Category: Data-Labor-Technology Stories

Video is becoming more important than ever for publishers and media companies, and increasingly these companies are turning to social media to publish not only their own videos, but content sponsored
by brand partners.

The video in question, which suggested that a high school student who survived the shooting was a paid actor, was for a period of time the top video on YouTube’s “trending” videos page.

A virtual reality company that focuses on streaming experiences just raised almost $10 million, brining its total raised past $23 million. The experiences created are for broadcasters, including
Sky and Fox Sports.

The Marvel-produced movie earned a massive $235 million in U.S. box office revenues over the holiday weekend, making “Black Panther” the fifth movie to debut earning more than $200 million for its
opening weekend.

This use of doctored images was a crucial and deceptively simple technique to spread fabricated information during the 2016 election. Tech companies, which are increasingly under fire, struggle to screen for indications photos might have been distorted or taken out of context.

Scotland’s iconic and notoriously cheeky Irn-Bru soda brand is back with a new ad campaign, and the response is probably exactly what the marketer was hoping for. Two new ads created for the Scottish market by agency Leith feature men urging women “Don’t be a can’t,” with the not-so-subtle wordplay making the copy sound like…

It’s the age-old hippie debate: Do we follow the rabbit down the hole? In an energetic new ad from agency VCCP, London’s O2 arena entices hipsters to get out of their flats, as the Brits say, and take that trip. As The Chemical Brothers’ “EML Ritual” thumps incessantly in the background, our heroes follow not…

You may have imagined what it would be like to be an Olympic athlete, maybe you’re into skiing so you’ve imagined skiing down steep mountains with sharp curves at incredibly fast speeds. But have you ever thought about what it would be like to ski down those same slopes, at over 60 miles per hour,…

Tesla for the first time is notifying some reservation holders new to the electric-car brand that they can begin configuring and ordering their Model 3 sedan.

Developers of bots that enable simultaneous tweets, retweets, likes or follows will have to go back to the drawing board before March 23. Twitter announced last month that it would be “limiting the ability of users to perform coordinated actions across multiple accounts in TweetDeck and via the Twitter API [application-programming interface],” and Yoel Roth,…