Levi’s New Retail Experience Features a Tech-Fueled Merch Drop

Levi’s offers multiple ways to customize its products, with techniques ranging from in-house tailoring, embroidered patches and denim finishing with lasers. To showcase these offerings in real life, the clothing brand has launched a customization-focused experience in Miami. Levi’s Haus Miami opened in the Wynwood Arts District on Dec. 5, timed to the city’s annual…

Greta Thunberg Breaks Record as Time Person of the Year

As the Arctic continues to break heat records and rising temperatures threaten biodiversity across the globe, Gen Z views climate change as an imminent menace that will impact the entirety of their lives. According to a survey from Solar Simplified, 94% of Gen Z believes in climate change and 70% thinks we are in crisis….

How Pew Research Center is approaching the 2020 election

As 2020 approaches, here’s a preview of how the Center is approaching the election, both in terms of how we plan to conduct surveys and other studies and what we plan to explore.

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Twitter Will Fund the Development of a Decentralized Social Media Standard

Twitter will be funding the development of “an open and decentralized standard” for how social platforms operate, according to the company’s CEO. In a tweet thread on Wednesday morning, Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter would be financially backing an independent team of five architects, engineers and designers to develop the standard, with the goal of…

Instagram Is Testing a Way to Turn Its Stories Camera Into a Photo Booth

Instagram appears to be testing a way to have its Stories camera mimic an old-school photo booth. Developer and blogger Jane Manchun Wong discovered the feature, called Poses, and said in a tweet that activating the Poses mode in the application’s Stories camera causes it to take four pictures, each three seconds apart, and combine…

Long-Time Media Exec Lisa Donohue Exits Publicis

The longtime Publicis executive is leaving to pursue “new opportunities and interests,” wrote Publicis Media CEO Steve King in an internal memo.

If Biden’s The Democratic Frontrunner, Nobody Told The GOP

At least that’s the latest assessment from Kantar’s political advertising research unit CMAG, which shows Republicans to date are spending more heavily on negative ads against Elizabeth Warren and
Bernie Sanders than Biden.

Google Urges FTC To Weaken Children’s Privacy Rules

Google argues that adults as well as children watch videos aimed at youngsters, and that it should be able to collect data from viewers it confirms are adults.

NBA Promises a Ballin’ Christmas With LeBron James and James Harden in New Holiday Spot

While the National Football League has long been synonymous with Thanksgiving, over the past decade the National Basketball Association has quietly laid claim to another holiday: Christmas. After the gifts have been opened on Dec. 25, the NBA is hosting a full slate of games across the country from noon to midnight, and is putting…