How much traffic does one tweet from Ashton Kutcher get you?

Love him or hate him, movie starAshton Kutcher‘s 6 million followers make him one of the most influential figures on Twitter. NowGrumo Media, a company that creates product demo videos has published ablog postexplaining just what one tweeted link from Kutcher can do. Yesterday, the actor tweeted a link to one of Grumo’s videos. In just five hours, Grumo’s Miguel Hernandez says Kutcher’s tweet had sent 13,000 people to the video’s YouTube page....

2 min · 310 words · Mark Sullivan

How multi-skilled AI could chart a path to human-like intelligence

Did you know Neural istaking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! AI is a field that’s flooded with buzzwords. Ideally, terms like cognitive computing and big data help distill complex concepts into digestible ideas. But they can alsoconfuse and mislead the public. “Artificial general intelligence” (AGI), for instance, is often used to describe hypothetical machines that can perform any intellectual task that a human can....

3 min · 490 words · Stacey Kennedy

How musicians are making money by returning to their roots

I remember being a kid and hearing about how recording songs from the radio onto a casette tape was killing music. It was happening all over the world, most prominently in the UK where the “Home Taping is Killing Music”campaign was apparently everywhere to be found. I never really bought into the hype, as a young kid whose mom was far more into Lionel Richie than my own tastes for Van Halen and Yes....

10 min · 1924 words · Shannon Fernandez

How my portable projector almost made football come home

This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets.Subscribe to it here. Pals, it hurts. Oh god, it hurts: England lost the final of the Euro 2020 championship. Yes, it might have happened over a week ago now, but some things take time to heal. On one hand, my overriding emotion remains a heartyoof… …but on the other? I’m somehow actually… overflowing with joy? Not only was this the first final the men’s football team reached since 1966 (woo!...

4 min · 743 words · Matthew Ward

How my startup completely transformed its revenue model

Building and scaling astartupinevitably involves revisiting and changing some aspects of your approach. But one of the most daunting pivots to make is your own revenue model. If you’re considering having to change the way you generate your income, then you’ve probably identified that your revenue model is a barrier to your startup’s further growth. However, at the same time, you’ll likely be dependent on your current revenue model to generate the income you need to keep the lights on and pay your team....

5 min · 922 words · Anna Smith
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