Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it just sits unused on servers, unwatched and unanalyzed. This is dark data: a massive, untapped resource that companies collect automatically but almost never use in a meaningful way. To … Read more
After launching a “Home Safe” feature that lets users notify friends and family when they’ve arrived home safely, Snapchat is now introducing additional alerts to inform others when users have arrived at other destinations. The social media giant announced on Monday that with its new “Arrival Notifications,” users can now set one-time or recurring alerts … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves’ market-sensitive Spring Statement was accessed many more times than previously thought after it was released online early by the UK fiscal watchdog in March last year, a review will say this week. The … Read more
For fall, Nellie Partow honed in on what she does best: classic menswear approached through a feminine lens using time-honored materials like poplin, cotton, and an ultra-fine pilling-proof knit that took five years to develop. “I really do just love American sportswear, to put it simply,” she said, reflecting on entering her 15th year of … Read more
HBO “Game of Thrones” was such a massive success for HBO that nearly every subsequent historical or fantasy show has been compared to “GoT.” The cultural phenomenon influenced pop culture for years to come. Though it’s been off the air for six years since that divisive, scorched-earth … Read more
Floor-brushing pants are a wardrobe staple for two other fashion-forward celebrities, too: Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Lopez. While Beckham usually opts for more formal trousers to go with her towering platforms, she also occasionally breaks out a trouser-style jean, as she did while galavanting around Paris last summer, pairing her high-waisted indigo bottoms with a … Read more
The Pixel 9A is an incredible phone that’s worth hopping on while it’s $349 for the 128GB version in blue, black, or pink at Amazon and Best Buy. It’s discounted ahead of the new Pixel 10A, for which Google will open pre-orders on February 18. That’s also when the company will share more details regarding … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s become a commonplace to suggest — indeed I’ve written it myself — that Sir Keir Starmer’s problem is that he has no vision or ideology. It’s not quite true. Starmer does have an ideology … Read more
A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade “stalkerware” phone surveillance apps, exposing the email addresses and partial payment information of customers who paid to spy on others. The transactions contain records of payments for phone tracking services like Geofinder and uMobix, as well as services like Peekviewer (formerly … Read more
Netflix Sadie Sink has returned to Netflix’s “Stranger Things” as Max Mayfield in the hit series’ fifth and final season. The first four episodes of Season 5 arrived in late November, with the series set to conclude at the end of 2025. Sink first appeared in Season … Read more