Emirates Vacations' display ads now feature artificial intelligence-powered chatbots that will let people type in questions and receive answers to travel and trip questions within the ad, according to Digiday. The chatbot will offer destination and vacation package recommendations based on the questions, … Read More

Deciding whether to have chatbots interact with potential customers or to have an actual human behind the keyboard is the big question in social media selling. Both have advantages, and the decision depends on what type of business you have, the size of the business and what kind of products …

Users who want to re-visit a Snapchat from earlier can no longer do so easily. Instead, they have to locate the Snap sender on a different screen and then call up their previous Snaps from a context menu. Snapchat says that more navigational features are coming to help make the …

Snapchat's Spectacles led to long lines at pop-up vending machines when the camera-enabled sunglasses launched in 2016. But after the initial hype, it looked like only about 150,000 pairs had sold (at $130 each), potentially leaving many times that languishing in warehouses. Financial news network … Read More

In late 2016, Snapchat launched its first consumer product with the Spectacles, a pair of glasses that came equipped with a small camera that could record video clips from a first-person perspective and upload them to a Story on the iOS and Android Snapchat app. Although the company ultimately took …

Charisma Cooper, 18, left, the 2018 Youth of the Year of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tar River Region, receives congratulations from Shuntel Bynum on Thursday following the ceremony at the Booker T. Theater. 030218BG_YouthYear2. 030218BG_YouthYear3. 030218BG_YouthYear4. More Stories. Read More

On Sunday night, a Los Angeles auditorium will be invaded by actors and filmmakers, from near and far. During the past movie year, impressive inroads were made by a number of such outliers. Perhaps most astonishingly, the year even saw the dawn of a hugely lucrative Hollywood franchise headlined … Read …

A former YouTube recruiter is filing a lawsuit claiming that the tech company discriminated against white and Asian men in its hiring practices. The recruiter, Arne Wilberg, claimed that he was fired in November 2017 because he complained about the hiring practices, according to the Wall Street Journal. Read More

If there's one thing Google does better than anyone else, it's using software to make camera features better. Now, a beta feature is rolling out to a limited group of YouTube Stories users which lets creators swap out their background images with nothing more than a phone. Read More

A former YouTube employee has sued Google for allegedly pressuring recruiters to only look for female, black, and Hispanic or Latinx applicants. Arne Wilberg — who spent nine years working at Google — filed a discrimination suit in January, and The Wall Street Journal reported its existence today. Read More