Despite all the technological innovation over the past 30 years, we are still asking the same data quality questions. Is my data accurate, complete, consistent? No wonder the issue isn’t going away: Without high quality data, enterprises can’t be data-driven. And if enterprises are not data-driven, there are greater instances of inefficiency, missed opportunities, and ultimately, financial loss. And no enterprise—regardless of size—can afford to operate like that.
Gartner’s
A new European Citizens’ Initiative has launched to try and make it illegal for game publishers to render games useless to players. Should it succeed in getting 1 million signatures, the European Commission will have to consider making it law. One of the most frustratin
Last month’s CrowdStrike incident was preventable. Even though the company claims to have testing protocols, it still managed to release buggy software in an automated update that caused tremendous damage and inconvenience to thousands of people. There are many factors that contributed to this mistake, and some of them have to do with people, assumptions, and misapplied startup culture.
The computerized systems that run most of the world we depend on (shipping, rail and air freight
Shares in Intel Corporation (ticker: INTC) are trading sharply lower in premarket this morning after the chip giant posted disappointing Q2 earnings yesterday, as well as announcing a massive round of layoffs to get its costs under control. As of the time of this writing, Intel shares are down over 20% in premarket trading.
Intel’s share price drop adds to a
Find out how Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) can affect your website and why it's important to optimize for this Google ranking factor.
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The European Union’s AI Act entered into force yesterday. It is the world’s first comprehensive regulation for artificial intelligence. First agreed upon in December 2023, the law is applying a risk-based approach. The strictest measures only apply to “high-
The thought of espionage usually conjures quirky high-end gadgets, like umbrellas that turn into lasers and x-ray glasses, misty morning clandestine meetings, or high-speed boat chases in exotic locations and elaborate disguises. Today, the reality might be much less
Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety, and energy consumption, my colleagues and I found.
Robot vehicles are no longer a sci-fi concept: Cities around the world have been testing
Last week, Donald Trump spoke in front of the world’s biggest Bitcoin conference in Nashville. The Republican presidential nominee, who has for months positioned himself as the “crypto candidate,” reportedly raised $21 million at the event; just days after the conference he began selling a lim
Improve SEO and user experience with breadcrumbs on your website. Learn how implementing breadcrumbs can have a positive impact on your website's visibility and navigation.
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Google's Gary Illyes confirms that robots.txt is ineffective at stopping unauthorized access
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Ben and Ryan are joined by Cortex cofounders Anish Dhar, CEO, and Ganesh Datta, CTO. Cortex offers an internal developer portal that helps devs document and reinforce organizational best practices and improve developer productivity. The portal includes features like scorecards that incentivize developers to improve their work and AI-powered search to make finding information easier. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/02/how-developer-experience-can-escape-the-spreadsheet/
VIPER isn’t going down without a fight.
Planetary science fans are asking Congress to step in after NASA unexpectedly pulled the plug on the VIPER—short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover—mission this month. More than 2,000 supporters ranging from engineers to space enthusiasts signed a letter last week led by the Planetary Society asking lawma
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s efforts to restore net neutrality rules while a legal case brought by the broadband industry proceeds.
The delay is just the latest in the on-again-off-again decade-long history of the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to prohibit internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking,slowing down, or
Superdiamant BC8 by měl být nejtvrdším materiálem ze všech, co známe. Vědci předpokládají, že se vyskytuje uvnitř planet minimálně dvakrát větších než Země. Superpočítač Frontier se zapotil, ale dal dohromady recept, s nímž snad vědci vybavení výkonnými lasery National Ignition Facility dovedou superdiamant vyrobit. http://www.osel.cz/13592-nejvykonnejsi-superpocitac-vymyslel-recept-na-mimoradne-extremni-diamant.html
DoorDash continued its long-running streak of setting new quarterly records for key metrics in its second quarter, the food delivery giant announced Thursday.
DoorDash’s second-quarter revenue increased 23% year-over-year to $2.6 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimated $2.54 billion. Total orders gained 19% to 635 million (also better than expected), while marketplace gross order value increased 20% to $19.7 billion.
Customers have continued to place orders f
Google Ads is experiencing an outage, disrupting key features and reports. The company is working to resolve widespread system issues.
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Google has been accused of exploiting a regulatory gap to terminate a startup’s access to the Gmail API. London-based Gener8 said the API is “critical” to its business. The company offers people control of the data that the likes of Gmail harvest. Users
Google Chrome introduces new features: desktop visual search, product comparison tool, and natural language history search, enhancing user experience and browsing capabilities.
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Google clarifies Autocomplete functionality, addressing user concerns and explaining recent issues.
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Google updates Publisher Tag Ads Library to improve INP scores and ad loading efficiency. New features offer publishers more control.
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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.
Elon Musk shares a deepfake, proves himself a big fake
Last Friday night, Elon Musk, the Donald Trump-supporting owner of X, decided to repost a deepfake video of the presumptive Democrat
Just a day after chip giants Nvidia and TSMC saw their stock prices rise, opposite fortunes are affecting competitor Arm Holdings. Yesterday after the close of the markets, Arm reported its first quarter results for fiscal year 2025, and in pre-market trading this morning, its shares (ticke
Amazon.com is expected to join Google and Microsoft on Thursday in reporting a surge in capital spending on artificial intelligence as Big Tech companies rush to capitalize on the booming t
Learn about the future of video advertising metrics. Find out how the industry is shifting from reach to business outcomes for improved ad effectiveness.
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An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/01/research-roadmap-update-august-2024/
Twelve semiconductor startups taking part in the UK’s ChipStart scheme have raised over £10mn in funding from private investors and grants, the British government announced today. Launched in October 2023, ChipStart is an incubator programme. It aims to provid
In February of 2017, Tom Rutledge, then-CEO of the telecom giant Charter, was asked on an investor call how changes in Washington were about to impact the company. At the time, analysts were curious about what would happen if the newly inaugurated Trump administration overturned the net neutrality rules that the Obama administration had put in place.
MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest star and a philanthropic force with nearly unrivaled influence among young audiences, acknowledged Wednesday that he used “inappropriate language” in his early online days, as numerous controversies bubbled up around him and a former collaborator.
MrBeast, whose
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing pioneer 23andMe unveiled a new product in May. Cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki had long promised that 23andMe would democratize genetics and, in the process, unleash a health revolution based on personalized genomic insights. But the company’s newest feature was decidedly more mundane: Through its telehealth service,
Large language models (LLMs) like those powering OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbots tend to produce responses aligned with left-of-center political beliefs, according to a new study of 24 major AI products that was published in the journal PLOS One.
David Rozado at Otago Polytechnic University in New Zealand administered 11 different popular political ori
I spend a lot of time talking to people about privacy and security, and I’ve come to recognize a pervasive learned helplessness: “All my information is out there already,” or “That ship has sailed.” I believe this helplessness comes from a mistaken sense that the problem is too big to be solved.
Many of us are painfully aware that our data is tracked and collected across our devices and apps. More
Achieve SEO success with agile methods. Learn how to get resources and buy-in from executives without lengthy strategy documents.
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Should you delete your GBP if you sell nationwide? Find out if your business is eligible for a Google Business Profile and if it's necessary.
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What to know about Google's Core Topicality Systems and the implications for SEO
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Google is joining the growing number of companies standing up to sexually explicit deepfakes.
The Alphabet division has made it easier for users to report nonconsensual imagery found in search results, including those made by artificial intelligence tools. While it was previously possible for users to request the removal of these images prior to the update, under the new policy whenever that request is granted, the company will scan for duplicates of the nonconsensual image and rem
Perplexity AI's publisher revenue share plan raises questions about fairness to websites that aren't among the big brand elites
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Get insights into the importance of understanding user intent for effective SEO. Learn how Google's algorithms prioritize relevant content.
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Investors are getting back together with Match Group after the dating giant indicated the worst was behind it in its second quarter earnings. That confidence sent shares up more than 14% Wednesday afternoon.
Match posted better-than-expected results for the second quarter. A key indicator was that Tinder, its star app, posted a smaller decline in paying users than in the previous quarter, with its 9.6 million paying users even being slightly ahead than Wall Street estimates.
A global Microsoft Azure outage that impacted a range of services for consumers Tuesday — from reports of stalling Outlook emails to trouble ordering on Starbucks’ mobile app — was triggered by a distributed denial of service cyberattack, according to the tech giant.
Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform used
As PHP Architects, our relentless pursuit of high-quality code is always at the forefront of our work. We take pride in assuring our clients that the applications we build are not meant to confine them. At the same time, we value the opportunity to cultivate long-standing partnerships with our clients, many of whom we consider […]
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Představte si 3D tiskárnu, která podle digitálního modelu výsledný objektu netiskne, ale uplete ho. Takové je 3D pletení anglicky solid knitting. Můžete si třeba uplést nábytek, a když vás přestane bavit, rozpletete ho a upletete si nový. Tohle je podivuhodný hybrid starověké technologie a pokročilé digitální výroby. http://www.osel.cz/13591-pozoruhodna-technologie-3d-pleteni-prinasi-nove-materialy.html
Wix announced AI tools that scale authentic content creation for the purpose of increasing organic traffic
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Google DeepMind announced today the release of the 2 billion (2B) parameter version of Gemma 2, the second generation of its Gemma AI models. First launched in February this year, Gemma is a family of lightweight, text-to-text open models designed for develo
I love almost everything about email newsletters. From finance to gadgets to pop music, there are just so many stellar ones these days. Their very format—intimate, regularly scheduled, free of any temptation to please the Google algorithm rather than human readers—liberates many writers to do their best work. Then th
Long before the advent of reality television, the popular game show “Queen for a Day” thrilled American audiences by giving women who told heartbreaking tales of financial struggles a chance at winning expensive items that could help solve their problems.
Throughout its 1956-1964 run, each episode featured contestants describing a misfortune that had struck them or their families, such as polio, rheumatic fever or hunting accident
Google updates search algorithm to combat explicit deepfakes, improving content removal and adjusting rankings to protect users from non-consensual imagery.
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Google's AI Overviews rarely appear in trending news searches, study finds. Health queries most affected.
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Google expands "About this image" feature, enhances deepfake detection, aiming to combat misinformation in search results.
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A push for single-pilot planes is a “dangerous gamble,” a leading aviation union has warned. The European Cockpit Association (ECA) sounded the alarm over plans to automate commercial flights. Aircraft makers want software to support a new single-pilot model.
The EU has awarded €1.8mn to 15 startups to help tackle online misinformation, fraud, and fake identities with blockchain-based technologies. The grant funding is part of the NGI TrustChain initiative, which focuses on building a more decentralised, trustwor
Businesses using Vimeo to produce videos for employees and customers will now be able to translate their content to dozens of different languages with the touch of a button.
A new AI feature will let Vimeo enterprise customers generate translated videos that even match the voice and tone of the original speakers. The company envisions the feature will be useful both for localizing corporate training and town hall–style updates
Josh Zhang, a staff site reliability engineer at Stack Overflow, tells Ryan and Eira how the Stack Exchange network defends against scraping bots. They also cover the emergence of human botnets, why DDoS attacks have spiked in the last couple of years, and the constant balancing act of protecting sites from attack without inhibiting legitimate users. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/30/how-stack-overflow-fends-off-scraping-bots/
The latest Stack Overflow for Teams release makes it easier to encourage and grow contributions to your community through the use of flexible bounties, more user search options, Slack thread summarization, and more. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/31/encouraging-and-growing-community-contributions/
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, Linnea and Andrii tal
The potential for deep tech to reshape industries from healthcare to climate science is immense. Yet, harnessing this potential requires more than just breakthroughs in isolated silos; it necessitates a nurturing ecosystem where collaboration and
Two things are certain about the emergence of new technologies. One is that it will be accompanied by a host of world-saving missions. The second is that one of those missions will be “solving” education.
Indeed, the more advanced the technology, the more seductive the idea that it can educate us. But history has shown the opposite: the more advanced the technology, the further it substitutes genuine intellectual labor, the less we learn.
AI is a much bigger t
Last week, the NBA unveiled its new TV rights deal: an 11-year, $77 billion arrangement that will begin with the 2025-26 season. ESPN/ABC will remain the league’s premier broadcast partner, paying $2.6 billion per year for a package that includes the NBA Finals. NBC, which aired most of Michael Jordan’s ruthless eviscerations of the Utah Jazz before losing game rights in 2002, is back in
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?
Navigate the changing digital advertising landscape with future PPC strategies for a privacy-first world. Stay one step ahead with targeted advertising solutions.
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V minulém a předminulém týdnu proběhla v Praze konference ICHEP 2024, která je zaměřena na současnost a budoucnost částicové fyziky. Jedním ze zásadních témat byla budoucnost velkých urychlovačů a následníka v současnosti největšího urychlovače LHC v laboratoři CERN. Budoucí cesta k těmto ještě výkonnějším klíčovým nástrojům pro poznání struktury hmoty a fundamentálních fyzikálních zákonů se řeší právě nyní. Rozhoduje se o tom, zda se postaví v Evropě nebo v Číně. http://www.osel.cz/13590-kde-bu
Microsoft shares were down more than 6% in after-hours trading Tuesday, despite quarterly earnings beating on the top and bottom lines. It was a lesson to tech companies that earnings mean less to investors today than the growth of artificial intelligence divisions.
The company reported earnings per share of $2.95 in its fourth fiscal quarter of 2024, compared to estimates of $2.93. Rev
Magie v tom sice není, ale jména lidí mají přesto ohromnou moc. Podle izraelských vědců dokážeme poměrně dobře přiřadit tvář neznámého dospělého člověka ke jménu. U dětí to ale nefunguje. Vypadá to, že sociální očekávání, která se pojí se jménem, mohutně tvarují vzhled dotyčného člověka. Jak jste na tom se jménem vy? http://www.osel.cz/13589-brutalni-sila-stereotypu-vzhled-lidi-se-meni-podle-toho-jak-se-jmenuji.html
Google’s partnership with GenAI startup Anthropic is raising eyebrows in the UK as the trend of big tech giants backing young AI companies continues. The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Tuesday that it’s collecting information on whether the
Microsoft is calling on Congress to pass new laws that make it illegal to use AI-generated voices and images to defraud people, especially seniors and children.
The call to create a “deepfake fraud statute” was part of a 52-page white paper the tech giant released Tuesday, which laid out its vision about how governments should approach AI. The company proposes the government make it illegal to use voice- and image-generation tools to impersonate someone, whether a political candida