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E-commerce sales are soaring. So is corrugated box usage

The latest quarterly e-commerce sales report from the U.S. Department of Commerce shows that online sales are outperforming offline when it comes to the pace of growth.

American consumers bought $291.6 billion worth of goods through e-commerce retailers in the second quarter of 2024, up 1.3% from the first three months of the year, and up 6.7% from the same period in 2023. That 6.7% year-on-year growth is

How to install Signal Desktop on FreeBSD using the Linux Binary Compatibility

FreeBSD provides optional binary compatibility with Linux, commonly referred to as Linuxulator, allowing users to install and run unmodified Linux binaries without the need for virtualization or emulation. In this tutorial I am going to show you how you can use it to install the Signal Desktop application for Linux. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/how-to-install-signal-desktop-on-freebsd-using-the-linux-binary-compatibility.html

5mo | unixsheikh
Proč je právní hatmatilka tak hrozně složitá?

Právní hantýrka, anglicky legalese, je odpudivá nejen pro laiky, ale i pro samotné právníky. Než aby sloužila ke komunikaci ji spíš komplikuje. Proč jsou právníci tak velice nesrozumitelní? Eric Martínez z MIT a jeho kolegové experimentálně ověřili pozoruhodnou hypotézu, která má co dělat se zaklínadly. http://www.osel.cz/13622-proc-je-pravni-hatmatilka-tak-hrozne-slozita.html

5mo | osel.cz
Unlock Revenue Growth with These Holistic Marketing Strategies via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell

Join us LIVE on August 27th as our experts show you B2B strategies to attract customers, keep them, and improve collaboration with your sales team.

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Will AI replace human teachers? It’s unlikely for now
History shows technological solutions in education often fall flat. Alexander Sikov via
Google: Search Console Data Survives After Domain Expiration via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google cautions: Search Console data remains after domain expiration. No reset option available. Temporary removal can hide expired sites.

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Why the U.S. government has no business building its own Bitcoin reserve

The idea of a strategic reserve of Bitcoin is gaining steam on Capitol Hill, even if financial and regulatory experts are skeptical.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis, a Republican from Wyoming and one of the crypto industry’s staunchest advocates, introduced late last month the BITCOIN Ac

TNW Podcast: How startups deploy AI, Bolt’s international expansion, and Fortnite is back


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, Ioann

5mo | The Next Web
Should we deport Musk to Mars? We asked 17th-century philosopher Spinoza’s AI twin


Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s ideas on religion, ethics, and human freedom laid the foundation for many of the basic morals and values of modern society.  And now you can tap some of the 17th century philosopher’s old-school wisdom stra

5mo | The Next Web
Tallinn startup bags €2.3M to turn CO2 into ‘critical’ graphite for EV batteries


Up Catalyst has closed a €2.36mn seed extension round to accelerate the development of an industrial pilot reactor that turns CO2 emissions into carbon materials. According to the Tallinn-based startup, the reactor will be able to produce 100 tonnes of CO2 per

5mo | The Next Web
UK ‘silent hangar’ to battle-ready aircraft, vehicles amid Russian GPS assault


In March, a plane transporting UK defence minister Grant Shapps to Poland had its GPS signal jammed as it flew near Russian territory.  While the disruption forced the plane to use alternative ways to navigate for over half an hour,

5mo | The Next Web
NHS flies blood packs by drone beyond the line of sight in UK first


In a UK first, drones have successfully delivered blood packs, flying beyond the visual line of sight, where the pilot can no longer see them as they travel. The flights were part of a joint trial between the NHS and healthcare logistics startup Apian. Its aim

5mo | The Next Web
This app is rejecting generative AI altogether. Good!

In the tech world, executives rarely brag about the opportunities they’ve chosen not to seize. So earlier this week, it was a bit of a shocker when James Cuda declared that he @$*#! hated generative AI, and his company’s products wouldn’t adopt it.

And yet, it also made perfect sense. Cuda is the CEO of Procreate, the maker of a wondrous iPad app for drawing, painting, and animating with uncannily realis

How To Identify & Reduce Render-Blocking Resources via @sejournal, @abbynhamilton

The longer users have to wait, the more likely they are to abandon your site. Identify and reduce render-blocking resources to display visual content ASAP.

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Google’s Mueller On August Core Update vs. Ranking Bug Effects via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's John Mueller advises waiting until the August core update is complete before measuring the impact, claims most sites don't see big changes.

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When is it OK to slide into someone’s DMs?

There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?

Fortunately, terminally online writers Delia Cai and St

How Van Jones plans on bringing AI innovation to underrepresented communities

CNN political analyst Van Jones wants to “Make Wakanda real” with his new initiative, the Dream Machine Innovation Lab. When it comes to overlooked communities, Jones believes artificial intelligence isn’t an access to hardware problem—almost everyone has a smartphone—but rather a matter of the heart and mind, a “wetware” problem. Alongside the U.S. presidential election, empowering w

Google Quietly Launches New AI Crawler via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google launched a new crawler for commercial use, accompanied by documentation for site owners to track its traffic

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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-vertex-ai-crawler/524956/

ESA’s Juice spacecraft completes world’s first lunar-Earth flyby


Europe’s Juice spacecraft has completed the world’s first lunar-Earth flyby. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer — aka Juice — harnessed the gravity of Earth to sling itself in the direction of Venus. The route will provide a shortcut to Jupiter through the inn

5mo | The Next Web
I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype

I truly and passionately hate hype. From the fakeness of it to the sheer stupidity it represents, but perhaps most of all, because of the devastating consequence it often results in. https://unixdigest.com/articles/i-passionately-hate-hype-especially-the-ai-hype.html

5mo | unixsheikh
Očkovanie proti COVID-19 zachránilo v Európe viac, ako 1,5 milióna životov

Podľa analýzy, uverejnenej v Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vakcíny proti COVID-19 len v Európe priamo zachránili najmenej 1,5 milióna životov, hlavne ľudí starších, ako 60 rokov. Ďalšie životy zachránili nepriamo, znížením počtu prenášateľov vírusu v populácii. http://www.osel.cz/13621-ockovanie-proti-covid-19-zachranilo-v-europe-viac-ako-1-5-miliona-zivotov.html

5mo | osel.cz
Elon Musk’s Twitter buy: Add bankers to the list of victims

When Elon Musk decided to buy Twitter, he enlisted the help (and financial assistance) of seven major banks to back his offer, ultimately securing loans of $13 billion. It seemed a good bet for the financial institutions at the time.

Musk, after all, had a history of success with businesses—and banks tend to sell that sort of debt, clearing their balance sheet and moving onto the next loan. Those banks, however, haven’t been able to sell the debt, in part because of the financial p

Meta’s New Ad Tools Promise More Precise Customer Targeting via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Meta announces ad platform updates for Facebook and Instagram, focusing on AI-driven optimization, enhanced analytics integration, and improved conversion attribution.

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#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep440-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

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Waymo doubles its weekly paid robotaxi rides to 100,000

Alphabet’s Waymo said on Tuesday it had doubled its paid rides to 100,000 per week in just over three months as the autonomous ride-hailing firm expanded its areas of service and allowed more people to ride its robotaxis.

The Olympic muffin was a TikTok microtrend. Now it’s a global phenomenon

Chocolate muffins blew up on TikTok during the Olympics, and their staying power has surpassed the Paris games themselves.

Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen became TikTok’s “muffin man” throughout the 2024 Olympics after he documented his obsession with the cafeteria’s chocolate muffins. Christiansen’s videos racked up

10 new states join the monopoly suit against Ticketmaster

Attorneys general from 10 new states have joined a civil antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation and its ticket-selling unit, Ticketmaster, for allegedly monopolizing markets across the live concert industry.

Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont have joined the lawsuit. This boosts the total t

This JD Vance-founded donor organization has big plans and a million dollar budget to match

Before JD Vance began his rapid rise to vice presidential candidate, he co-founded a Silicon Valley-backed donor organization to finance right-wing news stories, voter turnout operations and election polls with a goal of spreading U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of nationalism, according to previously unreported

Is generative AI headed for a model collapse? Here’s what companies are doing to avoid it

Artificial intelligence (AI) prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “

Americká armáda testuje robotické psy s puškou proti dronům

Na nedávném cvičení s ostrou střelbou „Operation Hard Kill,“ zaměřené na hrozbu dronů, se objevil robopes Ghost Robotics Vision 60, vybavený malou bojovou stanicí se soustavou senzorů a zaměřovacích systémů, na které byla instalovaná puška typu AR-15. Trurl a Klapacius by byli ze čtyřnohého lovce dronů nadšeni. http://www.osel.cz/13620-americka-armada-testuje-roboticke-psy-s-puskou-proti-dronum.html

5mo | osel.cz
TSMC’s first chip factory in Europe gets €5B state aid from Germany


The European Commission today approved €5bn in German state aid to support TSMC’s chip plant in Dresden — its first in Europe. Dubbed European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC), the fab is a joint venture betwee

5mo | The Next Web
AI startup Anthropic gets sued on allegations of ‘large-scale theft’

A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular

Watch: rocket explodes during test for UK’s first vertical launch


A rocket engine has exploded during tests for a landmark space flight from the UK. The fire erupted at SaxaVord Spaceport, which aims to host the first vertical launch into orbit from Western Europe. German startup Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has exclusive ac

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Big Tech may be focusing its lobbying push on the California AI safety bill’s last stop: Gavin Newsom

As California’s AI bill, SB 1047, continues to move through the California state legislature, the AI industry and its allies are trying to convince Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the legislation.

The bill, which requires makers of very large frontier models to establish and report AI safety guidelines, passed out of the appropriations committee last week and is now slated for a floor v

How AI tools help students—and their professors—in academic research

For students and professional scholars alike, starting a new research project typically means digging through academic literature to understand what others have already written.

That can take a considerable amount of time, with researchers tracking down and combing through journal articles to begin their research and contextualize their own findings. But a growing collection of AI-powered tools aims to make that process easier. These new tools can help researchers more quickly find

Texas is suing GM for tracking drivers’ data—but these other car companies do the same thing

The next frontier in the battle over data privacy doesn’t revolve around a keyboard or smartphone. It involves what happens inside your car. 

Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against General Motors (GM), alleging the auto giant violated Texans’ privacy rights by collecting and selling driver data to insurance c

Utilizing Local Influencers For Digital Marketing Success via @sejournal, @JRiddall

Unleash the power of local influencers for your digital marketing strategy. Tap into their trusted voices to reach local audiences and boost your online visibility.

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Impactful Local SEO At Scale: Delivering Better Results To Clients via @sejournal, @realserps

Google-compliant local SEO at scale doesn’t have to be difficult. The secret is applying automation where it counts to complement the work of your agency.

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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/serps-local-seo-at-scale-spa/523245/

Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0

On today’s episode, we chat with Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js and Deno. He explains why he feels the first version of Deno has reached certain limits and what he and his team are doing with Deno 2.0 to scale up the module system and ensure it's a great tool for the modern web. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/20/ryan-dahl-deno-20-scale-improve-npm-nodejs/

Naxijský vodovod z 6. století před n. l.

Kandidát na nejdelší vodovod z řecké archaické doby. Stavba dlouhá 11,5 km přiváděla keramickými trubkami vodu z prameniště na okraji vysočiny do hlavního města ostrova. V okolí svého začátku vedl vodovod tunelem dlouhým 220 metrů. V 1. a znovu v 4. století n. l. byl opraven a zčásti přestavěn, fungoval do 8. století. K tomu trapné dovětky o vodě dnes. http://www.osel.cz/13618-naxijsky-vodovod-z-6-stoleti-pred-n-l.html

5mo | osel.cz
Robot coaches are reading brain signals to support stroke rehabilitation


Robot coaches that read brain signals could pave a new way for the rehabilitation of stroke and brain injury survivors. That’s according to the EU-funded VITALISE project, led by researchers from the UK’s National Robotarium and developed in partnership with t

5mo | The Next Web
OpenAI just shut down an Iran-linked disinformation campaign involving ChatGPT. Here’s what to know

As concerns about foreign interference in the 2024 election linger and politicians continue to worry about the potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence, OpenAI, late last Friday, announced it had discovered an “Iranian influence operation” using its tools to

A new AI system promises to enhance your tennis swing — and your racket


SportAI has grand plans for tennis analytics. The startup wants to not only enhance a player’s technique, but also the racket they swing. The Norway-based business analyses sports footage in real-time. It then delivers instant, personalised feedback. For tenn

5mo | The Next Web
San Francisco sues AI websites that make nude deepfakes of women and girls

Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this summer sentenced 15 of their classmates to a year of probation.

But the artificial intelligence tool used to create the

X closes its Brazil operations as Musk’s feud with a Supreme Court justice escalates

Social media platform X said Saturday it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders.

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Uber pushes back against Kenyan drivers setting their own fares

In eight years of working as a taxi driver in Kenya‘s capital, Judith Chepkwony has never seen business this bad.

A bruising price war between ride-hailing companies Uber Technologies, Estonia’s Bolt and local start-ups Little and Faras has driven fares down to a level that many drivers say is unsustainable, forcing them to set their own higher rates.

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How deepfakes are radically shifting the creator landscape

Deepfake technology and the malicious use of AI is causing widespread anxiety, especially as we approach November’s U.S. election. Adobe’s Chief Strategy Officer and EVP of Design and Emerging Products, Scott Belsky explains what deepfakes mean for the media and creator landscape, and how

This Fox, ESPN and Warner Brothers joint sports venture is a no-go, for now

The launch of Venu Sports will be delayed after a federal judge granted FuboTV’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the planned sports streaming venture by ESPN,

New metal foam aims to tackle ‘dire’ energy problem at data centres


Female-led Apheros has raised $1.85mn to tackle a pressing problem for the tech sector: the exponential energy consumption of data centres. Data centres are the foundation of our digital infrastructure,housing the servers, data storage systems, and networking

5mo | The Next Web
Why does X still seem to be running undisclosed ads?

If Elon Musk’s recent interview with Donald Trump on X was meant to promote Trump’s return to the platform, it appears to have been false advertising. Since the interview, Trump has only used his X account twice—once to retweet an ad for a documentary about himself, once to post a goofy AI depiction of he and Musk disco-dancing—wh