🌱 Green Search Engine, AI E-commerce, & Israel Crisis on Smartphones
Today’s pick
A 'Green' Search Engine Sees Danger-and Opportunity-in the Generative AI Revolution. In the era of search wars fought between giants, it's tough to be small. Berlin-based Ecosia offers a search engine for the climate-conscious, promising to be carbon-negative by investing all of its profits into planting trees—more than 180 million of them since it launched in 2009. By Peter Guest via WIRED
A 'Green' Search Engine Sees Danger—and Opportunity—in the Generative AI Revolution - Alberto Varignana, MBA (@AVarignana)
Creative Force, now with $8.9M, gives e-commerce workflows an AI treatment. Creative Force, providing an AI-powered content operations workflow for large e-commerce retailers and brands, secured $8.9 million in Series A funding, on a post-money valuation of $56 million, from Export and Investment Fund of Denmark and Hearst Ventures. By Christine Hall via TechCrunch
Creative Force, now with $8.9M, gives e-commerce workflows an AI treatment - Christian Terry, PCM (@bergnermedia)
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Israel's crisis is playing out live on our smartphones; we must not turn away. In times of crisis – especially the war unfolding in Israel – it is easy to denigrate social media as a conduit for horrific scenes, but it is our responsibility to face the reality. The girl with the brown hair is 10 years old. She sits on her mother’s lap and seems calm as she tells the story, her voice conversational, the gutturals of her Hebrew characteristic. By Eliot Wilson via CityAM
What Hamas did was a pogrom, captured on smartphones. But don’t let regulators hide the content. If it’s real, we cannot turn away. This happened. We can’t afford the luxury of ignorance. - Eliot Wilson (@EliotWilson2)
The news will not find you on TikTok. Given the amount of attention TikTok has swallowed up from anyone under the age of 30, we might expect it to be a more obsessive focus of news organizations in their efforts to attract younger and more engaged audiences. By Mark Coddington via Nieman Lab
A new study looking into how TikTok distributes news content. - Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford)
Adobe's latest wearable tech promises dynamic clothing that can change at the push of a button. Italian fashion designer Miuccia Prada once said that what you wear is how you present yourself to the world. Adobe research scientist Christine Dierk presented herself as boldly as possible at this year's Adobe Max conference while giving the art and fashion worlds a small but memorable taste of what's possible with today's technology. By Jimmy Pezzone via TechSpot
Adobe's latest wearable tech promises dynamic clothing that can change at the push of a button - Brian Moyer (@bdmoyer)
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