Stack Overflow is on a journey to build a new era in the practice of AI: the era of social responsibility. All products based on models that consume public Stack Overflow data are required to provide attribution back to the highest relevance posts that influenced the summary given by the model.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/29/defining-socially-responsible-ai-how-we-select-api-partners/
Dutch Drone Gods and Red Bull have unveiled what they claim to be the world’s fastest camera drone. Capable of top speeds in excess of 350kph, the manually piloted first-person view (FPV) drone “could change how people watch
Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at Saint Joseph’s University and the author of 18 popular science books, including Flashes of Creation, The Quantum Labyrinth, Einstein’s Dice and Schrodinger’s Cat, and Synchronicity. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Google will shut down websites created with Google Business Profile in March 2024. Here's what local business owners and advertisers need to know.
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Within the next few decades, NASA aims to land humans on the Moon, set up a lunar colony and use the lessons learned to send people to Mars as part of its Artemis program. While researchers know that space travel can stress space crew members both physically an
Explore how 5G revolutionizes SEO with faster server responses, optimized images, and the rise of Progressive Web Apps for enhanced mobile user experiences.
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Explore Microsoft research and AI prompt engineering tips to improve the performance of ad campaigns with inclusive copy.
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Get up to speed with the fundamentals of Entities, Schema, Algorithm machine learning advancements for SEO with excerpts from our SEO Trends 2024 ebook.
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Ready or not, we’re entering the golden age of artificial intelligence. Luckily, there are plenty of free resources to help you wrap your human brain around AI’s more intimidating concepts.
Whether you just want to get a quick lay of the land, you’re personally looking to leverage AI to help you work more efficiently, or you’re set on taking your entire business to the next level, here are some great free courses to help you get there. Let’s begin
Discover key insights from the Digital 2024: Global Report from DataReportal on the latest trends for search and social media marketing.
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February was another bad month for the tech industry as far as layoffs are concerned. The month began with job cuts at tech giants including Amazon and Snap. Now the final week of February sees even more big names added to the layoffs list, including Sony, Bumble, and, perhaps, Apple. Here’s the latest update on job losses in the sector:
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Yesterday, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced it will cut 900 jobs, or about 8% of its glob
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In Microsoft’s Mistral stake, some EU regulators smell betrayal
The French unicorn AI lab Mistral said Monday that it’s sold a small share of the company to Microsoft for $16 million. Founded by Google DeepMind and Meta alumni, Mistral has bille
In a statement that’s likely to spark controversy, Klara announced that its AI assistant does the work of 700 full-time agents. The statement might raise skepticism for those who remember that the Swedish fintech unicorn laid off roughly the same number of peo
With presidential primaries underway across the U.S., popular chatbots are generating false and misleading information that threatens to disenfranchise voters, according to a report published Tuesday based on the findings of artificial intelligence experts and a bipartisan group of election officials.
Fifteen states and one territory will hold both Democratic and Republican presidential nominating contests next week on Super Tuesday, and millions of people already are turning to art
Four leading European research institutes — CEA-Leti in France, IMEC in Belgium, Fraunhofer in Germany, and VTT in Finland — are accepting design proposals to prototype edge AI technologies at their facilities. In 2022, the institutes set up an EU consortium t
A French startup acclaimed for a Barbie selfie generator has raised $43mn round at a $500mn valuation in a showcase for meme magic. Paris-based Photoroom raised the eye-popping sums in a Series B round led by Balderton Capital and French VC Aglaé Ventures. Y
Robinhood is rolling out a retirement savings plan for certain gig workers, targeting a growing cohort of people who may not have access to traditional 401(k) options.
The new program, called Robinhood Retirement for Independent Workers, will be available to people who find work through Taskrabbit, Grubhub, and Gopuff starting the first week of March.
“A growing number of people are moving away from the usual 9-5, shifting towards freelancing and side hustles to mak
The looming AI revolution continues to make headlines. Yet, what might come as a surprise to many is the fact that many examples of this transformative technology are going to be available to consumers starting this year. In fact, Lenovo—the world’s leading personal computer company—has already established a sizable presence in the soon-to-take-off AI PC space. The company has invested more than $1 billion developing AI-powered solutions that are poised to redefine the us
Building a successful agency can be a daunting task in today’s ever-evolving space. Do you know the secrets to succeeding with yours? Watch this informative, on-demand webinar, where link building expert Jon Ball reveals the closely guarded secrets that have propelled Page One Power to become a highly successful $10 million agency. You’ll learn: The foundational principles on which to build your business to succeed. The importance of delegation, market positioning, and staffing. More proven l
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SEO community unites for Ukraine pet shelters fundraiser live stream on war's two-year anniversary. Here's how you can join and help make a difference.
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This month, OpenAI announced a new generative AI system named Sora, which produces short videos from text prompts. While Sora is not yet available to the public, the high quality of the sample outputs published so far has provoked both ex
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 Ioanna talk a
An antitrust probe of Microsoft’s surprise deal with French startup Mistral will come down to the role of “decisive influence,” legal experts say. Microsoft revealed on Tuesday that it’s investing €15mn in the partnership. Under the terms of the pact, Mistra
Brian Lovell has only had his Tesla Cybertruck for a week and already the 48-year-old has experienced a range of unfettered reactions from passersby: Some people point and gape, others rush over to take a photo, and a few even ask if he would take them for a quick spin in the much-hyped EV.
“I might as well be driving a UFO,” says Lovell, who’s based in Murrieta, California.
It’s not exactly surprising that people are aghast to see something tha
We all know the pain of misguided sales spam—and lots of it—cluttering our inboxes. Whether it’s emails to our personal addresses that assume our buying habits of a decade ago are the same today, or sales pitches to our work addresses that are completely irrelevant to our roles and responsibilities, we’ve become overwhelmed with poorly targeted emails. Statista found that spam accounted for 45% of the 333 billion emails sent daily in 2022, while research
From leveraging tools to exploring trends, find out how to make the most of your digital marketing strategy and get more followers on Instagram.
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Upgrade your keyword research strategy with a Keyword Universe. Build a pool of impactful keywords to prioritize content creation and optimize your SEO strategy.
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Google's SearchLiaison responded on Twitter to confirm that the filetype search operator is missing
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It is pretty rare that SEOs can do all the things necessary for SEO to be successful. Learn 10 things that aren't SEO, but matter.
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Boost your Google Ads success with expert tips! Audit, optimize, and target the right audience to maximize ROI and conversions.
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Court filing alleges The New York Times paid someone who made "tens of thousands of attempts" with "deceptive prompts"
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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/nytimes-paid-someone-to-hack-openais-products/509646/
Ryan and Ben chat with Raymond Lo, AI software evangelist at Intel, about the AI PC, the software that powers AI breakthroughs, and optimizing hardware and software in unison to improve generative AI performance. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/28/optimizing-both-hardware-and-software-for-genai/
YouTube launches "Collab" tool for Shorts, enabling split-screen duets to compete with popular TikTok feature.
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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/youtube-challenges-tiktok-duets-with-collab-for-shorts/5
Shares of rent-to-own appliance and furniture giant Aaron’s nosedived after the company posted much lower than expected revenues and earnings.
As of mid-afternoon Tuesday, shares of Aaron’s Company stock (NYSE: AAN) were down 18% to less than $9 per share. That followed the release of the company’s fourth quarter earnings late Monday. Even news of a $0.125 per share quarterly dividend failed to appease investors.
Analysts had expected Aaron’s Co
Academic researchers are complaining that X has repeatedly refused them access to its API, limiting their ability to conduct studies on the platform.
Researchers who study social media platforms, such as X (formerly Twitter), have found it more difficult to conduct their work since Musk bought the platform in October 2022 for $44 billion. In March 2023, the company removed what had previously been free access to Twitter’s API, or application programming interface, which provi
3D tisk se opět překonal. Nový metamateriál z titanové slitiny je o 50 procent pevnější než nejpevnější soudobá slitina o podobné hustotě v leteckých a kosmických technologiích WE54. Tento metamateriál v sobě spojuje výjimečnou pevnost a odolnost vůči korozi i vysokým teplotám s biokompatibilitou. Možnosti uplatnění mohou být nepřeberné. http://www.osel.cz/13364-3d-tistena-struktura-z-titanu-je-superpevna.html
Don McClean has always had to share “American Pie.” Since since its release in 1971, the hit song has re-emerged in covers by Madonna, parodies by Weird Al Yankovic, serenades by South Korean presidents, subplots in Marvel movies, and even CIA torture techniqu
It’s a clear day in Zermatt, a remote Swiss town anchored in a sharp valley under the gaze of the Matterhorn. We’ve taken off from Air Zermatt, home to some of the best high-altitude rescue pilots in the world. I’d flown in helicopters before but never piloted one. And this location was hardly a beginner course.
“Are you ready to take the reins?” the controller asks.
“Um, I think . . .?” I said nervously.
“I
Find out how to increase online visibility and click-through rates for your GPT in the GPT Store and Google Search with these six tips.
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In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day.Around the country, educators say students routinely send Snapchat messages in class, listen to music and shop online, among countless other examples of how smartphones distract from teaching and learning.The hold that phones have on adolescents in America today is well-documented, but teac
For the past month, I’ve been letting an AI app called Rize analyze everything I do on my work computer.
It sees every app I open, every website I visit, and every appointment on my calendar. It knows, down to the minute, how much time I spend writing and how often I’m checking email, and it’s well-aware of when I’m wasting time on social media. I’m reminded of these things every time Rize encourages me to focus or blocks my biggest distractions.
Klarna is bullish on bots.
One month after taking its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant global, the Swedish buy-now, pay-later company has released new data touting its ability to handle customer communications, make shoppers happier, and even drive better financial results.
The app-based AI chatbot already handles two-thirds of all customer service chats, the company said Tuesday—some 2.3 million conversations so far—with the virtual assistant earning custome
Google explains how its search engine crawls the web in latest "How Search Works" video.
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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-releases-new-how-search-works-episode-on-crawling/509552/
Following almost 30 years of service, the European Space Agency’s ERS-2 satellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 18:17 CET on February 21. Launched in 1995 and with an original mission life of just three years, ERS-2 set new standards for Earth o
If you grew up shopping at Gap, you can likely remember some of the great moments in its brand marketing history, from ads featuring a young Spike Lee in the 1980s to the slogan “For every generation” to the famous “Who Wore Khakis” series of print ads, featuring unexpectedly preppy styling from the likes of Miles Davis, Picasso, and James Dean. But it’s been a while since the Gap brand really crossed over to enter the sweater-buying pubic’s conscious
My colleagues and I have built a robot composed of many building blocks like the cells of a multicellular organism. Without a “brain” or a central controller in the system, our robot, dubbed Loopy, relies on the collective behavior of all of its cells to interact with the world.
In this sense, we call Loopy a robotic swarm. But Loopy can also be seen as a single robot since all the cells are connected; therefore, Loopy is also “a swarm of one.” This research
The European Union is looking into Microsoft’s partnership with French startup Mistral AI as part of its broader review of the booming generative artificial intelligence sector to see if it raises any competition concerns.
The 27-nation bloc’s executive commission said Tuesday in a brief statement that it’s analyzing the agreement between the two companies announced a day earlier. Microsoft declined to comment. Mistral did not respond to a request for comment.Mi
SGE and generative AI are here, and they’re making a splash in a big way. SERPs as we know them are completely changing, and it’s up to us to pivot. But how do you do that while keeping your SEO strategy strong? And how do you convince your higher-ups (if they need convincing) that your new path is worth the shift? These are the questions we wanted to tackle in this collection of articles. We know that it can be tricky to keep up with all the latest developments and new tech in SEO, so it’s t
Pod romantickým názvem se skrývá pevnůstka z helénistické doby, kolem roku 300 před n. l. Je to obranná nebo spíše signální věž, vysoká přes 15 metrů. Tahle je snad nejlépe zachovaná a najde se v odlehlých končinách na jihovýchodě Naxu. http://www.osel.cz/13363-chimerina-vez.html
Cybercrime cops still celebrating the takedown of LockBit should put the champagne back on ice because the Russia-linked hackers have re-emerged — and declared support for Donald Trump. Often described as the “world’s most active ransomware group,” LockBit was
The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos should be considered “extrauterine children” and, therefore, human beings had an immediate chilling effect on IVF facilities in the state, where at least three in vitro fertilization providers to date have already halted services in the decision’s wake. It’s also the latest challenge for women’s and family health-focused tech startups in a femtech space grappling with restrictive new state laws that
Explore why Google Gemini may transform the SEO industry. Learn how its improved multimodality and unlimited capabilities affect SERPs, rankings, content, and ranking factors.
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Learn how to use reverse video search with Google, Microsoft Bing, and more to credit sources and find more information about a video.
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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-reverse-video-search/506160/
Squarespace, Wix and WordPress are the fastest improving content management systems out of six CMS platforms compared by HTTPArchive
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One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also maintains many supporters and practitioners, serving as a remi
I’ve always been a big proponent of experimenting with different web browsers. It’s one of the simplest ways to get out of your tech comfort zone, and you might even discover some new features that you never knew you needed.
So when I found out last week about a browser called Floorp, I had to give it a try. Beyond just having an excellent name (which requires all my willpower not to write in all caps), Floorp caters to browser power users with all kinds of customizati
On this episode: Matt Van Itallie, Founder and CEO at Sema, a company that assesses code to improve outcomes for users, companies, and developers. Plus, friend of the show and erstwhile cohost Cassidy Williams joins the conversation. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/27/how-to-convince-your-ceo-it-s-worth-paying-down-tech-debt/
On Monday, the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in two cases that have the potential to remake online speech in America by weighing how the First Amendment applies to social media platforms.
In Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, the justices will decide the constitutionality of a pair of laws that effectively strip tech companies’ agency to determine whose content they can restrict. Legal experts on both sides are calling them the two most importa
Microsoft announced an artificial intelligence partnership Monday with the French startup Mistral AI that could lessen the software giant’s reliance on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for supplying the next wave of chatbots and other generative AI products.
Mistral AI emerged less than a year ago but is already what Microsoft described Monday as an “innovator and trailblazer” at the vanguard of building more efficient and cost-effective AI systems.
Microsoft and
Lately, Disney has been in an ongoing high-profile feud with activist investor Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners, and now the entertainment giant is facing calls from another activist investor to shake up its C-suite. This time, though, the focus isn’t on CEO Bob Iger, but rather Disney’s lack of a singular chief technology officer (CTO).
Hedge fund Blackwells Capital, which owns about $5 million worth of Disney stock (a drop in the bucket compared to Trian’s $3 bi
Google's John Mueller answers a Reddit SEO question about a crawl budget problem and offers advice about crawl budgets in general
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Join us for an in-depth, actionable recap of the need-to-know Google updates from 2023, along with key predictions for 2024.
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Less than a year since its founding, Paris-based Mistral is launching a new AI flagship model for developers, Mistral Large — just a few months after the release of its first model, Mistral 7B. Much like its predecessor, Mistral Large is an open-source gen