The Biggest Tech Trends at CES 2023, According to Marketers Against a backdrop of tightening budgets and Silicon Valley in financial flux, marketers sought out technology that would help grow bottom lines in the near term at the tech industry's annual premiere event. The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, drew about 115,000 industry attendees to
Ebay Acquires NFT Marketplace as It Expands Into Digital Collectibles Ebay is buying non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace KnownOrigin in a bid to broaden its inventory of collectibles into the virtual realm. The online auction site said this week that it has closed a deal to purchase the U.K.-based startup for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition
Fiverr Rolls Out New Voice Cloning Tool That Lets Actors Offer Automated Samples Fiverr is tapping artificial intelligence to let voiceover artists provide samples of their work to prospective clients without ever reading a script. The freelance platform teamed up with a startup called Lovo to roll out a new tool that allows creators to
The Show Will Go On, in Person and Virtually, for CES 2022 The 2022 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in-person conference will go on next week. But hundreds of brands and thousands of attendees will forgo the annual trip to Las Vegas as Covid infections spike to record numbers. Procter & Gamble, Google, GM, AT&T, Amazon,
Lessons Learned During My First NFT Adventure I bought my first NFT and it was a Stoner Cat. Meet "Hammie," a character voiced by Chris Rock from the series Stoner Cats, starring Jane Fonda, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Vitalik Buterin (the creator of Ethereum) and Chris Rock. The show is about a woman
Circle K Goes Checkout-Free in 6 Arizona Stores Convenience store chain Circle K is partnering with startup Grabango to roll out checkout-free tech in six of the company's Arizona locations. Grabango's technology uses anonymized AI to track the items each customer picks up, then allows them to check out by scanning a barcode in an
Metaverse Marketing Podcast: Defining A New Reality "Metaverse" is a word that's hard to define -- and means different things to different people. The term was coined by sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel, Snow Crash, to describe a world similar to that which was later popularized in Ernest Cline's 2011 book, Ready
Roblox Unveils New Spatial Voice Feature to Mimic Realistic Conversations Roblox is bringing new ways of conversing to the metaverse. The gaming platform announced this week that it will roll out a spatial voice chat option that will allow players to talk to one another when their avatars are in close proximity in a virtual
AI Tool Shows How Machine Learning Could Make Video Editing More Efficient A new AI tool is attempting to harness some of the recent advancements made in machine learning's video production capacities behind a sleek user interface. Sequel, a program from startup Runway ML, brings together various machine learning-enabled video editing functions like color correction,
More Than Half of Consumers Say the Pandemic Has Made AR More Important to Them A surge of popularity in mixed reality during the pandemic could lead global investment in the technology to balloon from $12 billion in 2020 to $72.8 billion over the next three years. That's according to a wide-ranging new survey from
