cloning Snapchat’s creative tools. Now you’ll be able to add overlaid text with multiple colors and fonts, drawings, and emojis… Read More... →

Salesforce has made yet another acquisition, once again to build out its footprint in marketing and ad tech. The company has just confirmed that it is buying Krux, a company that tracks traffic (“data signatures”) across multiple devices –desktop, mobile, tablet, set-top — and channels — display, social, search, video. In a statement to the SEC, Salesforce said… Read More... →

Today, food and agriculture entrepreneurs took the stage at the White House lawn for SXSL 2016 to discuss the potential and limits of technology to feed a burgeoning world population. According to the most recent available estimates from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 793 million people in the world do not have enough to eat today. And with a… Read More... →

В Директ добавили справку по регуляции рекламы... →

В Директ добавили справку по регуляции рекламы... →

As we reported in September, iTunes has today launched a new section called “Spoken Editions,” which will feature narrated content from a number of online publishers in the form of audio-only podcasts. These Spoken Editions are available both in the iTunes storefront, as well as in Apple’s Podcasts app, for easy access. We first spotted the Spoken Editions in the wild,… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: SEOs Noticing Google Penguin 4...... →

Google оповестила своих партнёров-производителей домашних устройств о том, что прекратит сотрудничество с ними в том случае, если они встроят в свою технику поддержку голосового «помощника» Alexa от Amazon. Таким образом корпорация хочет продвинуть своего конкурента Amazon Echo — устройство Google Home, пишет Variety.... →

Amazon is making a significant change to its Community Guidelines, announced today, which will eliminate any incentivized reviews, except for those that emerge from within its own Amazon Vine program. This program allows Amazon – not the seller or vendor – to identify trusted reviewers, and has a number of controls in place in order to keep bias out of the review process. Amazon… Read More... →

Партнёр консалтинговой маркетинговой фирмы Type A Group Боб Хоффман опубликовал отрывки из своей речи на церемонии ирландской рекламной премии IAPI/ADFX в Дублине. В обращении он говорит, что эффективность современной рекламы снижается из-за того, что главы агентств принижают креативный отдел.Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод речи Хоффмана.... →

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Of late, Mophie seems to be intent on letting the world know that it’s more than just charging cases – but hey, at the end of the day, there are worse things to be than virtually synonymous with a given space. And hey, when Apple unveiled its first proprietary charging case a year or so back, everyone was quick to drop the hardware startup’s name like it was going out of… Read More... →

Microsoft приостановила развитие своей линейки фитнес-трекеров Band, пишет ZDNet со ссылкой на собственные источники. Официально в компании подтвердили только то, что очередное устройство не появится в 2016 году.... →

The criminal justice system in our country is broken. Just imagine if technologists put their resources and knowledge toward solving some of our country’s biggest issues, instead of toward the next dating app. Today at South by South Lawn, the White House’s first-ever festival of art, ideas and action, I got a glimpse of what that world might look like. My first stop was to… Read More... →

Pull on your commenting pants because I’m going to offer up some wild speculation coupled with real-world experience to come to a conclusion that some of you might find ludicrous and others will find just weird. Here we go: I think the Apple Watch’s Mac unlock feature is one of the most compelling things about the watch itself and could turn the smartwatch tides if more… Read More... →

Материалы с конференции ICBDA2016, блок «Искусственный интеллект и машинное обучение»... →

A bunch of Nobel awards went out to recipients today, but the inventors of the gene-editing breakthrough CRISPR were not among them. The mechanism to snip out unwanted genes seemed the discovery of the century and two of the scientists behind this breakthrough, Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna and her colleague now at Berlin’s Max Plank Institute, Emmanuel Charpentier, were up for the… Read More... →

Владелец цветочного бутика в Санкт-Петербурге Newflora Дмитрий Потахин написал на своем сайте историю создания позиционирования компании. Главной задачей было отразить премиальный сервис и «высокое качество» продукта, что в данном сегменте — редкость. Потахин подробно рассказал о вариантах названия и слогана и конечном выборе. Также он поразмышлял о том, для кого четкое и конкретное позиционирование будет только лишним. Редакция vc.ru публикует материал в сокращенном варианте с разрешения автора.... →