December 2023

Strategies for building AI tools people will actually use at work

December 12, 2023

Jackie Rocca Contributor Jackie Rocca is VP of Product, AI, at Slack, where she oversees the vision and execution of Slack AI, which brings generative AI natively and securely into Slack’s user experience. The application of generative AI in the workplace is a long game, and we’re in the very early stages. Most businesses looking […]

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E3 has entertained its last electronic expo

December 12, 2023

E3’s decades-long history has been peppered with ups and downs. The annual Los Angeles-based gaming expo saw a decade of steady growth after it was founded in the mid-90s. The mid-00s, on the other hand, were an altogether different story, as the event struggled, downsized and moved out of the LA Convention Center. Opening the […]

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Fuzzy Door’s Viewscreen on-set AR puts CG characters and locations in the viewfinder

December 12, 2023

Practically every TV and film production uses CG these days, but a show with a fully digital character takes it to another level. Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted” is one of those, and his production company Fuzzy Door has built a suite of on-set augmented reality tools called Viewscreen turning this potentially awkward process into an opportunity […]

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Machine learning is set to speed up the detection of contamination in food factories

December 12, 2023

The factories that process our food and beverages (newsflash: no, it doesn’t come straight from a farm) have to be kept very clean, or we’d all get very ill, to be blunt. Ensuring that usually entails deploying petri-dish-based microbiological monitoring, hardware and waiting for tests to return from labs. A new startup has plans to […]

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Snapchat’s end-of-year ‘Recap’ will roll out globally starting on December 13

December 12, 2023

Snapchat has announced that its annual Snapchat Recap will start rolling out globally tomorrow on December 13. Each recap will offers users a look-back on the year by organizing their Snaps into categories, such as “Beach, Please,” which will showcase content captured of the ocean or lakes, or “Felt Cute, Will Delete Later,” which will […]

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3 Miner Stocks Set for Year-End Success

December 12, 2023
The buoyant demand for metals and minerals foreshadows a prosperous future for the mining industry. Given this backdrop, fundamentally robust miner stocks Glencore plc (GLNCY), Fortescue Ltd (FSUGY), and Dundee…