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The pandemic has forced all businesses to pivot, including Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment in the absence of people in the stands. While Toronto Raptors and Maple Leafs games go on, fans are forced to watch from their living rooms. To help reconnect its audience to its teams and each…

Hi and welcome to Insider Advertising for March 29. I'm senior advertising reporter Lauren Johnson, and here's what's going on: YouTube bans staged animal rescue videos.Vice Media layoffs.NBCU mulls a subscription-based video service.If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here for your daily insider's guide to advertising and…

AC Grindl shares his insights on business, self-improvement, journalism, and dogs WEBWIRE – Saturday, March 27, 2021 The digital age introduced a change of pace for every sector. With almost every process digitized, we enjoy faster, better, and more accurate results whenever we search for information. But what people fail…

Hulu’s Android TV apps can finally stream in 1080p on new Nvidia Shield TV set-top-boxes and Sony Bravia TVs, as spotted by users on Reddit, and written up by Gizmodo, Android Central, and 9to5Google. Users first noticed the change in the “App & Device Info” page in the Hulu app.…

With tech companies gobbling up more and more user location data all the time—and governments tapping into those troves any way they can—a group of technologists in the United States and United Kingdom debuted 10 principles this week, the Locus Charter, for ethical retention and uses of location data. Facebook…

Google runs some of the most venerated cybersecurity operations on the planet: its Project Zero team, for example, finds powerful undiscovered security vulnerabilities, while its Threat Analysis Group directly counters hacking backed by governments, including North Korea, China, and Russia. And those two teams caught an unexpectedly big fish recently:…

This interview has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. MIT Technology Review: I’m sure people frequently ask you, “How do I build an AI-first business?” What do you usually say to that? Andrew Ng: I usually say, “Don’t do that.” If I go to a team and say, “Hey,…

The CEOs of America’s biggest technology companies faced a grilling on Thursday from Congress about the 6 January insurrection at the Capitol, as protesters outside the hearing denounced the platforms for playing a role in fueling the violence. The marathon, six-hour hearing saw the three most powerful men in tech…

FairphoneCheap Android phones rarely make it past their third birthday, but the 2015 Fairphone 2 is still chugging along more than half a decade after its launch. The repairable, modular handset just got Android 9 update certification from Google, bringing new security updates and features to users who still believe…

E22: Krista Byers-Heinleincolor>: The Value of Linguistic Diversity Children’s learning begins in the home – and the language spoken in the home is fundamental to a young child’s education.So, should parents be raising children with more than one language? And what are the benefits of children being bilingual? On International…