QR Code Scams Are on the Rise, FTC Warns — Here’s How to Avoid Falling for the Grift
From fake stickers to spoofed sites, here are all the ways criminals use QR codes to steal your information (and money).
Jesse Draper’s Halogen Ventures closes $30M Fund III to focus on ‘future of family’
Halogen Ventures closed a $30 million Fund III to invest in early-stage startups building in the “future of family,” as reported first by Fortune. The firm was founded in 2015 by Jesse Draper, the daughter of famed venture capitalist Tim Draper. She explained to Fortune that the fund will focus on the physical and financial […]
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Inside the Resort Where Customer Service Reigns Supreme
The team at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass integrates customer service and a “can-do spirit” into everything they do — and it is paying off.
How GenAI can turn an autobiography into an interactive Black history lesson
We talk a lot about the negative side of AI, but what about the positive aspects like being able to interact with authors or historical figures based on feeding their writing into a large language model? James Lowry may not be a household name, but his history is part of the Black experience in America. […]
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Snapchat+ subscribers can now create and send AI-generated images
Snapchat is releasing a few new AI powered features for Snapchat+ subscribers, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, subscribers can now create and send AI generated images based on a text prompt. In addition to getting access to a new AI extend tool, subscribers can now also use the app’s Dream selfie feature with […]
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Instagram finstas may turn into a new product called ‘flipside,’ meant only for close friends
Instagram is considering a new feature called “flipside” that allows users to establish a new, private side to their profile where they could post more candid and personal photos for a subset of their friends. The feature essentially productizes “finstas” — the slang term for alternate Instagram accounts where people post their real-life photos, as […]
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Strategies for building AI tools people will actually use at work
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
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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West Coast, Get Ready — Dunkin’ Is Coming, and It’s Bringing ‘Insta-Ready’ Gen Z Drinks With It
The coffee shop’s sales topped $10 billion in 2021, and its coming in at #5 on our 2023 Franchise 500.
Fuzzy Door’s Viewscreen on-set AR puts CG characters and locations in the viewfinder
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
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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