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Trump’s pick for FCC chairman is Brendan Carr

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications, and

Data-driven startup Aggie uses AI to manage small business social media

A new, AI-powered platform called Aggie wants to manage your brand’s social media. 

Aggie is a product of Audience Genomics, which has since 2018 offered audience data analytics to big brands like Universal Studios, AMC Television, and Fenty Beauty. The company soon also worked with private equity investors to evaluate the quality of marketing by companies they were considering investing in, which led to advising some small and med

Mňaukonauti v mikrogravitaci: Jak kočky přispěly k letům do vesmíru

Když lidé v padesátých letech vynalezli parabolické lety, dostali ďábelský nápad vzít na palubu kočky a škodolibě sledovat, jak si poradí se stavem beztíže. Kočky se s grácií přenesly přes ztrátu důstojnosti, která je tam čekala, improvizovaly a nakonec naučily lidi, jak se efektivně pohybovat v mikrogravitaci. Astronauté využívají kočičí triky dodnes. http://www.osel.cz/13785-mnaukonauti-v-mikrogravitaci-jak-kocky-prispely-k-letum-do-vesmiru.html

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From Quibi’s ashes, new short-form streamers are thriving

Four years after Quibi’s $1.75 billion crashout, its successors are flying high. 

Apps like DramaBox and ReelShort are betting on short-form. They present feature-length films, diced into consumable minutes-long bites akin to a TikTok. The more clips you want to see, the more you’ll have to pay. And it’s worked: Both apps report over $20 million in revenue from in-app purchases, and have climbed the chart

How does Elon Musk define ‘efficiency’? We asked his former employees

Elon Musk has big plans for his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) once Donald Trump takes the White House in January. Prior to the election, the Tesla CEO said he would help cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” Musk said in a statement. (DOGE, which Musk will co-lea

Roblox debuts new child protection, parental control features

Following recent questions about child safety issues on the platform, Roblox announced Monday a number of changes designed to protect young users and increase parental control over the content they see.

To start, users under 13 will no longer be able to direct-message other users, outside of particular experiences and games. And by defaul

When To Use Nofollow On Links & When Not To via @sejournal, @JulieJoyce

Explore the concept of nofollow on links. Find out why it is important and how it can protect your website from spam and manipulation.

The post When To Use Nofollow On Links & When Not To appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/when-to-use-nofollow-on-links/383468/

Democrats are missing the point on Joe Rogan

The weeks after an election are open season for pet political theories. An electorate as massive and sprawling as America’s will never swing on just one thing. But that’s no fun to admit. So why not share your one thing—you can be as right as anyone else. But among the Monday-morning quarterbacks of social media, one strain of analysis seems poised to rule them all: that liberals need to find their own version of Jo

Fyzici vytvořili první plně mechanický a funkční qubit

Virtuální qubity nic moc nevydrží. Mají jepičí život. Zato mechanické qubity, to je jiná káva. Tým švýcarského ETH Zürich postavil funkční mechanický qubit, který pracuje s daty jako se stavy membrány nepatrného bubnu. Vývoj je na počátku, na obzoru se rýsují mechanické kvantové počítače. http://www.osel.cz/13784-fyzici-vytvorili-prvni-plne-mechanicky-a-funkcni-qubit.html

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What you need to know about brain-training games

Some 2.3 million U.S. adults over 65—more than 4%—have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in.

And whether it’s due to fear of cognitive decline or noticing lapses in cognition when we are stressed, many of us have had moments when we thought we could use an extra cognitive boost.

The good news is research has shown that people can ma

Trump’s new DOGE task force is tailor-made to benefit Elon Musk’s businesses

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as cochairs of a new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. This appointment allows Musk the opportunity to simultaneously do two things that are very important to him: publicly complain about government policies that cost him money, and tweet deeply unfunny jokes about the fact that the acronym is also the name

Dude Perfect went from YouTube to raising $100M. Here’s how its new CEO wants to grow the brand

Over the past 15 years, sports and entertainment company Dude Perfect—which started as a YouTube channel where five best friends posted videos of trick shots in different sports—has grown into a media juggernaut with attendant cruises, toy lines, and TV deals. Its content has expanded to include highly produced biweekly videos where they break world records or attempt challenges—sometimes, with the help of famous guests.

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If AGI arrives during Trump’s next term, ‘none of the other stuff matters’

More than 33,000 people—including a hall of fame of AI experts—signed a March 2023 open letter calling on the tech industry to pause development of AI models more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4 for six months rather than continue the rush toward Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. “Powerful AI systems should

AI startup Gendo — the Midjourney for architecture — secures fresh capital


London-based startup Gendo has secured €5.1mn amid booming demand for its generative AI software built for architects.  British architectural designer George Proud and software engineer Will Jones founded Gendo in 2022. The platform transforms simple inputs li

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Lawsuit alleging Elon Musk rigged dogecoin is dropped

A lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of rigging dogecoin is ending.

Investors in the cryptocurrency who said the world’s richest person and his electric car company Tesla committed fraud and insider trading are withdrawing their appeal from an Aug. 29 dismissal of their case.

‘They’re the most pissed off people on the planet’: The internet is falling in love with the drama on the Crumbl cookie subreddit

Allow me to introduce you to my new favorite place on the internet: the Crumbl cookie subreddit. 

The fan-run subreddit r/CrumblCookies, which boasts 77,000 members, recently went viral after a user on X posted about how much everyone on there seems to actually hate Crumbl cookies. “They’re the most pissed off people on the planet,” the X user adds.

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Australia is planning to block TikTok and Instagram for kids under 16

How do you remove children from the harms of social media? Politically the answer appears simple in Australia, but practically the solution could be far more difficult.

The Australian government’s plan to ban children from

AI is already taking jobs, research shows. Routine tasks are the first to go

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are already impacting the job market. A new study shows a 21% reduction in demand for freelance jobs that are automation-prone and don’t require consistent human attention.

Researchers from Harvard Business School, the German Institute for Economic Research, and Imperial College London Business School studied 1,388,711 job posts on a major (but undisclosed) global free

‘Hawk Tuah’ girl launches an AI-powered dating app called Pookie Tools

Not many viral stars are able to translate their five minutes of fame into something tangible. But Haliey Welch, better known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” has done just that.

Welch became a trending figure after sharing some unconventional bedroom advice during a man-on-the-street interview. The clip made the rounds on social media, and Welch quickly capitalized on the newfo

Astro Mechanica úspěšně vyvíjí revoluční turboelektrický adaptivní pohon

Turboelektrický adaptivní pohon startupu Astro Mechanica může fungovat ve třech různých režimech, které zajistí efektivní a úsporný provoz při 1. pojíždění po ranveji a letu podzvukovou rychlostí, 2. překročení hranice rychlosti zvuku a 3. vysokorychlostním letu až přes Mach 3. http://www.osel.cz/13783-astro-mechanica-uspesne-vyviji-revolucni-turboelektricky-adaptivni-pohon.html

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Bad & Toxic Backlinks You Should Avoid via @sejournal, @BennyJamminS

Avoid the pitfalls of bad and toxic links in SEO. Learn effective link building strategies and how to vet service providers.

The post Bad & Toxic Backlinks You Should Avoid appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/link-building-guide/toxic-links/

People are panic buying Plan B after Trump’s win—and Amazon sellers are raising the pills’ price

In the hours after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election, a number of people took to social media to hammer home a simple directive: Buy Plan B now, before it’s too late.

People are concerned that the new administration will

For truly intelligent AI, we need to mimic the brain’s sensorimotor principles

In a recent essay by Sam Altman, titled “The Intelligence Age,” he paints a picture for the future of AI. He states that with AI, “fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics—will eventually become commonplace.” On an individual level, he states (italics added), “We can each have a personal AI team, full of virtual experts in different areas, working together to create almost anything we can imagine.&#8

Matt Gaetz, Trump’s attorney general pick,  and the FTC’s Lina Khan share some surprising views on Big Tech

President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he is selecting Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general sent shock waves through Washington, D.C.—and certain other parts of the country. The selection has drawn criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, who openly wondered whether Gaetz could be confirmed, even in a Republican-controlled Senate.

The former Florida R

Blue Origin and SERA are creating ‘a space agency for everyone’ with a reality-style competition and TV series

When the fledgling Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) sent Victor Correa Hespanha into suborbital space with Blue Origin’s NS-21 mission two years ago, it hoped to spark more interest in STEM education in a country not known for its space industry. What no one expected was the level of excitement it generated. The 28-year-old civil engineer sp

Meet the guy responsible for building the Call of Duty game engine

Chris Fowler, Director of Engine for Call of Duty, tells Ben and Ryan about his path from marine biology to game development, the ins and outs of game engines, and the technical feats involved in creating massively popular games like Call of Duty. Chris also explains why community feedback is so critical in game development and offers his advice for aspiring game developers. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/15/meet-the-guy-responsible-for-building-the-call-of-duty-game-engine/

DeepL takes on ‘next frontier’ in AI translation with DeepL Voice


German tech darling DeepL has (finally) launched a voice-to-text service. It’s called DeepL Voice, and it turns audio from live or video conversations into translated text.  DeepL users can now listen to people speaking a language they don’t understand and

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US firm Realwear acquires Swiss startup Almer amid XR market consolidation


American wearables firm Realwear has acquired Swiss augmented reality (AR) startup Almer Technologies.  Almer’s AR headset — the Arc-2 — overlays digital information onto the wearer’s field of view, allowing them to access real-time data, instructions, or

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Founderful raises $140M fund as Switzerland vies for Europe’s tech top spot


Zurich-based venture capital firm Founderful has raised $140mn in its second fund — $20mn more than its target and a strong sign of investor confidence in Switzerland’s flourishing tech ecosystem.   First announced back in February, the fund has already investe

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The php[podcast] 2024.11.7: PHP for Fun and PHProfit

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about New Features in PHP 8.4, The Magic Behind Laravel’s defer(), Doctrine Introduces EnumType Columns, Serialization/Deserialization, Laravel’s Nightwatch, PHPTek 2025, and more… Links from the show: PHP 8.4: new features and release date The magic behind Laravel’s new defer() helper — Amit Merchant — A […]

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Jak působí magnetické pole na proudění v zemském jádru?

Jednoduchý a hravý experiment Little Earth simuluje procesy, které probíhají hluboko pod zemským povrchem a souvisejí s vytvářením zemského magnetického pole, pomocí rotující nádrže s kyselinou sírovou uvnitř silného magnetického pole. Fyzici pomocí skleněných kuliček a laserů sledovali proudění hmoty. http://www.osel.cz/13782-jak-pusobi-magneticke-pole-na-proudeni-v-zemskem-jadru.html

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What Gen Zers on TikTok mean when they say they’re ‘crashing out’ over Trump’s election

Another word has entered the internet lexicon, and it couldn’t be more timely. 

If you keep seeing people”crashing out” online, you are not alone. The term has been in the Gen Alpha and Gen Z vernacular for a while, but over the past week it’s been given a new lease of life to describe how many feel about the outcome of the presidential election.

In one

China hacked U.S. telecommunications networks, FBI and CISA say

A federal investigation into Chinese government efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks has revealed a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from Americans who work in government and politics, the FBI said Wednesday.

Hackers affiliated with Beijing have compromised the networks of “multiple” telecommunications compan

What Is ‘MATGA?’ All about the latest anti-Trump trend sweeping TikTok

Trump supporters are demanding an FBI investigation into the latest TikTok trend, where women are reviving the spirit of Renaissance murderer Giulia Tofana in response to Donald Trump’s reelection. 

Tofana, who devised a tasteless and odorloss poison made from arsenic, belladonna, and lead, is alleged to have killed up to 600 men with her concoction in the 17th century. According to

Bluesky goes down as users continue to flee Elon Musk’s X for the Twitter-like alternative

Bluesky, the popular X alternative, appeared to be down or lagging for thousands of users on Thursday morning, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.

More than 2,000 users reported issues with the site just before 9 a.m. PST. Bluesky developer Samuel Newman shared on the platform that the “site is in read-only mode for a sec because something fell over, hold tight!”

The startup has