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The Humane Ai Pin, which offers a screen-free voice-assisted experience that feels personal and convenient, has intriguing potential. However, its design presents challenges - especially its magnetic Battery Booster, which makes it uncomfortable and bulky.
Google reverted from continuous scrolling to pagination for Search on desktop on June 25. Mobile will also change in the coming months. This change, which aims to improve user experience, will result in faster search results. However, it might negatively impact the visibility and click-through rates of results on later pages.
Refero 3.0 helps you find inspiration faster by accessing over 66,000 web and iOS designs.
Quickly convert Figma designs into React, Tailwind, HTML, and CSS code.
Canva transformed design by making it accessible to everyone, but this led to a uniform "Canva aesthetic" dominating visual content. While it's a boon for those needing quick, easy designs, the reliance on templates results in a lack of originality. This raises questions about the impact on creativity and unique visual identities in the long run.
Linear recently launched a new homepage to highlight its product. The process involved extensive iteration, feedback, and adjustment of visual elements like materials, lighting, and depth to achieve a cohesive and polished look that fits with the overall aesthetic of the page.
Video editing app Captions has launched an AI-powered feature that adds custom graphics, zooms, music, and more to vertical videos with one person in the frame, aiming to simplify video creation. The app offers 12 AI characters and plans to add more weekly. There is concern that mass content production could impact creators' discoverability.
Connor Daly's "Courts" series captures the surreal interiors of UK tennis courts, transforming them into abstract, otherworldly spaces.
"All My Friends Reprise: Looking For Owls" is a psychedelic children's book inspired by Phish that blends vibrant illustrations with detailed band lore for a unique reading experience.
The German Airforce Orchestra logo combines a treble clef with jet contrails, blending music and aviation.
Notion has introduced Notion Sites, turning its one-click "Publish" button into a comprehensive suite of website-building features. It allows users and brands to create various types of websites, such as company homepages, job boards, and help centers, with options to connect custom domains or use Notion's URLs. Users can improve site visibility with SEO tools and Google Analytics integration. There is a Plus plan that allows for the customization of headers, themes, and favicons. Upcoming features include charts for visualizing data.
Key trends from Cannes Lions include embracing RMNs for data and attribution capabilities and scaling audience reach via partnerships on platforms like CTV. Publishers are prioritizing deeper funnel engagements and urging marketers to focus on purchase completion metrics. Sustainability, guided by the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, is prompting the adoption of eco-friendly practices. Cultural convergence, seen in installations like Stagwell's "Sport Beach," suggests leveraging sports fandom for audience engagement.
Marketers can employ the "Low Intent Match" method to identify search queries with unmet needs. This involves focusing on search intent where existing top content falls short, such as broad guides ranking for specific tools queries. By creating targeted content like "49 Best Voice of Customer Tools," they can better fulfill the exact need. The process includes deep manual keyword research, clustering keywords by SERP similarity, and analyzing groups for intent mismatches. This strategy can help content to rank quickly and draw significant traffic, even outranking major competitors.
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Distribute.so is a platform that streamlines all your GTM playbooks. It allows you to build fully customizable content pages, mini-websites, and lead magnets via a drag-and-drop editor. Dozens of page templates are available. The tool has 30+ integrations including ConvertKit, beehiiv, and HubSpot.
TikTok Shop launched the SOAR Together program to empower SMBs, entrepreneurs, and creators. The initiative aims to provide tailored support, resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to help SMBs thrive on TikTok Shop. The first 2 programs under the initiative focus on supporting women-owned and LGBTQIA+ businesses.
In this interview, ClickUp's COO shares how a hybrid approach of PLG and sales-assist can lead to improved growth metrics and a 50% reduction in CAC payback. ClickUp aligns its teams across growth, product, sales, and customer experience, and segments the business into self-serve and sales-assisted. To make it work, it combines data from product activity, account details, and marketing signals to inform its sales strategy. The interview also covers details on other key pillars behind its strategy and its journey to successful growth.
The Labor Illusion explains why people may value something more when they think it takes a lot of effort. For example, a study found that homebuyers rated apartments 36% better if they'd been told a real estate agent had spent 9 hours researching, compared to a group told that their agent spent 1 hour. Brands can use this psychological principle by telling prospects in ads how much work went into the product, showing the thought process behind outcomes in product descriptions, or copying the scarcity and exclusivity in Hermes' buying process.
Scott Kolb, co-founder of Longitude Ads, discusses the importance of setting effective price floors in programmatic advertising to maximize ad revenue. He explains the need for adaptive flooring strategies that are tightly integrated with a publisher's wrapper to dynamically adjust floor prices based on real-time bidder behavior. Standalone flooring tools often fail to account for all variables during user sessions, leading to inefficiencies. Kolb provides examples of significant revenue increases when adaptive flooring strategies are correctly implemented, such as a sports media website experiencing a 76% RPM lift during March Madness.
The future of B2B copywriting isn't about writing copy – it's about helping brands uncover and create genuine thought leadership for their industry.
A free virtual event on August 7th that covers how to identify your ideal ICP, craft your messaging, design your homepage, and build a personalized demo.
The IOC launched "Sport. And More than Sport" to engage younger audiences ahead of the Paris 2024 Games.
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To ship better software, API producers and consumers need to be able to share, discover, and reuse high-quality API assets.
Cache memory is a temporary storage located on the processor that increases CPU efficiency by holding frequently accessed data. The CPU cache is organized in levels (L1, L2, L3, etc.) with varying speeds and sizes, with L1 being the fastest and smallest. Cache placement policies determine where data is stored in the cache. Direct mapping is one of the simplest approaches. Programmers can write cache-friendly code by optimizing data locality, avoiding complex loops, and using appropriate struct alignment and compiler flags.
JavaScript's many methods of representing unknown values, including null, undefined (as missing or value), falsy values, ReferenceError, empty slots in arrays, -1, and TypeScript's void, causes confusion and defects.
Search engine dorking is a technique that uses crafted queries to find specific types of sensitive information on the internet, such as leaked documents or API keys. Another way to discover sensitive data is through GitHub dorking, which searches for accidentally committed credentials or API keys in public repositories. Tools like PublicWWW can be used to search for API keys and other sensitive information on live websites, while tools like S3Scanner help find misconfigured cloud storage buckets that expose private data.
Documentation-driven development (DDD) involves writing documentation before coding, which can help clarify project scope and API design. DDD can take many forms, such as design mockups, API reference docs, tickets, or even tests. It is not a "write once and done" process but rather an iterative cycle of refining both code and documentation. DDD can help identify potential issues in the design phase, saving time and resources in the long run.
The plan-execute pattern is a design pattern used to separate the planning phase (decision-making) from the execution phase (actions) when developing software. It helps in testing the decision-making part and debugging by allowing inspection of the plan data structure. This pattern is commonly used in various areas, such as query planning in relational databases and interpreters. The execution phase can be further split into a state machine and a driver loop to handle uncertainties.
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Which % of organizations surveyed are using Agile? If you guessed anything other than 94%, you'd be wrong. Take the one-minute Agile quiz [16] to see what other insights you can uncover! The quiz is
Vercel v0 is a tool that uses AI to generate and iterate upon frontend components quickly. It now supports themes. Developers can now create custom themes from prompts, modify individual design tokens, and switch between different themes for their generations.
NodeSwift is a bridge between Node.js and Swift code. It makes it possible to write Swift code that talks to Node.js libraries, and vice versa. This means developers can use native macOS APIs from an Electron app, npm APIs from a Swift app, and more.
OpenStatus is an open-source performance monitoring platform. It supports synthetic monitoring, which monitors websites and APIs worldwide and sends notifications when they are down or slow. It also supports user monitoring, which uses Core Web Vitals metrics to show how users are experiencing your website.
Figma AI is a new suite of AI-powered tools for Figma that helps designers with tasks such as visual search, asset search, text editing, image editing, prototyping, layer renaming, and design generation. These features are powered by third-party AI models and are free to use during the beta period.
Both WrenAI and Pinterest share their Text-to-SQL solutions and how they built them. WrenAI and Pinterest both innovate in Text-to-SQL with indexing and retrieval phases, though WrenAI distinguishes itself through a semantic engine and robust user interaction features, while Pinterest focuses on metadata-driven approaches and table summarization. WrenAI has semantic modeling and user feedback integration in its roadmap.
A website showing one million realtime checkboxes, where checking a box checks it for everyone else on the page.
Cloudflare released a tool to automatically replace potentially malicious polyfill.io links with its own secure mirror to protect websites.
Node.js continues to be widely adopted with frequent updates and support, such as the addition of ECMAScript Modules, worker threads, and the Fetch API.
This article discusses 10 best practices to improve Spring Boot performance, such as optimizing the JVM, utilizing virtual threads, Spring AOT, class data sharing, configuring threads, caching, and using resiliency patterns.
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If you missed out on Tesla gains, here's your chance to invest in “the Next Big Thing”, micro-EVs, a whopping $470B market. That's just one of many reasons why 3700+ investors have invested in Eli
Eli is rethinking urban transportation with their compact and affordable EVs. Their flagship vehicle, Eli ZERO, is “the Tesla of micro-EVs [4]”: 70% smaller than sedans, 2x as energy efficient as regular EVs, and a third of the cost of a car, with advanced automotive technology.
Continuous scrolling on Google search results, which was originally introduced in October 2021, has been removed from desktop search results and will be removed from mobile results in the coming months. It has been replaced with Google's classic pagination bar, which allows users to jump to a specific page of search results or simply click 'Next' to see the next page. A 'More results' button will be shown at the bottom of searches on mobile. The change will allow Google to serve search results faster.
EU regulators have charged Microsoft with breaking antitrust rules by bundling its Teams video conferencing software with a suite of other productivity tools, giving it an unfair advantage over rivals. Businesses essentially had little choice but to use Teams if they wanted other software made by Microsoft. Competitors also faced challenges in making their services work with other Microsoft software. Microsoft says it has already taken steps to resolve the dispute, having unbundled Teams from other Office products last year.
Researchers claim to have developed a method of running AI models more efficiently that involves eliminating matrix multiplication from the process. A fundamental redesign of the neural network operations that are currently accelerated by GPU chips, the method could have deep implications for the environmental impact and operational costs of AI systems. It challenges the prevailing paradigm that matrix multiplication operations are indispensable for building high-performing language models. The approach may outperform traditional large language models at very large scales, but this has not been tested due to computational constraints.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have created a biofriendly material made from barley starch blended with fiber from sugarbeet waste. The material is strong and can completely decompose within only two months if left in nature. It can be used for food packaging, among many other things. The material can be easily made in many places in the world. The researchers are now processing a patent application for the biocomposite material.
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Electric cars are the future - and they run on lithium batteries. With global demand about to far outstrip supply [10], analysts predict this mineral will soar in value. GM-backed EnergyX has patented technology [10] that extracts lithium 300% more efficiently. Their eagerly-awaited open-to-the-public investment round [10] is now live for a limited time.
dotenvx is a better dotenv, a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. It works the same across every language, framework, and platform. dotenvx features encrypted envs, variable expansion, multi-line values, contextual help, command substitution, and more.