Business communication platform Slack kicked off a Twitter campaign Tuesday to raise money for Year Up, a nonprofit focused on providing young adults, most often underrepresented minorities, with the professional and technical skills to get hired. Slack is inviting Twitter users to share tweets about how their teams are coming together while working remotely, with…
New Facebook Design Is a New Headache for Marketers
Facebook has been touting its new design for months now, giving users the option to toggle back and forth between what it’s calling Classic Facebook and the upgraded interface known as New Facebook. This has allowed users time to explore the new layout and features while the platform continues to finalize changes. However, starting in…
Upfront Ad Market Awaits: Place Your TV Bets
TV marketers understand ad pullbacks are common in periods like this. But no one wants to be off-air at the precise and unpredictable moment the marketplace takes a sharp turn higher.
Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for Tue, 25 Aug 2020
A Dogfight Renews Concerns About AI’s Lethal Potential
Alphabet’s DeepMind pioneered reinforcement learning. A California company used it to create an algorithm that defeated an F-16 pilot in a simulation.
Amazon and FedEx Push to Put Delivery Robots on Your Sidewalk
The companies are backing bills in more than a dozen states that would legalize the devices. Some bills would block cities from regulating them at all.
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Do We Even Need Cities Anymore?
The connections that once relied on physical proximity can now be replicated by technology. Not perfectly, perhaps, but well enough.
Choose Your Own Agency Adventure; Have Your Shoes and Eat Them Too: Tuesday’s First Things First
Welcome to First Things First, Adweek’s daily resource for marketers. We’ll be publishing the content to First Things First on Adweek.com each morning (like this post), but if you prefer that it come straight to your inbox, you can sign up for the email here. An Agency Choose Your Own Adventure No One Asked For…
Media Organizations Want Better Payment Terms With Apple
Key Insight: The trade body is challenging Apple to reveal favorable App Store terms previously reserved for Amazon. Digital Content Next (DCN), a trade body made up of media companies including The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook Thursday following last month’s congressional hearing….