Content creators from around Charlotte joined The Charlotte Observer and Black Wednesday on April 17, to discuss the myths and misconceptions of their jobs, and the excitement of helping to market local businesses. The event was an exclusive event for Charlotte Observer subscribers.
Among the panelists were Sydney Bernhardt, a fashion and lifestyle influencer; Jensen Savannah, a Carolinas-focused content creator; Mackenzie King, CEO of King Social Management influencer agency; and Amber Desiree, a Charlotte-based content creator.
Meta just dropped a trailer for Batman: Arkham Shadow, which is one of the first exclusive games for Quest 3. You play as the caped crusader in a story set in the franchise canon.
Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst's death sparked important conversations about mental health. Her mother April Simpkins is carrying on her legacy in a new memoir.
UnitedHealth Group chief executive officer Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on all the company’s systems exposed to the internet in response to the recent cyberattack against its subsidiary Change Healthcare. The lack of multi-factor authentication was at the center of the ransomware attack that hit Change Healthcare earlier this year, which impacted pharmacies, hospitals, and doctor’s offices across the United States. Multi-factor authentication, or MFA, is a basic cybersecurity mechanism that prevents hackers from breaking into accounts or systems with a stolen password by requiring a second code to log in.
Anthropic, one of the world's best-funded generative AI startups with $7.6 billion in the bank, is launching a new paid plan aimed at enterprises, including those in highly regulated industries like healthcare, finance and legal. Called Team, the plan gives customers higher-priority access to Anthropic's Claude 3 family of generative AI models plus additional admin and user management controls. "Anthropic introduced the Team plan now in response to growing demand from enterprise customers who want to deploy Claude's advanced AI capabilities across their organizations," Scott White, product lead at Anthropic, told TechCrunch.
Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in the fall of 2022, the market for Twitter alternatives has been saturated with would-be competitors ranging from smaller startups to open source apps to well-funded efforts like Threads from Instagram. As of March, LinkedIn's web traffic was up 10.6% year-over-year compared with a decline of 15.2% for X, according to traffic analytics data from digital intelligence platform SimilarWeb. Compared with November 2022 -- or right after Musk took over Twitter -- X's web traffic has declined by 10%, while LinkedIn's has grown 18%.