Mindfulness apps like Headspace and Calm have come to fruition during the hard months of the pandemic. Headspace has expanded from the personal experience of its founder to now partnering with big brands such as Nike and Hinge on specifically curated meditations.
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Social media has turned the way news is shared on its head in the last fifteen years switching from the newspaper and television to personalized social media accounts.
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For the first time in 37 years Budweiser did not run ads on Super Bowl LV. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Budweiser are typically the frontrunners in creating the best commercials during the Super Bowl, but this year’s lineup looked different.
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In the era of fake news, deepfakes are the application of artificial intelligence that has spilled into misinformation with the potential to exploit and target individuals online.
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Recently, Regal Cinemas, the second-largest theater chain in the country, chose to close all their theaters in the US indefinitely due to rising COVID-19 cases. This closure will affect 45,000 jobs, with 40,000 of them in the US. Movie theaters run off of foot traffic, and with the rise in online streaming services, they are already struggling.
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There is no doubt that the pandemic has caused economic problems— small businesses are closing, close to 18 million Americans are unemployed according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and stock prices are falling at enormous rates. The question on most people’s minds is: how will we recover from such a big loss in our economy?
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The big technology companies have been making strides in how they conduct work outside the traditional work environment throughout the pandemic. These changes have not come without failures and problems along the way.
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In recent news, billionaire Jeff Bezos’ net worth has surpassed $200 billion. This can mostly be attributed to the fact that Amazon has proven to be vital to people’s lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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