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A friend reached out because she’s thinking of using Kickstarter to fund her new book. That conversation led to a discussion about what Kickstarter is actually good at and how to use it. It turns out that there are many options (and some misunderstanding as well). The uses of Kickstarter: To raise money you don’t have for a project that you’ll be able to build and then ship to your supporters and people who already know you and trust you. To create a community for an art project that isn’t designed to be a profitable business. To have a temporary online store (instead of something more permanent, like Shopify), where you can run a pop-up and then be done (and move on to the next thing). It’s an effective way to highlight the tension of go/no go. To capture the energy and attention of large numbers of people who don’t know your work (this almost never ever works and is the worst of these reasons).* To give your existing fans and followers an org...

"The Morning Show" executive producers Mimi Leder and Kerry Ehrin told attendees at Recode's Code Media conference that lots of the bad reviews they saw were aimed more at Apple than at the show itself. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell, and Reese Witherspoon, "The Morning Show" was the first show to debut on Apple's new streaming service Apple TV +, to mixed reviews. Leder and Ehrin also said Apple allowed them plenty of creative freedom but that it was secretive with viewing figures. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The executive producers behind "The Morning Show" — Apple's star-studded debut show on its TV streaming-service Apple+ TV — have blamed its early negative reviews on Apple-bashing critics. Speaking at Recode's Code Media conference Mimi Leder and Kerry Ehrin told NBC's Dylan Byers that lots of the negative reviews they saw seemed to have come from people who had gone into the show dete...

HBO Emilia Clarke said she has been told on certain projects that it would disappoint "Game of Thrones" fans if she didn't perform a nude scene. The "Last Christmas" star told Dax Shepard on his podcast "Armchair Expert" that she refused to be nude in a project as she wasn't told in advance.  "I've had fights on-set before where I'm like, 'No, the sheet stays up,' and they're like, 'You don't wanna disappoint your 'Game of Thrones' fans.' And I'm like, 'F--- you.'" Clarke also said she felt overwhelmed with the "f--- ton of nudity" in the first season of "Game of Thrones," as someone who came "fresh from drama school." While she feels more comfortable with nude scenes now, Clarke also credits  Jason Momoa who played Khal Drogo in "Thrones," for empowering her to have more autonomy over her body. "When I got to do them with Jason, ...

Deutsche Bank is using robots to replace the 18,000 staff it cut earlier this year. Financial News spoke to the bank's head of operations for Deutsche's corporate and investment bank, who said that using AI "massively increased productivity" in certain sectors of the business.  So far "680,000 hours of manual work" has already been saved, he said.  In July, Deutsche Bank announced a massive restructuring, axing thousands of jobs, and dissolving its equities sales and trading unit. So far, the bank has axed over 4,000 jobs. View Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Deutsche Bank is using robots to replace the 18,000 staff it plans to cut, according to Financial News. Mark Matthews, head of operations for Deutsche's corporate and investment bank, told Financial News that machine learning algorithms "massively increased productivity" and "redistribute capacity." See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW W...

In 1805, if you listened to music, you heard it live. Every time. Today, perhaps 1% of all the music we hear is live, if that. In 1805, if you listened to a lecture for school or work, you heard it live. Every time. Today, that’s still true. That’s crazy. Ten years ago, Sal Khan pointed out that thanks to the internet, we should have students watching best-in-class lectures at home, after school… and doing their homework together, with teachers, during the day. (HT to Alison King who wrote about this 26 years ago). That hasn’t happened yet, but it should. If we’re going to persist in creating hyper-expensive live lectures for millions of people every day, perhaps it’s time to change the dynamic. Imagine that there’s an app (I’ll call it Backchannel) and that the lecturer or her assistant has a dashboard. Every student already has a phone. Let’s put them to use. The Backchannel app begins by blocking all other apps–by rep...

A new Pew Research study finds that more of us now understand the threat of the surveillance economy and that what we’re getting isn’t worth the value of our privacy. America is no longer buying the internet advertising industry’s argument that personal data tracking helps us by showing us more relevant ads. That’s perhaps the biggest lesson from the results of a broad new Pew Research study , released today. Read Full Story

Fight for the Future Three activists wandered around busy spots in Washington DC on Thursday using cameraphones to run people's faces through facial recognition software in protest against growing use of the technology. The software they used was Rekognition, Amazon's commercially available and sometimes controversial facial recognition tool. The protesters collected 13,740 face scans, including one congressman. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Protesters against facial recognition donned white hazmat suits and cameras to collect face scans of more than 13,000 people. Activists from Fight for the Future mounted the protest in Washington DC on Thursday. See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Apple just revealed its AirPods Pro for $249, which feature noise cancellation. Here's everything that was wrong with the $159 pair of the wireless headphones. See Also: Big streaming companies like Netflix and HBO are looking to crack dow...