With its new Pixel 9 phones, Google Assistant is getting a demotion.
In its place, Google’s will ship Gemini as the default voice assistant on its flagship phones. Gemini uses large language models to interpret questions and generate answers, which means it can respond in a more conversational way.
But while Google is eager to showcase Gemini as an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT,
A fringe group of parents think following your child’s learning instincts, rather than setting them a standard educational pattern, is the best way to foster their growth
The trend, known as “unschooling,” proposes a complete abandonment of standard curriculum. Gone are the days of regular math and literature classes; these parenting influencers insist on only following what the kid expresses curiosity about. But the trend has proved highly controversial, with critics suggest
Much has been said today about the interview that took place on Monday between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on X. Delayed by technical reasons, which Musk blamed on DDOS attacks, the two-hour conversation has been labell
Dawn Aerospace is a small startup with big ambitions: to build the first vehicle to fly over 100 km above the Earth — twice in one day. A couple of weeks back, the budding company — headquartered in the Netherlands and New Zealand — took a ma
Seldom has the medium been the message more than it was on Monday night, when Elon Musk hosted a live conversation with Donald Trump on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The students — most with gray hair, some with canes, all at least in their 60s — couldn’t believe what they were hearing.
“Oh, my God,” whispered a retired college professor.
“Does it come with viruses?” wondered a bewildered woman scribbling notes in the second row.
A 79-year-old in a black-and-white floral shirt then asked the question on many minds: “How do you know if it is fake or not?”
This is how older adults — many
For roughly three decades, experts in digital cryptography have been monitoring a distant threat: that a powerful enough quantum computer could one day render the most widely used forms of encryption—the layer of code protecting everything from national security secrets to personal banking records—obsolete. Today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is unveiling the final version of three new algorithms, long in development, that are designed
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Understanding the implications of the monopoly ruling against Google. Discover the potential effects on SEO and the online advertising landscape.
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Settling down in a new city (or codebase) is a marathon, not a sprint. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/13/navigating-cities-of-code-with-norris-numbers/
Když před 66 miliony let dopadla u dnešního Yucatánu planetka a ukončila křídu i celé druhohory, některé linie tehdejších organismů to přežily a následně zažily explozi diverzity. Jejich genomy dnes představují cenné svědectví o tehdejších apokalyptických časech. Ptáci jsou výtečným příkladem. http://www.osel.cz/13610-zkaza-po-dopadu-planetky-se-vypalila-do-genomu-ptaku.html
Discover the challenges and solutions for conversion tracking in enterprise SEO. From securing permissions to reporting, we've got you covered.
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Go was first released as an open source programming language in 2009, and it’s had its ups and downs over the past 15 years. Although it was only released in November 2009, Go saw such a dramatic rise in interest that it was named the 2009 Programming Language of the
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Raindrop is a terrific free tool for organizing bookmarks. I use it to save links for classes I’m teaching and topics I’m researching. I also save link collections to share with friends,
On this episode, Ryan and Cassidy talk to Satish Jayanthi, CTO and co-founder of Coalesce, about the growth of metadata and how you can manage it, especially in systems using generative AI. They explore the importance in providing context and transparency to data, how metadata can be generated automatically, and the future of metadata including knowledge graphs. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/13/satish-jayanthi-coalesce-ai-metadata-etl/
Size matters, and it matters to Donald Trump more than most. Trump kicked off his presidency by exaggerating the modest turnout at his inauguration; now, he’s desperate to diminish the crowds showing up for his 2024 opponent.
Over the weekend, the former president posted on Truth Social
Google halts AdSense monetization in Russia, impacting publishers and and further isolating Russia's digital economy amid ongoing geopolitical tensions.
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The other day, on a long road trip in a rental car, I found myself looking for a place to pull off the road. As I’ve done many times before, I typed into Google Maps “Food Near Me.” I peered at the options. (Don’t worry, I was in the passenger seat.) The response was bleak: Google recommended a string of chain restaurants. Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and so forth.
It
Soon, new Patreon memberships purchased on the iOS app will be subject to Apple’s 30% App Store fee in the coming months, the crowdfunding platform announced Monday in a blog post.
Patreon has to implement the change by November or risk being kicked off the App Store. That would have devastating effects since Patreon CEO Jack Conte ">said
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Google's AI search overviews favor YouTube and LinkedIn, shorten content, and mostly link to top organic results, a new study reveals.
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UK startup OXCCU has opened a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) demo plant at London Oxford Airport, as it looks to make a dent in emissions from air travel. OXCCU spunout from Oxford University in 2021. The startup has developed
Balderton Capital today announced the closing of its $1.3bn early stage and growth funds in a sign of the European tech sector regaining investor confidence and momentum. We are often disconcerted at the lack of support for European ent
The stories are getting too numerous to track. An electric bike battery fire injured four, one critically, in Brooklyn in June. Scooter batteries set off a house blaze in Sydney in May, and an apartment fire in San Francisco
In the name of consumer protection, a slew of U.S. federal agencies are working to make it easier for Americans to click the unsubscribe button for unwanted memberships and recurring payment services.
A broad new government initiative, dubbed “Time Is Money,” includes a rollout of new
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is due to interview Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the X social medi
Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents.
The campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement, but the claim comes a day after Microsoft issued a report detailing foreign agents’ attempts t
Discover 13 practical steps to enhance website crawlability and indexability. Improve your site's visibility in search results.
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Climate-focused venture capital funds have already raised $6.9bn since the beginning of 2024, up from $5.2bn for the entirety of 2023, according to a new report from Venture Capital Journal. While climate VCs have closed less funds overall — 24 compar
Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately may exceed normal human vision.”
Unfor
Debut Biotechnology was founded to “set a new standard in beauty.” Now it may end up shaping how the Pentagon prepares for war.
Since its inception in 2019, the San Diego-based company has presented itself as a disruptor in the cosmetics space. By employing novel methods of biomanufacturing—that is, the use of biological systems to produce commercial products like chemicals or textiles—Debut is able to generate relatively scarce and
A little-known Google patent describes the use of branded search queries as ranking factors similar to links
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Unlock the potential of AI and citations in search engines. Learn how to build brand authority and create compelling content for the AI ecosystem.
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In the business world (and beyond) everybody loves the success story of an underdog. Estonia’s Bolt is one such example. The startup was founded in 2013 by then 19-year-old Markus Vilig with €5,000 in his pocket. Since then, it has successfully become the Euro
Také vám připadá, že spolu s tím jak hnutí antivax nabírá na síle, a jak se v podobném smyslu začali před volbami vyjadřovat i mnozí politici, že nám media začala selektovat informace? Jak jinak si vysvětlit, že o závěrech jedné z největších světových studií vyvracející mnohé z kolujících fám, není nikde ani ťuk... http://www.osel.cz/13609-srdecni-infarkty-u-ockovanych.html
Find out how Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) can affect your website and why it's important to optimize for this Google ranking factor.
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Improve SEO and user experience with breadcrumbs on your website. Learn how implementing breadcrumbs can have a positive impact on your website's visibility and navigation.
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Ústup od fosilních paliv vyvolává ohromnou poptávku po nabíjitelných bateriích. V dnešní době to znamená poptávku po problematickém lithiu. Texaský startup Group1 nabízí jako zajímavou alternativu draslík-iontové baterie (KIB). Jejich novým želízkem v ohni je KIB baterie asi nejžádanějšího formátu 18650. http://www.osel.cz/13608-startup-group1-vyvinul-prvni-draslik-iontovou-baterii-velikosti-18650.html
Liu Yi is among China’s 7 million ride-hailing drivers. A 36-year-old Wuhan resident, he started driving part time this year when construction work slowed in the face of a nationwide glut of unsold apartments.
Now he predicts another crisis as he stands next to his car watching neighbors order driverless taxis.
“Everyone will go hungry,” he
Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients with brain disorders and a common brain parasite to become frenemies.
A new study published in Nature Microbiology has pioneered the use of a single-celled parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, to inject therapeutic proteins into brain cells. The
If you think it’s hard to get a doctor’s appointment for yourself, try getting one for a pet. Veterinarians in the U.S. are slammed. More than 23 million American households—nearly one in five—adopted a pet during the pandemic, according to the ASPCA. Today, 66% of American households—nearly 87 million—own a pet, according to a 2023–2024 survey by industry as
Morální hodnoty často vnímáme jako maják, který nám ukazuje cestu bouřlivou realitou. Poslední dobou ale vychází najevo, že tenhle maják je až překvapivě ve vleku pocitů, dojmů a emocí. Teď tomu nasazuje korunu výzkum, podle něhož se základní hodnoty konzervativního či autoritářského typu v populaci mění v průběhu roku. Na jaře a na podzim jsou silnější, v létě a v zimě slábnou. http://www.osel.cz/13607-moralni-nalada-zakladni-lidske-hodnoty-se-meni-podle-rocnich-obdobi.html
The idea of transforming Mars into a world more hospitable to human habitation is a regular feature of science fiction. But could this be done in real life?
Scientists are now proposing a new approach to warm up Earth’s planetary neighbor by pumping engineered particles—similar in s
This week Apple quietly introduced a new feature coming to iOS 18’s Safari web browser called Distraction Control. The feature, which you can access now via the iOS 18 developer beta, is unusual because Apple made no mention of it when it first previewed the iPhone’s upcoming opera
Time for a bit o’ brutal honesty: Whenever I hear about a new search tool or info-surfacing service, my first reaction is to proactively cringe a little—and then set my skepticism guard to its highest possible setting.
Surely you’ve had this same sort of response by now, too—right? Since the start of this whole generative-AI explosion, we’ve seen an endless parade of apps touting themselves as The Future of Search™.
And with very rare exception, more or less all of ’em sh
Povstání, láska, politika… Láska zrozená při povstání, nenaplněná pro zvůli politiků. Postupný zmar nejen lásky, ale taky idejí svobody a humanity ve prospěch osobních ambic protivníků, bývalých spojenců, a extrémního národovectví. Čím větší a prázdnější něčí ambice, tím absurdnější velikášská idea. http://www.osel.cz/13606-po-stopach-nestastne-lasky-hrdinne-mado-mavrogenus-v-naupliu.html
Čínský maglev T-Flight, který jezdí tunely s hrubým vakuem, by měl mít na svém kontě rychlostní rekord 623 km/h a dělá si zálusk na 1 100 km/h, což je rychlost, která pokoří i běžné dopravní letouny. Pokud dojde i na třetí fázi vývoje, mluví se o rychlostech kolem 4 tisíce km/h. Z toho se točí hlava. http://www.osel.cz/13605-cinsti-casic-zvladli-vakuovy-test-ultrarychleho-maglevu-t-flight.html
As the so-called “meat culture wars” enters a new chapter, Impossible Foods’s CEO Peter McGuinness believes that plant-based players need to drastically pivot their marketing strategy to compete with the deep pockets of the traditional meat industry. McGuinness shares his plan to center Impossible’s messaging less around climate impact—and instead, letting its product do the talking. McGuinness’s embrace of past mistakes and fluid pragmatism is a crucial case study in evolving to stay releva
Google acknowledged three things that can cause an increase in Googlebot's crawling frequency
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Iran is increasing its internet activity that appears intended to influence November’s U.S. presidential election, according to a new report from Microsoft.
As part of the efforts, hackers with ties to the Iran government tried breaking into the account of a high-ranking official on a U.S. presidential campaign in
