Flashes, a photo-sharing app that’s linked to X-alternative Bluesky, launched in beta this week before disappearing from the test store due to what its developer said was technical difficulties.
Flashes developer Sebastian Vogelsang said in a Bluesky post that Apple’s engineering team i
An intentionally bad “conservative girl” makeup technique is taking the internet by storm.
In the wake of the 2024 election and Donald Trump’s inauguration, an unflattering take on Republican women’s makeup style has quickly gained traction online. One of the first videos to go viral was posted by TikTok creator Suzanne Lambert back in November. It has since received five millio
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OpenAI’s “deep research” gives a preview of the AI agents of the future
OpenAI announced this week its AI research
The Brannock device—that sliding metal gadget used in shoe stores to measure the dimensions of your feet—was invented 100 years ago this year.
But footwear fitting hasn’t really gotten more advanced since, says Dan Cataldi, founder and CEO of custom insole maker Groov. For most people, it still comes down to finding shoes by
Laravel is known for its elegant approach to structuring complex logic. I’ve been using Laravel since the release of Laravel 4, and it has pretty consistently added new helpful features to every release, to the point where I myself discovering new features all the time that I haven’t used. Pipelines are just one of […]
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Začátkem roku 2025 překonal čínský tokamak EAST svůj dřívější celosvětový rekord v délce udržení fúzního plazmatu. Poprvé v historii se podařilo překonat dobu tisíc sekund. Jde o další krok, který přibližuje dobu využívání fúzní energie. Čína intenzivně pracuje na dalších zařízeních a dostává se do čela i v této oblasti. http://www.osel.cz/13896-novy-cinsky-fuzni-rekord-slibuje-zrychleni-prichodu-fuzni-elektrarny.html
Google releases updated guidance on merging GA4 and Search Console data via Looker Studio to enhance SEO insights.
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Mark your calendars to learn more about Stack’s Future—Feb 26th. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/06/investing-in-the-stack-exchange-network-and-the-future-of-stack-overflow/
The generative AI revolution has turned into a global race, with mixtures of models from private companies and open-source initiatives all competing to become the most popular and powerful. Many choose to promote their prowess by demonstrating their performance on common tests and levels within regular rankings.
But the legitimacy of those rankings has been thrown into
Struggling with negative listings? Take charge of your online reputation using practical strategies to repair your brand relationship and regain control of your narrative.
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Explore the significance of TAM, SAM, and SOM in assessing business ideas and creating effective marketing and SEO strategies.
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Keď čínske vojnové lode plávajú niekoľko desiatok kilometrov od závodov TSMC na Taiwane, ktoré vyrábajú asi polovicu svetovej produkcie vyspelých čipov, taiwanská armáda je v pohotovosti a USA dvíhajú varovný prst. Dôvod na znepokojenie je jednoznačný: ak by tieto závody prestali pracovať, dôsledky pre svet by sa najmenej vyrovnali ropnej kríze z roku 1973. http://www.osel.cz/13895-taiwan-klenot-polovodicoveho-priemyslu-na-dostrel.html
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When’s the last time you fielded a tech support call from a parent?
You want your parents—or anyone you support—to benefit from email, photo sharing, and video calls. You also have to protect them
There’s nothing more annoying than arriving at your destination and finding that your checked baggage didn’t make the trip. But thanks to Apple’s new partnership with 15 different airlines, it’s easier than ever to track down your lost luggage—provided you have the right $29 gadget. Here’s what you need to know to help track down your missing baggage as efficiently as possible.
U.S. airlines m
Oracle’s new AI will answer employee questions about everything job-related, from hiring to retiring.
Oracle has embedded artificial intelligence capabilities into its Human Capital Management software with the intention of optimizing workplace productivity, the company announced Thursday. The AI engages in human-like conversations, much like ChatGPT, but responds using truthful data that participating companies provide to Oracle.
“The best AI comes from the best data,”
An X post recently made the rounds for its “old money” visuals. The video depicting weekends spent sailing Lake Como in tuxedos and candlelit dinners at impossibly long dining tables screams “upper crust.” Or so we thought.
It was another X user who quickly shattered the illusion. “Sorry to burst the fantasy, but I know one of the girls in this video, and none of this is casual or real,” Louis Pisano wrote in a
Influencers are not only good for skinny jean and matcha recommendations. Now, they can advise you on where to invest your money.
Founded by 23-year-old Steven Wang, Dub is an influencer-driven marketplace where users can now copy the entire portfolios of the likes of Rep. Nancy Pelosi or billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman for just $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year. At the same time, retail traders accepted into Dub’s top creator pro
For those of us who live and breathe the command line, there’s something undeniably satisfying about well-crafted TUI (Text-based User Interface) applications. Whether you’re managing servers, editing files, or just want a slicker way to interact with your system without touching a mouse, TUIs offer speed, efficiency, and often a bit of nostalgia. That’s where […]
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YouTube updates Analytics with more prominent device data, helping you tailor content to shifting viewing habits.
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In just a couple of years, generative AI (GenAI) has made a big impact on the way people, companies, and entire industries think about work. It’s helping doctors and nurses, who spend more than a third of their work week on paperwork, free up more time to focus on patients.
LinkedIn report highlights five key trends reshaping B2B marketing, emphasizing revenue metrics, AI attribution, and ROI-focused strategies.
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Drive better results with Smart Bidding in Google Ads. Learn how to use this advanced feature to optimize your PPC campaigns.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Wednesday he is reconsidering rules that allowed air traffic control supervisors to reduce staffing at Washington’s Reagan National Airport before a fatal Army helicopter-plane collision that
Amazon is set to release its long-awaited—and delayed—Alexa generative artificial intelligence voice service, said three people familiar with the matter, and has scheduled a press event for later this month to preview it.
Once released, it would mark the most significant upgrade to the product since its initial introducti
Google’s new ads rules demote confusing landing pages and reward those aligned with user intent.
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It’s almost become cliche for employers to express concern about Gen Z’s lack of training in the social skills necessary for life in the office.
Employers want new recruits with a certain level of professionalism—the ability to casually converse with office higher
In the first weeks of Donald Trump’s second term in office, Elon Musk has been busy seizing control of instruments of government power, causing many to wonder who is really in charge. “Elon Musk is President,” The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire declared. “There has never been a
The website of the Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek, whose chatbot became the most downloaded app in the United States, has computer code that could send some user login information to a Chinese state-owned telecommunications company that h
Read insights from marketing agencies, explore strategies for success in 2025, and provide actionable takeaways to help your agency thrive.
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Fyzici si půjčili kvantový annealer společnosti D-Wave Quantum a s jeho pomocí simulovali chování bublin fázových přechodů při zhroucení falešného vakua, k němuž, pokud čtete tento text, reálně ještě nedošlo. Pokud se falešné vakuum naší reality jednou zhroutí, alespoň budeme mít představu, co se bude dít. http://www.osel.cz/13894-kvantovy-stroj-simuluje-zhrouceni-falesneho-vakua.html
Earlier this week, a doctor friend told me about a frustrating new obstacle he’s facing at work. In normal times, he’s relied on websites operated by the U.S. federal government for practical information on everything from vaccine side effects to advice for families traveling to exotic areas. But the Trump administration’s move to strip sites of material relating to “gender ideology” and
Cybersecurity startup EchoMark is releasing a new application programming interface (API) to allow for its novel digital watermarking tool to integrate with virtually any existing communications software.
Founded in 2022 to develop a digital watermarking system to safeguard organizations’ sensitive and proprietary information, EchoMark originally focused on injecting personalized identifiers into emails and link-based networked document sharing tools. Now, armed with $10 million in
Master SERP analysis to boost your website's visibility by understanding search features, user intent, and competitor strategies in Google's evolving results pages.
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Find out how to accurately analyze and interpret data in Google Analytics 4 by using additional verification methods.
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The NBA is experimenting with a digital brain for basketballs. The system is the brainchild of SportIQ, a Finnish startup that develops smart basketballs. Inside each ball’s valve, SportIQ embeds a sensor that tracks a player’s shots. Data is first extracted o
Deepfakes – essentially putting words in someone else’s mouth in a very believable way – are becoming more sophisticated by the day and increasingly hard to spot. Recent examples of deepfakes include Taylor Swift nude images, an audio recording
The potential of using artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development has sparked both excitement and skepticism among scientists, investors and the general public. “Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development,” claim som
Is LinkedIn the new TikTok?
Short-form video is now the fastest-growing category on LinkedIn, growing at twice the rate of other post formats on the platform. According to LinkedIn, total video viewership surged 36% in the first quarter of 2025.
Now, LinkedIn is doubling down on video with new features to boost discovery and engagement. The full-screen vertical video experience, first launched on mobile, is now coming to desktop. Users can tap a video, swipe t
In this episode, Scott talks with John Congdon about PHP Tek 2025, speaking, and writing articles for PHP Architect magazine. PHP Tek is looking for sponsors! Contact see https://phptek.io/blog/elevate-your-brand-sponsorship-phptek-2025 for more information. 00:00 Intro 00:41 What is php[tek] 07:48 HoneyBadger 08:32 More about php[tek] 19:29 Outro Links: PHP Tek Website – https://phptek.io/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io […]
Robinhood said on Tuesday it is rolling back the event contracts that would let users bet on the result of the Super Bowl clash this weekend, after the online brokerage received a request from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
The halt comes just a day after the launch of the produc
Donald Trump drew plenty of criticism by launching his own branded memecoin three days before his inauguration, including from the crypto community which argued he was making a mockery of the crypto world by tying himself to the memecoin world, which could damage efforts to make crypto reforms. And so, in the two-plus weeks since he h
The AI search firm Perplexity routinely lets users try out state-of-the-art large language models on its site, but the company moved quickly to put Chinese company DeepSeek’s new R1 model front and center in its user interface. That offers users a chance to find out what the buzz is all about, without sending their data through the DeepSeek app, which is hosted in China.
While some AI thought leaders su
Alphabet's Q4 revenue rose 12%, driven by AI advancements, cloud growth, and infrastructure investments.
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LinkedIn video viewership is up 36% YoY. The platform adds new tools and free training courses to boost video creation.
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Nintendo’s profits tumbled as sales of its Switch console lost momentum, prompting the Japanese video-game maker to lower its full-year forecasts.
Kyoto-based Nintendo Co., which created the Supe
“We want grandparents who want to have pizza nights with us, attend baseball and basketball games, have ice cream dates, take bike rides, just genuinely have fun with us and our boys,” reads one post on the Facebook group Surrogate Grandparents USA, a place where grandparent-seeking families can connect with surrogate grandparents. “One lonely grandma here. I would love to share affection and attention with a ne
Apple rolled out its newest iPhone app called Invites, which lets iCloud+ subscribers create and share invitations to anyone, regardless of whether they have an Apple account or Apple device.
Hosts have control over the events. They can choose what details they want included in the invite preview, like a home address and what image to use as a background. The event
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Search isn't what it used to be. With rising costs in rank tracking, do keywords still matter? It's time to rethink your SEO strategy.
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In the history of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), eighth-grade reading scores have never been this low.
According to new data, 33% of eighth graders in the United States have “below basic” reading levels. That’s even below the sub-proficient level, “basic,” at which 37% of eighth graders score. The NAEP has been administering their reading assessment since 1992
Business leaders are often reluctant to speak about their competition. It’s rare that you’ll hear Netflix’s Ted Sarandos talk about Disney+, or Skims’s Jens Grede speak about Spanx. It’s uncouth and unhelpful, a good PR will tell you.
That’s why it’s utterly refreshing when Dan Clancy, CEO of the ultra-popular livestreaming platform Twitch, throws out opinions on his competitors with abandon. “[TikTok] was the first platform that didn’t just copy Twitch,” Clancy te
Get more customers through your doors with hyper-targeted local PPC.
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Search today sure ain’t what it used to be.
On the one hand, you’ve got the escalating sense that Google’s once-reliable results are stuck in a downward spiral. It’s a perception we’ve been seeing take shape for some time now, even before Google Search started pushing accuracy
Botox can be expensive. You know what isn’t? Bananas.
A new beauty hack making the rounds online involves rubbing the inside of a banana peel all over your face for a few minutes to brighten and tighten skin. You’ve heard of chemical peels for your skin? Now it’s all about the banana peel.
“This actually made my face feel so much tighter,” one TikToker said
Jaime Torrealba, a frontend developer currently at Push Security, joins Ryan to talk about 3D graphics and web development. Their conversation ranges from the evolution of technologies like WebGL and WebGPU to the importance of performance optimization for different devices to the frameworks available for creating 3D experiences. Jaime also explains the layers of abstraction in 3D development and shares some insight into what the future of 3D applications might look like. https://stackoverflow.b
Wearable devices have become a big part of modern health care, helping track a patient’s heart rate, stress levels and brain activity. These devices rely on electrodes, sensors that touch the skin to pick up electrical signals from the body. Cr
The WordPress Hot Nacho Scandal was a formative event that may have shaped how Mullenweg responds to controversies like the WP Engine conflict
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A lot has changed since Donald Trump’s first term in the White House. E-commerce’s share of total retail sales has risen from 15% at the end of 2020 to 16.2%—a 1.2 percentage point increase, but a near-10% rise in real terms. The number of packages entering the United States that come under the $800 de minimis threshold that allows imports to enter the country without charge has gone from around 600,000 in 2020 to more than one
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the creation of a sovereign wealth fund within the next year, saying it could potentially buy the short video app TikTok.
Trump offered little in the way of detail and it was unclear how such a wealth fund would work. Typically such funds rely on a country’s budget surplus to make inves
Modulární kvantový systém Aurora lze postavit v prakticky jakékoliv velikosti, přinejmenším teoreticky. Kvantové moduly s pár qubity mohou v dostatečném počtu vytvořit slušný kvantový počítač, který zvládne složité výpočty. Celý systém je fotonický a funguje za pokojové teploty. Prototyp se osvědčil, uvidíme, co bude dál. http://www.osel.cz/13893-xanadu-quantum-technologies-postavili-prvni-modularni-kvantovy-pocitac.html
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted at a “return to OG Facebook” during last week’s Q4 earnings call, listing it as a key goal for 2025. But what exactly does that mean?
So far, Meta hasn’t offered any clear details. Could Zuckerberg mean the millennial meme-filled Facebook of the 2010s or the “masculine energy” of its controversial origins as Facemash (a site that rank
OpenAI is further proving that 2025 is the year of agentic AI.
The artificial intelligence giant revealed another new feature from ChatGPT this week, called Deep Research, which it claims can gather research from across the web and summarize it in easy-to-read reports.
“Deep research is O
The U.S. Copyright Office addresses questions about AI-generated content and creative ownership in a new report.
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Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI stepped up their AI partnership Monday, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan.
SoftBank Chief Masayoshi Son and
A report finds organic traffic is declining, costs are rising, and user frustrations are growing, forcing marketers to prioritize retention.
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An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/03/community-products-roadmap-update-january-2025/
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?
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