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A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space.

Each fake eclipse should la

On the internet, people go viral for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes, for the wrong ones. 

LOLCows are one example of the internet’s darker sense of humor. While not a new term, an “LOLCow” is a “a person you get extensive laughs from, who doesn’t know they are being made fun of,” according to  Urban Dictionary. In other words, a person being milked for “lols” or laughs. “They can often think they are a

A top White House official on Wednesday said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign.

Deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger offered new details about the breadth of the

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is in discussions with Nvidia Corp to produce its Blackwell artificial intelligence chips at the contract manufacturer’s new plant in

Learn how metadata on photos can boost your website's rankings in search engine results in this week's Ask An SEO.

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Wondering how to go about creating an LLM that understands your custom data? Start here. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/05/four-approaches-to-creating-a-specialized-llm/

Microsoft’s cloud ambitions just hit a major snag in the UK. The tech giant is facing a £1bn ($1.27 billion) lawsuit over how it licenses software to customers using rival cloud platforms. Filed in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal by Scott+Scott, the

UK startup PhysicsX, founded by former Formula 1 engineering whizz Robin “Dr. Rob” Tuluie, has unveiled an AI tool that could fast-track the time it takes to design a new aircraft from months to just a few days.  Dubbed LGM-Aero, the software crea

In mid-October, rumors were swirling that Ubisoft was planning to shut down XDefiant, its struggling free-to-play first-person shooter game. Producer Mark Rubin took to social media to categorically deny that chatter. Tuesday afternoon, he was back on X.com—this time to announce the game was indeed ending.

Ubisoft has pulled the plug on

When it comes to producing state-of-the-art microchips for artificial intelligence, only one company produces the multimillion-dollar hardware necessary to draw the complex, microscopic designs on silicon needed for the chips to work: ASML. Big chipmakers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Intel, and Samsung all rely on the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that the Dutch company provides. No wonder it

Wix Analytics quietly integrates TWIPLA session recording toolkit, enabling users to analyze visitor interactions

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Why play a video game when you could watch an internet celebrity do it? 

According to a new MIDiA Research survey, gamers are spending more time watching videos about gaming than playing games themselves. The average respondent spent 8.5 hours scrolling YouTube and Twitch for gaming content, compared to just 7.4 hours booting up their favorite ga

Matcha is undoubtedly the beverage of the moment. It’s almost impossible to scroll on social media without catching glimpses of bright green, sipped out of glass straws or takeaway cups. In Japan, however, the matcha industry is struggling to keep up with soaring demand.

“POV: The girls have caused a matcha shortage in Japan,” says one viral TikTok post. The clip shows a sign at a tea shop in Japan that re

Jumping into SEO without a game plan can waste time with little payoff. These daily, weekly, and monthly checklists will help you stay on track.

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Threads is going deeper into the fediverse, the interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub that includes apps such as Mastodon and BookWyrm.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that starting Wednesday, Threads users can follow people from other fediverse servers who have interacted with f

In this episode, Scott talks to Florian Engelhardt about concurrency in PHP. Links Florian on Mastodon – https://phpc.social/@flowcontrol Florian’s Website – https://dotbox.org Article – Concurrency in PHP: What are my options?

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Gravatar announces free domain names for creating custom Bluesky handles in just four simple steps.

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Že množstvo spermii u mužov vo vyspelých krajinách západnej civilizácie postupne klesá, potvrdili už tisíce prieskumov. Príčiny sa hľadali a nachádzali v prevládajúcom životnom štýle v konzumnej spoločnosti, ale spermie ubúdajú aj v menej rozvinutých a menej konzumných krajinách. Možných príčin je priveľa a uspokojivé možnosti riešenia tohto problému zatiaľ chýbajú. http://www.osel.cz/13808-umierat-ci-vymierat-bude-tak-zniet-otazka-pre-nasich-potomkov.html

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who is in a legal dispute with rival Elon Musk, said he is “not that worried” about Musk’s influence in the incoming Trump administration.

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Disney. Pixar. Marvel. Star Wars. National Geographic. Hulu. The Walt Disney Co. isn’t a portfolio of brands so much as a portfolio of portfolios of brands. Today it’s expanding its Disney+ streaming service by adding content from yet another of its marquee names: ESPN.

More specifically, it’s adding a tile to the Disney+ home screen that leads to content from the ESPN+ streaming service, which is available both in stand-alone form and as part of a variety of bundles. Disney+ viewe

Google introduces 'Dating and Companionship' ads policy, including mandatory certification for dating app advertisers starting in March.

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Are you location sharing official? Whether it’s for practical reasons, like checking if your partner can swing past your favorite takeaway on the way home, or seeing if they have got home safely from a night out, location sharing is quickly becoming the digital equivalent of leaving a toothbrush at their place. 

Since Apple’s

Google clarifies robots.txt best practices and explains when to use robots.txt directives and noindex tags for SEO.

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For many Americans, pharmaceutical drugs are too expensive—and thanks to a system of complex and tedious bureaucracy, any effort for meaningful reform has been futile. Cost Plus Drugs wants to change that. With the help of co-founder Mark Cuban, CEO Alex Oshmyansky is radically re-engineering the pharma marketplace and dramatically cutting the price for many prescription drugs. Oshmyansky shares why Big Pharma might not be the true adversary, how Y Combinator got his company off the ground,

Federal authorities on Tuesday urged telecommunication companies to boost network security following a sprawling Chinese hacking campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Amer

It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history—one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools, and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn 16.

U pohřbených barbarských válečníků v zemích za hranicemi Římské říše, se často nacházejí nenápadné lžičky, u nichž není jasné, k čemu mohly sloužit. Polští badatelé jsou přesvědčeni, že je bojovníci používali ke šňupání psychoaktivních látek před bitvou a klidně i jindy. Jak se zdá, evropští barbaři neholdovali jen alkoholu. http://www.osel.cz/13807-barbarsti-valecnici-za-vlady-rima-bezne-valcili-na-psychotropnich-latkach.html

AI researcher and industry insider Ali Farhadi doesn’t mince words when it comes to open-source artificial intelligence: “Openness is the only way forward,” he says.

Farhadi is a professor at the University of Washington as well as the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), one of the most active nonprofit AI research institutes in the nation. The institute has three main areas of focus: Open Ecosystem, empowering others with AI capabilities; AI for scientists, helping them do th

In 2016, when Twitter replaced its purely chronological timeline with one that used an algorithm to determine what users saw, I declared it to be a minor whoop at most—a 2.35 on a scale of 1 to 10. Maybe I was too serene about the change, which theoretically helped people see worthwhile tweets that they might otherwise have missed. But I d

Twenty website building platforms and CMSs were ranked for accessibility—the winner may surprise you.

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Explore the growing trend of micro-communities on social media, which offer marketers opportunities to engage with niche, tight-knit audiences.

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PLD Space has secured an €11mn loan to help fund the development of a liftoff site for its partially reusable Miura 5 rocket, which is set to become Europe’s first privately developed satellite launcher — unless one of its competitors gets

A Spanish government-appointed committee of experts has recommended that smartphones sold in the country carry health warning labels. The advice comes amid mounting concern about the effects of smartphone use, particularly among young people.   The

It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go to the polls. These are also the

The trade association formerly known as the Commercial Spaceflight Federation is getting a new name, a concise mandate, and a way to support the politicians who support space. 

The group will now be known as the Commercial Space Federation (CSF) to more accurately reflect its members, which include companies working in sectors ranging from spaceports to space situational awareness to Earth observation.

“I heard we were seen as the launch trade association when 75% of

Amazon.com’s cloud unit on Tuesday showed new data center servers packed with its own AI chips that will challenge Nvidia, with Apple coming aboard as a customer to use them.

The new servers, based on 64 of Amazon Web Services’ Trainium2 chips, will be strung together in a massive supercomputer with hundreds of thousands of

Where else could you tuck into a bowl of python pasta, soundtracked against the prerecorded grunts and grumbles of gorillas and screech of live parrots? For ’90s kids hosting at least one, if not many, of your birthday meals surrounded by animatronic wildlife at the Rainforest Cafe was a right of passage. Now, the eatertainment chain is going viral online. 

While some of the chain’s renewed popularity can be chalked up to

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Paul Atkins to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to crypto outlet Unchained. Assuming Atkins accepts the offer, crypto enthusiasts would have plenty of reason to rejoice.

Atkins may not be as familiar a name to the general public as his predecessor,

Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced a new family of foundation models called Nova to power generative AI applications at its re:Invent 2024 conference on Tuesday.

Amazon is rolling out four Nova models in total: Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier. Each have their own capabilities and sizes. Amazon also introduced a new image generation model, called Nova Canvas; and a video-generation model, Nova Reel.

Google recommends hosting website resources on CDNs or subdomains to preserve main site's crawl budget for better indexing.

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China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony, and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports.

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The sale of Americans’ private information by “data brokers” to scammers, foreign adversaries, abusive domestic partners and other unscrupulous actors could face stringent new proposed regulations, the top U.S. consumer agency for financial protect

Explore the reasons behind Google's decreasing market share in the EU. Learn about the lawsuits, regulations, and competition affecting Google's dominance.

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Lawyers tend to be the butt of jokes about not being human, so perhaps it’s no surprise that AI has been widely embraced in the legal world. Is it going to replace lawyers? Not yet, but AI is automating a lot of the backroom and behind the scenes work of lawyers, from receptions to research and redlining contracts.

Here are 10 tips for lawyers who want to use AI. 

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When the celebrity personalized video platform Cameo first launched in 2017, not just anyone could sell custom videos to fans on the platform.

Cameo staff recruited some celebs to the platforms, and existing Cameo video creators were allowed to invite others they thought were successful. And while potential video creators could apply, they generally had to have achieved a certain level of genuine fame—or at least something in the range of 25,000

Explore how structured data shapes SEO and AI in 2024, enhancing search visibility, AI discovery, and user experiences with new rich results and knowledge graphs.

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British startup SatVu has secured £20mn (€24mn) to fuel the development of its hyper-accurate thermal imaging satellites that act like a thermometer for the whole planet.  The cash injection includes £10mn (€12mn) in equity from Spanish VC Adara Ventures an

Amsterdam-headquartered Nebius, which builds full-stack AI infrastructure for tec

Data from 140,000 WordPress sites reveals which plugins users judge to be the best and most trustworthy

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Noam Shazeer, one of the inventors of the transformer models that caused the current AI boom, is now leading the charge at Google toward artificial general intelligence (that is, AI that’s generally smarter than human beings). Initially, Google was less aggressive than its peers when it came to and releasing generative AI to the world. But the company finally appears t

LinkedIn is covered in unreadable corporate garble. AI could be to blame.

A new study by AI detection startup Originality AI reveals just how thoroughly AI-assisted content has invaded LinkedIn’s feed. According to the study (which was first shared with Wired), more than half of long-length, English-language LinkedIn posts sho

Maximize your website's performance by choosing the right hosting provider. Learn about the common problems and features to consider.

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Ben talks with Eran Yahav, a former researcher on IBM Watson who’s now the CTO and cofounder of AI coding company Tabnine. Ben and Eran talk about the intersection of software development and AI, the evolution of program synthesis, and Eran’s path from IBM research to startup CTO. They also discuss how to balance the productivity and learning gains of AI coding tools (especially for junior devs) against very real concerns around quality, security, and tech debt. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/

Einstein neměl rád děsivou akci na dálku. Dnešní fyzici odvážně zkoumají entanglement v opačném extrému. Analýzami vysokoenergetických srážek elektronů s protony zjišťovali, jak funguje děsivá akce uvnitř protonu, tedy opravdu hodně na blízko, v prostoru o velikosti zhruba 0,84 femtometru. http://www.osel.cz/13806-extremni-entanglement-v-protonu-jsou-provazane-kvarky-a-gluony.html

In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, one TikTok content creator is suing another for copying her “neutral, beige, and cream aesthetic.” After a judge ruled the case should go forward last month, the matter now goes to U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas for final disposition.

In a lawsuit filed earlier this year,

ChatGPT users are getting error codes every time they type the name “David Mayer” into the generative AI chatbot, leaving many confounded on who it could be and why the platform isn’t recognizing the name.

A Reddit user who posted to the “r/ChatGPT” subreddit six days ago appeared to be the first to notice that ChatGPT wouldn’t (or couldn’t?) generate a response to the name. The user asked “who is david mayer?” The chatbot said

An influencer is bailing random people out of jail and putting them on a party bus. Why? For content.

In a ">video posted to his YouTube channel on November 20, creator cduerk bails 10 strangers out of jail at one time. “I went a little over budget with the bail,” cduerk says. Dressed in a goodwill suit, he waits outside the gates, cameras rolling, ready to load them onto a party bus waiting nearby. 

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Tired of thinking about what gifts to get everyone this year? Artificial intelligence chatbots might help, but don’t expect them to do all the wor

The U.S. will launch on Monday its third crackdown in three years on China’s semiconductor industry, curbing exports to 140 companies including chip equipment maker Naura Technology Group, a

Bluesky gains momentum as publishers report triple engagement rates, attracting media outlets and developers from rival social platforms.

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…aneb Jak děsivě dlouhá je doba od vyhynutí neptačích dinosaurů http://www.osel.cz/13805-jak-si-skutecne-predstavit-66-milionu-let.html