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Before the Enlightenment spread across Europe, inspiring the likes of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson in colonial America, most people were subjects. Their claim on life was quite literally subject to the discretion of a king or queen, and their livelihoods were determined by an accident of birth that left them obligated to serve the lord or baron on whose land they toiled.

Under American democracy, people became citizens, a concept that not only recognized their rights to liberty

Airbnb has announced sweeping changes to its policy on security cameras inside a rental unit. The changes are likely to give guests more peace of mind while at the same time leaving some hosts frustrated that they cannot monitor their property as closely as before.

The new rules go into effect worldwide on April 30, 2024.

What does the policy say?

Under Airbnb’s new security cameras policy, hosts will no longer be allowed to have indoor security cameras

Most electronic systems that take on some driving tasks for humans don’t adequately make sure drivers are paying attention, and they don’t issue strong enough warnings or take other actions to make drivers behave, according to an insurance industry study published Tuesday.Only one of 14 partially automated systems tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety performed well enough to get an overall “acceptable” rating. Two others were rated “marginal,

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.In a survey published Monday, Pew also found that despite the positive associations with going phone-free, most teens have not limited their phone or social media use.The survey comes as policymakers and children’s advocates are growing increasingly concerned with teens’ relationships with their phones and

For much of the 21st century, software development has been an attractive career option. Now, however, there are perceived threats on the horizon as new tools seem set to fill the software development skills gap. Generative AI models are evolving quickly with t

Volvo has invested in Breathe Battery Technologies and plans to install the UK startup’s software in all of its next-gen EVs. Devices that use lithium-ion battery packs, from smartphones to cars, are typically designed to limit their power

The March 2024 core algorithm update is penalizing AI content. Here's how to make Google love it instead.

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Learn how to measure ROI of content on a page whether it be for a media company, publisher, YouTube creator, affiliate, or trade organization.

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It is no secret that VC investing has a diversity and inclusion problem. Fortunately, there are funders out there who are committed to ushering

To get the basics out of the way first: Apple’s new MacBook Airs, which began shipping on March 7, are what computer nerds call a speed bump update. Available in 13-inch and 15-inch versions, they’re nearly the same laptops as their immediate predecessors, with Apple’s faster M3 chip swapped in for the previous generation’s M2. They also support the new Wi-Fi 6E wireless networking standard and, when closed, can drive two external displays.

If you already

Unlock the power of AI for marketing data discovery and streamline your call tracking process. Learn how to enhance customer insights today!

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Ben talks with Ryan Polk, Chief Product Officer at Stack Overflow, about our strategic partnership with Google Cloud, the importance of collaboration between AI companies and the Stack Overflow community, and why Stack Overflow’s Q&A format is so suitable for training AI models. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/12/how-stack-overflow-is-partnering-with-google-to-encourage-socially-responsible-ai/

Back in November, Sam Altman was fired from his position as CEO of OpenAI on a Friday the week before a holiday weekend—only to return to his job after a chaotic 86 hours that nearly tanked the $80 billion company. This past Friday, OpenAI dropped another bombshell. It announced the outcome of the investigation into the behavior that prompted Altman’s ouster—and it introduced a handful of new members to the board.

According to OpenAI, a review of more than 30,00

Výpočetní tomografie překročila hranici mezi vědou a uměním. V rámci projektu openVertebrate vzniklo během 6 let více než 13 tisíc 3D snímků nejrůznějších obratlovců. Snímky mohou využít vědci k výzkumu i veřejnost k uspokojení touhy po kráse a přírodě současně. http://www.osel.cz/13383-projekt-overt-digitalizoval-pres-13-tisic-obratlovcu-nadhernymi-snimky.html

AI continues to pervade our work lives. According to recent research by the Society for Human Resource Management, one in four employers use AI in human resources functions. Meanwhile, technology is becoming an increasingly common presence in everything from education and healthcare to criminal justice and law.

Yet we largely aren’t addressing bias in any meaningful way, and for anyone with a disability, that can be a real problem.

Indeed, a Pennsylvania State Unive

Elon Musk said on Monday his artificial intelligence startup xAI would take its ChatGPT challenger “Grok” open-source this week, days after he sued OpenAI for abandoning its original mission in favor of a for-profit model.

The billionaire has warned on several occasions against the use of technology for profit by big technology companies such as Google.

He filed the lawsuit earlier this month against Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which he cofounded in 2015 but lef

Bitcoin is getting a lot of attention lately, hitting new all-time highs as it crossed $72,000 on Monday. But another area of the crypto world is gaining ground nearly as fast. Artificial intelligence-related tokens, like all things AI, are red hot. In mid-February, the category had a market cap of just under $10 billion. As of midday Monday, that stood at just over $27 billion.

AI cryptos are similar to many other cryptocurrencies, except that they present an opportunity for people

Sam Altman is rejoining the board of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI along with three new directors, as the startup tries to move past his sudden ouster in November that had shocked the tech industry.

Altman had returned as CEO of OpenAI just four days after his firing with a new board made up of Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and former co-CEO of Salesforce Bret Taylor.

The board will now expand with the addition of Sue Desmond-Hellmann,

Novo Nordisk, the Danish drug maker whose fortunes have soared on the popularity of its GLP-1 agonist drugs, scored a long-sought label expansion for its weight-loss drug Wegovy on Friday, with FDA approving it to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events in adults who are obese or overweight and have established cardiovascular disease.

The approval is based on a nearly five-year-long study in which once-weekly injections of Wegovy were shown to reduce the overall risk of major

Google begins automatically surfacing social media posts on Google Business Profiles.

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Six weeks before the first fatal U.S. accident involving Tesla’s Autopilot in 2016, the automaker’s president Jon McNeill tried it out in a Model X and emailed feedback to automated-driving chief Sterling Anderson, cc’ing Elon Musk.

The system performed perfectly, McNeill wrote, with the smoothness of a human driver.

“I got so comfortable under Autopilot, that I ended up blowing by exits because I was immersed in emails or calls (I know, I know,

Vlastně nejde tak úplně o červy, ale háďátka. A že si z vysoké radiace nic nedělají, také není přesné. Určitě dělají, jen nevíme jak si devastační následky záření zvládají tak rychle a správně opravovat. http://www.osel.cz/13382-drobni-cervi-si-v-cernobylu-z-vysoke-radiace-delaji-soufky.html

Dutch startup Eye Security has raised €36mn as it looks to defend European businesses from cyber criminals.  Founded in 2020 by a group of Dutch intelligence and security experts, the Hague-based outfit provides cyber protection, incident respons

Virginia high school teacher Joe Clement keeps track of the text messages parents have sent students sitting in his economics and government classes:— “What did you get on your test?”— “Did you get the field trip form signed?”— “Do you want chicken or hamburgers for dinner tonight?”Clement has a plea for parents: Stop texting your kids at school.Parents are distressingly aware of the distractions and the mental health issues assoc

The automotive industry is shifting gears, accelerating into the future as new technologies push the boundaries of efficiency, sustainability, and safety.

The next phase is already here—the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data within every facet of the industry. From the factory floor to the driving experience itself, AI and big data are fuelling safer, more efficient, and more intelligent vehicles, as well as better manufacturing and maintenance processes

You could argue that generative AI has had a pretty negative marketing campaign from its nascent introduction into the world order to where we are today. From heretic articles bemoaning the top jobs that will be replaced, to hastily arranged committees of the titans of tech defining our AI future, to the culture heralded CEO of AI (Sam Altman) being ousted and then re-ordained, to the Musk-ian battles for AI invasive supremacy, and to no doubt a year of election deepfakes.

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Reddit’s initial public offering is getting closer, as evidenced by the company’s latest filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has revealed new details about what is sure to be one of the most-watched IPOs of the year. The new filing includes the number of shares that will be made available and their expected price range, among other insights. Reddit had previously announced its stock ticker (RDDT) and underwriters in an earlier filing.

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The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released declassified footage of its DragonFire laser weapon.  DragonFire shoots a high-power beam at the speed of light. It’s so precise, it can fry a target the size of a coin from a kilometre away. This “neve

If you’re using the exact same PPC strategies you were deploying in 2023, the new year is the perfect time to try something new.

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Learn how to overcome the challenges of building a solid local search presence without a physical storefront.

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“You get what you pay for.”

It’s generally not hard to argue with this quote, but every now and again, you’ll come across some freebies in life that truly punch far above their weight. Such is the case with these five free Windows apps—each excellent in its own right, and with an irresistible price tag to match.

Flow Launcher

If you’ve ever used the Spotlight feature on a Mac, you’ll be right at home with Flow La

Last year, Mastercard and the tech platform provider Fabrick announced an expanded strategic partnership to develop embedded-finance solutions for businesses across Europe. The deal will enable companies to integrate financial services directly into their products through application protocol interfaces (APIs), allowing them to provide payment, banking, and insurance services without the need to build their own proprietary financial infrastructure.

The embedded-finance use cases ena

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Google's recent update of its cache documentation highlights that the cache is actually still available

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Looking to take your search engine optimization skills to the next level? Check out these free and paid online courses.

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Systém oranžového trpaslíka HD 110067 se šesti malými planetami přetéká matematickou estetikou. Odborníci SETI zjišťovali, zda v tom nemají prsty nějaké pokročilé civilizace. Průzkum starších rádiových dat nepřinesl vůbec nic. Vědci ale s pozoruhodným systémem, který patří k největším, co známe, nejspíš jen tak neskončí. http://www.osel.cz/13381-lovci-civilizaci-seti-prohledali-matematicky-podezrely-planetarni-system.html

While artificial intelligence made headlines with ChatGPT, behind the scenes, the technology has quietly pervaded everyday life — screening job resumes, rental apartment applications, and even determining medical care in some cases.

While a number of AI systems have been found to discriminate, tipping the scales in favor of certain races, genders or incomes, there’s scant government oversight.

Lawmakers in at least seven states are taking big legislative swin

Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, says the First Amendment gives him the right to publish publicly available information about the flight paths of private jets owned by the rich and famous—including Taylor Swift.

Swift’s legal team—and many of her fans—say that Sweeney posting the comings and goings of the singer’s private plane on social media is technological stalking.

Sweeney also tracks the private planes ow

Nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea, and in the air and space. Visions of swarms of small, inexpensive drones filling the skies or skimming across the waves are motivating militaries to develop and deploy laser weapons as an alternative to costly and potentially overwhelmed missile-based defenses.

Laser weapons have been a staple of science fiction since long before lasers were even invented. More recently,

There’s a Gordian knot at the heart of the AI boom in healthcare. Artificial (or depending on who you talk to, “augmented”) intelligence is already a solidly established tool in the medical system from X-ray imaging analysis to streamlining hospital billing to how the medicines your doctor might prescribe are discovered in the first place. Yet 69% of Americans staunchly oppose the idea of AI replacing doctors to diagnose disease, according to a new Salesforce survey, whil

Elektronický odpad je zlatá žíla dnešní doby. Amyloidní aerogel z proteinových nanovláken, který lze snadno vyrobit ze syrovátky, elegantně vytěží zlato ze staré elektroniky rozpuštěné v kyselině. Ze 20 starých motherboardů je tímto způsobem možné získat nugget o váze 450 miligramů, který je z 91 procent ze zlata. Ekonomická návratnost by měla být ohromující. http://www.osel.cz/13380-nanovlaknovy-aerogel-ze-syrovatky-velmi-ucinne-tezi-zlato-z-e-odpadu.html

The release of the film Oppenheimer, in July 2023, has renewed interest in the enigmatic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life. While Oppenheimer will always be recognized as the father of the atomic bomb, his early contributions to quantum mechanics form the bedrock of modern quantum chemistry. His work still informs how scientists think about the structure of molecules today.

Early on in the film, preeminent scientific figures of the time, including Nobel laureates Werner

When ChatGPT became available to the public in late 2022, few could guess just how quickly the AI chatbot would change the tech industry. But in the months after ChatGPT came online, nearly every tech giant scrambled to position itself as an AI-first company. Well, everyone but Apple. While Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon spoke about embracing artificial intelligence in 2023, Apple remained relatively quiet.

But Apple is setting a new tone regarding AI in 2024, as evidenced by i

Google has been touting the myriad innovations in the first building wholly designed and built by the web giant, even moving workers in to focus on its highest-profile project: generative artificial intelligence. But, some say they wish the innovations had included decent Wi-Fi.

The “Bay View” building, located on the Alphabet unit’s Mountain View, California, headquarters, has been plagued for months by inoperable or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi, according to six peo

Když se srazí neutronové hvězdy, je to hodně husté, horké a extrémní. Fyzici se domnívají, že by za takových extrémních podmínek mohlo docházet k procesům, které nás přivedou na stopu temné hmoty. Zkusili pátrat po axionech, které stále patří mezi přední kandidáty na temnou hmotu, v pozorováních srážky neutronových hvězd GW170817. Bezvýsledně. http://www.osel.cz/13379-privedou-nas-srazky-neutronovych-hvezd-k-nove-fyzice.html

The latest step forward in the development of large language models (LLMs) took place earlier this week, with the release of a new version of Claude, the LLM developed by AI company Anthropic—whose founders left OpenAI in late 2020 over concerns about the company’s pace of development.

But alongside the release of Claude 3, which sets new records in popular tests used to assess the prowess of LLMs, there was a second, more unusual innovation. Two days after Anthropic r

Microsoft is offering an update into the hack it first reported in January—and things aren’t looking good. The tech giant says state-sponsored hackers, backed by Russia, are still trying to access its systems and successfully stole “some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems.”

The hackers, who call themselves Midnight Blizzard or Nobelium, were also responsible for the SolarWinds attack that compromised the Treasury and Com

New managed WordPress cloud hosting built on top of Automattic's WP Cloud infrastructure delivers speed and security with a 100% uptime

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The hotel was spacious. It was upscale. It had a karaoke bar. The perfect venue, the CEO of the Chinese hacking company thought, to hold a Lunar New Year banquet currying favor with government officials. There was just one drawback, his top deputy said.“Who goes there?” the deputy wrote. “The girls are so ugly.”So goes the sordid wheeling and dealing that takes place behind the scenes in China’s hacking industry, as revealed in a highly unusual leak last mon

Google to discontinue its "Add Me To Search" people cards feature, citing limited helpfulness for users since its launch.

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A British startup has set a new pressure record using the world’s strongest pulsed power machine, as it looks to forge a cheaper, faster path to fusion energy.  First Light Fusion launched a projectile at over 20 kilometres per second (72,000

It was a pretty bad week for social media sites across the board. Nearly every big-name social media platform experienced an outage over the last five days (well, except for one, which we’ll get to in a bit).

Perhaps worse than the downtime, though, were the conspiracy theories speculating that these outages were connected to major events in American politics.

First, you had Super Tuesday, the largest grouping of presidential primary elections in the United States i

At first glance, images circulating online showing former President Donald Trump surrounded by groups of Black people smiling and laughing seem nothing out of the ordinary, but a look closer is telling.Odd lighting and too-perfect details provide clues to the fact they were all generated using artificial intelligence. The photos, which have not been linked to the Trump campaign, emerged as Trump seeks to win over Black voters who polls show remain loyal to President Joe Biden.The fabricated i

It’s hard to imagine more intimate data than that collected by female technologies or “femtech.” These apps and devices not only monitor women’s menstrual cycles but also record their sexual encounters, orgasms, and pregnancies. A new study sh

In October last year, researchers at the Alan Turing Institute sounded the alarm that there was an “urgent issue” of gender imbalance in artificial intelligence in

No matter where you may be—including the very real likelihood of “a perpetual state of confusion,” as is the case for me—the start of March means the start of the spring travel season.

And whether you’ve got a work or personal trip coming up soon or you’re just dreaming of a getaway at some theoretical point in the future, good golly, have I got a great new tool for you to tuck away in your metaphorical luggage.

It’s an AI-p

Joe Montana is best known for winning four Super Bowls during the 1980s as the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, but he’s now cementing a new legacy as a top-tier investor.

Montana tops the list of celebrity VCs, recently released by CB Insights, with a whopping 569 deals since 2020, and he’s also managed to back 10 unicorn companies during that time frame. Montana is the founder and managing partner at Liquid 2 Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC fund. Actor Asht

Discover valuable advice and inspiring stories from SEO professionals about work-life balance and empowering women and non-binary individuals in the industry.

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It happened, after years of chin-wagging and back-and-forth and bad blood, it finally happened: the compliance date for the Digital Markets Act arrived on March 7th. From here on out, big tech needs to follow the regulations laid out by the EU — and

Jamey Simpson was 10 when he watched the space shuttle lift off from Kennedy Space Center with his mother, astronaut Cady Coleman, on board. A voice from a handheld radio counted down as fire spewed from the rocket and propelled it skyward in a chest-crushing roar.

Now 23, Jamey recalls the existential weight that followed. “It was in that moment, I realized, `My mom is really gone and she’s not on the planet anymore.’”

Space: The Longest Goodby

Courtney June no longer reaches for her phone when she’s in need of a camera. These days the 24-year-old uses a point-and-shoot digital camera to capture life mementoes and nights out with friends.

June, who’s based in Pennsylvania, is among the growing hoard of Gen Zers whose obsession with 2000s culture has in turn breathed new life into physical cameras and minimalist smartphones, both of which were emblems of the era. “Everyone’s photos kind of look t

Imagine a field where groundbreaking contributions go consistently unrecognized, where talented individuals are systematically excluded from the narrative, and where the very technology they helped build threatens their livelihoods. Despite their undeniable presence and impact, this is the reality for women in AI.

This year, as the world marks International Women’s Day at South By Southwest (SXSW)—one of the leading technology events of the year—the glaring unde

Strike a balance between AI tools and human creativity for a lasting, impactful content strategy.

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Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson’s groundbreaking work about the importance of psychological safety in the workplace shed new light on building teams that are not afraid to innovate and take risks. But those risks don’t always end up the way we want them to—and it appears that many companies may not be fostering that sense of safety that is so important for workers to take risks and make mistakes.

According to recent research from business publish

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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The Planetary Science Caucus is back from the dead, and the revival of the group couldn’t come at a more critical time for scientific pursuits in the cosmos that often find themselves in the budgetary crosshairs.

A brief history

The Planetary Science Caucus existed in the 115th and 116th Congress (about 2017-2021 for those who follow the Gregorian calendar), but went away during the 117th Congress, between 2021 and 2023, according to Jack Kiraly,

Machine learning scientist, author, and LLM developer Maxime Labonne talks with Ben and Ryan about his role as lead machine learning scientist, his contributions to the open-source community, the value of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and the process of fine-tuning and unfreezing layers in LLMs. The team talks through various challenges and considerations in implementing GenAI, from data quality to integration. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/08/a-leading-ml-educator-on-what-you-need-