This is a story about the power of redemption. Everyone makes mistakes in life and sometimes those mistakes warrant blocking someone on Facebook. You’d better mean business, because when you block someone, your Facebook friendship is automatically ended. But if you are suddenly possessed by...
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September 4, 2021 albert
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Like so many things in 2021, Prime Video’s Cinderella is a bippity boppity bummer. With pop star Camila Cabello as the titular princess and the writer-producer behind the Pitch Perfect trilogy at the helm, you’d think Kay Cannon’s adaptation of this classic fairytale would be...
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September 3, 2021 albert
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First, some housekeeping: Thanks to our new corporate parents, TechCrunch has the day off tomorrow, so consider this the last chapter of The Exchange for this week. (The newsletter will go out Saturday as always.) Also, Alex is off next week. Anna is taking on...
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September 2, 2021 albert
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Philips Hue smart lightbulbs are getting better in a way that will make you wanna dance. On Wednesday, Signify — a Philips spinoff that manufactures lighting products — announced that Philips Hue lightbulbs are now integrated with Spotify. This includes an algorithm that analyzes the...
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September 1, 2021 albert
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Welcome to Fix It, our series examining projects we love — save for one tiny change we wish we could make. Mike Schur’s afterlife comedy, The Good Place, is an example of a show that didn’t always have a perfect execution, but it always had...
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August 31, 2021 albert
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Prive, a months-old, San Francisco-based startup founded by two former Uber product managers, just raised $ 1.7 million in pre-seed funding to create what it describes as a far more customizable e-commerce subscriptions platform for D2C brands. The round was co-led by Patrick Chung and...
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August 30, 2021 albert
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When Salesforce announced its streaming platform Salesforce+, the CRM Playaz’ Paul Greenberg and Brent Leary interviewed Colin Fleming, SVP of Global Brand Experiences at the CRM company (disclosure: I work at Salesforce). Later, I asked Brent about his show on this episode of the Gang....
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August 29, 2021 albert
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Ilyes Kacher Contributor Share on Twitter Ilyes Kacher is a data scientist at autoRetouch, an AI-powered platform for bulk-editing product images online. I’m a native French data scientist who cut his teeth as a research engineer in computer vision in Japan and later in my...
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August 28, 2021 albert
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China is not done with curbing the influence local internet services have assumed in the world’s largest populous market. Following a widening series of regulatory crackdowns in recent months, the nation on Friday issued draft guidelines on regulating the algorithms firms run to make recommendations...
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Riccardo Cenedella is a designer and furniture maker, whose work focuses on repurposing waste material. As part of his postgraduate program at Central Saint Martins in London, Cenedella experimented with transforming locally sourced carpet waste into bespoke pieces of furniture. Mashable
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