YouTube is making millions of dollars a year from advertising on channels that make false claims about climate change because content creators are using new tactics that evade the social media platform’s policies to combat misinformation, according to a report published on Tuesday.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) used artificial intelligence to review transcripts from 12,058 videos from the past six years on 96 of Alphabet’s YouTube channels. The cha
This week, condiments brand Sir Kensington’s (part of Unilever’s portfolio) announced its desire to travel to the great beyond by launching a petition for NASA to consider stocking its wares on all its missions. The brand created a “Proposal Pack,” with a variety of its products, hoping to impress the space agency, given that human taste is significantly dulled out of our orbit.
Chris Symmes, Unilever North America’s senior marketing director of dr
The music industry had an eventful 12 months. Taylor Swift and Beyoncé undertook massive tours that broke records and brought people to movie theaters. Vinyl was the most popular physical medium in the U.S. for the first time since the Reagan administration. Gen AI appeared on the scene (looking a bit like Drake and the Weeknd). And streaming services finally started to change how they pay artists.
To understand the trends and changes that are shaping the industry, the entertai
The best CES products pierce through the haze of marketing hype at the Las Vegas gadget show to reveal innovations that could improve lives.
The worst could harm us or our society and the planet in such “innovatively bad” ways that a panel of self-described dystopia experts has judged them “Worst in Show.”
The third annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions Thursday.
AND THE AWARD GOES TO . . .
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Slapping a “best of” label on a product at the Consumer Electronics Show is a dicey proposition. Too many of the things on display evolve and lose their magic or disappear into a puff of smoke before they ever get to retail. But “most interesting”? That’s a bit more approachable.
There were plenty of things at this year’s CES that turned heads. Some were flashy. Some combined two items into one. Some were simply practical. (Practical, it
With the rise of large-language model (LLM) generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, one of the most in-demand new careers of 2024 is sure to be a prompt engineer. But what is that, exactly?
Let’s break it down. A “prompt” is a command given to elicit a response. An “engineer” is someone who builds things—whether that’s bridges or software. In the generative AI space, then, a prompt engineer is a person
Going into this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, pretty much everyone knew we’d be deluged with artificial intelligence announcements and products. But no one saw grills being this big at the show.
Traditionally the barbecue has not been an especially high-tech affair. Steaks are seared. Burgers are flipped. And briskets are cooked low and slow (no exceptions). But the advent of pellet grills, such as Pit Boss or Traeger, has sparked something of a revolution among gr
The way Blake Griffin sees it, he and Ryan Kalil have a simple mission when it comes to Mortal Media, the production house they founded in 2016: to make stuff they’d actually want to watch. “With streaming and the landscape of entertainment today, there’s so many mandates, there’s so many algorithms,” Griffin said during a panel with Fast Company at CES this week. “And we always go back to that first model that we once had: Would we want to watch this
Lost in translation? Or lost in automation? One thing is for sure, the translation industry is on the precipice of a massive change, in large part due to the advent of more powerful and ubiquitous artificial intelligence tools.
Late last month, a Reddit user claimed that the popular language-learning app Duolingo had “offboarded a huge percentage of its contractors who did translations.” The user added that “this is because they figured out that AI can do t
Over the past four years, the medical world has changed. A thermometer alone isn’t always the best way to determine if we are sick. And seeing a doctor can be a lot like a Zoom call with a coworker.
Now, a new gadget from Withings, the maker of smart healthcare devices (such as a smart scale and health monitoring watches), promises to let people get a much clearer picture of their health, without having to learn new skills or buy a cabinet full of medical equipment.
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