Sep 11, 2020 8:54:46 AM | Marketing
Friday Top Nine is now the Friday Top Five! We're excited to announce that we're streamlining our weekly industry news blog in an effort to deliver you a well-curated list of industry articles to help keep you informed — all in under five minutes.
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Microsoft is introducing some big updates to Teams including a "Together Mode" that's designed to create a virtual live avatar of yourself to help you better engage with meetings. Microsoft is using AI to segment your face and shoulders and place you and your co-workers together in a virtual space. The space could be a meeting room-like environment, coffee shop or other places you'd normally have face-to-face meetings. Microsoft is also adding in video filters and live reactions. Read about all the updates on The Verge.
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For more than a year, Tim Hortons has been tracking the movements of customers in exacting detail through its mobile ordering app. James McLeod, reporter for the Financial Post, published his findings on the app's collection of personal his information. According to the data, Tim Hortons had recorded his longitude and latitude coordinates more than 2,700 times in less than five months, and not just when he was using the app.
"From my home to my office to a Blue Jays game at Rogers Centre, even all the way to Morocco, where I travelled on vacation last June, the company’s app silently logged my coordinates and relayed them back to its corporate servers."
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