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Dolce & Gabbana cancels Shanghai show after ad campaign and founder’s Instagram DMs mocked Chinese culture
Dolce & Gabbana/Instagram Dolce & Gabbana launched an ad campaign featuring a Chinese model eating traditional Italian food with chopsticks. When a woman called out the campaign, the fashion house’s cofounder Stefano Gabbana allegedly responded by calling her “not comfortable in the brain” and saying that Chinese people eat dogs. The woman took screenshots of […]
These 2 tech founders lost their friends in tragic accidents. Now they’ve built AI chatbots to give people life after death
Samantha Lee/Business Insider Netflix drama “Black Mirror” once imagined a world in which tech could be used to recreate the dead. Now, people are working to make that a reality. Tech firm Eternime is beta testing an app that will allow users to create a digital “avatar” of themselves after they die. Eternime is not […]
These founders left Google to chase a vision of healthier screen time for their kids — and their flagship product has become a hit in classrooms and homes (GOOGL, GOOG)
Osmo Pramod Sharma worked at Google in Sunnyvale, California and noticed when he dropped off his daughter at the company’s daycare facility, there were no tech products allowed. Sharma and his co-founder Jerome Scholler created Osmo in 2013 to create a positive and educational screen time experience for kids. Osmo’s magic lies in its proprietary […]
Tech’s biggest CEOs and founders lost $61 billion during the stock market’s plunge in October — here’s who got hit hard (FB, AMZN, AAPL, NFLX, GOOG, BIDU, BABA)
Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images October was a rough month for billionaires in the tech sector, who saw their net worth plummet as stocks took a hammering. According to Bloomberg data, the CEOs and founders of the most popular tech companies “FAANG+BAT” lost $ 61 billion in October. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index plunged 9.2%, posting its worst […]
Review: Founders of Gloomhaven groans beneath its own weight
Enlarge Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. “In the age after the Demon War, the continent enjoys a period of prosperity. Humans have made peace with the Valrath and Inox. Quatryls and Orchids arrive from across the Misty Sea looking to trade. […]
JetBlue Founder’s New Airline, Hope for Silver Medallion Elites Upgrades, American Cancellations and More
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Mark Zuckerberg reportedly pushed Instagram’s founders to copy Snapchat’s popular ‘Stories’ feature
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly asked Instagram’s founders to build a feature similar to Snapchat’s “Stories” feature after they initially refused to build any copycat features unless directly ordered. According to Bloomberg’s source, Zuckerberg was concerned that Instagram would lose out on a new generation of consumers if it didn’t evolve as a product. Facebook […]
Callisto to launch sexual harassment tracking for tech startup founders
Callisto today announced plans to launch a platform for tech startup founders to report incidents of sexual harassment. This is Callisto’s first effort to make its platform for reporting unwanted sexual contact extend beyond college campuses. Among startup founders, the platform is likely to find incidents of sexual harassment highest among i…Read More
Spotify is building a firewall to keep its founders in control
LeWeb Spotify just filed the paperwork for its direct public listing. Like Snap, Facebook, and other tech companies that have gone the traditional initial public offering route, Spotify engineered a firewall to ensure the founders stay in control. Spotify has created a class of “beneficiary certificates” that carry voting power but no economic power. Spotify […]
