Month: May 2020
Candidates can’t campaign, so they’re trying to go viral
On Wednesday, the field director for Mel Gagarin’s congressional campaign sat shirtless — illuminated by candlelight — in his bathtub reading a scary story over Instagram Live. “Bedtime Bathtime Storytimes” have become regular events for Gagarin’s campaign even if they’re only for an audience of around a dozen people, including…
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Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network launches chatbot on WhatsApp to debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes
You can now debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes with a few texts on WhatsApp . Poynter Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports journalism, today launched a bot on WhatsApp to help people across the globe debunk over 4,000 hoaxes, including whether the infection originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.…
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Theragun’s new massage devices have Bluetooth and run quieter
Percussive therapy guns are all over Instagram and the rest of the internet, but Theragun was one of the first to break out. For a while, it’s offered a range of devices that covered several price points — even if none of them were exactly cheap. Th… Source
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Yelp is making it easier for businesses to highlight their virtual services
As businesses struggle to reinvent themselves in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yelp is launching new features to help highlight these changes. For one thing, it’s adding a new information category called virtual service offerings, which will allow businesses to showcase the fact that they’re providing things like virtual…
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Customer journey hijacking prevention tool Namogoo acquires Personali for its behavioural analytics
Namogoo, the Israel-based company that has developed a solution for e-commerce and other online enterprises to prevent “customer journey hijacking,” has acquired behavioural analytics company Personali. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although we understand the Personali is joining Namogoo . Described as a “strategic acquisition,” Personali — which was…
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VanMoof S3 and X3 Review: Ready for Any Commute
I gave this e-bike a 130-mile tour of NYC’s fender-shaking streets, parks, and potholes. Source
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