TV might let you be in four places at once, but the physical world still has its constraints. Instacart is doing its best to reduce them. Their latest effort is a program to deliver big objects like furniture on the day you order them. It’s not quite teleportation but we’re getting there.
One of the bigger problems with streaming TV advertising is knowing which ads are actually seen. So you might think that letting YouTube TV viewers watch up to four live streams at once would raise some concerns about reduced ad impact. But rumor has it that multi-streaming is in the works at Google, with a particular eye on sports fans who like to watch multiple games at the same time.
A sweep of online retailers found Sephora Cosmetics was selling customer data without consent to third party online tracking companies without consent, which is illegal under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The company’s $1.2 million fine marks the first major settlement since CCPA went into effect. Violations included not notifying customers and failures to process customer opt-out requests.
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.