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With AI, High Speed Facial Recognition is Here (ReadWrite)

Facial recognition technology is old news. It’s widespread enough to be in every iPhone 10 and it tags our pictures on Facebook. Most facial recognition tech works from a fairly ... More

Study: Over 66 Percent of All Digital Transactions Now Take Place on Mobile (GeoMarketing)

Over 66 percent of all digital transactions in North America now take place on mobile, according to new research — indicating that brands who are not prepared for customers to co... More

IBM, Shutterstock Make it Easy for Marketers to Build Engaging Digital Experiences Using AI (SCN)

Shutterstock is working with IBM to better enable marketers to build engaging media campaigns. Now, using IBM's Watson AI technology, marketing professionals can easily pinpoint th... More

Dolby Atmos is Now Supported on Five of Samsung’s Android Devices (SamMobile)

The Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are Samsung’s first flagship smartphones with stereo speakers, and the company also chose to equip the devices with Dolby Atmos support, which makes ... More

The Biggest News at Google I/O: Google Wants to Augment Everything (Variety)

Google shared a lot of news at its Google I/O developer conference last week, ranging from a new version of Android that emphasizes digital wellbeing and new Android TV devices to ... More

Blockchain is Gaining Ground in Video Streaming (Entrepreneur)

Current video-streaming offers have incrementally increased costs in order to store all that content out there and all those massive video files on servers. This has meant large ma... More

The Future of TV is Connected – and Unbelievably Personal (Adweek)

With 195 million U.S. viewers predicted to watch CTV this year, television is the next big digital channel. So what’s in it for advertisers? For starters, they get reasonable pri... More

How Adobe Moves AI, Machine Learning Research to the Product Pipeline (ZDNet)

Adobe outlined a series of new artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies and features from its labs that it plans to roll into the company's analytics tools. But th... More

YouTube is the ‘Sleeping Giant’ Of OTT (MediaPost)

That’s the way digital video platform optimizer Pixability describes YouTube in its just-released 2018 State of Digital Video report. The statement is derived from the fact that ... More

Why Typography Has Won a Starring Role in the Streaming TV Age (The Drum)

Intense competition for the attention and loyalty of the ‘peak TV’ generation has underlined type’s role as a powerful branding tool, capable of playing a central part in bui... More

GrayMeta Metadata Powering Sky News’ ‘Royal Wedding: Who’s Who’ App (MESA)

As millions gather to watch the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Saturday, May 19, Sky News will introduce a new interactive experience for the historic event. ... More

Crypto Craze: Can Hollywood Producers Mine Bitcoin for a Hit? (THR)

It's little shock the volatile virtual currency has the attention of entertainment industry speculators (and their wary business managers), but real showbiz fortunes may lie in one... More

Facebook to Research Ad-Free Subscription-Based Version (Bloomberg)

Facebook Inc. has been conducting market research in recent weeks to determine whether an ad-free version paid by subscriptions would spur more people to join the social network, a... More

HBO’s VP of Experience Design on the Company’s Vision for its Apps (Co.Design)

"Now it’s about evolution, not revolution. Yeah we’ve covered our bases with being able to subscribe to HBO or HBO Now, and being able to play the content, but the next step fo... More

LADB Expands Captioning Services, Adds Industry Vet Schuster (SSN)

Digital media and content services facility Los Angeles Distribution & Broadcasting (LADB) has named closed captioning specialist Deborah Schuster as its new EVP of accessibili... More

NAGRA Embraces Comprehensive Approach for Battling Piracy (SVG)

Nagra has moved to bring together what were previously two separate efforts: the historic business of protecting content distributed in cinemas and protecting content being deliver... More

Spotify’s Free Tier Has Side Benefit: Smarter Recommendations (CNET)

Spotify's revamped mobile app unshackles free users from shuffle mode -- and opens up a cache of new data in the process. The world's largest music-streaming service said that ... More

Report: Traditional TV Still the Most Popular Platform for Kids (TVB Europe)

Children dedicate most time to watching the TV screen, according to the latest Kids Tech Consumer Survey from Futuresource Consulting. The study found that kids aged three to 16 sp... More

BBC Tests Live Sport in 4K HDR on iPlayer (TVB Europe)

The BBC has revealed it broadcast a rugby league match in 4K HDR quality on iPlayer over the weekend. The game between York City Knights and Catalans Dragons was available live in ... More

SAP Unveils Intelligent Product Design Solution and Network of Digital Twins (SSN)

SAP has introduced SAP S/4HANA Cloud for intelligent product design, a new solution for collaborative research and development. The solution, which is built on SAP® Cloud Platform... More

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