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Amazon Sellers: Inventory Tips & Tactics For 2024 Success via @sejournal, @AMZRobynJohnson

Achieve advertising success on Amazon by controlling inventory performance with this guide. Learn how to optimize your IPI score to increase storage volume and sales.

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How Can You Begin To Rank In New Markets (Local, National, International) via @sejournal, @rollerblader

Explore strategies for local, national, and international markets, optimizing Google Business Profiles and Schema to expand your online presence effectively.

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The Oura ring redefines health tracking beyond fitness


How are your New Year’s resolutions coming along? As we conclude the first weeks of 2024, chances are that the fresh-start effect has begun to wane. When it comes to succeeding in what we set out to achieve and the hab

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Would you trust an AI bot to find the fix for vulnerabilities in your code?

On this episode: Eitan Worcel, CEO and cofounder of Mobb, a company that uses AI to automate security vulnerability remediation, talks about how AI can help reduce security backlogs and free up developers’ time, what security risks emerge with GenAI, and why we still need a human in the loop. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/16/would-you-trust-an-ai-bot-to-find-the-fix-for-vulnerabilities-in-your-code/

How China could become the international leader in low Earth orbit

The U.S. is at risk of losing leadership in low Earth orbit to China if commercial space stations do not come to fruition before the International Space Station plunges into the sea, two industry officials told lawmakers on Wednesday.

Background

The ISS is set to be decommissioned in 2030 and commercial providers are preparing to pick up the mantle of hosting people and experiments aboard commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) destinations. At the hearing, off

DoorDash earnings: The delivery company sees more customers, but bigger-than-expected losses

DoorDash stock hit a 52-week high Thursday, but quickly fell from that peak in after-hours trading as investors digested the company’s fourth-quarter earnings.

The delivery company reported a 39-cent-per-share loss, compared to analyst expectations of just 16 cents. That sent shares down more than 9.5% in the post-market at one point. The company, however, attempted to shift investor focus to the overall adjusted EBITA (earnings before interest, taxes and amortization). That

OpenAI unveils an impressive-looking text-to-video tool called Sora

With the unveiling of a new text-to-video tool called Sora, OpenAI has joined Runway, Meta, Google and others in the race toward AI video that nears the quality of traditional live-action video.

Announcing Sora — our model which creates minute-long videos from a text

Tinder, Hinge, and other dating apps encourage ‘compulsive’ use, a lawsuit claims

Stuck in a dating app loop with no date in sight? A lawsuit filed Wednesday against Match Group claims that is by design.

Tinder, Hinge, and other Match dating apps are filled with addictive features that encourage “compulsive” use, the proposed class-action lawsuit claims.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California on Wednesday—Valentine’s Day—says Match intentionally designs its dating platforms with game-

Meta’s new AI model learns by watching videos

Meta’s AI researchers have released a new model that’s trained in a similar way as today’s large language models, but instead of learning from words, as today’s state-of-the-art language models do, it learns from video.

Yann LeCun, who leads Meta’s FAIR (foundational AI research) group, has been explaining over the past year that the reason children learn about the world so quickly is because they intake lots of information through their optical ne

Google’s Danny Sullivan Provides 5-Step Plan To Diagnose Ranking Drops via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's Danny Sullivan provided SEO diagnosis tips to a website owner who experienced a traffic drop, advising that ranking volatility is expected as algorithms evolve.

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Podivuhodná hybridní masorýže obsahuje hovězí tkáně

Svůdně růžová masorýže je hybridní potravinou, která má v zrnkách hovězí svaly a tuk. Nejde o dramatické genetické inženýrství, ale o nečekaný úspěch s pěstováním laboratorního masa v neobvyklém substrátu. Jako obvykle nejde ani tak o všemožné přínosy ekonomické či environmentální, ale o to, jak chutná. Tvůrci se zapřísahají, že příjemně. http://www.osel.cz/13342-podivuhodna-hybridni-masoryze-obsahuje-hovezi-tkane.html

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AI chip tags can fight espionage from hostile states, report says


Tags on chips and a global registry of their locations can reduce the risks of AI espionage by hostile nations, experts say. The proposals were made in a new report on AI safety, which calls for a stronger regulation of hardware. Three Cambridge University inst

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Microsoft to pump €3.2B into German AI technologies


Microsoft will invest €3.2bn in AI tech in Germany over the next two years, the firm’s vice chair Brad Smith announced today. The investment will see the doubling of Microsoft’s AI and data centre infrastructure capacity in Germany, said Smith. It

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AI chips are up: Arm Holdings stock price rises today as Nvidia takes a stake

Nvidia’s bet on smaller AI firms from healthcare companies Nano-X Imaging and Recursion to chipmaker Arm Holdings boosted their shares in premarket trading on Thursday.

Nvidia, the biggest winner of the AI boom, revealed its new stakes in the firms as of December 31 in a 13-F filing with the U.S. SEC late on Wednesday.

Fellow chip designer Arm Holdings drew the biggest investment from Nvidia, worth $147.3 million. The British company has said its processors compleme

GM’s ‘Super Cruise’ semi-automated driving system is getting a lot bigger in the U.S. and Canada

General Motors is adding about 350,000 miles (563,000 kilometers) of roadways in the U.S and Canada to the area where drivers can use the company’s “Super Cruise” partially automated driving system.

The expansion nearly doubles the road miles where the system can run. It includes both limited-access divided highways as well as some two-lane roads connecting cities to smaller towns and smaller towns to each other, the company said.

GM said the driver-as

Google’s new Gemini 1.5 AI can dive deep into oceans of video and audio

Just last week, Google unveiled its new AI chatbot lineup, featuring Gemini Advanced—its best bot, based on its most powerful large language model, Gemini 1.0 Ultra. But Gemini 1.0 Ultra’s reign as the company’s flagship LLM could turn out to be brief.

Today the company is announcing Gemini 1.5 Pro, an update to its middle-tier LLM. It says the improvements result in an LLM in the same zip code, power-wise, as Gemini 1.0 Ultra. And in a briefing for reporters on

Tech layoffs update this week includes Cisco, Instacart, and Mozilla as job losses pile up

It’s been another bad week for tech industry jobs. In recent days, several major tech companies have announced layoffs—a trend that has been ongoing since the beginning of the year. According to tech layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi, 144 tech companies have already laid off employees in 2024, amounting to 34,560 jobs lost. These are the latest major tech companies to announce job cuts this week:

Mozilla

On Tuesday, the maker of the Firefox web browser announced i

Anti-piracy messages encourage MORE piracy — if you’re a man


Anti-piracy campaigns can actually cause more piracy — if you’re a man. So say the cybercrime experts at the University of Portsmouth, who investigated efforts to deter illegal torrenting, streaming, and file-sharing. To test the techniques, the researchers e

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Dutch startup secures $25M to bring autonomous bricklaying robots to Europe


The construction sector builds the homes we live in, the offices we work in, and the schools our children learn in — but in Europe, there’s a chronic shortage of people to do this critical work. Dutch startup Monumental thinks it has

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Try this 5-point plan to successfully launch the world’s most important technology at your company

Eric Siegel is a consultant, speaker, and former Columbia University professor. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and executive editor of The Machine Learning Times. At Columbia, he won the Distinguished Faculty award when teaching graduate computer science courses in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Below, Siegel shares five key insights from his new book, The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning

Don’t trust AI girlfriends — they only want you for your data


It’s Valentine’s Day and digital romances are blossoming. Across the world, lonely hearts are opening up to virtual lovers. But their secrets aren’t as safe as they may seem. According to a new analysis by Mozilla, AI girlfriends harvest reams of private and

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DeepMind COO on building a responsible future for AI and humanity


Recently, a New Zealand-based supermarket was miffed to find its AI meal bot going haywire. Instead of providing wholesome recipe suggestions using its products, it had begun suggesting dishes such as “bleach-infused rice surprise” and “mysterious meat stew” (w

10mo | The Next Web
Meet Pou, the orange alien that people love roughing up on TikTok

Orange and fluffy, with two bulbous eyes forever locked into a morose stare, the orange alien plush named Pou has become an object of grim fascination on thousands of TikToks. Videos show Pou (or #pou, on the social media site) in all manner of dire situations: falling off snowbanks, drinking hard liquor, taking depression showers, even commiting suicide.

The hashtag has amassed over 5 billion views, and made the alien Pou something of a funereal icon among viewers. Pou, who first m

Paid Media Marketing In 2024: 7 Changes Marketers Should Make via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

A new year might mean a new paid media strategy. Learn seven changes marketing professionals should implement into their 2024 digital marketing plan.

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Unpacking the ethical issues swirling around Neuralink

Neuralink’s coin-size device, called N1, is designed to enable patients to carry out actions just by concentrating on them, without moving their bodies.

Subjects in the company’s PRIME study—short for precise robotically implanted brain-computer interface—undergo surgery to place the device in a part of the brain that controls movement. The chip records and processes the brain’s electrical activity, then transmits this data to an external devi

As OpenAI inches toward chip-building, the company loses a key cofounder

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.

Big talk—and a big departure—at OpenAI

News broke Tuesday night that one of OpenAI’s original founding members, the decorated AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, has left the company to pursue “personal projects.”

Both

ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini will now remember your past conversations

Artificial intelligence is adding long-term memory to its bag of tricks. Both ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini AI are going to remember your conversations with their generative AI chatbots, though in different ways. In either event, it’s a reminder to users to be careful what you tell these systems.

ChatGPT has historically reset conversations when the interactions are concluded, which assisted with privacy concerns, but negatively impacted any attempts to make the chatbot

Nápoj s nanokrystaly zlata je slibný v léčbě Parkinsona a roztroušené sklerózy

Při neurodegenerativních chorobách dochází k oslabování energetického metabolismu buněk pacienta, spojenému s poklesem množství oxidované formy NAD, čili NAD+, oproti redukované formě NAD (NADH). Takřka alchymistická léčba s nanokrystaly zlata CNM-Au8 dovede uvnitř buněk oxidovat NADH na NAD+, což má celou řadu blahodárných důsledků. http://www.osel.cz/13341-napoj-s-nanokrystaly-zlata-je-slibny-v-lecbe-parkinsona-a-roztrousene-sklerozy.html

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Families are using re-created voices of gun violence victims to call lawmakers

Joaquin “Guac” Oliver died in the 2018 Parkland, Florida, high school massacre, but federal lawmakers who oppose tighter gun regulations began getting phone calls in his voice on Wednesday, lambasting them for their position.

The families of Oliver and five others killed with guns are using artificial intelligence to create messages in their loved ones’ voices and robocalling them to senators and House members who support the National Rifle Association&#xA0

Smartphone data suggests conservatives do in fact have more fun

It can often seem as if people on the opposite side of the political divide live entirely different existences. A new preprint paper, published earlier this month, highlights how it’s not just your intuition: In some ways, they really do.

A research team led by Imperial College, London’s Sanaz Talaifar tracked 1,300 college students’ smartphone data over a collective 11,400 days. The data traces produced came from the phone’s sensors, including GPS, micro

New Google Analytics Feature Detects Subtle Data Trend Changes via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google Analytics' new trend detection feature highlights gradual data trend changes, helping spot issues early for quick investigation.

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Smart Paid Strategy: 4 Tips To Save You $4K In Monthly Ad Spend via @sejournal, @CallRail

Optimize your marketing budget with top tools & tactics for reducing cost per lead and boosting ROI. Discover how to track paid strategy effectiveness.

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Don’t trust AI girlfriends — they only want you for your data


It’s Valentine’s Day and digital romances are blossoming. Across the world, lonely hearts are opening up to virtual lovers. But their secrets aren’t as safe as they may seem. According to a new analysis by Mozilla, AI girlfriends harvest reams of private and

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Instacart layoffs hit 250 workers despite core profits that exceeded expectations

Instacart forecast, on Tuesday, its first-quarter gross transaction value (GTV) and core profit above estimates due to an uptick in grocery orders, and said it plans to cut 250 jobs, or 7% of its workforce, to focus on “promising” initiatives.

Shares of Instacart reversed course to be down about 5% after the bell following Instacart’s lower-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue on slowing advertisement business.

As of June 30, I

Meta calls on the EU to step up the fight against spyware

Meta is ramping up pressure on European officials to crack down on the burgeoning commercial spyware industry, after the company announced it had disrupted a number of Italian and Spanish firms that were advertising their surveillance services in plain sight. These firms were, in some cases, targeting people inside of Europe, Meta says—surreptitiously accessing their devices and collecting data from them in violation of the government’s data privacy laws.

“EU da

Nvidia is now the third-largest company in the U.S., worth more than Alphabet

(Reuters) – Nvidia overtook Google-parent Alphabet’s stock market capitalization to become the third biggest U.S. company on Wednesday, days before the poster child of AI boom is due to report fourth-quarter results.

Strong demand for the Silicon Valley company’s chips used in artificial intelligence computing has powered the stock 231% in the past 12 months to record highs, taking its market value to $1.812 trillion.

In comparison, Alphabet’s m

Getting Up And Running With Laravel Sail

Docker is one of the best ways to have a consistent environment across multiple computers, but for new developers (and even not-so-new developers), it can be hard to understand and set up. Thankfully, the Laravel team has created Laravel Sail to make Docker a much easier tool to use when we’re working on Laravel projects. […]

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Dutch fintech leader Finom nets €50M to boost digital banking for SMEs


Dutch fintech Finom has raised €50mn, which the startup will use to boost its digital banking services. Founded in 2019, the Amsterdam-based business operates a pan-European neobank for SMEs and entrepreneurs. It integrates online banking, accounting, and fin

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Now you can pay Slack AI to make sense of messy work chats

Slack is now offering its first generative AI features after announcing them last fall.

By clicking Slack’s star-shaped AI button, users can get a written summary of everything that happened in a channel over a specified date range. Slack AI can also summarize conversation threads, and it’ll attempt to answer searches with written summaries and suggested follow-up questions. Third-party Slack apps are now adding generative AI features as well, and routine digests of ch

Is Google’s Gemini Advanced—or any AI bot—worth $20 a month?

Welcome back to Plugged In, Fast Company’s weekly tech update from me, global technology editor Harry McCracken. If a friend or colleague forwarded this edition to you—or you’re reading it on FastCompany.com—you can check out previous issues and sign up to get it yourself every Wednesday morning. Your comments, questions, and suggestions are most welcome: Write to me at hmccracken@fastcompany.com.

First up, four fresh Fast Company tech stories for you:

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4 Types Of Data Campaigns In Digital PR For SEO via @sejournal, @_kevinrowe

Emphasize audience engagement, trust-building, and data-driven storytelling over traditional link building and experience the impact beyond links.

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12 Hidden PPC Features You Should Know About via @sejournal, @LisaRocksSEM

Elevate your ad game with hidden optimizations in Google Ads and Microsoft Ads for enhanced campaign performance and efficiency.

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Thinking of joining TNW 2024’s Pitch Battle? Here’s what’s in it for startups


We’re just months away from TNW Conference 2024 (ahem, Europe’s leading tech festival). Now, if you’re a startup, you may be thinking of attending to meet some investors and fresh new hires, get your name out there, and get inspired. But why be a spectator when y

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TNW Podcast: Deepfakes are on the rise — and so is Arm’s market cap


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, Andrii and Linnea talk

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Exploring the inclusive tech revolution

On this sponsored episode of the podcast, Ben and Ryan chat with Maya Sellon, inclusive design and digital accessibility principal at Shell, about how she’s scaling accessibility and inclusive design practice across an organization the size of Shell. They talk about how knowing the accessibility issues is half the battle, how people are the key to scale, and what video games teach us about inclusive design. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/14/exploring-the-inclusive-tech-revolution/

Lyft stock price: LYFT shares surge after major earnings mistake

On the worst day on Wall Street since last March, shares of rideshare service Lyft blew up briefly in after-hours trading after the company posted erroneous earnings projections in an earnings press release that sent investors into a frenzy.

Shares of Lyft were up 63% at one point in the post-market, spiking from a $12.13 per share at market close (a 2% drop) to just shy of $20, an area it hasn’t been close to since May 2022. That surge came after the company said in an earni

This new dating app matches singles. But only if they have good credit scores

Love might be blind, but it’s not fiscally irresponsible. At least not if a new dating app has its way. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Score, a new app (and website) for the financially minded, hopes to attract people with “good to excellent” credit who know the importance of monitoring their finances. No one with a credit score of less than 675 is allowed to join. (A score of 850 is considered perfect, though very few people are near that level.)

Scor

Ochrana před kosmickým zářením je klíčová pro lety na Měsíc i Mars

Spolu s tím, jak se blíží náš návrat na Měsíc, roste intenzita studia dozimetrické situace mimo ochranou náruč naší atmosféry a magnetického pole. Intenzivní dozimetrický monitoring se realizoval během prvního letu kosmické lodi Orion v rámci letu Artemis I. Velmi zajímavé výsledky o radiaci na Marsu získalo zařízení RAD, které je na palubě vozítka Curiosity. http://www.osel.cz/13340-ochrana-pred-kosmickym-zarenim-je-klicova-pro-lety-na-mesic-i-mars.html

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Google AdSense Shifts To eCPM Payment Model via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin confirms AdSense has transitioned to an eCPM payment model. Learn what that means for publishers.

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The creator of PyTorch Lightning on the AI hype cycle

The home team chats with William Falcon, an AI researcher and creator of PyTorch Lightning, about developing tooling for the AI ecosystem, open-source contributions, what happens when widely hyped technology needs to scale, and why he’s bullish on experienced developers using AI but not so bullish on new devs doing the same. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/13/the-creator-of-pytorch-lightning-on-the-ai-hype-cycle/

Elon Musk’s SpaceX was fined after a worker experienced a ‘near amputation,’ records show

U.S. worker safety officials fined Elon Musk’s SpaceX $3,600 this month after an accident at its site in Washington state led to a “near amputation,” according to inspection records reviewed by Reuters.

A Reuters investigation late last year found that Musk’s rocket company disregarded worker-safety regulations and standard practices at its facilities nationwide. Through interviews and government records, the news organization documented at least 600 prev

The Power of Press: Scalable Strategies To Earn 100’s Of Digital PR Links via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell

If you’re looking to enhance your SEO efforts in 2024, mastering digital PR is the key to success.  In today’s landscape, traditional link building methods no longer cut it, and public relations have emerged as a powerful alternative.  However, securing meaningful links and mentions from journalists and the press can be both a creative and process challenge.  So how can you scale the time-consuming and complicated process of earning digital PR links? Join us on February 28, as we reveal prove

Will AGI pose a threat to humanity? We asked 3 experts at TNW Conference


From Skynet to The Matrix, the possibility of machines one day being able to outsmart us has provided the backdrop to stories from science fiction books to the silver screen. But with AI technology evolving at rapid speed, will it soon be time to say “hasta la

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Can Apple see what you’re doing when you wear your Vision Pro?

Not since the original iPhone came out 2007 has a device launch garnered as much media attention as the Apple Vision Pro. It’s been the subject of countless reviews and thought pieces, with some (including yours truly) even exploring its potential as a retirement nest egg. But very few have raised questions about the privacy implications of the device. Those who have have been rightly wary. There is reason to be suspicious of home gadgets packed with microphones, cameras, and sensors&#