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Johnson & Johnson recalls Aveeno and Neutrogena spray sunscreens
The spray sunscreens that Johnson & Johnson is recalling. Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson is recalling Aveeno and Neutrogena aerosol sunscreens after internal tests of samples detected the presence of benzene, a known carcinogen. The company said Wednesday that consumers should stop using the products and discard them... Read more
WhatsApp Has a Secure Fix for One of Its Biggest Drawbacks
The ubiquitous end-to-end encrypted messaging service WhatsApp melds security and convenience for 2 billion people around the world. But there’s always been a big limitation: The service relies entirely on your smartphone. You can use your account on desktops or through the web, but you’re really just interacting with... Read more
Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! During the pandemic, enterprises turned to automation to scale up their operations while freeing customer service reps to handle increasingly challenging workloads. According to Canam Research, 78% of contact centers in the... Read more
Racist trolls attacked England’s soccer team. Fans fought back.
It wasn’t exactly surprising that hordes of social media trolls viciously attacked three Black players on England’s soccer team with racist comments and emojis after a historic loss on Sunday, July 11. What was unexpected was how quickly even more social media users came to the defense of the... Read more
Don’t expect to see Nicolas Cage as Joe Exotic the Tiger King any time soon
Don’t expect to see Nicolas Cage, seen at right in 1997’s Con Air, playing Joe Exotic, seen at left. Netflix/Touchstone Pictures The Tiger King’s star burned bright and fast, but now it seems to have faded. Back in October, we reported that Amazon had picked up an eight-episode Amazon... Read more
Germany Is About to Block One of the Biggest Porn Sites
German child protection regulators are on the verge of blocking one of the world’s largest pornographic websites. The officials are set to issue a blocking order to the country’s biggest internet service providers saying a pornographic website, believed to be xHamster, should be made inaccessible to Germany’s 83 million... Read more
Orangetheory sees AI data governance as a ‘force multiplier’
Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! Ameen Kazerouni, chief analytics officer at Orangetheory Fitness, is well-versed in AI. His experience working as the head of AI and machine learning at Zappos has helped him successfully utilize AI and... Read more
Best convertible for 2021 to enjoy top-down driving
Convertibles may not be the most popular body style these days, but you know what? They should be. I haven’t owned a vehicle with a roof since my first car. Today, I live the Miata life, and I can say convertibles have a ton to offer in their foldable-roof... Read more
The US Needs to Get Back in the Business of Making Chips
American innovation, from smartphones to search engines to gene sequencing, is built on a foundation of impossibly intricate, perfectly etched silicon. But few of those semiconductors are actually made in the US. Only 12 percent of chips sold worldwide were made in the US in 2019, down from 37... Read more
CapGemini on the potential of data ecosystems to drive business value
Join executive leaders at the Data, Analytics, & Intelligent Automation Summit, presented by Accenture. Watch now! Companies can learn a lot from each other’s data. By sharing, exchanging, and collaborating with data, in what Capgemini calls data ecosystems, organizations would be able to generate more revenue, boost customer satisfaction,... Read more