Monthly Archives: October 2022

US TV advertisers will spend close to $20 billion in this year’s upfronts

TV networks are hoping for a return to normalcy  after a turbulent 2020.  Advertisers will spend $19.90 billion upfront in the 2021-2022 TV season, an increase of 7.6% over the previous cycle. Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get business insights on the latest tech innovations, market trends, and your competitors…

Elizabeth Warren presses Texas on crypto miners’ energy use

Elizabeth Warren and six other Democratic senators are pressing Texas’ energy regulator on whether the crypto mining industry is putting additional strain on the state’s grid, and its impact on climate change. In a letter to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the senators note that “cryptomining companies are flooding into states like Texas,”…

Impossible Foods has a big new offering in the works: filet mignon

Progress is being made on a truly impossible-seeming area of plant-based meat products: steak. And not just any steak, a filet mignon.  At MIT Technology Review’s ClimateTech event this afternoon, Impossible Foods CEO and founder Pat Brown shared that while he couldn’t give an exact date for when the company’s steak product will be ready…

PLAY WHAT? by Jon Scieszka

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. ​Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. ​And … isn’t it just mind-boggling that chances are, if you are reading this, that you know exactly what happens next with Humpty? ​Just like a reader over 200 years ago? ​Before I started writing for kids, I taught elementary school in New York City….

GoHenry, the banking service for under-18s, raises $55M after passing 2M users

  Neobanks have made a name for themselves by successfully winning the business of newly-minted adults, opening their first checking, savings and investment accounts and uninterested in doing business with clunky, expensive legacy banks. Now a new wave of startups and services has been getting a jump on that model with an even earlier target:…

Alex Jones’ billion-dollar judgement: The conspiracy theorist has turned career-ending setbacks into profit windfalls, but this could be too much to overcome

Alex Jones testifying during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial on Sept. 22, 2022. Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/Pool via Reuters As the jury’s numbers were announced— $120 million for the father of six-year-old Emilie Parker, $109 million for the parents of six-year-old Ben Wheeler — Alex Jones was already live on Infowars. This was an…

AI in Insurance: How three forward-looking insurers are infusing AI into their front, middle, and back offices

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to drive consumers online, the pressure for incumbent insurance companies to adopt digital technology is intensifying. Incumbent insurers have been pushed to accelerate their use of mature AI deployments over the past year to meet changing customer expectations and better compete with tech-centric firms. For context, consumers are now twice as…