
As we move into the second half of 2025, the global tech ecosystem is navigating a heady mix of unpredictability and promise. Funding into newer tech firms remains complex, with Startup Genome reporting that while the Beijing, Los Angeles and Tokyo startup landscapes a

Audience settings in Google Ads aren't set-and-forget. Use this guide to fine-tune "Targeting" and "Observation" for better results.
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Want your content and brand cited in AI results? Focus on substance, not shortcuts. Here's the strategy that works.
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I’ve been using Comet, Perplexity’s AI-powered browser, for the past week. Using it to navigate the internet is very similar to any other browser experience, with one major enhancement: the Comet Assistant. It’s a feature that can accomplish web-based tasks independent of you, and I’m quickly becoming convinced it’s the futur

If you thought gaming was a young person’s activity, think again. Older adults now make up nearly one-third of all U.S. gamers, with 57 million Americans who are 50 or older playing regularly.
Half of those in their sixties and seventies play some form of PC, mobile, or console video game every week. Even people in their eighties—36%!—are gaming, according to recent data from

In many ways, the case that sent Daniel Elie Bouaziz to prison in 2023 for money laundering felt like just another chapter in Ronnie Walker’s storied career.
Over the course of his nearly 30 years working as an undercover agent with the FBI, Walker had taken part in countless stings like this: posing as a

An SEO shared that they lost a potential client because they didn't address SEO for AI. Is AEO/GEO this year's EEAT?
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In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information.
When I ask whether artificial intelligence can “think,”

The advent of generative AI has elicited waves of frustration and worry across academia for all the reasons one might expect: Early studies are showing that artificial intelligence tools can dilute critical thinking and

ROAS is simple to calculate, but powerful when used right. Here’s how it fits into budgeting, bidding, and business outcomes.
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Kolik jsme ochotní zaplatit za dojemný příběh, který si vyfabuluje naše mozková kůra v momentě, kdy nám na oční sítnici dopadne obraz zoufalé vydry mořské od hlavy k patě pokryté vrstvou černé lepkavé ropné kaše? http://www.osel.cz/14166-obrazy-k-nezaplaceni.html

Nádory jsou pestrá sebranka, ale jedno mají společné. Těží z otupělého imunitního systému, který nedokáže proti nádoru úspěšně zasáhnout. Nová univerzální mRNA vakcína necílí na konkrétní nádory, ale důmyslně se soustředí na podporu imunity, aby si s nádorem poradila sama. V preklinických testech to funguje. http://www.osel.cz/14165-univerzalni-mrna-vakcina-vycvici-imunitu-proti-jakemukoliv-nadoru.html

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If I could use only one app, I’d pick Craft.
Craft is my favorite multipurpose document/notes tool. It looks and feels nicer than Google Docs or

Buying links is risky and unnecessary now that other factors play a greater role in ranking.
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The UK has just launched its most advanced supercomputer — the 11th most powerful in the world. Isambard-AI, hosted at the University of Bristol, officially went live this week. The machine was built by Hewlett-Packard Enterprises (HPE) using its Cray

Funding focus is a new series analysing cash flow into the European tech ecosystem. Last week, we looked at the largest investment rounds in fusion energy this year, and now we’re honing in on Europe’s booming defence tech arena. Europe’s d

Sudden equipment failures. Supply chain surprises. Retaining staff as the goalposts move in real time. These aren’t challenges I’ve faced as a tech founder—but I have faced them running restaurants.
Twenty years ago, I cofounded a conveyor belt sushi concept that grew over 10 years across 12 units and six states. And if I’ve learned one thing from over two decades of operating restaurants, it’s that they require more discipline than any startup, with far less margin for error

Google discussed whether it's okay to make changes to a web page for SEO purposes.
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Amazon recently announced that it had deployed its one-millionth robot across its workforce since rolling out its first bot in 2012. The figure is astounding from a sheer numbers perspective, especially considering that we’re talking about just one company. The one million bot number is all the more striking, though, since it took Amazon merely about a dozen years to achieve. It took

Klasické nosné rakety jsou zdlouhavé na přípravu, velmi neefektivní, a hlavně hrozně drahé. Na zajímavé alternativě pracují Auriga Space, kteří hodlají vypouštět rakety s minimem paliva pomocí maglevové rampy. Pokud projekt uspěje, budou startovat na orbitu rychlostí Mach 6. http://www.osel.cz/14164-auriga-space-vyvijeji-maglev-pro-odpalovani-raket-na-obeznou-drahu.html
On this week’s Most Innovative Companies podcast, Cloudflare COO Michelle Zatlyn talks with Fast Company staff writer David Salazar about hitting $1B in revenue and going global, as well as why defending businesses of all sizes online is more necessary than ever.

CEO of Conductor says legacy SEO platforms can effectively compete with AI-native startups, predicts 95% won’t survive.
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If you’ve built an audience around documenting your 9-to-5 online, what happens after you hand in your notice?
That’s the conundrum facing Connor Hubbard, aka “hubs.life,” a creator who amassed a huge following by sharing the mundane details of his corporate life as a senior analyst at a Fortune 500 company. In April 2024, The Guardian dubbed him “the most boring man on the internet,” with some of his most popular videos showing viewers his

OpenAI should continue to be controlled by a nonprofit because the artificial intelligence technology it is developing

WhatsApp should prepare to leave the Russian market, a lawmaker who regulates the IT sector said on Friday, warning that the messaging app owned by Meta Platforms is very likely to be put on a list of

This is an edition of Plugged In, a weekly newsletter by Fast Company global technology editor Harry McCracken. You can sign up to receive it each Friday and read all issues here.
Hello and welcome back to Plugged In.
We at Fast Company are uncommonly fond of the y

If you were a teenager on America Online back then, there’s a good chance you got the email. Unlike a lot of the files floating around the early warez scene, the attachment wasn’t a pirated copy of Photoshop 3.0 or a beta of Windows 95. In fact, it was being given away by its creator, a hacker who called himself “Da Chronic.” When you launched it, the title screen depicted the giant disembodied head of AOL CEO Steve Case floating in

Before you pay for another SEO tool, try these five free options from Google. Here’s why they work.
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Traditional brain scans only show part of the picture. They can’t fully capture how different regions of the brain communicate—an essential factor in detecting neurological diseases early. Dr. Rahul Biswas, a neurologist at the University of California–San Francisco, is working to change that with AI-powered tools t

Big changes are coming to the web in the days ahead. On July 25, the U.K.’s Online Safety Act will take effect, bringing sweeping changes to how users experience the internet. Within the next week, websites like Reddit and

Google's June 2025 update is over. Here are some clues about what may have happened.
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For search and rescue, AI is not more accurate than humans, but it is far faster.
Recent successes in applying computer vision and machine learning to drone imagery for rapidly determining building and road damage after hurricanes or

Research scientist John Flournoy sits down with Ryan and Eira to dive into the recent research around developer experience, including the nuances of measuring productivity, the potential reasons for variability in developer performance, and the impacts of collaboration and competition on developer efficiency. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/18/how-to-do-your-job-happier/

Nový radikální model prvních okamžiků po Velkém třesku nepotřebuje k vysvětlení nafouknutí vesmíru kosmologickou inflací žádné inflační pole nebo částice. Podle nich za to mohly fluktuace kvantového vakua, které generovaly gravitační vlny. Model nabízí jasné předpovědi ověřitelné budoucími přístroji, tak se nechme překvapit. http://www.osel.cz/14163-inflace-bez-inflacniho-pole-jak-zjednodusit-velky-tresk.html

The new must-have pet accessory? A concrete slab.
On #CatTok, videos are racking up views as cat owners bring slabs into their homes, set them down, and watch their beloved pets sniff, lick, roll, and rub against their new favorite toys. Bonus points if they’re placed in a

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Spec-driven Development with Kiro, JetBrains on Huggingface, Event Sourcing with Laravel Verbs, Automating your life with n8n, PHP Tek 2026 Website development using vibe coding, and more. Links from the show: Introducing Kiro – Kiro JetBrains (JetBrains) Verbs About Grokability – Snipe-IT Free open […]
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Perplexity’s new AI browser, Comet, is now live. Here’s how it fits into the company’s long-term vision for search and task automation.
The post Perplexity Looks Beyond Search With Its AI Browser, Comet appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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ChatGPT agent is a turning point for SEO because it changes how websites are expected to function for both humans and machines.
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“Kindness, maybe that’s the real punk rock,” says James Gunn’s Superman, which hit theaters this past weekend. It’s a message that seems to have resonated deeply with Gen Z. One X user said: “I haven’t felt depressed even once” since watching it.

OpenAI is rolling out a new AI agent within ChatGPT that can browse the web and conduct deep research.
An AI agent is similar to an AI app that can retain extensive information about a user and an automated workflow, reasoning its way toward task completion. This new ChatGPT agent is a hybrid.

Google's John Mueller explains how to remove pages from Google Search, why sitelinks can't be controlled manually, and when to use the URL removal tool.
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Former Google Search engineer Andrew Yan launches Athena, a startup helping brands optimize their visibility in AI-generated answers.
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Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion for the damage they allegedly caused the company by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware judge on Thursday.
The parties did not disclose details of


Holders of the digital tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, one of the crypto ventures of the family of Donald Trump, voted on Wednesday to make them tradable, paving the way for their wide sale and purchase — potentially boosting the value of the president’

A bankrupt company’s propulsion system for hypersonic planes is being revived by Invictus, a new European Space Agency (ESA)-backed project aiming to build and fly a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by 2031. The proposed engine for the plane is based

Norwegian industrial investment firm Aker has announced plans to build an AI “factory” in the Arctic. It’s the latest company heading to the far north to tap into abundant green energy and natural cooling for power-hungry data centres. The facility will be

Denmark is aiming to stake a bold claim in the global quantum race with plans to build the world’s most powerful quantum computer. Backed by €80mn from EIFO (Denmark’s export and investment fund) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the new initiative — dubbed

The use of AI companions is no longer niche behavior but has become embedded in mainstream teenage life, according to a new report.
A nationally representative survey of 1,060 teens ages 13 to 17, conducted in April and May 2025 by Common Sense Media—a U.S.-based advocacy and

If a regular hot girl walk is no longer cutting it, why not add a weighted vest to the mix? While not exactly new, weighted vests are making a strong comeback, especially on TikTok and Instagram, where wellness and fitness creators are touting the benefits of adding a 12-pound vest to your daily strolls.
“It’s my weighted vest era,” menopause expert Dr. Mary Claire Have

In this edition of IMHO, Shelley Walsh speaks with Stephen Kenwright about how traditional marketing fuels LLM performance and brand trust.
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In 1995, a familiar experience sat at the center of many people’s first experiences with the dial-up internet: the chance to create something for themselves.
Along with the access to the World Wide Web, Telnet, and Usenet newsgroups, many users were given a few megabytes on their ISP’s FTP server to share whatever—recipes, pictures, creative projects, any weird thing that came to mind. Other people created personal sites using third-party providers such as GeoCities, AngelFire, and Tri

Roblox, the popular online gaming and social platform among kids and teens, is introducing new chat features for users ages 13 and up, allowing them to connect more directly with trusted real-life friends.
Previously, Roblox categorized all connections equally. Now, the platform is adding a new classification called “trusted connections,” intended

A new set of AI tools is coming to Slack, designed to help users quickly find and utilize information from their chats—and even from data stored in connected business apps.
“It serves as the hub, or your work operating system, to be able to get work done, to make things more

Cambodia on Wednesday said that an order by Prime Minister Hun Manet for government bodies to crackdown on criminal cybercrime operations being run in the country had resulted in the arrest of more than 1,000 suspects so far this week.
Hun Manet issued t

Traditional ranking metrics are less reliable in today’s AI-driven SERPs. Understand why average position misleads and what to track instead.
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YouTube Shorts, the shortform platform from Google-owned video giant YouTube, has seen massive success since its launch in September 2020. Today, an estimated 1% of all waking human hours are spent watching Shorts, with videos amassing around 200 billion views daily.
But what users watch is ultimately shaped by YouTube’s algorithm—and a new study published in the Cornell U

Google's John Mueller answers whether it is okay to show logged-out users different content from what is in the structured data.
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The Brave Search API is now available in Amazon's new AI Agents and Tools category in the AWS Marketplace.
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