Day 1 of TNW Conference kicked off with an array of inspiring sessions, insightful panel discussions, thought-provoking performances, and of course, a ton of meetings that will fuel the next wave of innovation across the tech ecosystem. We were joined by 3,50
Google begins rolling out the June 2024 spam update, which should take a week to complete.
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Anthropic ups the ante with a new state-of-the-art LLM, Claude 1.5
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s main re-election Super PAC is raising millions of dollars to try to solve a problem vexing Democrats: how to compete with Republican Donald Trump’s social media machine that spits out a wall of viral videos.
The previously unr
Single individuals make less of a difference to the success or failure of a technology project than you might think (and that’s a good thing). https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/19/the-real-10x-developer-makes-their-whole-team-better/
In the latest Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise release, you'll see reporting capabilities and insights that help demonstrate community impact. Microsoft customers can also rejoice: OverflowAI now includes an Auto-Answer App for Microsoft Teams. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/20/demonstrating-community-impact/
A fact-checking startup has accelerated plans to banish AI hallucinations after securing €1mn in funding. Norway-based Factiverse uses machine learning to verify content generated by artificial intelligence. The company’s tools automatically detect inaccurate
What was the World Wide Web like at the start? Long before it became the place we think and work and talk, the air that we (and the bots) now breathe no matter how polluted it’s become? So much of the old web has rotted away that it can be hard to say; even the great Internet Archive only goes back to 1996. But try browsing farther back in time, and you can start to see
Farmers need data to monitor and predict everything that goes into affecting their crops from drought and flood conditions to soil health and temperature fluctuations.
But for many—particularly those in developing nations—such facts and figures aren’t readily available. The problem is especially worrisome in Africa, where some 60% of the population is engaged in small-scale farming. “Africa is still the most data-scarce continent,” says Kate Kallot, CEO and
The irony of leveraging human curation to make sense of the nonstop deluge of AI advancements is not lost on me, but here we are. These excellent AI newsletters are produced by living, breathing experts adept at separating the artificially intelligent wheat from the chaff.
Whether you’re a beginner just dipping your toe into the world of AI or a seasoned professional looking to keep the good times rolling, curated newsletters can be an invaluable resource. Here are seven dai
Curious about which factors are key to ensuring your images don't slow down your site? Explore these 14 essential tips for optimizing images.
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If you’ve scrolled through Instagram lately, you’ve likely come across an odd message in people’s feeds. Stories and posts are popping up, declaring that those users, not Instagram, own the copyright to all images and posts (past, present, and future).
Artificial intelligence, as you might guess, is behind this wave—more specifically, the fear of AI. As Meta grows its AI systems and looks to catch up with competitors, some of its users are objecting to their posts being part of the
The Federal Aviation Authorization Bill passed last month, but one element was missing: a bipartisan amendment to pause the TSA’s ongoing facial recognition program due to concerns about travelers’ privacy rights.
There are legitimate reasons for implementing The TSA’s facial recognition technology. Ideally, it would speed up the flow of
Discover the key elements to analyze on your competitors' websites for SEO success. Improve your strategies and outrank the competition.
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Bluehost Agency Partner Program provides WordPress agencies & freelancers exclusive access to priority service, performant hosting and new revenue streams
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Vodovodů z římské doby (akvaduktů) je fůra, ale z řecké archaické doby jich není mnoho. Nejznámější je na ostrově Samu, dokonce vede obřím tunelem, ale docela slušný se najde i v Athénách. Naxijský necháme na jindy, to je zvláštní případ už svou délkou. http://www.osel.cz/13523-recke-vodovody-z-6-stoleti-pred-n-l.html
Leading post-quantum cryptography (PQC) startup PQShield today announced a Series B raise of $37mn. This comes as organisations and businesses hasten to get “quantum-ready,” ahead of the first PQC standards being released in a few weeks time. Whi
Jsem konstruktér ve firmě zabývající se strojírenstvím primárně pro energetiku, takže mi není lhostejný problém elektroenergetického trhu, s nímž je něco v nepořádku. Nebudu se zabývat proč, kdo a za co může – to je politická otázka. Položil jsem si ale otázku, jaká by přibližně měla být cena elektřiny, aby elektroenergetika měla šanci být v dlouhodobějším horizontu 20 a více let ufinancovatelná. Nechť článek v diskusi ekonomové opraví a zpřesní. http://www.osel.cz/13522-zamysleni-nad-cenou-silo
Optimize your PPC budget for maximum results. Find out how to balance cost, volume, and competition in your industry with a small budget.
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TNW Conference 2024 is finally here! As we here at The Next Web attend many conferences throughout the year (although few are as much fun and inspiring as our own, if we may say so ourselves ), we know that they can sometimes feel a little overwhelming w
As Reddit ranks higher in Google searches, its traffic has reportedly grown 39% year-over-year.
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Google's Gary Illyes says sudden crawling spikes may signal hacked sites or other issues.
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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, Ioanna and Andrii ta
…aneb Pohled na jediné přeživší dinosaury http://www.osel.cz/13521-jak-ptaci-unikli-vyhynuti-na-konci-kridy.html
Scientists have trained an AI algorithm to count the number of flowers on fruit trees using only smartphone images. The system could predict the size of a harvest months in advance — saving farmers time, money, and water. Researchers from Chile,
A new VR system that uses eye-tracking technology can calm children while they undergo Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning. Developed by researchers at King’s College London, the method aims to mitigate children’s tendency to move during MRI scans. by en
Fitness and health tracking startup Circular today announced a host of new features including hardware upgrades for the latest version of its smart ring — the thinnest in the world. The upgrades arrive amid an escalating battle between smart ring ma
If you’ve already secured your ticket for TNW Conference 2024 taking place June 20 – 21 in Amsterdam, you probably already have your eye on several fascinating talks set to take place (if not, get some inspiration from our team here, here, and here). But there’s a lot mo
In October 1994, I reviewed a new gizmo for InfoWorld, a prominent tech newsweekly. The device in question—the result of a collaboration between IBM and wireless carrier BellSouth—was a mobile phone known as Simon. Like all 1994 cellphones, it was a brick-like behemoth. But the reason InfoWorld cared about it was b
Working at a call center can be a stressful job. For eight hours (or more!) a day, you talk with customers who have problems—and oftentimes those frustrations boil over. That can take a toll on the mental health of employees.
Added to the stress is the looming threat of artificial intelligence making those workers obsolete. But AI, as it stands today, is nowhere near rea
Google has a wide range of tools businesses of any size can use to boost productivity, maximize marketing spend and drive more sales.
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The secret to successful B2B content marketing? Building trust with valuable content. Discover strategies on how to nurture subscribers, build relationships, and generate high-quality leads.
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If you watched the Chiefs-49ers Super Bowl back in February, you might have caught one of Homes.com’s ads,
What can you do with a 30-year-old version of Netscape Navigator on a modern computer?
From a practical standpoint, not much. Vintage web browsers, if you can even get them running in the first place, are incompatible with most websites today. Even when a website loads, it probably it won’t look right, with weird formatting, misplaced images, and a jumbled mess of unrecognizable text around the actual page content.
But given 2024 marks the 30-year anniversary of Net
Level up your SEO skills with LLMs. Discover how coding and understanding language models can improve your technical SEO efforts.
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Discover the impact of AI on data storytelling and its implications for business decision-making. Explore the future of storytelling in the digital age.
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Can nuclear energy, solar and wind farms, and carbon capture scale fast enough to save the planet? GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik details how green energy is evolving in 2024. GE Vernova is a new company spun out from General Electric, and helps power around a quarter of the world’s electricity. Strazik explains how today’s electrical grid limits renewable energy’s potential, and why it desperately needs a “new brain.”
Naši předci měli pletky s neandertálci a mělo to následky. Evropské a asijské populace mají v genomu asi 2 procenta neandertálské DNA, včetně úseků, které ovlivňují expresi genů v mozkových buňkách. Některé úseky souvisejí se zvýšeným rizikem autismu, a také epilepsie, která bývá s autismem těsně spjtatá. http://www.osel.cz/13520-neandertalska-dna-ma-prsty-v-autismu.html
Warning labels are put onto products that can seriously harm our health, like alcohol and tobacco. But the U.S. surgeon general wants to have a warning label for social media. Dr. Vivek Murthy has said that the labels would be justified because of the supposed impact on teenage users’ mental health. He’s been clear about his desire for legislators to put into law rules that would require users to be warned about the potential impact being on platforms would have on them. “In an emergency, yo
The BBC has invested £500,000 in a virtual events startup creating immersive gigs for the broadcaster. The UK-based Condense bills itself as the first company in the world to provide live streams of 3D videos in virtual spaces. Quietly, the startup recently b
The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday voted to ban smartphones for its 429,000 students in an attempt to insulate kids from distractions and social media that undermine learning and
Some day, the passenger jets that soar 35,000 feet (10.6 kilometers) over Dan McLean’s North Dakota farm could be fueled by corn grown on his land and millions of other acres across the Midwest.
It’s a vision the U.S. airline industry embraces and agricultural groups see as a key to ensuring strong future sales of ethanol, a fuel that consumes more than one-third of the na
Our study across millions of clicks revealed the true cost of leaving close variants unsupervised; we break down the impact and how to tame them.
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Apple has suspended work on the next generation of its Vision Pro amid slowing sales of the high-end headset, according to The Information.
The company has reportedly been deprioritizing the next Vision Pro headset over the
The Los Angeles Unified School District on Tuesday will consider banning smartphones for its 429,000 students in an attempt to insulate a generation of kids from distractions and social media that undermine learning and hurt mental health.
The proposal was bein
Razorfish launches R-Index: A revolutionary technology that turns consumer data silos into strategic insights on consumer journeys and brand sentiment
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The beauty contest features polished travel influencers representing the likes of Morocco and France, humanitarian activists dedicated to LGBTQ+ issues and women’s health advocacy and of course, social media models with perfectly symmetrical faces clad in skin-tight activewear.
But there’s a catch: All were made using artificial intelligence.
A shortlist of 10 AI-generated influencers made it to the final judging stages of the world-first competition, vying for a $2
NATO has confirmed the first group of European startups and venture capital firms it’s investing in as part of its €1bn innovation fund. Officially launched in 2023, the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is a multi-sovereign VC fund that will back early-stage deep te
Every week, more than 212 million Americans play a video game for an hour or more. The average age of those players is 32 years old. It’s an industry that has won cases in front of the Supreme Court and whose collective annual revenues have surpassed those of the Hollywood box office.
That journey to a respected entertainment medium, in many ways, got started 30 years ago, when over the
When I open up Threads, I often come across two-day old posts from strangers, which the app shows me because the people I follow replied to them yesterday. It’s not exactly ideal.
“This post from two days ago is unironically near the top of my feed tonight,” reporter Brian Stelter wrote on Threads back in April, attaching a screenshot that read: “love to open this app and see what people were talking about two day
Plaid, which provides the technology that lets you swiftly connect your bank account to thousands of fintech products, is making the onboarding process even simpler.
Chtěli byste si postavit dům jako ze stavebnice? Cihly Plaex nabízejí takový zážitek, tedy až v USA dokončí certifikace pro obytné budovy. Z 90 procent je tvoří recyklovaný plast a jsou asi o 35 procent lehčí než tradiční cihly stejné velikosti. Dům ze stavebnice by mohli ocenit ambiciózní kutilové nebo humanoidní robotičtí zedníci, kteří jsou už na spadnutí. http://www.osel.cz/13519-cihly-plaex-z-recyklovaneho-plastu-jsou-jako-kostky-lego.html
BeReal’s days of social media dominance are long gone. The app, which offers randomized daily two-minute timers prompting users to snap a quick picture of what they’re up to, counted 23 million active users in January 2024—a steep drop from
Prevent panic and address traffic declines in Google Search Console with this detailed troubleshooting guide.
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If I had to describe European tech growth over the last few years with one word, it would be ‘disruptive’. While it may seem cliché, I’ve chosen this word for many reasons. Through a positive lens, European tech ‘disrupted’ many key sectors in the early 2020s,
On today’s episode we chat with Cassandra Shum, VP of Field Engineering at RelationalAI, about her company’s efforts to create what it calls the industry’s first coprocessor for data clouds and language models. The goal is to allow companies to keep all their data where it is today while still tapping into the capabilities of the latest generation of AI tools. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/18/reflective-ai-data-coprocessor-llm-etl/
Apple used Monday’s keynote at the annual WWDC event to unveil a roster of new software developments, product upgrades, and most importantly—their long-awaited AI play. Fast Company’s own Yasmin Gagne discusses Apple’s new high-stakes partnership with OpenAI, implications for app-based businesses, and investors’ reactions to the week’s news. Gagne also reads the tea leaves on Tim Cook’s future successor, explores whether we’ve reached “peak Apple,” and more.
YouTube tests crowdsourced context notes, allowing creators and viewers to annotate videos.
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