Five fast-growing Nordic scaleups have reached the finals of TECH5 — the “Champions League of Technology.” They join a standout quintet from Benelux, unveiled last week, in the race to be crowned Europe’s hottest scaleup. The Nordics — comprising Denmark, Finla
Consumer tech devices, including smartwatches, have deplorably short lives. Most are tossed aside when the screen cracks, the battery dies, or the software falls behind — adding to the world’s whopping great pile of e-waste. Scottish startup Una aims to upend th
Shopify CEO’s memo mandating AI for virtually everything marks a pivotal moment in how AI is used by workers and entrepreneurs
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As the European Union looks at how best to respond to Donald Trump’s trade war, officials are considering further escalating things, taking them to a point where it could really hurt Big Tech companies.
Sophie Primas, a spokesperson for the French government, said the EU is deciding on its response to Trump’s blanket tariffs that would include not just
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke shared an internal memo on X on Monday that stressed the importance of using AI effectively in daily tasks. In fact, he wrote, using AI is now a “fundamental expectation” of Shopify employees.
Spotify product designers are now expected to use AI tools to do all platform feature prototypes. The results, Lutke says, are more exploratory and faster to produce and share. Shopify already provides employee
Redbox is getting ready for one final sale.
The defunct DVD rental chain’s assets, and those of its corporate siblings Crackle and Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, are being auctioned off in New York later this month, according to a court filing published Monday morning.
The asset sale is just the latest chapter in Redbox’s tumultuous downfall: Once one
Google Chrome DevTools now offers CPU throttling calibration to better simulate real-world mobile performance.
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Dvoumístný čtyřnohý terénní robot Corleo s nabušenou umělou inteligencí by měl být jako vodíkový robotický kůň bez hlavy, který se požene rychlostí až 80 km/h a bude ladně skákat jako masivní robotická šelma. Kawasaki si tentokrát ukousli pořádné sousto. Zatím je to jen koncept s prototypem co nic neumí. Běhat po kraji by měl asi tak za dvacet let. Uvidíme. http://www.osel.cz/13986-hard-scifi-kawasaki-vyvijeji-robotickeho-kone-corleo-pro-dve-osoby.html
Business owners around the world are still reeling from the sky-high, globe-spanning tariffs President Donald Trump has announced since taking office. Last week, Emily Ley became the first to take her concerns to court.
In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Florida last Thursday, lawyers representing Ley, a small business owner in Pensacola, argued that Trump’s tariffs on China are “unl
Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour.
Bitcoin investor Chun Wang chartered a
Google AI mode now understands images, allowing you to upload photos and ask questions about them. AI Mode is rolling out to more people.
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In March, over 1,000 developers and technologists gave us insights into what they think about open source and the role it plays with AI. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/07/open-source-ai-are-younger-developers-leading-the-way/
Google Maps content moderation now uses Gemini to detect fake reviews and suspicious profile edits. Learn how these new tools protect businesses.
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Google Ads or Meta Ads: Where should your budget go? Compare costs, intent, and performance to make the smartest choice for your business goals.
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President Donald Trump has just expanded the social media surveillance system for immigrants.
Starting in May, the United States will begin collecting the social media handles of all permanent resident applicants. That means anyone seeking a Green Card—including those already living in the United States—must sign up to be digitally surveilled by the government. Marco Rubio also reportedly demanded that diplomats scrutinize the social media accounts of student visa applicants, withh
While home sales and remodeling rates remain low, Thumbtack—which connects homeowners with professionals to do work on their houses—says business is booming.
In fiscal 2024, Thumbtack saw revenue of $400 million, up 27% from the previo
Transform your reports with insights that matter. Discover how to create impactful SEO client reports that drive business results.
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Kinsta stops bad WordPress plugin updates from going live by rolling them back automatically when problems are detected.
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Když děláte italský dresink do salátu, smícháte olej, vodu a koření, které sníží mezifázové napětí a vznikne chutná emulze. Pokud nahradíte koření magnetizovanými nanočásticemi, poklesne vám čelist. Slabší fyzikální povahy možná s brekotem utečou. Kapalina s tvarem není pro každého. http://www.osel.cz/13985-kapalina-s-tvarem-se-vysmiva-ucebnicim.html
Chances are, you or someone you know has been the target of a scam. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), reported scams cost Americans more than $12.5 billion in 2024—a 25% increase from the previous year. But as scams grow more sophisticated, so do their opponents.
A growing number of online vigilantes are flipping the script, turn
Nasýtenie krvi kyslíkom je parameter, podľa ktorého sa dajú identifikovať pacienti s poruchou dýchania a s nedostatkom kyslíka v tepennej krvi. Merať sa dá pomocou malého, jednoduchého a lacného prístroja, pulzného oximetra. Lenže, po dlhom čase sa zistilo, že pulzné oximetre nemusia merať spoľahlivo pri závažných poruchách dýchania. http://www.osel.cz/13984-pulzne-oximetre-su-nespo-ahlive-u-vazne-chorych-pacientov.html
Smartphone cameras are still getting bigger and better by the year, particularly if you look at high-end phones coming out of China with huge sensors and protruding bumps to match. These phones can deliver awesome results, and I’m happy to use them in several situations where I would previously have had to rely on a dedicated camera. Just this week I used the Xiaomi 15 Ultra to shoot a Formula One event in Tokyo.&n
Fyzici obvykle zacházejí s kvantovými jevy jako s křehkými květinkami. Poskytují jim ideální podmínky a téměř ani nedýchají, když s nimi experimentují. Rakouský tým nebyl tak ohleduplný a kvvantovým kočkám přitopil. Bylo to sice jen na 1,8 kelvinu, i tak ale jde o významný průlom, který slibuje nové směry výzkumu i aplikace. http://www.osel.cz/13983-horka-kvantova-kocka-potvrzuje-kvantove-fenomeny-v-drsnejsich-podminkach.html
Keeping our inboxes organized often feels like an overwhelming task.
If you’re fortunate, yours contains only messages from people you wish to communicate with. Realistically, though, most are cluttered with newsletters, receipts, social media digests, and more. These emails aren’t necessarily spam, but they complicate the process of
The breakout star of this season of The White Lotus? Aimee Lou Wood—and her distinctive real-life smile. “I mean, I can’t believe the impact my teeth are having,” the English actress told Jonathan Ross last month on Ross’s eponymous British chat show. “I hope that people don’t start, like, filing their teeth so they have gaps.”
Too late.
Unfortunately, Wood may have unintentionally reignited a troubling DIY dentistry trend. On TikTok, users are once again
Klasická elektronika v datacentrech mele s nástupem umělých inteligencí z posledního. Do hry vstupují fotonické čipy. Q.ANT zahájil výrobu fotonického AI čipu v bývalé továrně na polovodiče IMS Chips v německém Stuttgartu. Nový čip nabízí 30krát vyšší energetickou účinnost a 50krát rychlejší výpočty oproti křemíku. http://www.osel.cz/13982-fotonicky-ai-chip-dramaticky-snizuje-spotrebu-energie-v-datacentrech.html
President Donald Trump on Friday said is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
Congress had mandated that the platform be divested from China by Jan. 19 or barre
Nintendo is pushing back preorders for its upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 while it figures out the implications of President Donald Trump’s aggressive global tariffs.
It’s unclear when preorders will actually begin. They were supposed to start Wednesday, ahead of a June 5 launch date.
“Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to asse
Microsoft launches Copilot Search in Bing, offering AI-powered summaries with clear links to sources for fast, conversational answers.
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Europe’s tech industry is bracing for impact after the Trump administration announced sweeping tariffs yesterday. The US slapped a 20% tariff on imports from the EU — twice the rate for the UK. Switzerland fared even worse, receiving a hefty 32% levy. Several
“Hello, I will be your driver for today,” says Bartek Szurgot, a software engineer at German startup Vay and my chauffeur for this ride. He disengages the handbrake, gently presses the accelerator and the new Kia Niro EV I’m sitting in slowly pulls out of the p
Future lunar bases could run on solar panels forged from molten moon dust, turning the Moon’s surface into an energy source, thanks to a new research breakthrough. Scientists at the University of Potsdam have engineered so-called “moonglass” solar cells made b
Your favorite iPhone could soon become much pricier, thanks to tariffs.
U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a series of sweeping tariffs on countries around the world that could drastically alter the landscape of global trade, and consumer goods like iPhone
Most of us know the general (albeit simplified) story: Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov used a stimulus—like a metronome—around the dogs he was studying, and soon, the hounds would start to salivate.
They had learned that the sound meant food was coming. The phenomenon, now known as classical conditioning, became one of modern psychology’s foundational discoveries. It’s an unconscious process where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a naturally occurr
AI is changing how we think about coding. While tools evolve, critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity remain the essential skills for top developers. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/04/using-genai-as-a-learning-tool-not-a-crutch/
For years, I’ve had a secret ambition tucked away somewhere near the back of my brain. It was to write a simple note-taking app—one that wouldn’t be overwhelmed with features and that would reflect my own mental filing system. In part, this yen stemmed from my dissatisfaction with existing notetakers. But I also saw the project as an adventure in softw
AI tools are everywhere, changing the way we work, communicate, and even create. But which tools are actually useful? And how can users integrate them in a way that’s both practical and ethical?
In a recent conversation for FC Live, Fast Company tech editor Max Ufberg and longtime contributor Jared Newman explored the real-world impact of today’s AI tools—how they work, what they’re good for, and where they still fall short
Build presentations that do more than inform. These presentation techniques will help you create meaningful connections, drive engagement, and leave a lasting impression.
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The way Bran Ferren sees it, the future of warfare depends as much on creativity as it does on raw firepower.
The former head of research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering—the elite R&D arm responsible for the entertainment empire’s “secret sauce”—the 72-year-old Ferren has spent decades building a reputation for fusing art, design, and storytelling with serious technical and engineering know-how in pursuit of novel innovations and experiences. This pioneering approach to
Elementor helps users design custom websites without coding knowledge using these three basic elements.
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The nonstop cavalcade of announcements in the AI world has created a kind of reality distortion field. There is so much buzz, and even more money, circulating in the industry that it feels almost sacrilegious to doubt that AI will make good on its promises to change the world. Deep research can do 1% of all knowledge
At HumanX 2025, Ryan sat down with HumanX CEO Stefan Weitz and Crunchbase CEO Jager McConnell to talk about where the money is in the AI space, where most enterprise AI strategies fall short, how companies can build business models when AI tech is evolving so quickly, and why this is AI’s microservices moment. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/04/is-ai-a-bubble-or-a-revolution-the-answer-is-yes/
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Laravel Wayfinder, PHP RFC Reviews, Bek shares why she attends PHP Tek, Free PHP Architect Column, and more… Links from the show: GitHub – laravel/wayfinder PHP: rfc:optional-interfaces PHP: rfc:grapheme_levenshtein PHP: rfc:pipe-operator-v3 PHP: rfc:modern_compression PHP: rfc:short-and-inner-classes #externals – Opening PHP’s #internals to the outside PHP[TEK] […]
Když je nutné zasáhnout na oběžné dráze, obvykle to vyžaduje start nosné rakety. Dnes je to sice rychlejší než dřív, ale stále to znamená podstatné zdržení. Co kdyby ale na orbitě operovala mateřská stanice schopná vypustit v případě potřeby satelity? Tohle nabízí Orbital Carrier, který vyvíjí společnost Gravitics. http://www.osel.cz/13981-americke-vesmirne-sily-vyvijeji-orbitalni-materskou-stanici-pro-satelity.html
Google released its new Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental AI model late last month, and it’s quickly stacked up top marks on a number of coding, math, and reasoning benchmark tests—making it a contender for the world’s best model right now.
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AI-generated content is detected by most consumers, new studies reveal. Find out which formats consumers reject and how to adapt.
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TikTok is shutting down TikTok Notes—wait, you didn’t even know it existed? Well, that explains a lot.
TikTok Notes, the platform’s short-lived attempt to take on Instagram (just as Instagram Reels was built to mimic TikTok), is officially being retired. Launched in limited markets like Canada, Australia, and Vietnam last year, the photo-sharing app let users post images with captions—simple enough, but apparently not compelling enough.
Users are now being notified that T
Influencing has a major pay gap, and it’s not what you might expect.
A new report from Collabstr, based on over 15,000 influencer collaborations using first-party data, reveals a surprising disparity: male creators earn 40% more per collaboration than female creators—$291 compared to $208 on average.
This gap persists despite women making up the majority of the content creator space. In 2024, 72% of inf
Google DeepMind’s reported clampdown on sharing research will stifle AI innovation, warns the CEO of Iris.ai, one of Europe’s leading startups in the space. The UK-based lab has tightened its rules on releasing AI studies, the Financial Times reported this week
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OpenAI says it will release an open-source model–but why now?
Tech leaders often brand themselves as “disruptors”—and few fit that label more snugly than Elon Musk. In the three months since joining Donald Trump in the White House following Trump’s election, Musk has certainly disrupted Washington. Now, reports suggest Musk is preparing to exit his government post, having led the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and overseen sweepi
Data has always been key to LLM success, but it's becoming key to inference-time performance as well. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/03/from-training-to-inference-the-new-role-of-web-data-in-llms/
