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Google brings a variation on ‘Circle to Search’ to iPhone users

techcrunch.com Google has found a way to bring a variation of its clever “Circle to Search” gesture to iPhone users. The new interaction, launched in January, allows Android users to…

AI is disrupting the local news industry. Will it unlock growth or be an existential threat?

poynter.org This article was originally published on Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative website and is republished here with permission. The text was adapted from…

Lucid Bots secures $9M for drones to clean more than your windows

techcrunch.com Cleaning the outside of buildings is a dirty job, and it’s also dangerous. Lucid Bots came on the scene in 2018 with its Sherpa line of drones to clean windows in tall…

Apple highlights AI features, including M4 neural engine, at iPad event

techcrunch.com Apple isn’t yet ready to unveil its broader AI strategy — it’s saving that for its Worldwide Developer Conference in June — but the tech giant did make sure to mention AI…

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

futurism.com A few years back, a writer in a developing country started doing contract work for a company called AdVon Commerce, getting a few pennies per word to write online product…

Crypto exchange OKX ceases services in India; KuCoin becomes FIU compliant

techcrunch.com Updated at 12.16am IST, March 23: KuCoin said it has become the first global crypto exchange to comply with India’s FIU. KuCoin said it will support local banks in India and…

Google Opens Its Digital Wallet to Users In India

pymnts.com Google’s digital wallet is now available in the world’s most populous country. The tech giant announced Wednesday (May 8) that the Google Wallet was now open to users India,…

Scoop: Justin Sun shot down BitTorrent moderation despite porn concerns

protos.com Justin Sun, whose Rainberry LLC acquired BitTorrent in 2018, pushed a no-moderation policy at the file-sharing giant, as stated in documents received by Protos. According to…

The great Meta SEO Blog Post OR SEO impact on market equilibrium

trachtmanconsulting.com SEO is crucial, people keep telling me – ultimately you have to rank your website so that it’s visible (and maybe stop getting only scam emails on my “Contact Me” button)…

Dotdash Meredith’s cookie-killer advertising technology appears to be working

pressgazette.co.uk The largest US digital and print publisher Dotdash Meredith may have unlocked the door to the future profitability of journalism on the open web. It has reported…

Reddit stock: 5 analysts discuss performance after the first earnings report By

investing.com Reddit stock is gaining pre-market Wednesday after the social media platform released its inaugural earnings report as a public company. Investors and analysts have now…

CISA boss: Secure software needed to stop ransomware

theregister.com RSAC There's a way to vastly reduce the scale and scope of ransomware attacks plaguing critical infrastructure, according to CISA director Jen Easterly: Make software secure…

Steve Huffman Says Reddit’s ‘Real People’ Content Is Increasingly Valuable in the Era of A.I

observer.com Reddit surprised Wall Street yesterday (May 7) when it reported record user and revenue growth in its first quarterly earnings release as a publicly traded company.…

'Intellectual influencers' will soon be taking over your social-media feeds

businessinsider.com Intellectual influencers, or thought leaders, are the ones who will survive a social-media flux (stock image) Tashi-Delek/Getty Images The barrier to influencing is lower…

Google Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app

techcrunch.com Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is…

Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy

economist.com Trustbusters have big tech in their sights. On March 25th the European Commission opened a probe into Apple, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) and Meta (which is…

Meet the digital David taking on the Google Goliath

economist.com JEFF GREEN learned about marketing the hard way. In his late teens he was sent to Ventura, on the Californian coast, as a Mormon missionary. He spent 12 hours a day knocking…

Which country will be last to escape inflation?

economist.com In January prices across the rich world rose by 5.7% year on year, down from a peak in late 2022 of 10.7%. This conceals wide variation, however. Some countries have slain…

Where to watch all the Planet of the Apes movies on streaming

polygon.com Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the latest sci-fi film from Wes Ball (The Maze Runner) and the direct follow-up to Matt Reeves’ 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes, opens…

Woman asks for help using phone

newsweek.com An exchange between grandmother and granddaughter has left people in stitches after a woman in her 80s asked for help with an unusual technological task. Raechelle, from New…

Google Briefly Lost Ownership Of Its Domain After It Was Mistakenly Sold For $12 To A Former Employee

benzinga.com Even tech giants make mistakes. In a surprising incident from 2015, Google once briefly lost ownership of its domain, Google.com, as reported by CNN. Sanmay Ved, a former…

Understanding SEO for better optimisation

siliconrepublic.com If you run your own site but aren’t reaching the right audience, how can you touch-up your SEO skills? SEO, or search engine optimisation, is a tool designed to increase…

Google AI Predicts Shiba Inu Price Will Reach $0.001, Dogecoin (DOGE) And ETFSwap (ETFS) To Cross $1

coinpedia.org The post Google AI Predicts Shiba Inu Price Will Reach $0.001, Dogecoin (DOGE) And ETFSwap (ETFS) To Cross $1 appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Shiba Inu (SHIB),…

Analysts Raise Profit Views On Nvidia, Amazon, Google

investors.com It may be rare, but stocks can rally even when a company is not profitable. Investing in these stocks can be risky since they are likely to have inferior EPS Ratings. So…

The Connectivity Standards Alliance releases Matter 1.3, adding support for more appliances, energy and water management, and new casting protocol features

theverge.com We’re still waiting for popular devices like cameras and video doorbells to be part of Matter. But overall, the smart home standard has come a long way in fulfilling its…

OpenAI is reportedly trying to poach Googlers for an AI-powered search team

aol.com May 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM • None OpenAI is targeting some Google's employees, The Verge reported. • None Sam Altman's company is trying to poach Googlers for a ChatGPT search…

Op-ed: Investing lessons from a baseball card collector. Diversify to find the all-stars

cnbc.com When I was a kid, I collected baseball cards with the money I earned from mowing lawns. It was fun to open a pack of cards not knowing which ones you'd get. I sometimes…

UK challenger bank Monzo nabs another $190M as US expansion beckons

techcrunch.com Monzo has raised another £150 million ($190 million), as the challenger bank looks to expand its presence internationally — particularly in the U.S. The new round comes just…

Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI

techcrunch.com Reddit — now a publicly-traded company with more scrutiny on revenue growth — is putting a big focus on boosting its international audience, starting with francophones. In…

AI Predicts China Will Ban High-Energy Blockchains

cryptonews.com China, known for its significant share of the global cryptocurrency mining industry, has been grappling with the environmental ramifications of its burgeoning blockchain…

Google Cloud misconfiguration takes down Oz fund for a week

theregister.com Australian superannuation fund UniSuper is lumbering back to life after an "unprecedented occurrence" at Google Cloud knocked its systems offline. The May 9 estimate for the…

Reddit shares soar as earnings show advertising, AI licensing revenue potential

aol.com Reddit shares soared 14% on Wednesday after the social media firm floored investors with strong revenue growth and improving profitability in the first earnings since its…

Stock Market Today: Stocks mixed, Dow eyes best run since December

thestreet.com Check back for updates throughout the trading day U.S. equity futures edged lower in early Wednesday trading, while Treasury bond yields bumped higher into the start of the…

The 3 Best Retirement Stocks to Buy in May 2024

investorplace.com Take a look at the best retirement stocks Buy-and-hold investing strategies are less stressful than timing the market, looking at technical charts and battling the emotions…

Alphabet Stock Alert: Why Investors Should Stay away from GOOG for Now

investorplace.com Despite great financial results, Alphabet's main businesses are thriving but legal liabilities are a big concern Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ: )(NASDAQ: ) excellent first-quarter…

Hong Kong Court Bans ‘Glory to Hong Kong,’ a Pro-Democracy Song

nytimes.com A Hong Kong court on Wednesday granted a government request to ban a popular pro-democracy anthem, raising further concerns about free speech in the city. The decision,…

ProtonMail hands info to government but says it’s not Google

protos.com ProtonMail, a managed email service popular with the crypto community, surrendered a user’s information to Spanish authorities, leading privacy rights advocates to claim it…

It's time for a heart-to-heart about the EU's surveillance agenda

euronews.com The EU must end its shadowy games with the industry, engage in meaningful transparency and respect our fundamental rights, Chloé Berthélémy and Viktoria Tomova write. In…

Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’

theguardian.com More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online…

RAIR Technologies Introduces RAIRprotocol: Paving Way for Open, Transparent, Decentralized Web3

coinspeaker.com Coinspeaker RAIR Technologies Introduces RAIRprotocol: Paving Way for Open, Transparent, Decentralized Web3 RAIR Technologies, a Web3 firm that empowers organizations to…

Google launches Google Wallet for Android in India and partners with 20+ brands to let users store boarding passes, loyalty cards, event tickets, and more

androidauthority.com Google is infamous for its confused ecosystem strategy, and the Google Wallet and Google Pay apps are prime examples of said confusion. At an event in India today, Google…

Big Tech is eating as much data as it can to win in AI

cnbc.com Big technology companies are consuming as much data as possible to become winners in artificial intelligence — but that's not necessarily what will define winners, according…

TikTok, Bytedance File Legal Challenge Against Divestment Law

asiafinancial.com TikTok and its parent firm ByteDance filed a lawsuit in a US federal court on Tuesday to try to block a law that would force the group to sell its short-video app. The…

Google Wallet is now available in India

techcrunch.com Google on Wednesday launched its digital wallet in India with local integrations, nearly two years after the app was relaunched as a digital wallet platform in the U.S. As…

What does divesting from Israel really mean?

vox.com A core demand at the heart of the protests over the war in Gaza currently roiling college campuses across the US and around the world: that universities divest from Israel.…

Could Participating In Activism At Your Workplace Get You Fired?

youtube.com In April, Google fired 50 staffers after protests over its contracts with Israel. As employers worry that campus activism could spread ...

Apple reportedly developing AI chips for servers

theregister.com Analysis We can add Apple to the list of tech titans developing their own custom AI accelerators – at least that's what unnamed sources are telling the Wall Street Journal.…

Sources: OpenAI has been aggressively trying to poach Google employees for a team working on a ChatGPT feature to search the web and show results with citations

theverge.com OpenAI is developing a search engine for ChatGPT, giving users the ability to crawl the web for answers to their questions, Bloomberg reports. Sources also tell The Verge…

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