Celebrity look-alike contests have become a summer staple. But this one was singular: The most convincing Jalen Brunson doppelgänger would win $5,000. After the audience at Washington Square Park on Wednesday crowned a winner — a 5-year-old from Jamaica, Queens, who resembled a mini version of the star Knicks point guard — the young champ…
Amsterdam is famously a place where anything goes. Prostitution is legal. Coffee shops sell marijuana and hashish. Truffles laced with the psychoactive compounds found in hallucinogenic mushrooms are available at “smart shops.” But what is no longer allowed in the freewheeling city’s public spaces are advertisements for products that some city councilors consider to be…
For years, DribbleUp, a sports equipment company, spent its own time and resources figuring out whom it should advertise its basketballs and soccer balls to on Facebook. But for the last two years, it has placed those ads entirely through Facebook’s artificial intelligence tools. Since then, DribbleUp’s sales have outpaced its marketing expenses. It has…
“Michael” is a megahit. In one of the biggest disconnects between reviews and ticket sales in memory — certainly for a non-sequel — the Michael Jackson biopic “Michael” overcame animosity from critics and was on pace to collect about $217 million worldwide in its opening weekend. Lionsgate, which produced the PG-13 movie, released the box…
