Alto’s Dashboard makes it easy to access useful items from emails, like boarding passes and reservations.
Alto’s Dashboard makes it easy to access useful items from emails, like boarding passes and reservations.
Three years ago, AOL released a Pinterest-like platform for desktop email called Alto, which Co.Design hailed as “email’s next UI paradigm.” Alto has kept a low profile since then, as its developers refined the desktop product with a small group of early users.
“Unlimited vacation” sounds great, but not if you don’t know how or when to use it. So Buffer is testing a minimum vacation policy.
“Unlimited vacation” sounds great, but not if you don’t know how or when to use it. So Buffer is testing a minimum vacation policy.
It’s one of those mythical and vaunted startup perks, and one of the Buffer perks that tends to entice folks the most: unlimited vacation time. When someone new joins the team, they’re immediately granted as much time away from work as they’d like, no questions asked. Under this non-policy policy, teammates have had some great vacations, including cruises around the world and even a month of sailing the Atlantic.
Bustle, a three-year old website for millennial women, now has 50 million monthly readers. Here’s why they completely redesigned it.
Bustle, a three-year old website for millennial women, now has 50 million monthly readers. Here’s why they completely redesigned it.
At Bustle‘s Chelsea office in Manhattan, the two women at the heart of the website’s overhaul—creative director Isla Murray and senior engineer Zahra Jabini—are sitting together in the design room. Around them, the walls are covered in inspiration boards filled with images from recent photo shoots for the online publication. Women wearing colorfully patterned dresses seem to float in a sea of bright pinks, teals, oranges, and yellows. Such scenes of warmth, optimism, and fun have been channeled into Bustle‘s brand-new look, which is being revealed today.
With its new “Snap It” feature, the Lose It app automatically identifies the food you’re eating.
With its new “Snap It” feature, the Lose It app automatically identifies the food you’re eating.
One of America’s most popular diet apps is trying something new—computer vision—in its quest to help you keep off the pounds. Lose It, a freemium weight loss app with over 3 million active monthly members, is rolling out “Snap It,” a new beta feature this week that automatically identifies the foods that users eat. The idea is that, eventually, customers can photograph their meal instead of manually entering it. It’s the latest innovation in a cutthroat marketplace, and one that even outflanks much larger rivals like Google.
Amazon, Facebook, Google DeepMind, IBM, and Microsoft announced the Partnership on AI, which will research ways to use the tech responsibly.
Amazon, Facebook, Google DeepMind, IBM, and Microsoft announced the Partnership on AI, which will research ways to use the tech responsibly.
The Terminator isn’t arriving anytime soon, but concern is growing that artificial intelligence is already so pervasive in society—and getting more so all the time—that there needs to be more focus on how it’s being used and potentially misused (even if by accident). Aside from futuristic killer robots, there are already real dangers ranging from faulty autonomous cars to algorithms used in hiring or recruiting that have an inadvertent bias against women or ethnic groups. The giants of artificial intelligence, especially as it affects consumers and businesses, have just joined together to form a nonprofit called the Partnership on AI, with founding members Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft.
The bank allegedly set unrealistic expectations and rewarded bad behavior.
The bank allegedly set unrealistic expectations and rewarded bad behavior.
The operating ploy that led Wells Fargo employees to open up millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts to meet cross-selling targets was categorized by Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren as “gutless” and a “scam.”
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