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EU challenges Meta to a duel over targeted advertising
2022-12-07

When signing up for Facebook and Instagram, users are forced to agree to Meta’s privacy policy. This allows the company to deliver targeted adverts — but not for much longer. On Monday, EU privacy regulators ruled that users of Meta’s platforms should no longer have to accept these sort of adverts, sources from...

20+ Best Instagram Story Highlight Icons for Your Feed in 2022
2022-12-04

What's better than an Instagram story that goes viral? Using the best Instagram story highlight icons to connect even better with followers!

Adobe Black Friday & Cyber Monday Sale 2022 – Ultimate Guide
2022-12-04

Getting the best deals during the Adobe Black Friday sale can be a great way for designers to save! Find all the 2022 Adobe Black Friday sale details here!

How to analyze results from Google PageSpeed Insights
2022-12-02

As Google is going to give a ranking boost to websites that are fast you are probably keen to understand more about Google PageSpeed insights? …And I’m not surprised because it’s confusing! This article will help. Why is website page speed important? Google wants to provide the best possible user...

European startups are heaping praise on Matter’s ‘game-changing’ IoT standard
2022-11-22

Last month we shared the launch of Matter 1.0, a new smart home standard developed in collaboration within the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA). They’re developing a single open-source stack that enables developers to build compatible cross-platform devices. Imagine, for example, an Amazon device that...

2022 Black Friday + Cyber Monday Deals for Designers
2022-11-21

Save cash with these top best 2022 Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for graphic designers, creatives, artists, web designers, professionals & photographers!

Meta takes new AI system offline because Twitter users are mean
2022-11-19

When I got Meta’s new scientific AI system to generate well-written research papers on the benefits of committing suicide, practicing antisemitism, and eating crushed glass, I thought to myself: “this seems dangerous.” In fact, it seems like the kind of thing that the European Union’s AI Act was designed to...

Europe moves to protect WFH — as Musk does the reverse at Twitter
2022-11-04

Elon Musk is causing consternation among his new employees. According to Bloomberg News, Twitter’s new owner is set to cut around 3,700 jobs – about half the company’s workforce. Those who remain are also bracing for upheaval. Musk reportedly intends to scrap the platform’s work-from-anywhere policy and...

25+ Best Tattoo Fonts for Graphic Design & Tattoo Art (October Update)
2022-10-14

Tattoos have a long and storied history with beautiful art and designs. With our 25+ Best Tattoo Fonts for Designers, you can add a new tool to your skillset.

Searching for a job? It’s time to get your references lined up
2022-09-21

References: Didn’t they go out with the ark? These days we are far more inclined to think that all the power in job hunting lies in employee referral programmes or social media recommendations, and as a result, lots of job seekers forget about the power of a good reference. According to a Society for Human Resource...

AI stalks influencers in the wild to expose horrors of high-tech surveillance
2022-09-13

Influencers may crave attention by “occupation,” but a new AIexperiment shows they can’t always control their admirers’ gazes. Dubbed “The Follower,” the project tracks Instagrammers in the wild. In the process, it offers a glimpse at the terrifying capabilities of automated surveillance. The experiment is...

Do your social media posts impact your employability? Here’s what Jobbio has to say
2022-09-06

In the age of Google, we all naturally turn to the internet when we’re facing a challenge. For example, “How do you snake a drain?”, “What’s the best way to get over a hangover?”, or perhaps even, “How do I land my dream job?.” If you’re currently in the market for a new career, you’ve probably...

Forget chess, DeepMind’s training its new AI to play football
2022-09-02

Researchers from DeepMind, the UK’s juggernaut AI lab, have forsaken the noble games of chess and Go for a more plebeian delight: football. The Google sister company yesterday published a research paper and accompanying blog post detailing its new neural probabilistic motor primitives (NPMP) — a method by which...

How Traffic Temperature Can Affect Your Website Sales
2022-08-20

If you are using your website as a channel for sales, then most of your digital marketing game revolves around building traffic to your site. But…not all traffic has the same weight since each visitor to your website doesn’t have the same level of familiarity with your business. One important factor to website...

Can AI design better streets for pedestrians? You be the judge
2022-08-05

The USA’s “love affair with the automobile” hasn’t been kind to pedestrians. In 2020, more than 6,500 people were struck and killed while walking in the country. A new report by Smart Growth America lays most of the blame on roadways. “Our nation’s streets are dangerous by design, designed primarily to...

Stanford AI experts call BS on claims that Google’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient
2022-08-04

Two Stanford heavyweights have weighed in on the fiery AI sentience debate — and the duo is firmly in the “BS” corner. The wrangle recently rose to a crescendo over arguments about Google’s LaMDA system. Developer Blake Lemoine sparked the controversy. Lemoine, who worked for Google’s Responsible AI team,...

Meta turns to Reels and the metaverse to recover from its first ever revenue loss
2022-07-28

For the first time ever since going public in 2007, Meta (aka Facebook) reported a decline in quarterly revenue year over year. The company’s revenue was $28.82 billion — a 1% decrease from $29.07 billion in the second quarter of 2021. What’s worse, it forecasts that growth in the third quarter could fall even...

Study: Just how many remote workers are actually lonely?
2022-07-28

Human beings are inherently social creatures, having existed in close-knit hunter-gatherer groups for most of our 200,000-year history. Now we live in a world that is more connected than ever. 5 billion people have access to the internet. Revolutionary communication technologies like Facebook are free to use. These...

Twitter’s beef with Musk is hurting shareholders — and a court case won’t solve that
2022-07-27

Elon Musk’s recent highly public back and forth with Twitter has given the market whiplash. Twitter, while initially resisting the tycoon, went on to sign an agreement with him worth US$44 billion (£36.6 billion) in April 2022. The deal placed a 38% premium on Twitter’s then-share price. While the market would...

20+ Best Tablets for Graphic Design, Drawing & Art 2022 (July Update)
2022-07-25

Discover the best graphics tablets for drawing, art and design and how to choose a tablet that is right for you as an artist, graphic designer or illustrator.

How to use Facebook’s new Feeds tab to customize the posts you see
2022-07-22

Scrolling down Facebook’s home page is sometimes messy — you can’t find the post you saw before and you’re bombarded with often unrelated content. But, finally, things are changing. In a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the platform is introducing a feature that lets users customize and control...

Kylie Jenner’s flight controversy sends a warning to short-haul eVTOLs
2022-07-21

This week, the masses are up in arms with the news that entrepreneur, fashionista, and reality TV star Kylie Jenner uses her $70 million luxury private jet to take short-haul flights. But short-haul travel is far from an anomaly as we usher in an era of eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft) for...

15 Best Touchscreen Laptops for Graphic Design (July 2022)
2022-07-20

Having a touchscreen on your laptop can offer you new ways to be productive every day. Check out our list of the best touchscreen laptops for designers here.

10 Best XP-Pen Drawing Tablets for Graphic Designers, Artists & Illustrators
2022-07-20

XP-Pen is a celebrated maker of tablets and displays for graphic designers, artists & illustrators. See the 10 Best XP-Pen Tablets for Drawing, Art & Design!

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