Google handles 92 percent of all web searches worldwide. Users search Google using the keyword they think will best help them find the desired result. So if you know the keyword that is sending Google results to certain pages…well, that’s the whole ballgame, isn’t it? That straight line sequence of events goes a long way toward explaining exactly why some sites earn monumental web traffic and others get virtually nothing....

Task management tools all have one ultimate goal: to help users get more done more efficiently. Of course, the irony is that many task management tools actually end up being counterproductive. Laden with so many various controls, modes and formats, a clean, simple message can get hopelessly lost for many team members in a sea of decks, platforms and cross-purposes. Task Pigeon takes the path toward increasing productivity by staying as straight-forward as possible....

That kinda makes even your bulky, boxy PC tower seem positively svelte, doesn’t it? However, time still marches forward — and even now, your desktop computer casing is ceding ground itself to better, more size-efficient options…like computers no bigger than a portable hard drive. The Fusion C Mini PC fits comfortably in a backpack or purse, but plug it in to a monitor and you’ve got a powerhouse piece of engineering, capable of handling just about everything your desktop model can do....

The note has since been elevated to the kingdom of memes, and thanks to this new font generator — you can keep on meme’ing. The tool practically lets you type anything in Trump’s own handwriting. It’s also stylized after the same Aboard Air Force One notepad Trump uses. Once you’re done typing, you can download the image and post it wherever you want. If that’s not your thing, you might be interested in downloading the font itself, so you can make your own format with it....

But at least TikTok seems to be trying to offer some kind of “protection” to its users by tagging Autopilot videos with the following statement: Check it out in the tweet bellow. — Keubiko (@Keubiko) May 26, 2021 This seems to be a small improvement compared to the prior complete lack of such tags, but it nevertheless contradicts TikTok’s safety statements. Credit: TikTok As is clearly stated, TikTok doesn’t permit content that can encourage users to participate in dangerous and potentially harmful or fatal activities....

But thanks to recent advances companies are turning to TinyML as the latest trend in building product intelligence. Arduino, the company best known for open-source hardware is making TinyML available for millions of developers, and now together with Edge Impulse, they are turning the ubiquitous Arduino board into a powerful embedded ML platform, like the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense and other 32-bit boards. With this partnership you can run powerful learning models based on artificial neural networks (ANN) reaching and sampling tiny sensors along with low powered microcontrollers....

As protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement continue around the United States, Gmail is treating emails from advocacy and political groups referring to racial justice issues like marketing emails. The Markup analyzed hundreds of emails sent to a test Gmail account from more than 200 candidates and organizations from across the political spectrum from whom we’d signed up to receive communications. Of the emails referring to racial justice received since George Floyd was killed in May, Gmail sent seven in 10 to the less-visible “promotions” tab, which the company says is for “deals, offers, and other marketing emails....

Notable truck investments in 2021 You couldn’t move in 2021 for news of truck investments. Well, they’re so many that we’re gonna focus on the most notable: March Trucking app company Fluid Truck raised $63 million in Series A. June Fleet management developers KeepTruckin raised $200 million in Series E. August Autonomous trucking company Gatik raised $85 million in Series B. November Rivian raised a massive $11.9 billion in its initial public offering (IPO)....

Companies spend millions, sometimes billions to build branding messages they think will help their products and services succeed. So, if brand building is a premiere method used across the marketing universe, it isn’t too great a leap to expect to see the benefits of some well planned personal branding on you and your career. The courses in the Personal Branding Bootcamp Bundle ($19, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals) will give you the tools to help your voice and persona stand out from the crowd as well as promote your best qualities for some much-needed career — and salary — advancement....

In a court document published yesterday, California representatives allege that Uber and Lyft made “calculated business decisions,” to misclassify their gig-working drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. The plaintiffs allege this has led to the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of Californian workers. Given that Uber and Lyft’s services are available worldwide, it’s almost a given that the company will operate under the same pretense in other regions. [Read: Survey: 39% of people won’t use ride-sharing services post coronavirus] By classifying their drivers in such a way, Uber and Lyft are able to wash their hands of many responsibilities as an employer....

Just as a side note, Ubisoft’s virtual conference comes at a particularly difficult time for the company, as several incidents of sexual misconduct, harassment, and racism have come to light. CEO Yves Guillemot issued a statement before the show started acknowledging the issues, and pledging to do better, as is usual for these sorts of things. While it doesn’t really have a bearing on the game reveals, it’s important to acknowledge that the company doing the revealing is rather… problematic....

The United Kingdom’s Royal Mail is set to trial an electric delivery vehicle based on the London Electric Vehicle Company’s (LEVC) electric black cabs. In an announcement made earlier today, the postal service said that it will test one of the vehicles in urban locations including: Birmingham, Derby, Leeds, Edinburgh, and Bristol. Hockley, in the Birmingham suburbs will be the first to see the electric van as trials begin later this week....

UK supermarket Co-op has expanded its use of Starship Technologies’ autonomous home delivery robots to the town of Northampton. More deployments are expected in additional towns and cities soon. Northampton is the Co-op’s second Starship robot delivery location after Milton Keynes, where the service launched in 2018 and is available from eight stores. The retailer plans to use up to 300 of Starship’s robots in the UK by the end of 2021....

Security researchers at ESET have uncovered a Monero cryptocurrency mining bot called LoudMiner. Hackers have been distributing it since August 2018, but in the past month has begun to surface in pirated versions of VST (Visual Studio Technology). Indeed, hiding malware in pirated software is nothing new. One always dances with the devil when downloading bootleg programs, but LoudMiner is unique in that it’s cross-platform, affecting both MacOS and Windows users....

The new rules will force foreign semiconductor manufacturers that use US technology to get a license from American officials before shipping products to Huawei. That’ll be a big blow to the Chinese tech giant, which needs semiconductors produced overseas for its smartphones and telecoms equipment. The US commerce department said the restrictions were a response to Huawei and its semiconductor subsidiary HiSilicon skirting export controls introduced last year. [Read: Trump extends the Huawei ban to 2021] “This is not how a responsible global corporate citizen behaves,” said Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in a statement on Friday....

The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — a division of the Homeland Security department instituted by president Donald Trump in November last year — fears the databases could be at the receiving end of a ransomware attack. To that effect, it aims to launch a program for election officials in about a month to offer support for remote computer penetration testing and vulnerability scans. “Intelligence officials are concerned that foreign hackers in 2020 not only will target the databases but attempt to manipulate, disrupt or destroy the data,” Reuters reported, quoting current and former U....

Of the three devices, the iPhone 11 is the entry-level model — and probably the most suitable for the majority of people. Helpfully, we’ve put together a video that guides you through the new features of the iPhone 11 and its major selling points. You can watch that at the top of the page. But don’t want to use your eyes to stare at moving images? Just want some good old fashioned text?...

The paper’s called “Co-evolutionary hybrid intelligence,” and it’s a work of art that belongs in a museum. But, since it’s state-sponsored research from Russia that was uploaded to a pre-print server, we’ll just talk about it here. The research is only four pages long, but the team manages to pack a lot in that space. They don’t beat around the bush. You want to know how to solve AGI? Boom!...

But if you’ve ever been at a dinner table with these people, you also know how much they rant about the weaknesses of Python. From being slow to requiring excessive testing, to producing runtime errors despite prior testing — there’s enough to be pissed off about. Which is why more and more programmers are adopting other languages — the top players being Julia, Go, and Rust. Julia is great for mathematical and technical tasks, while Go is awesome for modular programs, and Rust is the top choice for systems programming....

While EV batteries and charging infrastructure are improving, the reality is that it still takes many hours to fully charge the average electric car. But that seems to be changing. Last month, news surfaced that a battery tech company had managed to achieve the seemingly impossible: develop an EV battery that can fully charge in five minutes. Naturally, my attention was grabbed, it sounds too good to be true. I had to look deeper....