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Instagram launched two machine-language-powered filters last June to help block offensive or inappropriate comments and spam, and now, the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network has its sights set on bullying. Co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom announced in a blog post that Instagram deployed a new filter this week that “hides comments containing attacks on a…

Do you live in an old pickle barrel? Maybe you share a single suit of clothes with your five siblings. Or perhaps your home consists of a hole on the side of the road? If so, you’re clearly living through some bad times, just like the down-at-heel Depression Era swing dancin’ couple in this 100-second…

For the launch of its new European brand platform, “What Matters Is Inside,” luggage company Delsey Paris tapped agency Buzzman to conceive a short film of the same name. Its job? To wring some semblance of magic out of the brand’s connected suitcase. Connected suitcases are a hard sell. They dominate Kickstarter, polluting our social…

Today The One Club for Creativity, the top nonprofit organization celebrating creative excellence in the advertising and design industries, announced that its board of directors has voted to name FCB global chief creative officer Susan Credle as its first chairwoman. She replaces The Community co-founder and chief creative officer Jos? Moll?, who was chairman for…

At the end of 2016, there were about 2.2 million people behind bars in the U.S., amounting to an incarceration rate of 860 inmates for every 100,000 adults.

All those who live in nonstop outrage, either pro- or anti-Trump, claim they’re fighting for the good of the country – but they seem addicted to the same adrenaline rush that afflicts gamblers and
bungee jumpers. Can we make it stop?

In its programming, the company leaned into its strengths: sports, built around Yahoo Sports; news, built around HuffPost; and personal finance, built off Yahoo Finance and “Makers” series.

The ‘Wired’ channel will launch later this year, while the channels for ‘Bon Appetit’ and ‘GQ’ are slated for a 2019 release. The OTT video channels will be available on AppleTV, Roku and Amazon Fire.

The division combines data strategy, brand strategy and social strategy with technology and behavioral sciences in order to make more accurate predictions about how people behave.

T-Mobile’s proposed $26 billion acquisition of Sprint could result in “higher prices and fewer innovative services,” Sen. Ed Markey warns in a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee’s leaders.