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Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges
On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it will provide legal protection for customers who are sued for copyright infringement over content generated by the company's AI systems. This new policy, called...
Benj Edwards
Google Search updated its language matching systems
Google has released another Google Search update around its language matching systems. This update was released two weeks ago, but Google only announced it earlier this morning. What Google sa...
Barry Schwartz
How these parasitic worms turn brown shrimp into bright orange "zombies"
Scour the salt marshes of Plum Island Estuary in Massachusetts and you're likely to spot bright orange shrimp lurking among the vegetation and detritus. That unusual hue is a sign that a shrimp has be...
Jennifer Ouellette
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Don't let Chrome's big redesign distract you from the fact that Chrome's invasive new ad platform, ridiculously branded the "Privacy Sandbox," is also getting a widespread rollout in Chrome today. If ...
Ron Amadeo
Entities, topics, keywords: Clarifying core semantic SEO concepts
In this article I've curated some of the most commonly misunderstood elements of entity and semantic SEO, aiming to clear the fog around them.Here's our roadmap:What are the differences between entiti...
Paul DeMott
EV charging startup VOOL bags EUR2.9M to scale production, optimise grid usage
Estonian startup VOOL has secured a fresh capital injection of EUR2.92mn to boost production and development of its EV charging solutions. Specifically, the company closed an additional seed round of ...
Ioanna Lykiardopoulou
Yes, you can play Starfield on Steam Deck, but really, you shouldn't
Starfield, Bethesda's epic planet-hopping first-person RPG, is now widely available, and that includes on handheld gaming PCs. Both Valve's Steam Deck and the Asus ROG Ally picked up recent system upd...
Kevin Purdy
This SEO strategy led to 497 page-one rankings in 7 weeks
[photo1]Increasing first-page rankings and organic traffic has always involved guesswork. Experienced marketers know that deciding what content to produce and how to publish it can lead to wasted time...
Cynthia Ramsaran
The best instant cameras you can buy right now
Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there's something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, ...
Sheena Vasani
Rise and shine: Early autumn is the second best time of year for job seekers
Just as the chill of autumn sets in, the recruitment business heats up. With key decision-makers returning from summer holidays, the job boards are suddenly repopulated with exciting new opportunities...
Dara Flynn
Nutrisense review: a pricey way to learn a little
Standing in my bathroom, staring at the needle poking out of a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), I started having second thoughts. CGMs measure glucose levels in interstitial fluid -- the fluid betwee...
Victoria Song
Pew, pew, pew! These plants shoot out their seeds like bullets
The flowering shrubs known as witch hazel are perhaps best known for their use in folk medicine and as a natural topical skin ointment. But the seeds are also of interest to biophysicists and engineer...
Jennifer Ouellette
Cybersecurity experts say the west has failed to learn lessons from Ukraine
Viktor Zhora, the public face of Ukraine's success against Russian cyberattacks, received a hero's welcome earlier this month on stage at Black Hat, the world's biggest cybersecurity gathering, in Las...
Mehul Srivatsava, Financial Times
Age of Empires and live ants used to test theoretical ideas on combat
Anyone who has played a real-time strategy game probably ponders this question when preparing for a fight: Is it better to have a huge number of relatively weak units or a smaller number of extremely ...
John Timmer
Rivian's new dual-motor EVs boost range up to 410 miles
NORMAL, Ill.--It was a blazing hot August day in central Illinois, but you wouldn't know it once inside Rivian's 4 million-square-foot manufacturing facility. The electric vehicle manufacturer was hos...
Eric Bangeman
Luffy's boundless optimism lights up One Piece final trailer
We're eagerly counting down to the premiere of Netflix's live-action series adaptation of One Piece on Friday, a hugely popular manga and anime series created by Eiichiro Oda. And Netflix has given us...
Jennifer Ouellette
Google kills two-year "Pixel Pass" subscription after just 22 months
Google's "Pixel Pass" payment plan has perished. The company is shutting down the all-in-one subscription service that let customers pay a monthly fee for a new Pixel Phone and a bunch of Google subsc...
Ron Amadeo
Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites ruled unconstitutional [Updated]
The day before a Texas anti-porn law that requires age verification to access adult websites was set to take effect, the state's interim attorney general, Angela Colmenero, has been at least temporari...
Ashley Belanger
Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow Google's Waymo and GM's Cruise to begin charging customers f...