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Affiliate Marketing Contributing to Inferior Search Results: Study

Complaints by users of the declining quality of search engine results contain a seed of truth, according to a recent study released by a group of academic researchers. The researchers from Leipzig University, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and ScaDS.AI — all in Germany — concluded that “all search engines have significant problems with highly-optimized (affiliate) content.” In their paper titled “Is Google …

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Faulty machine translations litter the web

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Near the end of the last century, Bill Gates saw the prospect of unifying citizens of nearly 200 countries, speaking more than 7,000 languages, coming together in common dialogue through the suddenly burgeoning web community. “The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow,” he declared. The Internet certainly has since drawn …

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OpenAI bans bot impersonating US presidential candidate

2 Credit: CC0 Public Domain ChatGPT creator OpenAI removed a bot impersonating a longshot US presidential candidate’s voice, enforcing limits on how political campaigns can use its AI capabilities. A political group supporting US Congressman Dean Phillips had asked a Miami-based startup to create a chatbot that would allow users to engage in a Q and A with the little-known …

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10 Products From CES 2024 That Set the Bar for Innovation

I’m still digging through the massive number of announcements from CES earlier this month, and I found 10 products that set the bar for innovation. These are products that I’ve considered buying because they are cool or address a problem that I find compelling. I’ll close with my Product of the Week: an app and emergency preparedness kit from Perci …

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SevaCare Blood Pressure Arm Cuff Monitor

The SevaCare Blood Pressure Arm Cuff Monitor by Monoprice provides more than what you might expect with a typical home health care product. Its price makes keeping regular tabs on your heart health affordable and efficient. You might have a smartwatch that checks your blood pressure and pulse rate. Maybe you prefer a pocket-portable wrist blood pressure (BP) monitor instead …

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Mathematicians compare machine learning models for forecasting 5G and 6G traffic

32 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain 5G and 6G networks must take into account the load and adapt resource consumption at every moment. To do this, they need to track current indicators and be able to predict them. This is how services will make decisions about dividing the network into slices and balancing the load. Typically, machine learning models are used …

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Data brokers know everything about you—what the FTC case against ad tech giant Kochava reveals

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Kochava, the self-proclaimed industry leader in mobile app data analytics, is locked in a legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission in a case that could lead to big changes in the global data marketplace and in Congress’ approach to artificial intelligence and data privacy. The stakes are high because Kochava’s secretive data acquisition and AI-aided …

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Canada should not fall behind on implementing safety measures for children online, says researcher

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Recent legislation about age verification for adult content sites has sparked an interesting scenario in the Canadian parliament. On Dec. 13, Bill S-210, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to sexually explicit material, passed the second reading in the House of Commons with a vote of 189 to 133. Surprisingly, most Liberal MPs voted …

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OpenAI to launch anti-disinformation tools for 2024 elections

19 OpenAI’s ChatGPT is one of the most powerful generative AI tools available to the public. ChatGPT maker OpenAI has said it will introduce tools to combat disinformation ahead of the dozens of elections this year in countries that are home to half the world’s population. The explosive success of text generator ChatGPT spurred a global artificial intelligence revolution but …

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Microsoft expands Office AI Copilot to consumers, smaller companies

17 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft Corp. is opening up its artificial intelligence assistant to consumers and making the corporate version available to smaller companies as it tries to increase the number of paying customers for the new services. Microsoft is selling a $20-a-month consumer version of Copilot, with access to OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT technology and image-creation features, the Redmond, …

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