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Google made a significant update to the documentation on how to diagnose the causes ranking drops

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Tell me if you can relate to this: The time comes for you to buy something new. Maybe it’s something big and expensive, like a refrigerator. Or maybe it’s something small and insignificant, like a spatula.

Either way, you suddenly feel a sense of anxiety—a need to know: What is the ~best~ possible option I can buy within my budget range? And thus begins the endless rabbit hole of online research.

‘Twas a time when you m

Google completed major March 2024 core update on April 19, a week before announcing it to the public.

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Struggling with content sharing? Get expert tips on where you should be sharing your content to increase traffic and engagement.

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The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the U.S. ordered its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app’s U.S. assets or face a nationwide ban.

Here is how it works and why it has attracted m

Our understanding of the challenges women face in the startup ecosystem is limited. Past research has focused on overt negative sexist attitudes that question women’s competence and suitability for entrepreneurship. This view overlooks the existence of more sub

You probably know better than to click on links that download unknown files onto your computer. It turns out that uploading files can get you into ransomware trouble, too.

Today’s web browsers are much more powerful than earlier generations of browsers. They’re able to manipulate data within both the browser and the computer’s local file system. Users can send and receive email, listen to music or watch a movie within a browse

Počítačové simulace chování těles Sluneční soustavy s dlouhou oběžnou periodou, které kříží oběžnou dráhu Neptunu a jejich pohyb vykazuje nepravidelnosti, ukazují na přítomnost velké planety, tedy „Devítky,“ na periferii Sluneční soustavy. Na přímý důkaz její existence si ale ještě musíme počkat. http://www.osel.cz/13451-astronomove-nasli-nove-dukazy-pro-existenci-devitky.html

Hallo, Netherlands! Welcome to TNW’s first weekly round-up of tech news from our glorious home country. As we count down to TNW conference in Amsterdam on June 20 and 21, we’re ramping up our coverage of the Dutch IT sector. We’d also love to he

In 2022, over 20,000 Lithuanians returned to their country of birth from abroad. A high quality of life coupled with a booming entrepreneurial ecosystem and a collaborative mentality has contributed to what investors are calling a “reverse brain drain.

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

Thursday evening’s earnings headlines contained a giant curve ball: Alphabet’s Google announced its first-ever quarterly dividend, twenty cents a share, and also added to its share buyback program another seventy

DeepL, which has been rivalling machine translation giants such as Google Translate and Microsoft Translator, has launched an AI writing assistant tailored for businesses. Dubbed DeepL Write Pro, the product acts as a creative assistant for use during the dr

Until late yesterday, major tech stocks were having a pretty rough few weeks. But thanks to premarket surges this morning from Google, Microsoft, and Snap, the final week of April could be a very good one for select tech giants. Here’s what to know:

Netflix changes the rules

The tech earnings period kick-started last week in earnest with streamer Netflix reporting its Q1 2024 results, which saw the company

A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said Thursday.

Authorities said the case appears to

Meta has flooded its social media platforms with artificial intelligence. Soon enough, Meta AI will be everywhere: In your Facebook news feed, Instagram search bar, and even your conversations with friends on Messenger. The company’s Llama 3 large language model is also perhaps the most powerful open-source model on the market (though its

In this post, we’ll explore the ins and outs of personal branding and walk you through the fundamentals of building your own personal brand.

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British cybersecurity flag bearer Darktrace is set to leave London’s stock market after agreeing a £4.3bn sale to US private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Shareholders will have to approve the takeover before it’s rubber-stamped. The chair of Darktrace, Gordon Hur

Earlier this month I started looking into whether anyone was buying the Apple Vision Pro after I noticed that social media discourse about Apple’s spatial computer seemed to have all but disappeared within weeks of its launch. To me, this suggested that Apple’s first major new product in years wowed a lot of people in the tech world, as expected, but then failed to generate interest from

Software engineers will soon descend on Cupertino to hear about potential updates to Apple’s operating systems and developer tools, get advice from company experts, and mingle with others working to build apps for Apple’s platforms.

The company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off June 10, showcasing advances in the company’s technology. Last year’s event saw the first public appearance o

In the annals of artificial intelligence, Feb. 16, 2011, was a watershed moment.

That day, IBM’s Watson supercomputer finished off a three-game shellacking of Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Trailing by over $30,000, Jennings, now the show’s host, wrote out his Final Jeopardy answer in mock resignation: “I, for one, welcome our computer overlords.”

A lark to some, the experience galvanized Satya Nitta, a longtime computer researcher at IBM’s Wat

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtai

The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access.

In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its

Dr. Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite, shares how he taught himself to program, the challenges he faced in creating SQLite, and the importance of testing and maintaining the software for long-term support. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/26/supporting-the-world-s-most-used-database-engine-through-2050/

Alphabet's Q1 revenue up 15%, driven by Search and YouTube shine. Google reshuffles AI teams for "Gemini era" integration.

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 on Thursday to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and reassume regulatory oversight of broadband internet rescinded under former President Donald Trump.

The commission voted along party lines to finalize a proposal first advanced in October to reinstate open internet rules adopted in 2015 and reestabli

After Meta’s stock meltdown late Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, the tech sector is roaring back in after-hours trading on the strength of strong earnings reports from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Snap.

Snap shares were up more than 30% after its earnings release and Alphabet was up 13%. Microsoft shares, meanwhile, jumped 5.5%.

There were numerous reasons for the surges. Alphabet announc

Google's Infini-attention is a plug and play technology that can be added to existing models, including core algorithm systems

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A Google podcast highlights the potential for factual errors in AI-generated content, stressing human oversight is critical.

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Google updated their Googlebot and Crawler documentation to add a second list of IP addresses

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Should a language be easy or comprehensive? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/25/what-language-should-beginning-programmers-choose/

V uplynulých dvou letech zažil výzkum jaderné fúze dva významné úspěchy: překročení vědeckého vyrovnání v americkém laserovém zařízení NIF a uvolnění rekordního množství fúzní energie v tokamaku JET. Nedávno byly publikovány zajímavé detailní údaje z hlavních experimentů v roce 2022 (NIF) a v roce 2023 (JET). http://www.osel.cz/13450-rekordni-vysledky-ve-vyzkumu-jaderne-fuze.html

Cyber attackers battered Poland after the country’s change of government late last year. DDoS attacks at the end of 2023 were nearly quadruple the country’s average, according to cybersecurity firm NetScout’s observations. The surge began when the Law and Just

You probably saw the news that TikTok’s time could be up in the U.S., with a nine-month countdown triggered by the signature of a bill that would require TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to divest the app by Joe Biden. But while the U.S. TikTok ban could likely be batted down in court, an equally consequential decision has hit the app in Europe.

On Monday, the European Unio

TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the U.S

Legislation forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in the U.S. received President Joe Biden’s official signoff Wednesday. But the newly minted law could be in for an uphill battle in court.

Critics of the sell-or-be-banned ultima

President Joe Biden has a great economic story to tell voters a decade from now, less so in 2024.

On Thursday, the Democratic president will head to upstate New York to celebrate Micron Technology’s plans to build a campus of computer chip factories

There are plenty of spreadsheet apps, but how do you choose the right one? Here’s how to find the best spreadsheet app for iPhone.

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Looking for options to expand your professional network aside from LinkedIn? Check out these 13 platforms.

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Vojenští vývojáři DARPA a US Air Force poprvé vypustili letoun pilotovaný umělou inteligencí program ACE. Nad leteckou základnou Edwards se inteligence střetla v simulovaném souboji s lidským pilotem. Pilotní inteligence obstála skvěle a otevřela cestu k dalšímu vývoji pilotních inteligencí. http://www.osel.cz/13449-darpa-poslala-umelou-inteligenci-do-realneho-vzdusneho-boje-s-clovekem.html

Demand for industrial robots is rising in Europe, especially driven by the benefits of automation. However, there are ongoing challenges in ensuring seamless collaboration with humans while maintaining safety. To address this issue, a consortium of European un

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.

The generative AI winter, part two

The threat of a new “AI winter” may dominate the AI conversation in the latter half of 2024. 

While not as high-profile as the Reddit IPO, another tech company is going public today, and it’s got a powerful backer. Cybersecurity firm Rubrik, Inc. will hold its initial public offering in a further sign that the tech IPO market is bouncing back after several lackluster years during which investors seemed to have lost their appetite for tech stock public offerings. Here’s what you need to kno

DoNotPay is paying investors. 

The company offers a paid subscription for AI and other software tools to help consumers negotiate their cable bills, contest parking tickets, and otherwise minimize their bills and maximize privacy. 

It’s now profitable, with more than 200,000 subscribers, says CEO and founder Joshua Browder, and it recently paid its first dividend totaling more than $1 million to shareholders including in

New AI creative assistant doesn't generate content. It democratizes high quality writing. Comes in free and modestly priced versions.

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Get insights into the future of video ad spend. Learn about the projections for digital video advertising in the U.S. and the latest trends.

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It’s safe to say that the age of generative AI is well and truly upon us, rapidly changing the world of work as we know it. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Future of Jobs Report, more than 75% of companies are looking to adopt technologies like AI in

A startup promising “universal AI compute” has joined France’s thriving artificial intelligence sector. Paris-based FlexAI emerged from stealth today with a €28.5mn war chest and an ambitious plan to “unlock the future of machine intelligence.” To pick that l

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, Ioanna and Andrii talk a

A British startup today unveiled new AI humans that blur the line between the virtual and the real. Synthesia calls the digital beings “Expressive Avatars.” They promise the most realistic emotional expressions on the market.  Generated by an AI model that’s

Dutch car-sharing platform SnappCar, which claims to be the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, has been fully acquired by AutoBinck Group — a shareholder in the scaleup since its founding in 2011. The ownership change also sees the return of SnappCar’s fo

The recent Bitcoin halving has put a spotlight on the popular cryptocurrency—and raised new questions about the environmental footprint of the crypto world.

Mining popular digital currencies demands a tremendous amount of energy, and the reduced supply of Bitcoin will spur operations that are centered on that goal to work even harder. That has environmentalists (and

Many companies dream of dominating the era of artificial intelligence. But hardly any can flip a switch and instantly put their AI in front of the eyeballs of a meaningful percentage of humanity. One of the few that can is Meta, which reaches nearly 4 billion people a month via Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

Before I delve into what it’s doing with that vast platform, some Fast Company tech stories you might not have read yet:

The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature.

In India, the app was

Earlier this month, Elon Musk sent a memo to Tesla employees announcing that the EV maker would cut “more than 10%” of its global workforce in order to help the company prepare for its next phase of growth. That reduction meant Tesla would let go of at least 14,000 of its 140,000-strong workforce. But as Tesla employs workers in numerous states and countries around the world, it wasn’t known

Following years of public scrutiny over TikTok’s ties to China, the Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would require TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to divest from the app within nine months or face a ban in the U.S. The bill, which already cleared the House last week, was part of a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, which President Joe Biden

Mexican fundraisers can now solicit donations on GoFundMe, the company announced Tuesday, as the crowdfunding giant expands into what it hopes is the first of more untapped Latin American markets to follow.

Mexico marks the 20th country serviced

Tesla’s humanoid robot is still in the lab, but it may be ready to sell as soon as the end of next year, chief executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday.

Several companies have been betting on humanoid robots to meet potential labor shortages and perform repetitive tasks that could be dangerous or tedious in industries s

Today’s education system is driven by rules and standardization, too often ignoring the specific needs of individual learners, particularly those already facing disadvantages. AI can change that. 

AI can be the catalyst we need to finally bridge the digital divide and uplift all students. AI can redefine education, creating personalized, dynamic learning pathways that are attuned to each learner’s needs. With AI, each student can proceed at their own pace, with AI adjusting to

President Joe Biden, on Wednesday, signed into law a $95 billion national security package, which included a provision that could ban TikTok or force its sale. As that battle begins to play out, though, his campaign continues to use the social media service t

When Lyft CEO David Risher took the helm of the rideshare company from cofounders Logan Green and John Zimmer a year ago, his mandate was clear: create a sustainable business by getting the perennial second-place rideshare company to stop bleeding money. The former Microsoft and Amazon executive

If you’ve spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may have noticed photorealistic images that are too good to be true: children holding paintings that look like the work of professional artists, or majes

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen penned a 5,000-word manif

Meta announced its first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. The company’s stock plunged 12% in after-hours trading, due to the company’s increased expenses and mediocre revenue projections.

The company’s revenue is at $36.46 million, up 27% over the same time last year. Meta said that it saw an average of 3.24 billion active people o

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed the TikTok ban into law, finally giving owner ByteDance its Choose Your Own American Adventure: It must either sell the immensely popular video-sharing platform or see it get banned in the U.S.

The decisive power play requires the Beijing-based tech company to divest TikTok within 365 days. If it doesn’t, the consequences are that TikTok would be yanked from U.S. app stores. Both scenarios would shake up the tech scene, causing ripples that