AI generated spam still enjoy top rankings after escaping Google's March 2024 spam update in a demoralizing blow against human authored websites
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The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors and stifles innovation.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, alleges that Apple has monopoly power in the smartphone market and uses its control over the iPhone to “engage in a broad, sustained, and illegal course of conduct.”
The lawsuit—which was als
The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 state attorneys general sued Apple for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws on Thursday. The 88-page complaint lays out the government’s case against Apple, claiming the tech titan abused its monopoly in the smartphone market by imposing unfair practices for developers, blocking super-apps and cloud-streaming apps, and prohibiting tap-to-pay services outside of their own.
But on page 38, prosecutors get to the real juicy stuff: Appl
Google Analytics 4 update unifies conversion reporting across Ads and Analytics, introducing 'key events' and privacy-first measurement solutions.
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Cemvision, a Swedish company re-inventing cement, announced a €10 million seed round, led by Polar Structure and Backing Minds, and SF-based Zacua Ventures. The news comes soon after Cemvision announced its first official customer contract and is part of a plan to accelerate the company’s short-term momentum. This represents the largest known green cement seed […]
Guildford-based Nukoko, the world’s first ‘bean-to-bar’ cocoa-free chocolate maker, today announced that it has raised over €1.3 million in Seed funding, led by Oyster Bay Venture Capital with participation from SOSV and The Mills Fabrica and an Innovate UK grant to scale their ground-breaking technology. Founded in 2022 by second-time chocolate entrepreneurs Ross Newton and […]
Concrete — a mixture of cement, sand, and water — is the second most used material on Earth after water. Ton-for-ton, more of it is laid down every year than steel, wood, plastics, and aluminium combined. Problem is, cement production emits
Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess.
Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device. The implant seeks to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using only their thoughts.
Arbaugh had received an implant from the comp
The chief executive of the cryptocurrency company Sam Bankman-Fried founded attacked the onetime crypto power player on Wednesday in a letter to a federal judge scheduled to sentence him next week, saying his claim that customers, lenders and investors were not harmed was callously false and he was living a “life of delusion.”FTX Trading Limited CEO John J. Ray III told Judge Lewis A. Kaplan that Bankman-Fried’s victims have suffered and continue to suffer from his crimes
Reddit is the solution to many of life’s minor problems. Need fan theories about the finale of True Detective: Night Country? Go on Reddit. Recently moved to a new city and want to join a running club? Reddit awaits. The so-called front page of the internet is a massive multiverse of message boards, boasting over 100,000 distinct communities. As some of its 73.1 million active daily users like to say, there’s a subreddit for almost anything. (Literally, in fact.) So, perhaps the
Google rolls out new search features in Europe, including changes to shopping results, to comply with EU regulations.
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Frontline Ventures, a leading venture capital firm focusing on B2B software companies, announced it has raised €182 million across two funds: Frontline Growth and Frontline Seed. These new funds will propel the transatlantic expansion of B2B software companies, fostering innovation in both North America and Europe. This investment underscores Frontline’s commitment to nurturing the growth […]
In 2020, amid a rapidly evolving global data landscape, TikTok, a brand deeply rooted in Chinese technology and known for its extensive collection of user data, found itself at a crossroads. Responding to the shifting dynamics, ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, took a proactive step by running a novel full-page advertisement in the German news magazine SPIEGEL. This advertisement marked a departure from TikTok’s typical marketing strategies, focusing
At its $3,499 starting price point, the Apple Vision Pro isn’t exactly the cheapest consumer tech product. But some healthcare leaders across the U.S. medical system say they’re already embracing the Vision Pro for its spatial computing functions and augmented reality capabilities, which they say hold serious promise.
Apple is pushing the Vision Pro’s potential to be a medical hub with multiple use cases that leverages its infinite field of vision and ultra-high
DoorDash is testing drone delivery in the U.S. after expanding its partnership with Alphabet’s autonomous drone delivery service Wing.
Customers in Christiansburg, Virginia (a town of roughly 23,000 residents), can now order select Wendy’s menu items for drone delivery. Users with an eligible address who are placing an order from the Wendy’s on N. Franklin Street will see the option for drone delivery on the checkout page. The order is typically delivered in 30
Improve user experience with best 404 pages examples. Check out this exhaustive list for top notch examples that can work for your brand.
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Slovenia’s central location within Europe provides direct access to numerous European countries, making it an appealing destination for startups aiming to reach a broad consumer base. Ranked 37th in the Doing Business Index 2020 by World Bank, Slovenia offers a stable economic environment characterized by low inflation and favourable tax incentives, fostering a conducive atmosphere […]
An AI tool that creates digital twins of patients can predict our future health, according to a new study. Named Foresight, the tool uses generative pre-trained transformers, the same family of large language models (LLMs) used by ChatGPT. Researchers in the
TikTok’s algorithm has helped revolutionize the way social media works—and compelled competitors like Meta to overhaul their own algorithms. However, even those within the company have said they don’t fully understand how the algorithm presents videos to users.
Now researchers from the U.S. and Europe have uncovered some insights into how the much-vaunted algorithm operates, including the extent to which TikTok echoes users’ interests versus trying to exp
It’s been 21 years since the U.S., U.K., and a group of allied forces invaded Iraq and deposed its leader, Saddam Hussein. And it’s a little over two years since President Biden formally declared the end of the U.S. combat mission in the country.
After decades of war, Iraq’s tech sector is coming into its own. But progress is slow going, says Asoz Rashid, CEO of iQ Group, a multi-sector tech company based in Iraq. “Iraq’s tech sector mirrors I
After months of anticipation, shares of Reddit, Inc. are expected to begin trading today. The company’s initial public offering will be the most closely watched IPO of 2024 yet. It’s the most high-profile public listing of a legacy tech company in years and the first social media giant to go public since Pinterest IPO’d in 2019. Here’s what you need to know:
When is Reddit’s IPO?
Reddit will hold its initial public offering today, Thurs
Looking for ChatGPT alternatives? Discover the best options that offer video translation, prompt assistance, and more.
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SEO Checklists and best practices are not the same as defined goals and a strategy. There are 7 key differences to factor into your SEO.
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Daato, a pioneering ESG management platform from Berlin, announced securing over €5 million in seed funding, led by kopa ventures in partnership with neosfer, and IBB Ventures. This investment marks a pivotal moment for Daato, further enabling its mission to make ESG management efficient, compliant, and insightful for all businesses. The new funds will be […]
Flowpay, a Czech fintech using predictive AI models, automation and Embedded Finance to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) access better operational funding, has raised €2,1 million in its seed round. It was backed by Techstars, alongside rising Czech VCs like Soulmates Ventures and DEPO Ventures, and key angel investors such as Mark Ransford, Martin […]
We’re excited to announce that Lucien Burm, Board Member at Allied for Startups, will be speaking at this year’s EU-Startups Summit! Allied for Startups is a global network aimed at fostering the digital economy by connecting policymakers with technology ecosystems worldwide. With a presence in 30 countries, four continents, and over 40 associations, its mission […]
Cure51, a techbio company seeking to unlock the biological mechanisms responsible for exceptional survivors among cancer patients, announced that it has successfully raised €15 million in a seed funding round led by Sofinnova Partners. Other investors included: Hitachi Ventures GmbH, Life Extension Ventures, Xavier Niel, and Olivier Pomel, CEO, and co-founder of Datadog. The funding […]
Collaborations between startups and large corporations can offer many benefits for those involved, from leveraging complementary expertise and resources to accessing new markets and accelerating innovation. That being said, building successful partnerships can be challenging, as differences in organisational culture, conflicting priorities, and communication barriers can threaten such partnerships. For the last five years, I […]
Leading carbon accounting startup Greenly has announced a €48 million Series B funding round led by Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, two years after a successful €21 million Series A. This latest fundraising effort establishes Greenly as a global leader in a market poised for massive adoption, spurred by new regulations like the EU’s Corporate Sustainability […]
OTB Ventures announced that it has closed a €170 million significantly oversubscribed fund, to build and scale Europe’s most promising early-stage deeptech startups. Fund 2 will be backed by the European Investment Fund (EIF), Isomer Capital, NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Foundation for Polish Science, TDJ Venture, Snowflake co-Founder Marcin Zukowski and OnDean, the family office […]
We are excited to announce Anna C Mallon, a renowned serial entrepreneur and angel investor, will be speaking at this year’s EU-Startups Summit on May 9-10 in Malta! With over two decades of global experience, Anna has established herself as a leading edupreneur, startup accelerator lead, venture builder, and corporate innovation facilitator across Asia, Europe, […]
In this episode, Carmen Alfonso Rico, Founder and Angel Investor at Cocoa, talks about her background and cultural influences, the story behind Cocoa and the chocolate-making process, and the concept of in-house VC. Carmen also explains investment terms she coined at Cocoa and shares her insights on fundraising. The episode concludes with a discussion of […]
InsurTech Hub Munich invites ambitious startups to apply for the 12th edition of its SCALE AI Innovation Programme. As a vibrant collaboration platform, they thrive in connecting a diverse network including insurance and cross-industry companies, investors, startups, top universities, research centres, media, and government entities. In the face of today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the […]
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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Společnost Radia vyvíjí letoun Windrunner, který by měl mít kromě mamutí délky 108 m rozpětí křídel 80 metrů. Zvládne převážet náklad o hmotnosti přes 72 tun v prostoru o objemu asi 8 200 metrů krychlových. Měl by operovat z improvizovaných letišť a vozit především čepele rotorů gigantických větrných elektráren, čímž přispěje k dalšímu rozvoji větrné energetiky. http://www.osel.cz/13396-radia-windrunner-by-se-mel-stat-nejvetsim-letounem-sveta-s-delkou-108-m.html
The debate on how far artificial intelligence can go revolves around questions about what actually constitutes human intelligence, and can a machine function similarly enough to a human brain? While not shooting for AGI, UK-based Stanhope AI is building its models
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Nvidia’s big news Monday wasn’t a new chip, it was a strategy
It’s a good time to be Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Right now, Nvidia dominates the market for the chips needed to run AI models. Nvidia stock has tripled in value over the past 12 months. And deli
The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico and Oregon.President Joe Biden plans to talk up the investment on Wednesday as he visits Intel’s campus in Chandler, Arizona, which could be a decisive swing state in November’s election. He has often said that not enough voters know about his economic policies and suggested that more would sup
Google concludes March spam update targeting AI content and authority abuse; core update continues.
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The 2024 Nissan Z sports coupe is a very sexy car. I know because I recently spent some quality time with one—admiring it from a variety of angles, inspecting its fit and finish, and sitting in the driver’s seat. I didn’t actually drive it, but I had a good excuse: This wasn’t a real car. It was the next big thing, though—an uncannily realistic virtual vehicle, made possible by Apple’s Vision Pro headset and some new software from Nvidia.
Be
A judge has denied Apple’s motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit claiming that stalkers are using its AirTag devices to track victims — and that the tech giant hasn’t done enough to prevent them.Apple’s $29 AirTags have become popular items since their 2021 release, helping users keep tabs on the location of anything from their lost keys to wallets and luggage. But stalkers have also taken advantage of AirTags and similar products to follow individuals without t
Several social media companies were ordered by a New York state judge to face four lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for helping enable the avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a Buffalo, New York grocery store.
Justice Paula Feroleto of the Erie County Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the more than 40 plaintiffs could try to prove that Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, Reddit, Google’s YouTube and other platforms were designed
Unlock the power of quality backlinks and boost your website's prominence in search results. Learn effective strategies to improve your search ranking.
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Google has been slapped with a €250mn fine for breaching EU intellectual property rules in how it deals with media publishers, including scraping news articles to train its AI models without permission. The regulator found Google guilty of s
When Apple recently debuted the Vision Pro headset after a decade of development in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook called it “tomorrow’s technology today.”
The company is finally getting into the competitive race of consumer tech products that create mixed-reality and immersive VR experiences with the likes of Meta’s Quest Pro, Microsoft HoloLens, and Google Glass.
If it wasn’t obvious before, there is no doubt that virtual reality is part of the
Explore the journey of the most-subscribed individual on YouTube. From humble beginnings to breaking records, learn about the rise of influencers like MrBeast.
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Have you ever considered hiring a business coach? Here’s why working with a coach could be the best thing for your marketing agency.
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In the era of artificial intelligence and accessible photo editing, you can’t believe everything you see online. One exception, of course, is (usually) if it’s published by a reputable news source. The foundation of photojournalism lies in its abi
Make your SEO strategy a success with generative AI and Google's Search Generative Experience. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and SEO tools for 2024!
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Kosmolog Rajendra Gupta provedl svůj model CCC+TL, založený na „unavených konstantách“ a „unaveném světle,“ zkouškou s baryonovými akustickými oscilacemi, otisky pradávných zvukových vln v mikrovlnném reliktním záření. Pokud se tento momentálně okrajový model prosadí, mohl by nahradit stále neznámou temnou hmotu a temnou energii. http://www.osel.cz/13395-baryonove-akusticke-oscilace-udajne-podporuji-vesmir-stary-26-7-miliard-let.html
Have you tried your first ebike yet? Despite being surrounded by them on a daily basis in Amsterdam (only mildly bitter as they whizz past me while I struggle against the notorious always-in-your-face wind resistance), I must confess that I h
Microsoft announced Monday that it has hired Mustafa Suleyman, currently CEO of personal AI company, Inflection AI, to be its CEO of new consumer AI division, Microsoft AI. Suleyman will be leading all consumer AI products and research for Microsoft’s series of Copilot AI assistants, as well as for the Bing search engine and the Edge browser.
Here’s what to know about Suleyman:
1. He’s been a quiet pioneer in AI
Suleyman cofounded DeepMind
Google integrates SafeSearch tool into Search Console, enabling website owners to manage explicit content settings alongside SEO tools.
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Roblox officially has its own creator fund, the company tells Fast Company in an exclusive announcement.
While the company previously offered a fund for games makers and designers, the expanded $35 million fund, will encompass developer studios and users who want to build things beyond games on the server—and one of the first partners is a short-form video service, nudging into the social media landscape.
“The newly titled Creator Fund, previously Game Fund,
On Tuesday, Google announced a suite of new and updated generative AI and LLM tools to expand its reach into the red hot algorithmic medicine arena. The products range from personalized health coaching for Fitbit users, to modified versions of Gemini AI to examine medical images (a tool which scored a cool 91.1% on the kind of exam medical image technicians would have to take as part of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam), and a massive, voluntary public dermatology database called the Skin Cond
Scott talks to Larry Garfield about his talks at php[tek] 2024 and the open source projects he’s created and maintained for the community. Links: Larry’s Blogs – https://www.garfieldtech.com and https://peakd.com/@crell Serde – https://github.com/Crell/Serde AttributeUtils – https://github.com/Crell/AttributeUtils Tickets to php[tek] 2024 – http://tinyurl.com/tek-2024-tickets
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Two of the biggest winners over the past year — chipmaker Nvidia and pharmaceutical drug maker Novo Nordisk — are joining forces to set up one the world’s most advanced AI supercomputers in Denmark. Named Gefion, after the Norse goddess
On Saturday, a giant 3-kilometre fissure opened up in the ground on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, sending a river of molten lava flowing across the landscape. The eruption is the fourth and largest to hit the region since December. It has forced some 3
Spotify paid out $9 billion in streaming royalties last year, the streaming giant said Tuesday in its latest “Loud and Clear” report.Spotify’s fourth annual report, which originally launched in 2021 following criticism over its lack of transparency, noted record accomplishments, including the highest annual payment from any retailer to the music industry.“This is everything we know about how much is being paid out, how many artists are achieving different levels of
You’ll also learn how to navigate SEO in the era of AI, and how to gain an advantage with these new tools.
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Former CNN reporter Don Lemon mixed it up with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an interview Lemon posted on Musk’s X social network Monday. The interview was supposed to kick off Lemon’s new talk show on X, formerly known as Twitter, at least until Musk canceled the show shortly after the interview was recorded.Over the course of slightly more than an hour, the two men jousted over subjects ranging from the political consequences of immigration and the benefits and harms of content moder
What's the role of large language models in search personalization? Gain insights into how LLMs can make voice assistants useful in understanding user intent.
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Most companies help their employees save for retirement. But for a generation burdened with student loan debt, paying off those balances is often a higher priority. Candidly, a New York-based startup which started working on this problem in 2016, helps employees optimize their debt through loan consolidation and income-based repayment plans, among other mechanisms.
The startup also makes it easy for companies to match employees’ student-loan payments with tax-free retirement
TraceLink operates a supply-chain visibility platform focused on medical and pharmaceutical products. Its products help pharmacies and medical providers navigate drug scarcity, halving the time typically spent managing medication and equipment recalls. Its AI-powered Product Availability Intelligence service, which was launched in late 2022, can predict drug shortages up to 90 days in advance.
Last year, It prevented an estimated 500,000 patients around the world from medicatio
The hacks won’t stop, but Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan, who founded the cloud security division within the Israeli military’s Unit 8200, started Cyera to help organizations discover the flaws in their defenses before the bad guys do.
Part of a growing market in what’s known as posture management, Cyera’s Data Security Platform, which first became available in 2022, uses machine learning to analyze an organization’s data landscape, from on-premise
Logistics, a $76 trillion industry still reliant on antiquated technology, has attracted a fleet of modernizing startups. Enable stands out by focusing on an arcane but valuable niche: the B2B rebates that accompany contracts between retailers, distributors, and manufacturers. (Rebates are an essential tool for manufacturers to incentivize buyer loyalty; in some cases, they are a manufacturer’s largest expense.) Enable’s software replaces the Excel files that govern rebate accou
This Canadian space services shop spent 2023 lining up big projects across its satellite and robotics businesses. In August, the global satellite operator Telesat selected MDA Space as its primary satellite provider for the new Telesat Lightspeed low Earth orbit (LEO) services, a contract worth more than $1.5 billion. Telesat will be the first customer to use MDA Space’s new “digital satellite” product, which can provide more beams of data per satellite—enabling re
In 2022, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stalled in the mud north of Kyiv, the world witnessed the unglamorous importance of equipment maintenance: The military column couldn’t proceed because of faulty parts in the tanks and trucks.
The U.S. military has persistent maintenance headaches, too: A 2022 GAO study found that over the last decade, 26 types of aircraft (among them the Air Force’s F-22 fighter jets and all of the Navy’s C-130s transport planes)
Through genomic sequencing and analytics, Sacramento-based Personalis aims to make detection of cancer ever more precise and timely. In October 2023, the company launched early access to its NeXT Personal Dx test, which offers ultra-sensitive circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection, enabling earlier detection of cancer recurrence and more detailed monitoring of treatment response.
NeXT Personal Dx is a whole-genome sequencing test that detects circulating tumor DNA molecules, findin
The Canadian commercial AI startup Cohere doesn’t get as much time in the spotlight as OpenAI and Anthropic, but it spent 2023 quietly establishing itself as an attractive API for enterprises. Part of the company’s 2023 success owes to its go-to-market approach. It allows enterprises to host a Cohere language model on their own servers or in a private or commercial cloud.
Last July, Amazon Web Services started to distribute the Cohere models through its Bedrock AI plat
The way we search the web—picking through a list of links, some of them paid for, some gamed to show up high on the page—has remained virtually unchanged for more than two decades. Then came AI chatbots, which can understand plain-language questions and return direct answers, potentially reshuffling the $110 billion search ad business now dominated by Google. One-year-old Perplexity’s “answer engine” is at the forefront of this new world of chatbot-ass
Inserting an IV catheter is among the most common hospital procedures, yet up to half of them fail. This can lead to patients getting the wrong dose or cause scarring and nerve damage.
Extreme cases of complications from incorrectly placed IVs can lead to amputation and even death. While hospitals use continuous monitoring for patients’ heart rates and blood-oxygen levels, it hasn’t been standard practice to continuously monitor IV sites to ensure that patients receive
Last June, U.K.-based mortgage broker Habito made an unusual move: It hired a new CEO who simultaneously became the startup’s biggest shareholder. Ying Tan, an entrepreneur who previously led mortgage advice startup Dynamo, invested his own money in Habito as he took the reins. At the time, 7-year-old Habito was struggling to turn a profit despite its focus on frustrated and overwhelmed first-time homebuyers—a population that is growing in the U.K., as in the United States. Habi
Relay Payments develops fintech products that make on-the-road transactions easier for truck drivers. While the company is most known among haulers for an app that lets them securely charge and accept digital payments for “lumper fees”—the cost of loading and unloading cargo, typically paid upfront—it recently set its sights on making gas fill-ups safer, too. In June 2023, Relay partnered with several truck stop brands, including Pilot Company and its 800 locations
A decade ago, creating a successful online multiplayer game required a large company’s worth of expertise to handle networking, graphics, and marketing and distribution—the list goes on. This year, one of the top-selling PC games, Lethal Company, was developed and released by an individual known only as Zeekerss.
Zeekerss stands on the shoulders of giants, of course: They built their co-op sci-fi horror game using the sophisticated Unity game engine, and distributed it