TLDR: The Complete 2021 Growth Hacker Bundle offers entrepreneurs the playbook for a marketing strategy that can show big dividends fast, even with limited budgets. At first glance, itâs easy to dismiss growth hacking as really just another term for more traditional marketing efforts. Itâs all about reaching audiences and driving up sales, so in that respect, growth hacking is marketing. But once you scratch the surface, it doesnât take... Read more âș
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Following Zuckerbergâs promise that Facebook would show less political content in the future, the company has begun testing just that. In a blog post today, the company announced it would begin to âreduce the distribution of political content in News Feed for a small percentage of people in Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia this week,â with the US to follow âin the coming weeks.â The company says itâs using these first... Read more âș
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When Twitter said it had banned Trump, some wondered how permanent the move really was. After all, Twitter long used the justification of âpublic intestestâ when explaining why the president was allowed to remain on the platform after saying things that would get other users banned. Following the Capitol riot, and as Trump would no longer be president just a few days following the ban, the public interest excuse didnât... Read more âș
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And you shall know them by the pollution in their skies: A team of NASA-funded researchers may have developed a new method for sussing out intelligent extraterrestrial life. TL;DR: Itâs nitrogen-dioxide. Up front: Finding evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life in an infinite universe is, perhaps, the most monumental undertaking a scientist can endeavor to. In order to narrow the field down from trillions of stars, we need search filters. The... Read more âș
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Baidu is reportedly planning to launch a subsidiary AI chip firm, which could boost Chinaâs efforts to develop a domestic semiconductor industry. CNBC reports that the search giant is in talks with venture capital firms GGV and IDG Capital about investing in the venture. The company would sell chips to customers in various industries, including automakers, and could also support Baiduâs work on electric and autonomous vehicles. A source told... Read more âș
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This is adapted from Plugged In, TNWâs bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it here. There are plenty of bullshit sayings out there â they are the force that powers Facebookâs evil after all â but one of the worst is âdonât sweat the small stuff.â Yes, there are plenty of situations where this is true: if you spent all your time overanalyzing what the angry man at... Read more âș
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Scientists from the University of Barcelona have developed an AI app called Marlit that detects floating marine litter in aerial photos. The system could help clean up the 8 million tons of plastic trash that enter our oceans every year, harming marine species, human health, tourism, and the climate. The litter is typically assessed by direct observations from boats and planes. But the vast ocean areas and volumes of data... Read more âș
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India banned TikTok and 59 other Chinese apps last year. This gave birth to a bunch of other short video apps that have expanded rapidly and receive millions of hits every day. But thereâs something else that gained a ton of traffic after the TikTok ban: a picture of a flower on Wikimedia. This image picture received more than 75 million daily hits â almost 20% of Wikimediaâs requests for... Read more âș
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Iâm an absolute sucker for cute, but ultimately useless, bits of software. With this in mind, may I introduce you to Bird Folder, a delightful macOS extension that names new folders after birds. And, by god, Iâm in love. Once youâve got it installed (more on that in a bit), using Bird Folder is a breeze. I merely click on this bit of my toolbar⊠âŠand then a new folder... Read more âș
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This article was originally published by Steve Schaefer on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. Micromobility â including electric scooters â is the latest quick and clean way to get around urban areas. But one big problem is managing... Read more âș
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Last week, with the help of Will Ferrell and GM, America threw down the gauntlet to electric vehicle lovers Norway, and vowed to âcatch up.â It seems the US has already sorta kinda got the message, except itâs buying the wrong type of vehicle. According to figures from automotive market analyst Tyson Jominy at JD Power, the number of hybrid vehicles sold in the US is growing faster than the... Read more âș
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Indiaâs vernacular language social network ShareChat has partnered with Snap Inc. to spice up its short video app, Moj. ShareChat said that starting today, Moj users will be able to use 30 of Snapchatâs lenses. The company eventually aims to develop 400 lenses through this partnership over time. It is also tying up with some local Snapchat Official Lens Creators (OLCs), such as Hardik Shah of Superfan.ai and Vivek Singh.... Read more âș
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My editor Deb loves to ruin things. One time she used her Ph.D. in Italian to ruin an entire emoji. The emoji in question is a common Italian hand gesture that, roughly translated, means âwhat the hell?â This isnât how our team was using it. At some point, we collectively decided to use this emoji to mean âperfection.â From what I can gather, people thought it represented kissing your fingertips,... Read more âș
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Twitter said today that itâs taken action on more than 500 accounts in India, including permanently suspending some of them, based on government order. The social media company said that in the last 10 days, âseveral separate blocking orders by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).â The company acted on some temporarily and then restored the accounts on the basis of free speech. For context, earlier this month,... Read more âș
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In order to promote short videos created on its own platform, Instagram will stop recommending videos with logos of other apps, including TikTok. As noted by The Verge first, the company published a bunch of new guidelines for creators to get the best results possible on the platform. These tips, posted on Instagramâs creators account, suggested video-makers to use the vertical format, the appâs own sound library, and start a... Read more âș
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In case you didnât know, Microsoft Word has a dark mode. The problem is, a huge portion of your screen â mainly the big olâ page youâre writing on â remains white even after youâve enabled the feature. For reference, this is what âdarkâ mode currently looks like in Word: Youâve got a big chunk of white staring right at you. But as spotted by Paul Thurrott, Microsoft is currently... Read more âș
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Spotify has been able to show live lyrics during music playback for ages⊠unless you live in the US (and a few other unlucky regions). But fret no more, Americans with a penchant for impromptu karaoke: the service has begun testing the feature in the US with a limited number of users. A company spokesperson provided the following comment to Engadget when asked about the test: âWe can confirm weâre... Read more âș
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This article was originally published by Michael Coates on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. If youâve ever wondered where itâs easier to own an electric vehicle, a non-profit organization just published a chart that will give you the... Read more âș
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We donât know if Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) Sergeant Billy Fair practices Santeria (or owns a crystal ball), but we know he listens to the Sublime song of the same name. We know this because heâs become a viral sensation on Instagram after blasting the 1990âs hit at a citizen in a misguided attempt to get Instagramâs algorithm to take down a live stream due to copyright infringement. Ironically,... Read more âș
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An algorithm developed at the UT Southwestern medical center has estimated that there are almost three times as many COVID-19 infections in the US than the number of confirmed cases.  The model makes daily predictions of both total and current infections across the US and in the 50 countries worst affected by the virus. It calculated that more than 71 million people in the US had contracted COVID-19 by February... Read more âș
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