People tend to connect with others who are like them. Alumni from the same alma mater are more likely to collaborate on a research project together, or individuals with the same political beliefs are more likely to join the same political parties, attend rallies, and engage in online discussions.
When I was a kid, I went to a science camp, and one of the instructors showed us a few inches of fiber optic cable. I remember thinking it was so neat that you could light it up at one end, and no matter how you twisted the cable, you could see the light come out on the other end. At the time, I thought how useful it might be to send Morse code through it--I was very young. Things have changed a bit since then. Today, UK Aston University researchers sent data at a 301 terabits per second (Tbps)...
Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy said the ecommerce firm sees opportunity to reduce costs in its fulfillment network, after trimming staff in a number of divisions over the recent months. As we look toward 2024 (and beyond), we're not done lowering our cost to serve. We've challenged every closely held belief in our fulfillment network, and reevaluated every part of it, and found several areas where we believe we can lower costs even further while also delivering faster for customers, Jassy said in a...
Social Network has announced its mainnet launch, scheduled for April 22. The fair launch will also include a gamified “touch grass” NFT experience for participants. Social Network, a Bitcoin staking Layer-2 solution, has announced the launch of its mainnet as it seeks to add to Bitcoin’s scalability. The platform’s mainnet launch is set for April […]
John Williams and Steven Spielberg; Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan; and Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and David Fincher. The relationship between a director and their go-to composer can have a real impact on the final outcome of a film. It's hard to imagine Indiana Jones stepping onto the screen without Williams' iconic theme song, and the same goes for Fincher, whose 2010 film The Social Network could have been a wholly different movie had he not tapped the Nine Inch Nails bandmates to write...
It's the summer of 2023 and our team is putting the final touches on a 100-page social playbook for a client. Boom, another social platform launches. It's not the first (or last) time this has happened. But at the time, this thought occurred: Why are we spending hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars on
The Amazon Fire TV Soundbar has Bluetooth connectivity with Dolby Audio, and it's on sale for less than $100 right now, which is the lowest price it has been.
Katherine Chan is Duolingo's global head of social media, responsible for the outrageous social media stunts that make Duolingo a household name, and build brand affinity for its mischievous green owl mascot, Duo. On Tuesday, April 9, from 2:25 to 2:50 PM EDT, Chan will appear on a Main Stage panel at ADWEEK's Social Media Week event in New York. Lindsay Kennedy, vice president of client service at the agency DEPT, will join Chan and ADWEEK executive editor Jameson Fleming on stage to...
Amazon.com on Thursday added Andrew Ng, the computer scientist who led artificial intelligence projects at Alphabet's Google and China's Baidu, to its board amid rising competition among Big Techs to add users for their GenAI products. Amazon's cloud unit is facing pressure from Microsoft's early pact with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and integration of its technology into Azure, while Alexa voice assistant is in race with genAI chat tools from OpenAI and Google. The appointment, effective April 9, also...
Bad Bunny has jokes. Drew McIntyre had a rollercoaster Sunday, winning the Slammy for "Social Star of the Year" and winning the WWE World Heavyweight Title from Seth Rollins at WWE WrestleMania XL. Unfortunately for McIntyre, Damian Priest cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase and defeated Drew to win the WWE World Heavyweight Title. McIntyre may now need to hand Bad Bunny his "Social Star of the Year" Slammy after the recording artist responded to a tweet sent by McIntyre during his...
Amazon's best deals of the day on April 11 include a free gift card with a Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite purchase and more.
Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million for violating its patent rights in data-storage technology, an Illinois federal jury said on Wednesday. The jury determined that AWS infringed three Kove patents covering technology that Kove said had become "essential" to the ability of Amazon's cloud-computing arm to "store and retrieve massive amounts of data." An Amazon spokesperson said the company disagrees with the verdict and intends to...