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EU privacy body adopts view on Meta’s controversial ‘consent or pay’ tactic
<div><p>Incoming guidance by an expert steering body for European Union data protection law could have major implications for Meta’s surveillance advertising business model: Large platforms such as Facebook and Instagram cannot force a “binary” pay or consent choice on users, according to a Politico report Wednesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the decision. […]</p>
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Diagon puts ex-Tesla supply chain muscle to work for small businesses
<div><p>Companies can identify qualified suppliers from Diagon’s network of equipment suppliers, system integrators and service providers. Then leverage a toolkit to manage those complex projects.</p>
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BigPanda launches generative AI tool designed specifically for ITOps
<div><p>IT operations personnel have a lot going on, and when an incident occurs that brings down a key system, time is always going to be against them. Over the years companies have looked for an edge in getting up faster with playbooks designed to find answers to common problems, and post mortems to keep them […]</p>
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B2B marketplace The Folklore bags $3.4M seed to get brands into global stores
<div><p>Amira Rasool founded The Folklore in 2018 to help fashion brands from emerging markets like Africa, Asia and The Caribbean tap into the international market. In 2022, the startup introduced The Folklore Connect, a B2B marketplace and wholesale management software for brands to sell to partner global retailers like Nordstrom, after it shifted from sourcing […]</p>
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Formlabs says new 3D printer ‘rivals injection molding’
<div><p>This month marks five years since the release of the Form 3, Formlabs’ last major 3D printer refresh. To celebrate the occasion, the MIT spinoff has unveiled the long-awaited Form 4. At the top of the notable features list are faster printing speeds (under two hours for most prints, per the company), a 30% build […]</p>
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Klarna credit card launches in the US as Swedish fintech grows its market presence
<div><p>Klarna is launching its credit card in the United States, the Swedish fintech giant told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “It was one of our most asked for products,” said David Fock, Klarna’s chief product officer, “and will allow people to pay in the Klarna way but with a card.” By “Klarna way,” Fock means […]</p>
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More Than Just Fool’s Gold: Scientists Uncover Hidden Treasure in Pyrite
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Pyrite-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Pyrite" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high"><p>There’s a reason airlines won’t let you put your laptop in your checked luggage; the lithium-ion battery poses a serious fire hazard. But why? Lithium...</p></div>
Reka Core: Text, Images, Videos... All in One!
<div><div><img src="https://cdn.analyticsvidhya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Reka-Core-Our-Frontier-Class-Multimodal-Language-Model-scaled.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Revolutionizing AI: Reka Core excels in text, images, videos, and audio, marking a new era in multimodal models.</div></div></div>
Will the Olympics Save Nike From Its Midlife Crisis?
<div>Nike’s reputation—and sales—are both in trouble. The Paris games could be the aging brand’s chance to turn its fortunes around.</div>
LinkedIn tests Premium Company Pages, with AI and marketing tools to grow audiences
<div><p>LinkedIn — the social platform that targets the working world — has quietly started testing another way to boost its revenues, this time with a new service for small and medium businesses. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that it is working on a new LinkedIn Premium Company Page subscription, which — for fees that appear […]</p>
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Tesla has spent $200,000 advertising on Elon Musk’s X so far
<div><p>Tesla has spent around $200,000 advertising through February on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, after the CEO caved to shareholder pressure last year and said his company would “try a little advertising.” Since then, Tesla ads have showed up in places like Google search results, and on YouTube. But it was also increasingly apparent […]</p>
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Netflix Just Quietly Released the Most Unsettling Stalker Thriller of the Year
— NetflixNetflix has a bad habit of deception. Whether it’s mixing up episode orders or brute forcing a seemingly “random” show, there’s always a bit of smoke and mirrors around how the algorithm works. But one of its biggest deceptions is hiding its most affecting and heartbreaking shows behind marketing that makes it look like just another dramedy. There’s no greater example than this British miniseries, which plays into the marketing’s false sense of security to tell a terrifying story of h
Inside LemFi’s play to be fintech to the Global South diaspora
<div><p>The African tech ecosystem, buffeted by huge potential but also lots of economic, political and social instabilities, is no stranger to major drama befalling even its most promising-looking startups. But recently, LemFi, the Nigeria-based fintech that provides money transfer services to African migrants, is shaping up as an example of a bounce-back—and growth story. After […]</p>
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Quantum Stretch: Unveiling the Future of Elastic Displays
Intrinsically stretchable quantum dot-based light-emitting diodes achieved record-breaking performance. A team of South Korean scientists led by Professor KIM Dae-Hyeong of the Center for Nanoparticle...
A humanoid robot is on its way from Mobileye founder
<div><p>Mentee Robotics hasn’t been in stealth, exactly. The Israeli firm caught a small wave of press at the tail end of 2022, following Tesla’s initial humanoid robotics announcement. As that was the year of the startup’s founding, it didn’t have much to show off at the time. Even so, the firm caught some headlines because […]</p>
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Luxury Airbnb High-Rises Are Reshaping Miami’s Skyline
<div>Airbnb is encouraging developers to build condo towers purposefully designed to be listed for short-term rentals. Units are selling fast in Miami and coming soon to other US cities.</div>
A rimless wheel robot that can reliably overcome steps
<div>Robots with wheels could potentially navigate a variety of indoor and outdoor environments, traveling for longer distances and with fewer risks of losing balance. While some wheeled robots have achieved very promising results in recent years, most of them are unable to reliably overcome steps (i.e., surfaces that are raised above ground level).</div>
Ryan Coogler's Mysterious Vampire Movie Could Beat Marvel to the Punch
— Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty ImagesNot all is well at Marvel Studios. The franchise is amid a “quiet retooling,” which has seen it scale back to (hopefully) address some of its most glaring issues. As a result, some of Marvel’s highly anticipated films have been pushed back a full year, with Blade — the franchise’s most troubled production — capping off a fresh slate in 2025. It’s nice to know that Marvel is finally taking the quality-over-quantity approach, but it’s als
How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
<div>Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to copyright a book she wrote with help from ChatGPT. Now the US Copyright Office has changed course—but there’s a catch.</div>
How Thermodynamics Unlocks the Secrets of an Expanding Universe
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Astrophysics-Universe-Expansion-Art-Illustration-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Astrophysics Universe Expansion Art Illustration" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async"><p>The shift from a decelerating expansion regime (in the radiation- and matter-dominated era) to an accelerating expansion regime (in the dark energy-dominated era) resembles a...</p></div>