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20 Confirmed Facts About YouTube’s Algorithm via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Understand how YouTube's algorithm selects and recommends videos to enhance your content's reach and engagement with your target audience.

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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/youtube-algorithm-facts/403984/

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says a Kamala Harris presidency is best for business

LinkedIn cofounder, tech investor, and major political donor Reid Hoffman has thrown his support behind Kamala Harris, after staunchly backing Biden. This has plunged him into headlines, in opposition to Elon Musk and other prominent tech leaders. Reid joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to take us inside Silicon Valley’s reaction to Harris’s presidential bid, why some business leaders are em

CrowdStrike offers $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for the outage

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind last week’s massive computer crash, offered $10 UberEats gift cards to its affected partners for their troubles, according to a TechCrunch report. And now, some

Autonomní hnízdo: Inovativní hangár z VUT přináší technologickou revoluci

Drony letí na špici pokroku, ale potřebují k tomu sofistikovanou infrastrukturu. Studenti brněnského VUT vyvíjejí hangár pro bezpilotní letouny, který slibuje autonomní provoz a efektivní využití v různých odvětvích. Tento projekt má potenciál zjednodušit monitorování, záchranné akce i zemědělství, a představuje významný krok směrem k intenzivnímu využití dronů. http://www.osel.cz/13580-autonomni-hnizdo-inovativni-hangar-z-vut-prinasi-technologickou-revoluci.html

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How San Francisco politics became a proxy for the 2024 election

Seven key swing states will determine the outcome of the presidential election this year. One spot on the map that almost certainly won’t is the Bay Area, where Democratic candidates have won all of the region’s nine counties in every presidential race since 1988.

And yet, while the politics of the Bay Area ostensibly couldn’t matter less to this race, in a lot of ways, they’ve never mattered more.

First, there are the candidates themselves. The

Colin Kaepernick is launching an AI startup to empower manga creators

A new AI platform led by activist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick aims to make it easier for anyone to publish—and monetize—their original stories as comics and manga.

Lumi, unveiled in beta form Wednesday, includes AI-powered tools designed to let anyone with so much as an idea develop full-fledged stories, says Kaepernick, the company’s founder and CEO. From the start, Lumi is designed to support people looking to create c

GM delays Origin self-driving vehicle without a steering wheel, citing regulatory risk

General Motors’ Cruise self-driving unit will focus its development efforts on a next-generation Chevrolet Bolt as it indefinitely delays its planned Origin vehicle that would not have a steering wheel, the automaker said on Tuesday.

In 2022, GM filed a petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration seeking permission to deploy up to

Musk says Trump’s anti-EV plans would hurt competitors more than Tesla

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s potential removal of support for electric vehicles would hurt other automakers more than the Austin, Texas-based firm.

“It would be devastating for our competitors, and it would hurt Tesla slight

Google Search Revenue Grows 14% In Q2 2024 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Alphabet reports strong Q2 2024: Google Search revenue up 14%, Cloud surpasses $10 billion. AI innovation remains key focus.

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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-revenue-grows-14-in-q2-2024/522922/

UK unicorn Improbable finally makes profit after pivot to venture building


After 12 years in business and several strategic pivots, British unicorn Improbable has achieved profitability for the first time. Improbable credited the milestone to yet another business shift. After numerous attempts to create virtual worlds, the company has

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Developers want more, more, more: the 2024 results from Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey

This year, technologies such as JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain most popular, Rust and Markdown remain most admired, developers are most frustrated by technical debt at work, and they don’t see AI as a threat to their jobs. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/24/developers-want-more-more-more-the-2024-results-from-stack-overflow-s-annual-developer-survey/

UK backs ‘space mirror’ to melt ice on the Moon into drinking water


The UK hopes to produce water on the Moon with a space mirror that reflects solar rays onto lunar ice. The device is the brainchild of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS), the world’s oldest space advocacy organisation. Boffins at the BIS named the device

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TNW Podcast: Remon Berrevoets on quantum tech; dark future of European solar


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 and Andrii ta

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DeepL targets Taiwan, HK with new AI translation for Traditional Chinese


DeepL, the Cologne-based AI translation unicorn, has added Traditional Chinese to

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I finally feel grateful for AI, and it’s weirding me out

In case you weren’t paying attention, the world celebrated AI Appreciation Day last week on July 16. Or, in my case, didn’t celebrate it. It seemed like a pretty silly excuse for a holiday, especially after I failed to mark National Electricity Day—the 272nd anniversary of

Meta removes a massive network of Nigerian sextortion accounts

Meta said Wednesday it has removed roughly 63,000 accounts engaged in financial sextorion scams, a growing category of online crime in which scammers use fake accounts to dupe victims into sharing nude photos, then extort them for money. The accounts involved in the takedown were based in Nigeria, which has become a hotspot for financial sextortion, and included one coordinated network of 2,500

Help! My friend followed me on Instagram years ago and I forgot to follow back

There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?

Fortunately, terminally online writers Delia Cai and St

A Guide To Keyword Prioritization & The Newest Query Matching Controls In Google Ads via @sejournal, @adsliaison

Understanding how the four keyword prioritization rules and new query matching controls work just might have you rethinking your account structure.

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Why You Should Be Focusing On Brand Marketing Right Now via @sejournal, @MordyOberstein

Uncover the importance of brand marketing in today's search landscape. Find out why focusing on conversational content can have a positive impact on your brand.

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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/why-you-should-be-

Debris is making space travel unsustainable

The number of satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) has ballooned in recent years, and the story is the same as in all popular destinations: traffic is a nightmare.

Things have become so congested that the cumulative volume of spacecraft and debris in LEO is unsustainable, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) 2024 Space Environment Report determined. Without the widespread adoption of debris mitigation tactics, the report warns that the future of space travel could be in jeopardy.

A group of U.S. senators demand OpenAI turn over safety data

A group of five U.S. senators are demanding OpenAI submit data showing how it plans to meet safety and security commitments that it has made about its artificial intelligence systems after a growing number of employees and researchers have raised red flags about the technology and the company’s safety protocols.

In a let

Tesla profit dips 45% in a ‘difficult operating environment’

Tesla’s second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a year ago as the company’s global electric-vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing.

The Austin company said Tuesday that it made $1.48 billion from April through June, less than the $2.7 billion it made in the same period of 2023. It was Tesla’s second-straight quarterly net income decline.

Second-quarter revenue rose 2% to $25.5 billion, beating Wall Street estimates o

Google search is still thriving despite a shift to AI

Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet, delivered another quarter of steady growth amid an AI-driven shift in the ubiquitous search engine that is the foundation of its Internet empire.

The second-quarter report released Tuesday showed that Google is still reeling in advertisers on the heels of the May introduction of an artificial-intelligence feature that p

Meta’s Llama 3.1 is open-source, kind of. Here’s how it could reshape the AI race

Meta today released a trio of new open-source large language models called Llama 3.1, the largest of which may lead to new chatbots that rival ChatGPT. In fact, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes the company’s Llama powered AI assistant will be more widely used than ChatGPT by the end of this year. 

Llama 3.1 is actually a small family of models–Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B. (The numbers connote the number

How to get reimbursed by Delta for flights grounded by the CrowdStrike outage

Among the many thoughts that drifted through my mind over the course of four long hours at San Diego International Airport last Friday: Delta will pay for this. Even now, the airline and thousands of my fellow travelers are still struggling through the largest snafu in the airline’s history. I learned this when I tried to fly home on Friday, when Delta canceled my flight, couldn’t book me on another flight for two days, and refused to provide accommodations, food or reimbursement for anythin

Masivní plovoucí soustava větrných turbín Windcatcher směřuje k realizaci

Dechberoucí větrné monstrum Windcatcher se blíží k pilotnímu projektu, který by měl být v dohledné době spuštěn u Øygardenu na jihozápadním pobřeží Norska. Wind Catching Systems získali osvědčení pro 40 MW design. Pokud pilotní projekt uspěje, budou se dít ve větrné energetice věci. http://www.osel.cz/13579-masivni-plovouci-soustava-vetrnych-turbin-windcatcher-smeruje-k-realizaci.html

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The global IT outage exposed Europe’s dangerous dependence on US tech


It’s a taunt that’s reiterated to the point of cliché: Europe is a good place to start a tech business, but a bad place to scale one up. The causes are contentious but their impact is undeniable. None of the 10 most valuable tech firms in the world are in Eur

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Researchers detect deepfakes with the same tools used to survey galaxies


It’s a common saying that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Now, researchers claim that they can also reveal deepfakes with the help of tools that study galaxies  — by looking at eyeballs.  According to the research by Adejumoke Owolabi, mas

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Stock in freefall: Here’s how much the Windows outage will cost CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike: the ultimate tech disruptor? It was for at least a couple of days last week, when the cybersecurity firm released an update that subsequently bricked computers across numerous industries, including medical record systems, and canceled hundreds if not thousands of flights.

In all, the economic costs could tally into the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, as companies across t

Elon Musk’s Neuralink employees want to cash out, here’s why

Some of the staff at Elon Musk’s Neuralink are making preparations to sell the brain implant company’s stock in the wake of its valuation jumping following its first human trial, according to people familiar with the matter.

Stock compensation is

How precision medicine is tackling stubborn cancers in 2024

In 2022 alone, there were nearly 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer-related deaths worldwide, per a report by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). By 2040, the NCI predicts, the number of new cancer cases per year will rise to 29.9 million, and the number of cancer-related deaths will climb to 15.3 million. And though b

UK startup unveils ‘world’s most advanced’ vertiport for air taxis


In collaboration with LG, UK startup Urban-Air Port has unveiled the AirOne vertiport, which merges robotics with AI integrated systems — a world first, according to the company. Vertiports promise to facilitate advanced urban air mobility, intended for vehic

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System Builders – How AI Changes The Work Of SEO via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig

Uncover the transformative power of AI in SEO. Learn how AI is reshaping content creation and the challenges it poses for human-generated content.

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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/system-builders-how-ai-changes-the-work-of

Oxygen-generating ‘battery rock’ discovery challenges understanding of life on Earth


Scientists have discovered oxygen-generating ‘battery rocks’ on the ocean floor that could challenge long-held beliefs about the origins of life on Earth — and make a strong case against deep-sea mining.  A team led by

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Looking Ahead To The Future – SGE, Gemini…And AGI? via @sejournal, @marie_haynes

Explore the impact of SGE, Gemini, and AGI on search. Discover the potential of Google's AI technologies in reshaping information retrieval.

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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/looking-ahead-to-future-sge-gemini-agi/521845/

How Julia could beat Python for programming language dominance


Despite taking several years to become fully popularised, Python continues to dominate the programming sphere thanks to its clean and relatable syntax, readability, and ease of learning for beginners. However, the most common complaint among users is that P

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This unfolding thermal telescope can tell if your home is leaking heat


A Cambridge University spin-out is developing a unfolding, heat-detecting telescope that could capture high resolution thermal images of Earth — at an affordable price. Currently, some large, expensive satellites in low-earth orbit can captu

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CrowdStrike could have a European-size data problem on its hands

CrowdStrike’s massive malfunction on Friday sent 8.5 million Windows computers into blue screen of death (BSOD) mode and affected everything from hospitals and airlines to banks and subways. (Little wonder the company’s share price has

4 ways AI and tech tools can help frontline workers progress

Workplace tech has long been the business world’s digital divide. For decades, people with desk jobs have had an increasing array of technology tools to drive collaboration, productivity, and access to information. In contrast, frontline workers, who make up over 50% of the U.S. workforce (about 80 million employees), typically lack access to digital workplace tools focused on engagement, upskilling, and advancement.

This digital divide is closing rapidly, thanks to workplace apps

4 ways to rebrand AI in healthcare

Artificial intelligence has the potential to be a critical tool to help deliver exceptional and personalized healthcare. In fact, while many patients might not realize it, AI has been used in healthcare for years to reduce administrative burdens, automate routine tasks, and increase the accuracy of everything from diagnoses to prior authorization requests.

With the rise of generative AI and its use of large language models to synthesize and create new content such as text, images,

The problem with the tech debt mindset

Ryan chats with Jon Bevan, a software engineer currently building the cloud version of Scriptrunner, an Atlassian app, about the concept of tech debt. They explore how tech debt can arise from outdated technology choices, shortcuts, and the need for maintenance work. They also delve into the challenges of upgrading dependencies and the potential scope creep of requirements and features over time. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/23/the-problem-with-the-tech-debt-mindset/

Koncept stíhače 6. generace Tempest oslňuje aerodynamikou

Britští BAE Systems s italskými Leonardo a japonskými Mitsubishi vyvíjejí stíhací stealth letoun 6. generace Tempest. Na letošním aerosalonu ve Farnborough představili nový koncept Tempestu, na němž je znát pokrok v designu. Další osud Tempestu závisí hlavně na nové britské vládě. http://www.osel.cz/13577-koncept-stihace-6-generace-tempest-oslnuje-aerodynamikou.html

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Google reverses course on privacy, opting to keep targeting cookies in Chrome

On Monday, Google announced a significant policy reversal, saying that it would now keep cookies in its Chrome browser, capitulating to disagreements with the advertising industry and the concerns of European regulators, but risking the wrath of users.

“We recognize this transition requires significant work by many participants and will have an impact on publishers, advertisers,

#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to survive alone in the arctic wilderness longer than anyone else. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest competitors in the history on that show. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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ASML orders up 24%, China still the biggest market despite restrictions


While this year thus far has been less profitable for ASML, the tech giant saw orders for its chip making machines increase again over the past three months. According to the company’s earnings report for the second quarter of 2024, net bookings (i.e. orders

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Google backs Danish startup using ancient bacteria to ferment CO2 into valuable chemicals


Danish startup Again has raised money… again. Google Ventures and Berlin-based HV Capital led the $43mn funding round, which brings the startup’s total to date to just shy of $100mn. Again takes waste CO₂ from industry, combines it

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Samsung buys UK startup Oxford Semantic to boost ‘personalised AI experiences’


Samsung has snapped up UK startup Oxford Semantic Technologies, in a bid to “hyper-personalise” user experiences with AI. Founded in 2017, Oxford Semantic specialises in knowledge graphs, which integrate and analyse data. The technology powers countless applic

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UK approves first cultivated meat sales in Europe — but only for pet food


Cultivated meat is now approved for sale in Europe — but don’t break out the fine China just yet. The first dishes are exclusively reserved for pets. Our furry friends can now legally dine on cultivated chicken from Meatly, a startup based in London. The comp

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Autonomous kite-powered boats promise faster, cheaper, greener shipping


From your phone to your clothes or even the breakfast you ate this morning, there’s a high chance a boat transported it from where it was made to where you bought it from. The global shipping industry accounts for around 90% of world trade. Most of

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Proton launches ‘privacy-first’ AI email assistant to rival Google, Microsoft


Swiss app developer Proton has launched a new “privacy-first” AI email writing assistant that could be a more secure alternative to similar offerings from Google and Microsoft.  Proton Scribe, integrated in Proton Mail, allows use

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Businesses are harvesting our biometric data. We need new protections


Imagine walking through a bustling railway station. You’re in a hurry, weaving through the crowd, unaware that cameras are not just watching you but also recognising you. These days, our biometric data is valuable to businesses for security purposes, to enhance custo

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Dutch students cross North Sea in hydrogen boat — but you won’t ride one anytime soon


A team of students from the Technical University of Delft have made history by crossing the North Sea in a fully hydrogen-powered boat.   TU Delft’s Hydro Motion team set off from Breskens, Netherlands on July 11, with 160km of rou

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Laser weapon ‘neutralises’ targets from British Army vehicle for first time


Britain has successfully fired a laser weapon from an army combat vehicle for the first time, the UK government announced today. During trials, the system “neutralised” targets at distances in excess of 1km, officials said. Matt Cork, programme lead of the gov

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Dutch founder raises $1M for app he built for his deaf parents


Growing up, Jari Hazelebach was a full-time interpreter. Both of his parents are deaf, and from a young age he helped them communicate in a world largely oblivious to the struggles of the 430 million people suffering from disabling hearing loss. 

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