Lately, I’ve been slightly obsessed with maps.
It’s not a wistful nerd fixation, either—I promise. (Though I certainly do have my fair share of those!) Nope: This obsession is all about practical benefit and some splendid ways our modern mapping technology can help us.
We’ve talked about little-known map-centric tricks in my Android Intelligence newsletter a few times recently, including with
Following almost two years’ worth of investigations and chest puffing in Washington, D.C., the government this week filed its much-anticipated lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation, accusing the company of antitrust.
It was the formal start of a boxing match that’s likely to go many rounds—and both sides are coming out swinging. When announcing the s
The list of jobs that are being threatened by artificial intelligence is growing by the day, but could generative AI ever take center stage on Broadway?
In the past year, the unions representing Hollywood actors and writers won protections against the potential applications of AI in TV and film—just in ti
The PC just got an AI makeover, raising hopes that the buzzy technology would help revive an industry that has been on a steady decline over the last few years.
Here’s everything we know about AI PCs:
What doe
Next month Apple will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, the event where it shows off its upcoming software offerings. The star this year will be iOS 18, the operating system that powers the iPhone. iOS 18 is rumored to be one of the most significant upgrades to the iPhone’s operating system in over a decade. That’s because Apple is widely expected to finally jump on the
Webbův dalekohled opět předvedl, proč stálo za to ho poslat do vesmíru. Pozoroval nejranější galaxie, jak vznikají ve vesmíru, který je starý jen asi 400 až 600 milionů let. Vědci se tak poprvé stali takřka očitými svědky procesu, který doposud znali jenom z počítačových simulací. http://www.osel.cz/13490-bajecny-uspech-webbuv-dalekohled-spatril-vznikajici-galaxie-na-usvitu-vesmiru.html
What was that thing for anyway?
Spotify announced Thursday it will discontinue Car Thing, a $90 device that allows users to control Spotify through their car speakers. After December 9, 2024, Car Thing will no longer be operational—and Spotify is recommending that users trash it (safely, of course, and following electronic waste guidelines).
It’s one thing to discontinue the device, but another t
Tesla has cut output of its best-selling Model Y electric car by a double-digit percentage number at its Shanghai plant since March, according to industry data and a source.
The move is aimed at addressing weakening demand for the U.S. automaker’s aged model in China, its second largest market into which a majorit
In a season dominated by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Barbie, investment world icon Sallie Krawcheck celebrates what she calls “the feminization of wealth.” Founder and CEO of women-led investment platform Ellevest, Krawcheck discusses Ellevest reaching $2 billion in assets under management and why The Great Wealth Transfer is primed to turn the econ
Microsoft President Brad Smith said the tech company’s high profile deal with the United Arab Emirates-backed AI firm G42 could eventually involve the transfer of sophisticated chips and tools – a move that a senior Republican congressman warned could have
Friday is here, the weather is… not horrible, and it’s time for your weekly round-up of news from the Dutch tech ecosystem. There was plenty to talk about when it came to the crown jewel in the Dutch tech ecosystem this week. Chip machine-maker ASML featured
IQM Garnet, a 20-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU) is now available via Amazon Web Services (AWS) — the first quantum computer accessible via AWS’ cloud in the European Union. Finnish quantum hardware startup IQM is based outside of Helsinki, F
Critically speaking, Humane’s AI Pin is not off to a great start. Many have condemned the device as unnecessary and cumbersome; YouTube review legend
Google’s Pixel 8a is a $500 smartphone trapped between two worlds.
In the world of midrange phones, the Pixel 8a is pretty great. Feature-wise it’s not too far off from the $700 Pixel 7, with a capable camera system, a silky smooth 120 Hz display, and a snappy interface. While using it, I seldom found myself wishing for a more expensive regular phone (even if I missed my trusty foldable
Drivers for some of the largest rideshare and delivery companies in California are earning well below the state minimum wage despite the implementation of Proposition 22, according to a new report from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s Labor Center and its Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics.
The median wage for a California rideshare driv
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for his country’s AI leaders to challenge the “insane” dominance of US and Chinese tech giants. Macron’s plea comes amid a boom period for French AI. Led by OpenAI rival Mistral, the country has become a European hotb
NASA leadership touted the benefits of using AI in a town hall meeting on Wednesday, but emphasized that the new tech will be used in a responsible way that won’t replace the space agency’s skilled workforce.
Administrator Bill Nelson emphasized that he takes seriously the president’s charge to integrate AI with a focus on “safety, transparency, and reliability.”
Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy was a little more succinct, quoting Spider-Man: “With great power comes great
As a Black tech founder, I’ve experienced trials and tribulations to scale my business. I launched RenderATL during the pandemic when most people thought I was out of my mind to hold an in-person event when everything was shutting down. I didn’t let that stop me, and over the past three years, we’ve been able to scale. I did this because I didn’t rely solely on funding and VCs to help make my dream a reality.
As Black entrepreneurs, it’s unfortunate that we don’t have access to ca
Take your content strategy to the next level with content calendar templates. Stay organized, manage multiple platforms, and achieve maximum productivity.
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Recyklace betonu je svízelnější, než by člověk myslel. Tým odborníků z Cambridge vyvinul nový postup, díky němuž lze důmyslně recyklovat starý beton v elektrické obloukové peci pro recyklaci oceli. Pokud se k tomu použije energie z obnovitelných zdrojů, je výsledkem zázrak, čili uhlíkově neutrální cement. http://www.osel.cz/13489-prulomova-metoda-recyklace-betonu-zajisti-uhlikove-neutralni-cement.html
Ben and Ryan are joined by Robin Gupta for a conversation about benchmarking and testing AI systems. They talk through the lack of trust and confidence in AI, the inherent challenges of nondeterministic systems, the role of human verification, and whether we can (or should) expect an AI to be reliable. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/24/would-you-board-a-plane-safety-tested-by-genai/
Sixty-three percent of marketing leaders intend to invest in generative AI (Gen AI) in the next two years. But, while the technology has the promise to be transformative, incorporating it has challenges. Here are five ques
Resiliency. As the climate around us changes, this concept is dominating conversations from the water cooler to the C-suite. But what does it really mean? Weather can be one of the biggest impact on business efficiency and operations, yet it remains an underappreciated risk in the boardroom. The growing frequency and severity of natural disasters and extreme weather events, as reported by the World Economic Forum, can upend e
Google confirms algorithmic actions for site reputation abuse are not live, and will only impact specific content.
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Tesla has left out its goal of delivering 20 million vehicles a year by 2030 in its latest impact report published on Thursday, another sign the company is tempering its auto ambitions as it shifts focus to robotaxis.
CEO Elon Musk had said in 2020 that Tesla aspired to sell 20 million vehicles by the end of the current decade—twice as many as those sold by
Google parent Alphabet’s potential acquisition of HubSpot, a U.S. marketing software maker with a market value of $31 billion, would boost its ability to compete against Microsoft in offering cloud-based applications to companies.
Reuters reported last month that Google was exploring an offer
Tesla investor Scottish Mortgage Investment trust said on Thursday it plans to continue backing CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package at its annual shareholder meeting next month.
The first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions for millions of Americans are facing pressure from all sides and floundering in statehouses nationwide.
Only one of seven bills aimed at preventing
…aneb Kde všude už byli na našem území objeveni dinosauři http://www.osel.cz/13488-objevy-fosilii-druhohornich-dinosauru-na-uzemi-ceske-republiky.html
Long before generative AI’s boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by U.S. intelligence agencies.
The operation’s results far exceeded human-only analysis, finding twice as many companies and 400% more people engaged in illegal or suspicious commer
The VR music platform Soundscape is collaborating with the electronic music producer deadmau5 to offer unlimited streams of his VR performance in the company’s musical metaverse.
The collaboration with deadmau5 will feature an exclusive virtual concert. The concert will be roughly an hour long and will be available in “Twilight Thicket,” one of the platform’s six universes.
The first major VR experience built nativel
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Anthropic researchers announce progress in understanding how large models “think”
Today’s AI mo
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Hopes of making the Netherlands a global chip powerhouse have been boosted by a new deal between tech giant ASML and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The pair today pledged to spend €180mn on semiconductor research over the next 10 years. Alongside the investm
When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments—that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves.
But two English professors at Carnegie Mellon University had a different first reaction: They saw in this new technology a way to show s
Nvidia gave yet another triumphant quarterly report on Wednesday evening, and also gave the clearest sign yet that it intends to take on Intel directly for control of the personal computer. Basically, Nvidia has tremendous access to the resources an “AI PC” needs—namely, lots and lots of memory circuitry.
Intel, of course, sells upward of ninety percent of the central processing units contr
Discover the power of Reddit for marketers. Learn how to engage with Reddit's active user base and gain deeper insights into consumer behavior.
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Social media platforms and content apps change all the time. But in the past few years, TikTok has changed more than many.
As the company has faced criticism from regulators around the world because of its alleged links to China, it has sought to appease its critics by reshaping the app, its company, and how it works.
It’s all for nothing, it seems, as politicians i
Looking to get a job with a PPC agency? Learn about the skills, knowledge, and mindset that are in demand in the job market today.
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A space mission exploring the “dark universe” has released its first scientific data — and five new extraterrestrial snapshots. Captured by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid telescope, the observations paint a never-before-seen picture of the cosmos. The
With democracy on the line yet again in November, millions of progressive voters will do what they’ve been conditioned to do: They’ll open their digital wallets to try to save it.
A practice that initially took off among anti–Iraq War protesters in the U.S. in the early 2000s, offering small-dollar donations online has become the default mode by which Democratic-leaning voters engage with causes and candidates up and down the ballot. During the 2020 election, small donors contribut
Google's new visual search blurs the lines between AI search results and paid "recommendations"
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Finnish scale-up Enifer is set to build a world-first fungal protein factory after securing full funding for the €33mn site. The futuristic plant will convert food industry sidestreams into an ingredient called Pekilo. Invented in the 1970s, Pekilo was the worl
After years of ravaging computer servers to swindle millions of dollars, the operators of the notorious Ebury botnet had slipped into the shadows by 2021. Suddenly, they reemerged with a bang. The new evidence surfaced during a police investigation in the Nethe
Tým společnosti Anthropic vymyslel důmyslný algoritmus, s jehož pomocí lze do jisté míry zkoumat, které skupiny umělých neuronů inteligence Claude 3 Sonnet mají sklon být aktivní při určitých zadáních. Je to sonda do myšlení pokročilé generativní inteligence střední velikosti. http://www.osel.cz/13486-fantasticka-cesta-do-hlubin-duse-claude-3-odkryva-fungovani-generativni-ai.html
For the better part of the past year, Nvidia has led the stock market. And if that proves true on Thursday, it could be an exciting day.
The chipmaker and critical AI component company, on Wednesday, reported first quarter earnings that, as expected, surpassed analyst expectations. Nvidia reported earnings per share of $6.12, compared to an expectation of $5.59 (and str
Financial inequality remains an unsolved issue. The lack of affordable housing has led to a crisis where long-term wealth generation through homeownership is impossible for many. Closing the wealth inequality gap, which is closely linked to race, has become increasingly difficult due to systemic biases within financial institutions.
The bias exists because banks and mortgage companies reward simple and straightforward application processing. These rewards include discounted f
Alexa was one of the forerunners of digital assistants, but with the rise of generative AI, Amazon’s one-time cultural phenomenon has become less relevant.
Now, however, Amazon could be preparing to unveil an updated version of Alexa, featuring generative artificial intelligence, to better compete with the chatbots that are flourishing online
WP Rocket WordPress caching plugin will now automatically optimize LCP Core Web Vitals sitewide automatically.
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“A new AI era begins”
Signs displaying that confident declaration were plastered all over Microsoft’s campus when I visited on Monday. I wasn’t sure if it referred just to the Windows-centric AI media briefing the company was holding or also to its Build developer conference, which was starting the following day. But coming the week after OpenAI’s unveiling of its ChatGPT Voice Mode and Google’s
Mastercard said Wednesday that it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been compromised well before it ends up in the hands of a cybercriminal.
In its latest software update rolling out this week, Mastercard is integrating artificial intelligence into its fraud-prediction technology that it expects will be able to see patterns in stolen cards faster and allow banks to replace them before t
Chip machine-maker ASML reportedly has the power to remotely disable its equipment in TSMC’s fabs, should China invade Taiwan. TSMC is the biggest client of ASML’s EUV lithography systems, which use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths to manufacture the hi
It’s been a busy week for AI policymakers. The EU has sealed the deal on its AI Act. Meanwhile, in Seoul, South Korea, 16 world-leading companies have signed the “Frontier AI Safety Commitments,” and a group of countries have promised to wor
The European Space Agency (ESA) has enlisted two companies to develop cargo shuttle vehicles for low Earth orbit. ESA awarded the new contracts to the Exploration Company in Germany and Thales Alenia Space in Italy. The services are due to deliver supplies to t
DeepL, the Cologne-based unicorn that has been rivalling machine translation giants such as Google Translate, today announced a new investment of $300mn (€277mn), reaching a $2bn valuation. Born from online dictionary Linguee, the startup was founded in 2017
The Internet is not exactly a green technology. Whether it’s the electricity gobbled up by servers, PCs and other tools that access and deliver the online world, or the e-Waste that’s piling up in landfills, being connected has its environmental downsides.
Comcast, though, says i
Nvidia Corporation, the world’s leading GPU chip design company, is poised to announce its latest quarterly earnings after the bell on Wednesday, and market watchers are keenly focused on the results—and what they will mean for the company’s stock value—especially regarding the H200 chips and the transition toward the new Blackwell architecture.
Nvidia’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked the actress Scarlett Johansson—who famously voiced an AI assistant in the 2013 film Her—to do the voice for ChatGPT. She said no. So OpenAI concocted a voice that sounds a lot like that of the actress, and used it without telling her. Now the actress has lawyered up and OpenAI has egg
As protests continue to engulf college campuses across the U.S., former Merck CEO Ken Frazier and former American Express CEO Ken Chenault see the unrest as a microcosm of broader society, and a crucial learning moment for business leaders everywhere. Frazier and Chenault share their unfiltered advice about corporate DEI and ESG efforts, what people misunderstand about affirmative action, and how to lead with courage in 2024.
This is an abridged transcript of an interview
This article explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI Overviews, including lower CPCs, misinformation, and potential traffic loss for content creators.
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A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/22/you-should-keep-a-developer-s-journal/
In today’s deeply divided world, where a spirit of isolationism and separation se
Struggling to recover from a Google update? This checklist can help. Get back on track and maintain your website's organic visibility.
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Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Linnea an
Google keynote speakers demonstrated how AI Overviews will prioritize advertising over organic search
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Discover the importance of header tags in web design and SEO. Optimize content structure and improve search rankings with these best practices.
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