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Record-breaking Super Mario Bros. speedrun approaches robotic perfection
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Niftski's new record perfectly matches a "perfect" TAS of the game (i.e., a "tool-assisted speedrun" that uses frame-by-frame input recordings using an emulator) through seven ...Kyle Orland
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
The case against Moz’s Domain Authority
Domain Authority (DA) is a search engine ranking score developed by Moz that supposedly predicts how well a website will rank on search engine result pages (SERPs). DA scores range from one to 100, wi...
Jeff Ferguson
Lotus is the latest to show off a high-powered electric sedan--the Emeya
NEW YORK--After languishing with a lack of serious investment for decades, Lotus Cars is now starting to show the results of its 2017 acquisition by Geely. After building a low-volume electric hyperca...
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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
"How am I in this war?" Book details Musk's doubts on Starlink in Ukrainevar abtest_1966184 = new ABTest(1966184, 'click');
Elon Musk ordered SpaceX engineers to temporarily disable Starlink in order to thwart a Ukrainian submarine drone attack on the Russian naval fleet last year, according to a report based on a new biog...
Jon Brodkin
4 tips to prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
[photo1]Did you know? In 2022, Black Friday online sales totaled over $9.12 billion, and Cyber Monday sales totaled over $11.3 billion.Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest shopping day...
Digital Drew SEM
How to Future-Proof Your Brand with SEO
How to Future-Proof Your Brand with SEO
The author&'s views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views ...Minnie Mururi
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
"We're not 'gatekeepers,'" Apple and Microsoft tell European Union
Apple and Microsoft have argued with Brussels that some of their services are insufficiently popular to be designated as "gatekeepers" under new landmark EU legislation designed to curb the power of B...
Javier Espinoza, Financial Times
August 18 Algo Update: The Cyclone Before The Storm
August 18 Algo Update: The Cyclone Before The Storm
Around August 18, just prior to the August Core Update announcement, MozCast recorded extremely high temperatur...Dr. Peter J. Meyers
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
Invitation sent: Apple will debut the iPhone 15 in September livestream
As previously rumored, Apple plans to reveal the next iteration of the iPhone and the Apple Watch on September 12 in a livestream. The company confirmed the date with invitations sent out to members o...
Samuel Axon
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
Google escapes Play Store class action after finding more persuasive expert
A US district judge has reversed course, revoking a 2022 class-action status order for 21 million Google Play Store customers who alleged that Google "artificially inflated" prices for Android apps th...
Ashley Belanger
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
FCC says "too bad" to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday rejected requests to eliminate an upcoming requirement that Internet service providers list all of their monthly fees.Five major trade groups representi...
Jon Brodkin
Thorny AI copyright questions have Copyright Office seeking public input
On Wednesday, the US Copyright Office began seeking public comment on issues surrounding generative AI systems and copyright. The public comment period, which starts on August 30, aims to explore the ...