Microsoft is calling on Congress to pass new laws that make it illegal to use AI-generated voices and images to defraud people, especially seniors and children.
The call to create a “deepfake fraud statute” was part of a 52-page white paper the tech giant released Tuesday, which laid out its vision about how governments should approach AI. The company proposes the government make it illegal to use voice- and image-generation tools to impersonate someone, whether a political candida
Meta agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with Texas on Tuesday over claims that the Facebook and Instagram-parent company illegally collected users’ facial and biometric data.
It’s the largest privacy settlement by a U.S. state.
“This historic settlement demonstrates our commitment to standing up to the
SpaceX is in talks with U.S. and Australian officials to land and recover one of its Starship rockets off Australia’s coast, a possible first step toward a bigger presence for Elon Musk&#
Google introduces AI tools for Performance Max, enhancing reporting, creative capabilities, and brand safety measures for advertisers across multiple campaign types.
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Perplexity will soon begin to pay publishers when their content is used to form a specific type of the AI search engine’s answers. The business modell revolves around a revenue share from ad sales, an approach that marks a new chapter for the upstart AI company.
Ads have long been a deeply integrated part of Google search results, but building ad inventory into new AI
Two days after President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence last year, Vice President Kamala Harris brought the wonky document to a global AI summit, telling an international audience what set the U.S. apart in its approach to AI safe
There’s a new way to pay the bill at (some) restaurants.
Blackbird, an app launched in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Ben Leventhal, is introducing a payments feature for restaurants, potentially reducing their processing costs and changing the way diners settle up after a meal.
“The check presenter as the way people pay, as the form factor of payments, it hasn’t changed materially in a very, very long time,” Leventhal says. “If you put it in the context of all the oth
OnlyFans is a porn-saturated website that offers its subscribers a chance to forge “authentic relationships” with content creators.
Erika Ayers Badan, the new CEO of lifestyle brand Food52 and former CEO of Barstool Sports, is eager to borrow from the model that turned Barstool into an online cultural juggernaut. Whether it be cultivating a community of fans, or leaving the cameras running to capture viral moments, Erika shares how she plans to bring a little David Portnoy to the food industry.
The U.S. Senate is expected to pass major online child safety reforms in a vote on Tuesday, although the legislation, which has drawn mixed reactions from the tech industry, faces an uncertain fate in the House of Representatives.
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Learn about the unique position of OpenAI's new search engine, Search GPT, as a potential challenger to Google Search in the market.
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London-based Stairpay has raised £750k in Pre-Seed funding to help first-time home buyers navigate the shared ownership process — and ultimately move to full ownership. For individuals facing challenges entering the (overcrowded) UK housing market, shared ow
Tesla is recalling over 1.8 million vehicles over a defect in which the cars could fail to alert the driver that its hood is not latched correctly, leading it to open unexpectedly and put the vehicle and its occupants at risk for crashes.
This recall is just the latest in a line of recalls Tesla has initiated in 2024, including recalls involving some of its vehicles’
The UK’s new Labour government has pledged to build 1.5 million homes during its first term in office. To achieve this, it promises planning reform and the reintroduction of local housing targets. Yet little attention has been given to the role of new technologies. Dro
At first glance, the University of Austin (UATX) looks more like a buzzy Silicon Valley outfit than an academic institution. Its entire campus is the renovated 30,000-square-foot third floor of downtown Austin’s historic, art deco–inspired Scarbrough Building. The space is full of exposed concrete, interior glass walls, minimalist tables, and tufted leather armchairs. On a balmy day in late January, about eight months before the nonprofit university’s first class of 100 students is set to ar
AI and PPC ads: the perfect combination for success. Learn how AI automation can boost your campaigns while marketers remain essential for creative input.
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Just as the sun rises and sets, some things are inevitable. Consider technology. As soon as something new emerges, people invariably find a way to abuse it. In recent years, this mantle has fallen on artificial intelligence (AI) and one of its most troublin
Fosilie Argonautů v místní Chóře. Majáček nad antickým přístavem. Posvátná cesta horským svahem od antického města k Apollónovu chrámu, místy s původní dlažbou. Chrám „na konci světa“, dávno přestavěný na klášter, naštěstí hodně zajímavě a s ponecháním opěrných zdí celého okrsku. Dál je už jen Dračí sluj a šílený útes Kalamos. To vše na ostrově Anafi. http://www.osel.cz/13588-navigacni-stavby-a-chram-apollona-aigleta-na-ostrove-argonautu.html
A federal district court in New York ruled last week that U.S. border agents must obtain a search warrant before going through travelers’ electronic devices at the border.
U.S. border officials had long asserted that they have broad authority to conduct warrantless searches of travelers’ devices.
“As the court recognizes, warrantless searches of electronic devices at the border are an unjustified intrusion into travelers’ private expres
Update to Generative AI by Getty Images offers near-infinite creative possibilities within reach of everyone
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Several French fiber optic cables were cut overnight in what appears to be a coordinated sabotage effort, service providers and officials said. It’s the second attack on key French infrastructure in recent days, putting a spotlight on the country’s security as the nation hosts scores of athletes and fans for the Paris Olympic Games.
The telecommunications operators were hit by the “major sabotage” around 2:15 a.m. local time, Nicolas Guillaume, the CEO of service provider Ne
A video that uses an artificial intelligence voice-cloning tool to mimic the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of
Reports of a trojan in WordPress 6.6.1 were traced to a relatively arcane XML coding standard
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Poptávka na transplantace srdce i dalších orgánů neustále narůstá. Vhodné orgány přitom neustále scházejí, což má dramatické důsledky. Společnost BiVACOR vyvinula plně mechanické titanové srdce s maglevem, v němž díky magnetické levitaci dochází k minimalizaci tření. Mechanická srdce by se mohla stát dočasným řešením pro pacienty, jejichž vyhlídky by jinak byly velmi neradostné. http://www.osel.cz/13587-titanove-srdce-s-maglevem-vstoupilo-do-klinickych-testu.html
The race for semiconductor leadership is on — and European chip startups are rising to the challenge. Europe is already home to high-profile chip companies including ASML, NXP, Arm, and Infineon. However, it lags behind in manufacturing capacity. The EU is cu
Several long-distance fibre-optic cables in France were “sabotaged” overnight, according to local police, causing widespread disruptions to internet services across the country. The perpetrators remain at large, as the cat-and-mouse between po
Google hints at a potential shift to automatic language detection, which could reduce reliance on manual hreflang annotations for multilingual websites.
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Dutch airline KLM has teamed up with British-American startup ZeroAvia to develop a liquid hydrogen-powered turboprop aircraft. The partners aim to conduct a flight demonstration between two yet-to-be-named airports in 2026. ZeroAvia builds hydr
Nearly 12 years after releasing Apple Maps on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Apple has launched a web version that works in most desktop browsers.
Currently in beta at beta.maps.apple.com, the Apple Maps website offers basic driving and walking directions, local business listings with tie-ins to sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor, and a “Guides” feature with curated area recommendations. It’s a slick-looking site and a solid foun
Dinosaurs may not be roaming the earth, but dinosaur obsessives are very much alive and have been stomping around the Sotheby’s auction house. On July 17th, the 11-foot-tall skeleton of a Stegosaurus nicknamed “Apex”—which was estimated to bring a piddling $4 million to $6 million dollars—was gaveled down at an eye-watering $45 million.
This was a histor
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Google's Gary Illyes cautioned against blindly trusting generative AI answers
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Discover the top 7 mistakes ecommerce retailers make with Google Shopping and how to avoid them.
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Google's Gary Illyes suggests incorrect hreflang tags may not hurt SEO, but the content language remains a key signal for search relevance.
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Google suggests ccTLDs could lose SEO value in years' time due to creative branding use, urging focus on hreflang for international targeting.
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Uncover the drastic changes in the paid search industry over the years. From keyword reliance to advanced targeting, the landscape has evolved.
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Hypernatural is one of the best new tools for making a short video quickly with AI. You don’t need any video editing skill or experience. Nor do you need to shoot your own video. A
Když desková tektonika vyzdvihovala Alpy a Karpaty, v evropském moři Paratethys, severním výběžku tropického oceánu Tethys, vzniklo ve východní části střední Evropy a v jihovýchodní Evropě úžasné subtropické souostroví. Před 15 miliony let jsme měli na hranicích třetihorní karibik s korálovými útesy a bláznivě bohatou přírodou. http://www.osel.cz/13585-paleontologove-odkryvaji-vzestup-a-pad-stredoevropskeho-karibiku.html
Na pouštním cvičišti Yuma Proving Ground v Arizoně se odehrálo další cvičení systémů obrany proti malým a středním dronům, tentokrát pojmenované Demo Five. Organizátorem byla agentura Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System Office (JCO) jejímž úkolem je vymýšlet obrany proti hejnům levných dronů, nové hrozbě dnešní doby. http://www.osel.cz/13584-swarm-wars-pentagon-usporadal-zatim-nejnarocnejsi-cviceni-protidronove-obrany.html
This week Apple brought Apple Maps to the web in beta, bringing it one step closer to parity with Google Maps, which has long been available via web browsers.
Of course, iPhone owners will still turn to the app versions of their preferred mapping service when away from the desktop. Both the Apple Maps app and Google Maps app have always had their strengths and weaknesses, but in recent year
Man alive, these humble web browsers of ours sure have come a long way.
But for all the progress we’ve seen in the past several years, somehow, Chrome and most other modern browsers still fall short in one critically important area—and that’s what they show you when you first open ’em.
The standard browser new tab page, to put it bluntly, is a complete waste of space. It’s prime real estate—something you summon and glance upon countless times throughout the day—and yet, what’s there i
Google's Gary Illyes cautioned that blocking the GoogleOther crawler may have an effect on a wide range of things across Google
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Průlomová technologie z MIT nevozí vodík v nádrži, ale vyrábí si ho průběžně přímo na palubě, buď hladinového či podmořského plavidla. Jde o chemický reaktor na výrobu hliníku, kterým protéká mořská voda, s níž reagují hliníkové pelety za přítomnosti malého množství india s galliem a kávové sedliny. Zní to bláznivě, ale funguje to. http://www.osel.cz/13583-namorni-generator-vodiku-jede-na-morskou-vodu-hlinik-a-kavovou-sedlinu.html
Apple’s iPhones are losing their appeal in China while local competitors are advancing, according to market tracker IDC.
iPhone shipments in the country dropped 3.1% year-over-year in the second quarter, the International Data Corporation (IDC) report said, despite China’s smartphone shipments gaining 8.9% overall. The decline pushed Apple out of the top five handset makers in China for the first time in fo
Reddit blocks major search engines from recent content, except Google, sparking debate on data access and AI training practices.
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