Move Over, Big Mac—McDonald’s Joins the Beyond Burger Game

McDonald’s has no beef with adding Beyond Burgers to its menu, at least temporarily. The fast-food chain plans to test alternative meat burgers at 28 locations starting Sept. 30. Beyond Meat created an exclusive plant-based patty for McDonald’s. The result: PLT–plant, lettuce, tomato–is a twist on the classic BLT. Laurent Altmin of McDonald’s Global Corporate…

Jennifer Lopez and Shakira Set to Perform at Super Bowl Halftime Show

Jennifer Lopez and Shakira have booked some big Super Bowl plans. On Feb. 2, they’ll both perform at the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show, which will air on Fox and take place at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Both pop stars made the announcement via Twitter. This is happening. 02.02.20 pic.twitter.com/SwHUhH3Lfe — Jennifer…

Why The Times Published Details of the Whistle-Blower’s Identity

Our executive editor, Dean Baquet, addresses readers’ concerns about the decision to publish information on a person who is central to the Trump impeachment inquiry.

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Mattel Releases Line of Gender-Neutral Creatable World Dolls

This is not a Barbie doll. This is the new Creatable World doll. Going beyond the traditional Barbie tagline of “You can be anything,” the Creatable World doll is a high-fashion doll that is “designed to keep labels out and invite everyone in.” With the release of Mattel’s new gender-neutral dolls on Wednesday, the concept…

The FTC Is Suing Match.com for Allegedly Enticing Users With Fake Advertisements

It is no secret that online dating might come at a price, and Match.com–one of many dating apps available nowadays–has come under fire this week due to allegedly sending false messages to entice its users to pay for a subscription. According to complaints the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed on Wednesday with the U.S. District…

WarnerMedia divulga primeiro relatório de diversidade e inclusão da história de Hollywood

No ano passado, a então Warner Bros. se comprometeu a colher dados para o início da produção de um relatório anual sobre o status de diversidade e inclusão em seu quadro de funcionários e executivos, aderindo oficialmente ao Production Diversity Policy que buscava garantir a preservação destes valores entre os diferentes setores de Hollywood. Passado …

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Com apresentações de Shakira e Jennifer Lopez, Super Bowl 2020 destaca artistas latinos

Depois de algumas especulações (como todo ano), a Pepsi divulgou o nome das duas atrações que comandarão o show do intervalo no Super Bowl LIV: Shakira e Jennifer Lopez. A 54ª edição do evento será realizada na Flórida, e traz pela primeira vez uma dupla de artistas latinos como destaque. Ver essa foto no Instagram …

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David Hasselhoff Fights Crime on a Moped in This Joyously Ridiculous Ad From Germany

Knight Rider? More like Not Quite Rider. 1980s TV icon David Hasselhoff is back in action as a Michael Knight-esque crime fighter on wheels, though admittedly he’s shedded some horsepower along the way. It’s all an ad for an automotive marketplace, and as you might imagine, it’s from Germany. In “Moped Rider” from agency Achtung,…

Starz Elevates COO Jeffrey Hirsch to President and CEO

Over the past year, Starz has shifted business strategies, and now the premium cable network has welcomed a new president and CEO. COO Jeffrey Hirsch has been promoted and has signed a new long-term deal to lead the network, owner Lionsgate said today. Hirsch replaces Chris Albrecht, who announced his exit in February. Hirsch has…

This Satirical Video Game Takes Aim at Gun Lobbyists

Following a pair of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, last month, some conservative lawmakers pinned the blame on video games, a familiar talking point for at least a generation. A new campaign from anti-gun violence organization Brady (formerly the Brady Campaign & Center to Prevent Gun Violence) called “League of Legislators”…

Mozilla Wants to Know if Snapchat and Other Platforms Are Stealing Ur Feelings

Mozilla is using a six-minute augmented reality documentary to pressure Snapchat, Instagram and other companies that may be using facial emotion recognition technology. The nonprofit, which developed the Firefox web browser, said Stealing Ur Feelings is an attempt to reveal how this type of artificial intelligence “could be easily misused to profit off consumers, promote…

Sprint Uses Chatbots to Cut Customer Service Calls by Nearly a Third

Around a year and a half into Sprint’s efforts to overhaul its call center operations with artificial intelligence, the carrier says the technology has substantially reduced the number of customer inquiries its human representatives need to field. Sprint chief digital officer Rob Roy said about 30% of online chats are now conducted solely by machine-learning-powered…

Honda Develops an Animated Comic Series to Promote Its 2020 Civic Hatchback

Honda is backing its redesigned 2020 Honda Civic Hatchback with animated comic series Revenge of the Biospiders on Facebook and Instagram. Revenge of the Biospiders debuted on National Comic Book Day Wednesday. Honda said in an email that it “focuses on an apocalyptic world where genetically engineered spiders–once designed to save humanity–have now overtaken it….

Em comemoração aos 50 anos de “Abbey Road”, Beatles divulgam clipe de “Here Comes the Sun”

Neste dia 26 de setembro, o álbum “Abbey Road”, dos Beatles comemora 50 anos. E para comemorar a data tão expressiva, o canal oficial da banda no YouTube divulgou um clipe especial de “Here Comes the Sun”. O vídeo produzido para a composição de George Harrison mostra detalhes do famoso Studio Two, parte doAbbey Road …

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Facebook Makes Its Political Ads Transparency Tools Mandatory in Singapore

Facebook extended its policies on ads regarding social issues, elections or politics to Singapore, with that country’s next general parliamentary election coming up next year. The social network revealed in June that its transparency tools regarding political ads were being expanded globally, and using those tools is now a requirement in Singapore. Mirroring the requirements…

Check Out the 12 Campaigns That Won Top Honors at 2019’s Clio Awards

While we’ve known the gold winners at this year’s Clio Awards for a few weeks now, recipients of the program’s top-honor Grand Clios were just unveiled at the annual awards show in New York Wednesday night. Most of the major awards shows this year have seen plenty of winner overlap across categories–such as Burger King’s…

BuzzFeed’s Tasty Hires New Executive Producer

BuzzFeed has created a role for its new executive of Tasty, a position the publisher considers to be rooted in creativity while working with the business side of the operation as the brand further evolves. Hannah Williams was named as Tasty’s executive producer, effectively replacing Ashley McCollum, the former general manager and vice president of…