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Political betting could soon be legal—and it’s the last thing this election needs

As if elections in the United States weren’t already poisoned by money, there may soon be yet another way for people to pour theirs into the process. Late last week, a federal judge cleared the way for Kalshi, a startup exchange dedicated to “trading on the outcome of future events,” to take bets on which political party will control the House and Senate after the November election. Shortly the

Qualcomm wants to buy Intel. Would that be enough to overtake Nvidia?

This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission.

Shares of Intel jumped 3% Friday as The Wall Street Journal’s Lauren Thomas, Laura Cooper and Asa Fitch reported that Qualcomm has approached Intel about acquiring it for perh

How To Get Quality Backlinks: 11 Ways That Really Work via @sejournal, @rio_seo

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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#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep444-sc See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

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BMW-backed DeepDrive raises €30M to industrialise ultra-efficient EV motor


German startup DeepDrive has bagged €30mn to scale up its electric motor technology that promises to boost EV range to over 800km — without any changes to battery capacity. Founded in 2021, DeepDrive claims its dual-rotor motor boasts the hig

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Future Tech Ventures launches with €20M fund for startups in Northern Netherlands


Future Tech Ventures (FTV), a new venture capital firm focusing on startups in the Northern Netherlands, officially launched yesterday in Groningen. FTV debuted with a €20mn fund that will support at least 50 high-tech startups in the proof-of-concept phase. T

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American venture capitalists are more likely to invest in AI than VCs in other countries are

American venture capitalists are significantly more focused on artificial intelligence than investors in other regions are, according to our new Fast Company analysis.

Recently, we discovered an apparent disparity between the amount of public attention paid to AI and the amount of venture capital the sector actually attracts. Despite every news headline, pre

Telegram’s chatbots involved in massive medical data breach 

Stolen customer data including medical reports from India’s biggest health insurer, Star Health, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram, just weeks after

Pagers were the original ‘always on’ device well before the deadly attack on Hezbollah. Here’s who still uses them

The small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in a house beyond any town in rural Kansas, Dove used the little black device to keep in touch with her husband as he delivered medical supplies. He carried one, too. They had a code.

“If I really needed something I would text ‘9-1-1.’ That meant anythin

‘Skinny girl’ videos are invading social media. Health experts are concerned

Across social media, influencers who have amassed large followings by sharing weight-related tips and promoting “skinny” lifestyles. One of the most controversial, Liv Schmidt, built a community of 670,000 working women by posting videos of her “skinny girl essentials.” Her content included weight loss tips, including “how to avoid the freshman 15” and “how to stop emotional eating at your 9-5 job,” often accompanied by emojis of pigs, whales, and cows. That is, until TikTok deleted her acco

How to prepare for the coming quantum leap

Companies and educators need to start preparing now for quantum computing’s place as a disruptor in the marketplace, or risk falling behind the rapid pace of innovation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Martin A. Schmidt said during a panel at the Fast Company Innovation Festival.

Schmidt was joined onstage by IonQ CMO Margaret Arakawa, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research Darío Gil, and Fast Company Global Technology Editor Harry McCracken.

Why social media companies keep copying each other

Snapchat is combining its Stories and Spotlight functions into one vertical video feed. That feed just happens to look almost identical to TikTok. 

The new function, called Simple Snapchat, taps into the endless scroll of short-form video that’s flooding the social media industry, from TikTok to Instagram Reels. Snapchat has been burned before: Back in 2016, Instagram launched its own Stories function, whic

How ‘Minion Jesus’ was resurrected on TikTok

Remember those Minion memes floating around the internet a few months ago—the ones made to resemble Jesus on a cross or rising from the dead? Well, now we know who’s behind them.

Lost? Let’s catch you up. Earlier this year a number of eerily similar videos started cropping up on TikTok. “One day, an animator was messing around, and he created this picture of a little minion,”

The latest and strangest TikTok trend: eating dirt to reduce wrinkles

Want to improve your gut health, reduce wrinkles, and even cure acne? Eat dirt. At least, according to the latest health trend making the rounds on TikTok. 

“[One] teaspoon of organic biodynamic soil has more microorganisms than humans on earth,” Stephanie Adler, a fertility and hormone coach, told her TikTok followers in the closed-captions of a post. In the background, a baby chows

This free calculator app will multiple your productivity exponentially

Look, I get it: When you think of “exciting new life upgrades,” a calculator app might not be the first thing that comes to mind.

But it might be time to reconsider that mental calculation.

Today, I’m gonna introduce you to an exceptional tool that’ll change the very way you think about what a “calculator app” even is.

It might just become one of your most useful personal productivity tools. And that, if you ask me, is absolutely cause for excitement.

Detecting errors in AI-generated code

Ben chats with Gias Uddin, an assistant professor at York University in Toronto, where he teaches software engineering, data science, and machine learning. His research focuses on designing intelligent tools for testing, debugging, and summarizing software and AI systems. He recently published a paper about detecting errors in code generated by LLMs. Gias and Ben discuss the concept of hallucinations in AI-generated code, the need for tools to detect and correct those hallucinations, and the pot

Mikrojadernou baterii pohání polymerový krystal se špetkou americia

Čínský tým vyvinul pozoruhodnou mikrojadernou baterii, která jako zdroj energie využívá přízračně zeleně světélkující polymerový krystal s malým množstvím radioaktivního americia. Dodává sice jen 139 mikrowattů na 1 curie radioaktivity, ale zvládne to stabilně po dlouhé desítky let, jak věří tvůrci baterie. http://www.osel.cz/13691-mikrojadernou-baterii-pohani-polymerovy-krystal-se-spetkou-americia.html

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Izrael proměnil pagery a vysílačky Hizballáhu v explodující trojské koně

Tajná operace nevídaného rozsahu, při které explodovaly tisíce pagerů a vysílaček členů Hizballáhu, nepochybně vstoupí do historie. Izraelcům se povedlo hacknout dodavatelské řetězce a využít toho se smrtícím účinkem. Otázkou je, zda se takový útok nestane inspirací pro někoho dalšího. http://www.osel.cz/13692-izrael-promenil-pagery-a-vysilacky-hizballahu-v-explodujici-trojske-kone.html

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Boom Supersonic’s flight plan has to be measured in years

A small airplane that looks like a fighter jet but doesn’t bear a single weapon could be a pathfinder towards a reinvention of commercial aviation—or a flying footnote destined for a spot in a museum.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 testbed airplane has high odds of being the first privately funded aircraft to shoot through the sound barrier. But that accomplishment won’t matter much unless this startup can then build its

$3 billion in U.S. grants aim to boost EV battery production in these states

The Biden administration is awarding over $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used f

Corporations are trying to co-opt Gen Z slang. It’s going as well as you’d imagine

“It’s a brat summer at Currys, my guys,” says an employee of the British electrical retailer in a TikTok viewed 2.3 million times. “Northumberland Zoo hits different,” a white-haired staff member says in another with almost eight million views. Walking around an 880-year-old bed and breakfast, a visibly older woman

Bluesky could become Brazil’s next big social media platform. It has Elon Musk’s X to thank

In Brazil, X’s loss is Bluesky’s gain.

The decentralized social media platform spun off from Twitter in 2022 has seen a surge of around 3.5 million new users, bringing its total user base to

NASA taps Intuitive Machines to build a lunar communications network

NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a long-term contract potentially worth $4.82 billion to develop, launch, and operate a five-satellite communications and navigation network around the moon. 

The network will enable constant connectivity with the moon’s south pole as traffic picks up there, first for landers and rovers, and then for crewed missions as part of Artemis. The contract builds on the company’s manifest, which includes three NASA-funded robotic lander missions und

The IT paradox: Innovate while lowering carbon emissions

Google recently announced that it no longer claims to be carbon neutral. Why? Because their investment in artificial intelligence has raised emissions beyond what they can offset. They now hope to reach net-zero carbon by 2030.

This example points to an emerging IT paradox. How can IT support innovation with more graphics processing units (GPUs) and more storage for th

Snapchat Marketing: An In-Depth Guide For Businesses via @sejournal, @annabellenyst

Unlock the power of Snapchat marketing with our comprehensive guide. Reach and engage with a younger demographic on this misunderstood platform.

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Google Ads Tutorial: How to Leverage AI Video Enhancements via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

Learn how Google Ads' AI video enhancements can streamline your PPC campaigns, optimize creatives, and save time with automated video resizing and editing tools.

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NATO’s first quantum tech investment goes to Southampton startup


The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) has announced its first investment in quantum tech, leading a €5mn seed round. The recipient is Southampton University spinout Aquark Technologies, which has developed a unique quantum sensing technology. Aquark’s patented

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Kde se vzal COVID-19. Konec konspirací?

Nová mezinárodní studie přináší seznam volně žijících živočichů prodávaných koncem roku 2019 na trhu ve Wu-chanu a také důkazy o přítomnosti viru SARS-CoV-2 u některých z prodávaných živočichů. Trh je tedy místem, odkud s největší pravděpodobností vzešel SARS-CoV-2, virus odpovědný za pandemii COVID-19. http://www.osel.cz/13690-kde-se-vzal-covid-19-konec-konspiraci.html

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Paleolitická osada u Mohelna, na jihomoravském okraji Vysočiny

Paleolitická osada s kamenným dlážděním! Totiž s kamennými podlážkami několika domů, spíše tedy chýší. Patří k nejstarším lidským stavbám ve střední Evropě, jsou staré skoro 20 tisíc let. To vše nad břehem řeky Jihlavy. http://www.osel.cz/13689-paleoliticka-osada-u-mohelna-na-jihomoravskem-okraji-vysociny.html

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LinkedIn plans to use your data to train its AI. Here’s how to stop it

LinkedIn users might not realize they’re giving permission for the site to use their personal data and any content they create on the platform to train the company’s generative AI models, but if they’re in the U.S., Canada, or one of several other countries, odds are they soon will be.

Updates to the company’s user agreement that go into effect November 20 will automatically opt users into s

Amazon debuts Amelia, an AI assistant for its sellers

Amazon.com announced on Thursday a new artificial intelligence application that it says will help its independent sellers with sales metrics, inventory maintenance and product advertising, among other things.

The move is part of a broader Big Tech effort to employ the technology for greater automation.

The software, dubbed Amelia, can provide instantaneous answers to broad questions such as how to p

Antigeny v potravinách živočišného původu a nádory střev

Strach z antigenů v potravinách ovládl moderní společnost. Každý má na něco alergii a musí se vyhýbat potravinám, které by u něj mohly spustit alergickou reakci či dokonce anafylaktický šok. Na druhé straně se ale ukazuje, že antigeny masa a mléka posilují imunitu střev a brání rozvoji zhoubných nádorů.
http://www.osel.cz/13688-antigeny-v-potravinach-zivocisneho-puvodu-a-nadory-strev.html

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Ozonová díra nad Antarktidou mizí. Plné zotavení se čeká do roku 2066

Nejnovější data o stavu ozonové potvrzují optimismus. Ozonové díry pokračují ve trendu mizení. Jako poslední by se měla zavřít ozonová vrstva nad Antarktidou, s čímž odborníci počítají kolem roku 2066. Předpovídat vývoj atmosféry, obzvláště na delší období, je sice obtížné a stát se může leccos, zdá se ale, že ozonová vrstva směřuje k uzdravení. http://www.osel.cz/13686-ozonova-dira-nad-antarktidou-mizi-plne-zotaveni-se-ceka-do-roku-2066_1.html

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Kosmické záření – největší hrozba pro kosmonauty a jak ji zkoumat

Návrat na Měsíc a expanze na Mars vystavuje kosmonauty dlouhodobému vlivu kosmického záření. Americká organizace NASA a evropská ESA tak potřebují základnu pro studium biologických účinků tohoto záření. Jsou k tomu potřeba urychlovače relativistických těžkých iontů. A takové jsou v laboratoří BNL a GSI Darmstadt. Podívejme se na možnosti takových výzkumů klíčových pro ochranu cestovatelů k Měsíci a Marsu. http://www.osel.cz/13687-kosmicke-zareni-nejvetsi-hrozba-pro-kosmonauty-a-jak-ji-zkoumat.h

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FBI says Iranian hackers emailed stolen Trump info to Biden campaign

Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI

7 key takeaways from MrBeast’s leaked HR document

Few people have the cultural clout of Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson. Despite recent controversies involving accusations of bullying and safety risks on his latest show, the 26-year-old YouTuber remains arguably the biggest name on the pla

Elevating your search experience: Stack Overflow for Teams ML-powered reranking experiment

Today, we're excited to share details about our latest experiment that aims to make your search results in Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise even more relevant and useful. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/19/elevating-your-search-experience-stack-overflow-for-teams-ml-powered-reranking-experiment/

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a flurry of AI bills—but not the most high-profile one

Welcome to AI DecodedFast 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.

Newsom signs pile of AI bills as the SB 1047 deadline approaches

California Governor Gavin Newsom

Walmart will now let you ‘Shop with Friends’ from home

Walmart shoppers can now get advice from friends on new clothes they’re considering without ever setting foot in the store or even trying anything on.

A new website feature called Shop with Friends, currently in beta, lets users choose from a set of models to find one that looks like them, then assemble a virtual fitting room of outfits they’re potentially interested in. Then, they can see how the outfits look on their chosen model and generate a link to their fitting r

9 Tips To Optimize Crawl Budget For SEO via @sejournal, @ab80

Understanding crawl budget for SEO optimization. Discover how to improve your website's crawl budget and enhance search engine visibility.

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Attention teachers: 7 ways AI can actually be helpful in the classroom

Few areas have seen as much impact from AI as education, from students using ChatGPT to cheat to AI helping students research new technologies. While the pro versus

Client-Side Vs. Server-Side Rendering via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW

Discover the differences between client-side and server-side rendering and how they can impact your website's performance and user experience.

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Swiss startup bets on photonic chips to cut data centre energy consumption


Amid the AI boom, data centres are consuming alarming amounts of electricity. They’re also responsible for 1% of global energy-related emissions. By 2030, their power demand could increase by 160%. Switzerland-based Lightium aims to provide a solution. The you

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AI doesn’t hallucinate — why attributing human traits to tech is users’ biggest pitfall


This year, Air Canada lost a lawsuit against a customer who was misled by an AI chatbot into purchasing full-price plane tickets, being assured they would later be refunded under the company’s bereavement policy. The airline tried to claim the bot was “responsi

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Přistižení in flagranti aneb, kde se křížil Homo sapiens s neandrtálci

Naši předci nabrali od jiných pravěkých druhů lidí řadu cenných genů, díky nimž přežili dobu ledovou, a nakonec ovládli všechny kontinenty. Kde k tomuto křížení docházelo? Vědci jsou na stopě. http://www.osel.cz/13684-pristizeni-in-flagranti-aneb-kde-se-krizil-homo-sapiens-s-neandrtalci.html

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Gigant Porphyrion: Největší výtrysk černé díry má 23 milionů světelných let

Průzkum oblohy soustavou radioteleskopů LOFAR odhalil rekordní výtrysk supermasivní černé díry. Jmenuje se Porphyrion, měří 25 milionů světelných let a pozorujeme ho ve vesmíru, kterému tehdy bylo asi 7,5 miliardy let. Jak bývá zvykem, vesmírné monstrum se vymyká dosavadním modelům. http://www.osel.cz/13683-gigant-porphyrion-nejvetsi-vytrysk-cerne-diry-ma-23-milionu-svetelnych-let.html

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Reddit threads are blowing up on TikTok and Instagram

Millions view Reddit content daily. The issue for Reddit? Many of them are seeing it on other platforms.

On TikTok, robo-voices narrate scary, story posts originating on Reddit’s forums. On YouTube, creators film their reactions to reading Reddit ">“Am I The Asshole?” stories. Even on

Algorithm startup QMill vows to become ‘first to provide quantum advantage’


Espoo outside of Helsinki is turning into quite the quantum hub. The city’s latest addition to the Finnish quantum computing ecosystem is QMill. The newly minted algorithm startup just raised €4mn in seed funding to leverage near-term hardware to deli

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DeepL launches ‘industry-first’ AI glossary generator for business translations


Since its founding in 2017, DeepL has been raising machine translation standards, successfully rivalling giants such as Google Translate. Today, the startup unveiled an ‘industry-first’ AI-powered glossary generator for businesses. The new tool works as a sup

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Drone swarms edge closer to battle after successful tests in Germany


A German drone firm claims to have made a “major breakthrough” in autonomous swarm technology. Munich-based Quantum Systems announced on Tuesday that it has successfully flown AI-controlled Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in swarms. The company said the AI ensure

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TNW Podcast: The business of flight tracking, the new Commission, and some pet tech


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, Linne

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Why tech insiders are worried about the EU’s proposed startup commissioner


Ekaterina Zaharieva hasn’t even started work as the EU’s first startup commissioner, but tensions are already rising around her role. The Bulgarian politician was nominated for the job on Tuesday. Alongside startups, her brief will also cover research and inn

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Germany picks 4 startups to deliver world’s first quantum computer for ‘mobile defence’


In its most expensive project to date, Germany’s Cyber Agency (Cyberagentur) has awarded three different contracts to four quantum computing startups — Quantum Brilliance, ParityQC, Oxford Ionics, and neQxt. Their mission is to deliver the world’s first

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Google Revamps Entire Crawler Documentation via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google's updated the crawler documentation adds three new pages to tighten up topical coverage and raise the level information density

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Mnoho povyku pro nic: žádná revoluce ve fyzice se nekoná a standardní model není špatně
  1. dubna 2022 se v řadě významných světových medií objevila zpráva o nečekaném výsledku experimentu CDF na urychlovači TEVATRON ve Fermiho národní laboratoři u Chicaga. Například BBC ji uvedla s bombastickým titulkem. http://www.osel.cz/13682-mnoho-povyku-pro-nic-zadna-revoluce-ve-fyzice-se-nekona-a-standardni-model-neni-spatne.html
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YouTube will now help creators’ fans form online communities

YouTube is launching a new section within channels for fans to come together and share posts and pictures directly related to creators, the company said Wednesday.

The new “Communities” feature comes after creators and fans said they wanted more ways to connect with one another. Traditionally, YouTube users had to comment on threads under a creator’s video in order to start or keep conversations going. That meant the burden of fostering connection was on the creator, wh

Stentrode nabízí ovládání myšlenkami bez nutnosti operace v lebce

Společnost Synchron vyvíjí rozhraní Stentrode mezi mozkem a elektronikou, kvůli němuž není nutné operovat skrz lebku, jako v případě Neuralinku. Stentrode je jako stent s elektrodami, který se umístí v hrdelní žíle do blízkosti povrchu mozku. Nedávno toto endovaskulární neurální rozhraní úspěšně otestoval pacient s amyotrofickou laterální sklerózou. http://www.osel.cz/13680-stentrode-nabizi-ovladani-myslenkami-bez-nutnosti-operace-v-lebce.html

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‘Make this go viral MAGA folks’: Russian propaganda group circulated this fake Kamala story

A false claim circulating on social media that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris left a 13-year-old girl paralyzed after an alleged hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011 is the work of a covert Russian disinformation operation, according to new research by

HubSpot Rolls Out AI-Powered Marketing Tools via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

HubSpot unveils "Breeze" AI tools for marketing automation, aiming to boost efficiency, though human oversight remains crucial, says VP.

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New AI tools can dig up skeletons in politicians’ social media histories—and yours, too

Character, as they say, is what you do when no one’s watching. What’s been hard to ignore during the current election, however, is that character also seems to be what you do when only certain people are watching. Or when you think only certain people are watching, anyway.

Ever since JD Vance became Donald Trump’s running mate back in July, the Ohio Senator has been haunted by previous online activity intended for select audiences. Between

California targets AI, political deepfakes with new laws

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills Tuesday to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election.

A new law, set to take effect immediately, makes it illegal to create and publish

How To Choose The Right Bid Strategy For Lead Generation Campaigns via @sejournal, @adsliaison

Find out how assigning different values to conversion actions can help you choose the right bid strategy for your lead generation campaigns.

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