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Google has warned websites they will be penalized for hosting marketing content designed to exploit search rankings, regardless of whether they created or outsourced the material. The crackdown on so-called "parasite SEO" targets websites that leverage their search rankings to promote unrelated content, such as news sites hiding shopping coupon codes or educational platforms publishing affiliate marketing material.
Chris Nelson from Google's search quality team said the policy applies even when content in
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Barry Silbert will be the CEO of Yuma, a new DCG company focused on incubating and building new businesses within Bittensor’s decentralized AI ecosystem. Read more ›
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SCB 10X, SCBX Group’s innovation arm, has partnered with SCB, Innovest X, Fireblocks, Elliptic, Circle, and Base to introduce Rubie Wallet, a new digital wallet that brings purpose-bound money (PBM) to life. Users of the wallet can make a secure QR payment using regulated USD Stablecoin and Thai Baht Stablecoin (THBX). Rubie Wallet will be... Read more » Read more ›
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Image: The Verge Microsoft is starting to open up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries today. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can now stream 50 games that they already own, including Balatro, Baldur’s Gate 3, a variety of Final Fantasy titles, and Hogwarts Legacy. The expansion to 50 more games is just the beginning of opening up the Xbox game library to cloud streaming. “Our library of cloud-playable... Read more ›
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Photo by Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Images Ford said it would cut 4,000 jobs from its business in Europe, while also lowering production estimates for its upcoming Explorer and Capri electric vehicles. The planned cuts, which amount to 14 percent of the automaker’s European operations, will primarily affect its workers in Germany and the UK, with “minimal reductions” coming from other European markets. The news comes as EVs continue... Read more ›
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I've stayed in enough vacation rentals to know how to spot red flags in any listing. Here's how I check photos and reviews to avoid bad stays. Read more ›
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Microsoft has announced a long-anticipated feature for Xbox Cloud Gaming. Starting today, you'll be able to stream select games that you own on TVs and Meta Quest VR headsets, as well as supported browsers on phones, tablets and PCs in every country where Xbox Cloud Gaming is available. Microsoft plans to expand the feature to Xbox consoles and the Windows Xbox app next year. You'll still need to be an... Read more ›
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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts doesn't want his cable TV networks like CNBC, MSNBC, and USA anymore. It's essentially a garage sale as people cut the cord. Read more ›
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On December 3, WIRED will be sitting down with some of the biggest names in technology, business, science, and beyond for a full day packed with in-depth conversations. Read more ›
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Staff members who worked on Unknown 9: Awakening report layoffs across the team at Canadian outfit Reflector Entertainment. Read more Read more ›
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Fast-charge your iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch with one compact, travel-friendly charger and save over 50%. Read more ›
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Xbox is making good on a long-standing promise to let Game Pass Ultimate users stream games that are already in their libraries. Read more ›
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Apple today announced that Shazam has surpassed over 100 billion song recognitions since it launched. Apple acquired Shazam in 2018, and it now powers the Music Recognition feature built into iOS and macOS.This article, "Apple Announces Shazam Has Identified More Than 100 Billion Songs" first appeared on MacRumors.com Read more ›
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But the PlayStation Portal won’t stream any PS4 or PS3 games, nor any PS5 game you bought from the PlayStation Store. Read more ›
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Younger people are struggling to become homeowners partly because older generations are not selling, star researcher Meredith Whitney said. Read more ›
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I first studied law in Mexico, where students were more open to making friends. I then moved to the US and enrolled at the costly Columbia. Read more ›
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Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every cell type in the body to better understand human health and diagnose and treat disease. From a report: The work is part of the ongoing Human Cell Atlas project that was begun in 2016 and involves researchers around the world. The human body comprises roughly... Read more ›
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Joanna Smith-Griffin allegedly inflated the revenues of her school chatbot company to secure investments. Read more ›
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Black Friday is usually a good time to restock on video games and gaming gear at a discount, and this year should be no exception. If you’re looking to pad out your backlog, pick up a new console or refresh your desktop with new peripherals, we’re rounding up the Black Friday gaming deals that are most worth your attention below. To be candid, the selection as of Wednesday morning is... Read more ›
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Elon Musk's new cost-cutting agency has reportedly discussed developing a mobile app to let Americans file their taxes for free. Read more ›
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Bluesky, the social network surging in popularity, says it has "no intention" of training AI tools on users content. "The social network made the announcement on the same day that X (formerly Twitter) is implementing its new terms of service that allow the platform to use public posts to train AI," notes TechCrunch. From the report: "A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we... Read more ›
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AMD has announced plans to cut 4% of its global workforce as it repositions to compete in the AI chip market dominated by Nvidia. The layoffs will affect approximately 1,040 employees of its 26,000-strong workforce reported at the end of 2023. CNBC adds: AMD produces powerful AI accelerators for data centers, including the MI300X, which companies such as Meta and Microsoft purchase as an alternative to Nvidia-based systems. But Nvidia... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader DaPhil writes: I taught myself to code at 12 years old in the 90s and I've always liked the back-and-forth with the runtime to achieve the right result. I recently got back from other roles to code again, and when starting a new project last year, I decided to give the new "AI assistants" a go. My initial surprise at the quality and the speed you can... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: After dragging its feet for years, Microsoft has finally released the first official Windows 11 ISOs for PCs with an Arm64 processor. This means users can now clean install Windows 11 using official offline media on an Arm64-based PC, including the latest Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs. The ISOs contain version 24H2 can be downloaded from the official Microsoft website, and are around 5GB in... Read more ›
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Apple has stopped selling its Lightning-to-3.5mm headphone jack adapter in the U.S. and most countries, with limited stock remaining only in select European markets. The $9 accessory, introduced with iPhone 7 in 2016 (after the "courageous" move to stop including the headphone jack in iPhones), allowed users to connect traditional headphones to Lightning port iPhones. The discontinuation comes as Apple transitions to USB-C ports across its iPhone lineup. Read more... Read more ›
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British telecom Virgin Media O2 has deployed an AI tool to combat phone scammers by wasting their time with fake conversations, the company said. The AI system, named Daisy, uses voice synthesis to mimic an elderly woman and engages fraudsters in lengthy discussions about fictitious family members or provides false bank details, keeping them occupied for up to 40 minutes per call. Virgin Media O2 embedded phone numbers connected to... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Blizzard Entertainment first released World of Warcraft in November 2004, so The New York Times celebrated the anniversary by outlining the many ways we can still see the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game's influence's 20 years later. For one thing, while multiplayer games and early social networks such as MySpace already existed, WoW provided a real preview of a future where everyone would connect... Read more ›
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China's Chang'e-6 mission made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the moon's far side, revealing evidence of volcanic activity spanning 1.4 billion years. Reuters reports: Researchers said on Friday the soil brought back from the Chang'e-6 landing site contained fragments of volcanic rock - basalt - dating to 4.2 billion years ago and to 2.8 billion years ago. This points to a long period of volcanic activity -... Read more ›
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An academic journal has retracted two papers because it determined their authors used unlicensed software. The Register: Elsevier's Ain Shams Engineering Journal withdrew two papers exploring dam failures after complaints from Flow Science, the Santa Fe, New Mexico-based maker of a computational fluid dynamics application called FLOW-3D. "Following an editorial investigation as a result of a complaint from the software distributor, the authors admitted that the use of professional software,... Read more ›
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"Amazon is making it harder for disabled employees to get permission to work from home," reports Bloomberg, a move they say shows Amazon's "determination" to enforce a five-days-a-week return to the office. The company recently told employees with disabilities that it was implementing a more rigorous vetting process, both for new requests to work from home and applications to extend existing arrangements. Affected workers must submit to a "multilevel leader... Read more ›
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