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The Marshall Star for September 18, 2024
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:21:13 +0000
Marshall Welcomes NASA Chief Scientist for Climate, Science Town Hall NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Kate Calvin, center left, joins team members at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center for a Climate and Science Town Hall on Sept. 17 in Activities Building 4316. Calvin took part in a question-and-answer session during her visit […]
Match ID: 0 Score: 30.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change, 15.00 carbon

Project 2025 Would Drastically Cut Support for Carbon Removal
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The Heritage Foundation’s plan for a potential Trump second term has little time for schemes to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Match ID: 1 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change, 15.00 carbon

‘Vast’ carbon sink of mud on seabed needs more protection, study shows
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:08 GMT

Landmark research finds 244m tonnes of organic carbon is stored in top 10cm of marine sediment in British waters

Seabed habitats could capture almost three times more carbon than forests in the UK every year if left undisturbed, according to a report published on Thursday.

Researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (Sams) have calculated that 244m tonnes of organic carbon is stored in the top 10cm of UK seabed habitats. That includes seagrass meadows, salt marshes, kelp and mussel beds but most (98%) is stored in seabed sediments such as mud and silt.

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The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0000
A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI.
Match ID: 3 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change

Family of Black man found dead with rope around neck demand answers
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:45:44 GMT

Body of Javion Magee, 21, discovered under tree in North Carolina last week as authorities say no sign of foul play

The family of a Black man found dead in North Carolina with a rope around his neck under a tree are demanding answers and transparency from authorities, who say there were no signs of foul play.

The Vance county sheriff’s office, meanwhile, issued a statement on Wednesday saying an examination by the North Carolina chief medical examiner’s office has determined that there were no defensive wounds or signs of physical or sexual assault. Full autopsy results, including a determination on cause of death and toxicology, were still pending.

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NASA Shares Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Remarks
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:48:38 +0000
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as prepared for Wednesday’s Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards recognized the women who contributed to the space race, including the NASA mathematicians who helped land the first astronauts on the Moon under the agency’s Apollo Program. “Good afternoon. “The remarkable things that NASA […]
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Top UK food firms urged to do more to cut ‘staggering’ emissions
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:20:09 GMT

Food campaign Bite Back says 10 firms account for more carbon emissions globally than aviation industry

Britain’s biggest food and drink firms are doing too little to tackle the climate emergency and are producing “staggering” amounts of greenhouse gases, campaigners claim.

The 10 companies that manufacture more of the UK’s food than anyone else produce more carbon emissions between them than even the aviation industry, a report says.

Three of the firms increased their annual emissions in 2022 – Ferrero, Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo.

Seven are on course to miss meeting emissions targets they have set themselves to achieve by 2050.

Only four have a verifiable commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050 – Danone, Mars, Mondelēz and Nestlé.

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NASA, US Department of Education to Launch STEM Project in Washington
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:15:07 +0000
Media are invited to the kickoff event of a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department of Education at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, at the Wheatley Education Campus in Washington. The interagency project, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, aims to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education during after-school hours. […]
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The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:45:00 +0000

An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.

The post The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk appeared first on The Intercept.

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Rob Gutro: Clear Science in the Forecast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:09 +0000
Rob Gutro has never been one to stay idle. From his start working at a paper factory as a teenager, Rob navigated his way to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where he serves as the deputy news chief in the Office of Communications until he retires in October 2024. In this role, Rob manages all […]
Match ID: 9 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change

NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however […]
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NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson’s Scientific Mission aboard Space Station
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is returning home after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. While on orbit, Dyson conducted an array of experiments and technology demonstrations that contribute to advancements for humanity on Earth and the agency’s trajectory to the Moon and Mars.  Here is a look at some of the science […]
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Reinventing the Clock: NASA’s New Tech for Space Timekeeping
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for example, relies on precise timing signals from satellites to pinpoint locations. Three teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are at work to push timekeeping for space exploration to new levels of precision.
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Climate change is turbo-charging Somalia’s problems - but there's still hope
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:05:01 GMT
Despite facing a catastrophic combination of challenges, there is optimism in the African country.
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qualifiers: 15.00 climate change

Climate a more fundamental threat than terror - Lammy
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:06:38 GMT
Foreign Secretary David Lammy vows to put climate change at the heart of the UK's foreign policy.
Match ID: 14 Score: 15.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 1 day
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11 Best Organic Mattresses, Toppers, Bedding (2024): Nontoxic and Natural
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:03:00 +0000
These nontoxic beds and bedsheets are easier on the environment and your health—and they feel like a dream.
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65 Years Ago: First Powered Flight of the X-15 Hypersonic Rocket Plane
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
The X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, built by North American Aviation (NAA), greatly expanded our knowledge of flight at speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes above 250,000 feet. A joint project among NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy, the X-15’s first powered flight took place on Sept. 17, 1959, at the Flight Research […]
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NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing Hybrid-Electric Airliners with HyTEC
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, part-gas-powered engine may find its way into the skies propelling a future jet airliner. NASA is working in tandem with industry partner GE Aerospace on designing and building just such an engine, one that burns […]
Match ID: 17 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 1 day
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Lo-Fi Weather Channel Videos Are Soothing Climate Fears on YouTube
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Hours-long videos of ’80s and ’90s Weather Channel broadcasts set to vaporwave tunes are all over YouTube. They’re perfect for those moments you want to remember a time when weather was a little less scary.
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Burning Man Is Over, but Regional Burns Keep the Party Going Year-Round
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:01:00 +0000
If you’re not ready to say goodbye to Burning Man’s vibes—or if you’re looking for “Burning Man Light”—you can attend one of many regional burns around the world.
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qualifiers: 15.00 climate change

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
2024-09-17T00:00:00Z
Is "net zero" better than "carbon neutral"? New rules related to climate risk disclosure are raising the stakes for executives trying to set meaningful decarbonization goals. Michael Toffel demystifies the terms and nuances of climate impact reporting.
Match ID: 20 Score: 15.00 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

NASA Tunnel Generates Decades of Icy Aircraft Safety Data
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:12:18 +0000
On Sept. 13, 1944, researchers subjected a Bell P-39L Airacobra to frigid temperatures and a freezing water spray in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s new Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) to study inflight ice buildup. Since that first run at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) in Cleveland, the facility […]
Match ID: 21 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 13 days
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Research Plane Dons New Colors for NASA Hybrid Electric Flight Tests
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Parked under the lights inside a hangar in Seattle, a hybrid electric research aircraft from electric motor manufacturer magniX showed off a new look symbolizing its journey toward helping NASA make sustainable aviation a reality.   During a special unveiling ceremony hosted by magniX on Aug. 22, leaders from the company and NASA revealed the aircraft, […]
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qualifiers: 2.14 carbon

NASA G-IV Plane Will Carry Next-Generation Science Instrument
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:55:55 +0000
In June 2024, a new tail number swept the sky above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Pilots conducted flights of a Gulfstream IV (G-IV) to evaluate its handling characteristics and to familiarize pilots with it before it begins structural modifications. The research plane is joining the center’s fleet serving NASA’s Airborne Science […]
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NASA Develops Pod to Help Autonomous Aircraft Operators
Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:54:05 +0000
For self-flying aircraft to take to the skies, they need to learn about their environments to avoid hazards. NASA aeronautics researchers recently developed a camera pod with sensors to help with this challenge by advancing computer vision for autonomous aviation.   This pod is called the Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE). It […]
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NASA Composite Manufacturing Initiative Gains Two New Members
Fri, 23 Aug 2024 01:46:14 +0000
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and Fives Machining Systems Inc. have joined 20 other organizations to support NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project. The project is addressing industry’s needs to meet growing demand for air travel, replace aging airliners, and secure U.S. competitiveness in the commercial aircraft industry.   NASA and its partners are collaborating and […]
Match ID: 25 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 27 days
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Beyond the Textbook: DC-8 Aircraft Inspires Students in Retirement
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:29:22 +0000
In May 2024, Idaho State University’s class of 2025 received a new learning tool from NASA. The DC-8 aircraft served the world’s scientific community for decades as a platform under NASA’s Airborne Science Program before retiring to Idaho State University (ISU) to provide a hands-on learning experience for students in the university’s aircraft maintenance technology […]
Match ID: 26 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 27 days
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2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition
Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:28:22 +0000
The agriculture industry faces several challenges, including limited resources and growing demands to reduce agriculture’s environmental impact while increasing its climate resilience. NASA Aeronautics is dedicated to expanding its efforts to assist commercial, industry, and government partners in advancing aviation systems that could modernize capabilities in agriculture. In NASA’s 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition: […]
Match ID: 27 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 29 days
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Greener Is Getting Going
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000
We’ve reached a tipping point where we’ve got a cleaner alternative for most transport. Now we have to commit.
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A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The climate crisis has become a mental health crisis. But eco-anxiety isn’t necessarily a pathology.
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
Match ID: 30 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 245 days
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Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

SEMrush and Ahrefs are among the most popular tools in the SEO industry. Both companies have been in business for years and have thousands of customers per month.

If you're a professional SEO or trying to do digital marketing on your own, at some point you'll likely consider using a tool to help with your efforts. Ahrefs and SEMrush are two names that will likely appear on your shortlist.

In this guide, I'm going to help you learn more about these SEO tools and how to choose the one that's best for your purposes.

What is SEMrush?

SEMrush is a popular SEO tool with a wide range of features—it's the leading competitor research service for online marketers. SEMrush's SEO Keyword Magic tool offers over 20 billion Google-approved keywords, which are constantly updated and it's the largest keyword database.

The program was developed in 2007 as SeoQuake is a small Firefox extension

Features

• Most accurate keyword data: Accurate keyword search volume data is crucial for SEO and PPC campaigns by allowing you to identify what keywords are most likely to bring in big sales from ad clicks. SEMrush constantly updates its databases and provides the most accurate data.
• Largest Keyword database: SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool now features 20-billion keywords, providing marketers and SEO professionals the largest database of keywords.


• All SEMrush users receive daily ranking data, mobile volume information, and the option to buy additional keywords by default with no additional payment or add-ons needed
• Most accurate position tracking tool: This tool provides all subscribers with basic tracking capabilities, making it suitable for SEO professionals. Plus, the Position Tracking tool provides local-level data to everyone who uses the tool.
• SEO Data Management: SEMrush makes managing your online data easy by allowing you to create visually appealing custom PDF reports, including Branded and White Label reports, report scheduling, and integration with GA, GMB, and GSC.
• Toxic link monitoring and penalty recovery: With SEMrush, you can make a detailed analysis of toxic backlinks, toxic scores, toxic markers, and outreach to those sites.
• Content Optimization and Creation Tools: SEMrush offers content optimization and creation tools that let you create SEO-friendly content. Some features include the SEO Writing Assistant, On-Page SEO Check, er/SEO Content Template, Content Audit, Post Tracking, Brand Monitoring.

Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading SEO platform that offers a set of tools to grow your search traffic, research your competitors, and monitor your niche. The company was founded in 2010, and it has become a popular choice among SEO tools. Ahrefs has a keyword index of over 10.3 billion keywords and offers accurate and extensive backlink data updated every 15-30 minutes and it is the world's most extensive backlink index database.

Features

• Backlink alerts data and new keywords: Get an alert when your site is linked to or discussed in blogs, forums, comments, or when new keywords are added to a blog posting about you.
• Intuitive interface: The intuitive design of the widget helps you see the overall health of your website and search engine ranking at a glance.
• Site Explorer: The Site Explorer will give you an in-depth look at your site's search traffic.
• Domain Comparison
• Reports with charts and graphs
• JavaScript rendering and a site audit can identify SEO issues.
• A question explorer that provides well-crafted topic suggestions

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

Now that you know a little more about each tool, let's take a look at how they compare. I'll analyze each tool to see how they differ in interfaces, keyword research resources, rank tracking, and competitor analysis.

User Interface

Ahrefs and SEMrush both offer comprehensive information and quick metrics regarding your website's SEO performance. However, Ahrefs takes a bit more of a hands-on approach to getting your account fully set up, whereas SEMrush's simpler dashboard can give you access to the data you need quickly.

In this section, we provide a brief overview of the elements found on each dashboard and highlight the ease with which you can complete tasks.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs dashboard is less cluttered than that of SEMrush, and its primary menu is at the very top of the page, with a search bar designed only for entering URLs.

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

• You can see analytics from the dashboard, including search engine rankings to domain ratings, referring domains, and backlink
• Jumping from one tool to another is easy. You can use the Keyword Explorer to find a keyword to target and then directly track your ranking with one click.
• The website offers a tooltip helper tool that allows you to hover your mouse over something that isn't clear and get an in-depth explanation.

SEMRUSH

When you log into the SEMrush Tool, you will find four main modules. These include information about your domains, organic keyword analysis, ad keyword, and site traffic.

You'll also find some other options like

• A search bar allows you to enter a domain, keyword, or anything else you wish to explore.
• A menu on the left side of the page provides quick links to relevant information, including marketing insights, projects, keyword analytics, and more.
• The customer support resources located directly within the dashboard can be used to communicate with the support team or to learn about other resources such as webinars and blogs.
• Detailed descriptions of every resource offered. This detail is beneficial for new marketers, who are just starting.

WHO WINS?

Both Ahrefs and SEMrush have user-friendly dashboards, but Ahrefs is less cluttered and easier to navigate. On the other hand, SEMrush offers dozens of extra tools, including access to customer support resources.

When deciding on which dashboard to use, consider what you value in the user interface, and test out both.

Rank Tracking

If you're looking to track your website's search engine ranking, rank tracking features can help. You can also use them to monitor your competitors.

Let's take a look at Ahrefs vs. SEMrush to see which tool does a better job.

Ahrefs

The Ahrefs Rank Tracker is simpler to use. Just type in the domain name and keywords you want to analyze, and it spits out a report showing you the search engine results page (SERP) ranking for each keyword you enter.

Rank Tracker looks at the ranking performance of keywords and compares them with the top rankings for those keywords. Ahrefs also offers:

You'll see metrics that help you understand your visibility, traffic, average position, and keyword difficulty.

It gives you an idea of whether a keyword would be profitable to target or not.

SEMRUSH

SEMRush offers a tool called Position Tracking. This tool is a project tool—you must set it up as a new project. Below are a few of the most popular features of the SEMrush Position Tracking tool:

All subscribers are given regular data updates and mobile search rankings upon subscribing

The platform provides opportunities to track several SERP features, including Local tracking.

Intuitive reports allow you to track statistics for the pages on your website, as well as the keywords used in those pages.

Identify pages that may be competing with each other using the Cannibalization report.

WHO WINS?

Ahrefs is a more user-friendly option. It takes seconds to enter a domain name and keywords. From there, you can quickly decide whether to proceed with that keyword or figure out how to rank better for other keywords.

SEMrush allows you to check your mobile rankings and ranking updates daily, which is something Ahrefs does not offer. SEMrush also offers social media rankings, a tool you won't find within the Ahrefs platform. Both are good which one do you like let me know in the comment.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is closely related to rank tracking, but it's used for deciding which keywords you plan on using for future content rather than those you use now.

When it comes to SEO, keyword research is the most important thing to consider when comparing the two platforms.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs Keyword Explorer provides you with thousands of keyword ideas and filters search results based on the chosen search engine.

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

• It can search multiple keywords in a single search and analyze them together. At SEMrush, you also have this feature in Keyword Overview.
• Ahrefs has a variety of keywords for different search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and other search engines.
• When you click on a keyword, you can see its search volume and keyword difficulty, but also other keywords related to it, which you didn't use.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool has over 20 billion keywords for Google. You can type in any keyword you want, and a list of suggested keywords will appear.

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

• Show performance metrics by keyword
• Search results are based on both broad and exact keyword matches.
• Show data like search volume, trends, keyword difficulty, and CPC.
• Show the first 100 Google search results for any keyword.
• Identify SERP Features and Questions related to each keyword
• SEMrush has released a new Keyword Gap Tool that uncovers potentially useful keyword opportunities for you, including both paid and organic keywords.

WHO WINS?

Both of these tools offer keyword research features and allow users to break down complicated tasks into something that can be understood by beginners and advanced users alike.

If you're interested in keyword suggestions, SEMrush appears to have more keyword suggestions than Ahrefs does. It also continues to add new features, like the Keyword Gap tool and SERP Questions recommendations.

Competitor Analysis

Both platforms offer competitor analysis tools, eliminating the need to come up with keywords off the top of your head. Each tool is useful for finding keywords that will be useful for your competition so you know they will be valuable to you.

AHREFS

Ahrefs' domain comparison tool lets you compare up to five websites (your website and four competitors) side-by-side.it also shows you how your site is ranked against others with metrics such as backlinks, domain ratings, and more.

Use the Competing Domains section to see a list of your most direct competitors, and explore how many keywords matches your competitors have.

To find more information about your competitor, you can look at the Site Explorer and Content Explorer tools and type in their URL instead of yours.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush provides a variety of insights into your competitors' marketing tactics. The platform enables you to research your competitors effectively. It also offers several resources for competitor analysis including:

Traffic Analytics helps you identify where your audience comes from, how they engage with your site, what devices visitors use to view your site, and how your audiences overlap with other websites.

SEMrush's Organic Research examines your website's major competitors and shows their organic search rankings, keywords they are ranking for, and even if they are ranking for any (SERP) features and more.

The Market Explorer search field allows you to type in a domain and lists websites or articles similar to what you entered. Market Explorer also allows users to perform in-depth data analytics on These companies and markets.

WHO WINS?

SEMrush wins here because it has more tools dedicated to competitor analysis than Ahrefs. However, Ahrefs offers a lot of functionality in this area, too. It takes a combination of both tools to gain an advantage over your competition.

Pricing

Ahrefs

• Lite Monthly: $99/month
• Standard Monthly: $179/month
• Annually Lite: $990/year
• Annually Standard: $1790/year

SEMRUSH

• Pro Plan: $119.95/month
• Guru Plan:$229.95/month
• Business Plan: $449.95/month

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

When it comes to keyword data research, you will become confused about which one to choose.

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

• Like friendly and clean interface
• Searching for simple keyword suggestions

• Want to get more keywords for different search engines like Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, and more

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

• Want more marketing and SEO features
• Need competitor analysis tool
• Need to keep your backlinks profile clean
• Looking for more keyword suggestions for Google

Both tools are great. Choose the one which meets your requirements and if you have any experience using either Ahrefs or SEMrush let me know in the comment section which works well for you.

 

 

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The 31 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now (September 2024)
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:00:00 +0000
Slow Horses, Constellation, and Bad Monkey are among the best shows on Apple TV+ this month.
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Lionsgate’s New Deal Is a Test of Hollywood’s Relationship With AI
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:25:58 +0000
The studio behind the John Wick, Hunger Games, and Twilight franchises just made a deal with an artificial intelligence startup to use its back catalog to build a custom AI model. It could be a tipping point.
Match ID: 1 Score: 20.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:45:00 +0000

An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.

The post The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk appeared first on The Intercept.

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Former MoviePass CEO admits the $9.95 ‘unlimited’ ticket scheme was fraud | The CEO behind 2017’s ridiculous movie deal is facing up to five years in prison for committing securities fraud.
2024-09-18T09:49:15+00:00
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How “A Different Man” and “The Substance” Get Under the Skin
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
In films starring Sebastian Stan and Demi Moore, the directors Aaron Schimberg and Coralie Fargeat satirize the self-annihilating pursuit of beauty.
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Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most popular digital assets today, capturing the attention of cryptocurrency investors, whales and people from around the world. People find it amazing that some users spend thousands or millions of dollars on a single NFT-based image of a monkey or other token, but you can simply take a screenshot for free. So here we share some freuently asked question about NFTs.

1) What is an NFT?

NFT stands for non-fungible  token, which is a cryptographic token on a blockchain with unique identification codes that distinguish it from other tokens. NFTs are unique and not interchangeable, which means no two NFTs are the same. NFTs can be a unique artwork, GIF, Images, videos, Audio album. in-game items, collectibles etc.

2) What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger that allows for the secure storage of data. By recording any kind of information—such as bank account transactions, the ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), or Decentralized Finance (DeFi) smart contracts—in one place, and distributing it to many different computers, blockchains ensure that data can’t be manipulated without everyone in the system being aware.

3) What makes an NFT valuable?

The value of an NFT comes from its ability to be traded freely and securely on the blockchain, which is not possible with other current digital ownership solutionsThe NFT points to its location on the blockchain, but doesn’t necessarily contain the digital property. For example, if you replace one bitcoin with another, you will still have the same thing. If you buy a non-fungible item, such as a movie ticket, it is impossible to replace it with any other movie ticket because each ticket is unique to a specific time and place.

4) How do NFTs work?

One of the unique characteristics of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is that they can be tokenised to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought, sold and traded on the blockchain. 

As with crypto-currency, records of who owns what are stored on a ledger that is maintained by thousands of computers around the world. These records can’t be forged because the whole system operates on an open-source network. 

NFTs also contain smart contracts—small computer programs that run on the blockchain—that give the artist, for example, a cut of any future sale of the token.

5) What’s the connection between NFTs and cryptocurrency?

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren't cryptocurrencies, but they do use blockchain technology. Many NFTs are based on Ethereum, where the blockchain serves as a ledger for all the transactions related to said NFT and the properties it represents.5) How to make an NFT?

Anyone can create an NFT. All you need is a digital wallet, some ethereum tokens and a connection to an NFT marketplace where you’ll be able to upload and sell your creations

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

When you purchase a stock in NFT, that purchase is recorded on the blockchain—the bitcoin ledger of transactions—and that entry acts as your proof of ownership.

7) How is an NFT valued? What are the most expensive NFTs?

The value of an NFT varies a lot based on the digital asset up for grabs. People use NFTs to trade and sell digital art, so when creating an NFT, you should consider the popularity of your digital artwork along with historical statistics.

In the year 2021, a digital artist called Pak created an artwork called The Merge. It was sold on the Nifty Gateway NFT market for $91.8 million.

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

Non-fungible tokens can be used in investment opportunities. One can purchase an NFT and resell it at a profit. Certain NFT marketplaces let sellers of NFTs keep a percentage of the profits from sales of the assets they create.

9) Will NFTs be the future of art and collectibles?

Many people want to buy NFTs because it lets them support the arts and own something cool from their favorite musicians, brands, and celebrities. NFTs also give artists an opportunity to program in continual royalties if someone buys their work. Galleries see this as a way to reach new buyers interested in art.

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

There are many places to buy digital assets, like opensea and their policies vary. On top shot, for instance, you sign up for a waitlist that can be thousands of people long. When a digital asset goes on sale, you are occasionally chosen to purchase it.

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

To mint an NFT token, you must pay some amount of gas fee to process the transaction on the Etherum blockchain, but you can mint your NFT on a different blockchain called Polygon to avoid paying gas fees. This option is available on OpenSea and this simply denotes that your NFT will only be able to trade using Polygon's blockchain and not Etherum's blockchain. Mintable allows you to mint NFTs for free without paying any gas fees.

12) Do i own an NFT if i screenshot it?

The answer is no. Non-Fungible Tokens are minted on the blockchain using cryptocurrencies such as Etherum, Solana, Polygon, and so on. Once a Non-Fungible Token is minted, the transaction is recorded on the blockchain and the contract or license is awarded to whoever has that Non-Fungible Token in their wallet.

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?

 Non-fungible tokens have gained the hearts of people around the world, and they have given digital creators the recognition they deserve. One of the remarkable things about non-fungible tokens is that you can take a screenshot of one, but you don’t own it. This is because when a non-fungible token is created, then the transaction is stored on the blockchain, and the license or contract to hold such a token is awarded to the person owning the token in their digital wallet.

You can sell your work and creations by attaching a license to it on the blockchain, where its ownership can be transferred. This lets you get exposure without losing full ownership of your work. Some of the most successful projects include Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yatch Club NFTs, SandBox, World of Women and so on. These NFT projects have gained popularity globally and are owned by celebrities and other successful entrepreneurs. Owning one of these NFTs gives you an automatic ticket to exclusive business meetings and life-changing connections.

Final Saying

That’s a wrap. Hope you guys found this article enlightening. I just answer some question with my limited knowledge about NFTs. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comment section below. Also I have a question for you, Is bitcoin an NFTs? let me know in The comment section below

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The US is still not prepared for inevitable Russian attacks on its elections, the former special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated Russian interference in 2016 and links between Donald Trump and Moscow, warns in a new book.

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More than 100 ex-Republican officials call Trump ‘unfit to serve’ and endorse Harris
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:59:19 GMT

In recent weeks, a handful of Republicans have crossed party lines to endorse Democratic presidential candidate

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More than 100 Republican former national security and foreign policy officials on Wednesday endorsed Kamala Harris for president in a joint letter, calling Donald Trump “unfit to serve” another term in the White House.

Former officials from the presidential administrations of Republicans Ronald Reagan, George H W Bush, George W Bush and Donald Trump, as well as Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama voiced their support for Harris, the Democratic nominee for president in this November’s election. They were joined by some former GOP members of Congress.

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For Kamala Harris, winning the debate was the easy part
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:24:39 +0000
Polling shows that Harris impressed people with her debate performance — but the improvement was largely on non-policy perceptions.
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Poll: Harris, Trump in tight race in Wisconsin
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:45:00 +0000

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Donald Trump has endorsed fellow Republican Nick Begich for the at-large House seat in Alaska, home...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:29:23 +0000

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Trump gifted handcuffs used to arrest suspect in potential assassination
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:09:05 +0000

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Analysis: Zuckerberg shrinks from politics as Musk goes all-in for Trump
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:42:50 +0000

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Why Big Tobacco is betting on Trump
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:05:24 +0000

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Assassination attempts, threats increase burdens on Trump campaign
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:17:43 +0000

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Laura Loomer Is MAGA at Its Most Extreme—and She’s Closer to Donald Trump Than Ever
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Right-wing agitator and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer has Donald Trump’s ear. And she has for a while.
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Project 2025 Would Drastically Cut Support for Carbon Removal
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The Heritage Foundation’s plan for a potential Trump second term has little time for schemes to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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Violent threats and attacks escalate tensions in Trump-Harris race
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:30:36 +0000

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Harris bashes Trump’s ‘hateful’ attacks on Haitians in rare interview
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:15:09 +0000

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No, violent crime isn’t soaring, but neither is it falling
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:00:57 +0000
Trump cherry-picks data to argue there’s a crime spree, but violent crime rates are flat over the past ten years
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How the Trump campaign has been forced to adapt to assassination threats
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000
The situation has caused a grim mood on the campaign, as the once freewheeling candidate is hemmed in by new constraints.
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Trump holds town hall; Harris denounces ‘hateful rhetoric’
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:53:21 +0000
Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
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Trump defends Secret Service as Hannity presses concerns
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:53:21 +0000

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Analysis: Trump cites Democrats’ dangerous rhetoric, but uses it more than they do
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:03:36 +0000

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Donald Trump had kind words to say about Michigan during his town hall in Flint.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:16:46 +0000

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Donald Trump appeared to misspeak as he mentioned the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan but...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:48:29 +0000

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Former president Donald Trump said he got a “very nice call” from Vice President Kamala Harris...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:20:13 +0000

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Trump cites Democrats’ dangerous rhetoric, but uses it more than they do
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:11:19 +0000
Trump and Vance have tied Democrats’ past “threat to democracy” and “fascist” claims to the latest threat to Trump’s safety. But Trump has been deploying this rhetoric a lot more, as Democrats have backed off.
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A quick explanation of how bomb threats work, to help JD Vance
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:05:01 +0000
There were threats to people and places in Springfield, Ohio, after Vance and Trump made false claims about Haitian immigrants. The media isn’t to blame.
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The Trumps Have Gone Full Crypto With World Liberty Financial
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:22:10 +0000
After coming out in favor of crypto, the Trump family is launching a venture of its own. You’ll just have to wait for the details.
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Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:55:30 +0000
Musk’s now-deleted post questioning why no one has attempted to assassinate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris renews concerns over his work for the US government—and potential to inspire extremist violence.
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One Man’s Stand Against Donald Trump’s Election Denialism
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
After Trump claimed the 2020 Presidential election was “rigged,” a short documentary shows the effect of election conspiracies in the crucial jurisdiction of Maricopa County, Arizona, through the experience of one elected official.
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Billy Corgan on Heels vs. Baby Faces, and the Case of Donald Trump
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The Smashing Pumpkins front man and wrestling impresario ponders why Kim Gordon made fun of the band (snobbishness) and worries about being “constrained by wokeness.”
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Do Kamala Harris’s Neocon Supporters Just Hate Trump, or Is There Something More to Her Appeal?
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:36:50 +0000

Personally, I would not accept an endorsement from a world-historic war criminal.

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Suspected Trump Gunman Was Once Charged With Possession of a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 01:31:35 +0000
"I figured he was either dead or in prison by now," says the charging officer in Ryan Routh's 2002 arrest, who spoke with WIRED on Sunday.
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‘Frockgate’ and Starmer’s love-in with Meloni – Politics Weekly UK
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:05 GMT

The row over ‘frockgate’ continues to trouble the prime minister this week, while his decision to visit his far-right Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, has upset many in his party. The Guardian’s John Harris talks to the political correspondent Aletha Adu, who was travelling with Keir Starmer. Also, the Guardian’s Europe correspondent, Jon Henley, joins John Harris to look at the rise of the far-right on the continent

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The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:08 GMT

She’s been called a neo-fascist and a danger to Italy. But she has won over many heads of Europe, including the UK prime minister. Should we be worried?

In mid-June, Giorgia Meloni was in an exultant mood while hosting the G7 summit, a gathering of the world’s most powerful nations, in the southern Italian region of Apulia. After days in which she presided over meetings speaking English, French and Spanish along with her native Italian, one evening she danced the pizzica – a traditional Apulian dance – twirling and hopping to the trance-like rhythmic folk music often played at local weddings at a contagious 100 beats per minute. Meloni’s uninhibited performance expressed the self-confidence of an emerging political star, who, after a strong showing in the European elections just a few days earlier, was the hottest political leader in Europe. She took a selfie with Indian strongman Narendra Modi, which she posted on Instagram to her 3.5 million followers with the caption “Hello from the MELODI team.” For a politician who only a few years ago was stuck at the margins of Italian politics as the head of a small rightwing party, Brothers of Italy, Meloni, at 47, appeared to be on top of the world.

Meloni has worked hard to achieve the respectability that has eluded other rightwing parties such as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. She was received at the White House by Joe Biden and has been accepted by centrist parties within the EU. This is all the more surprising given the openly neo-fascist origins of her career. (Just before she was elected prime minister in late 2022, author Roberto Saviano wrote in the Guardian: “Giorgia Meloni is a danger to Italy and the rest of Europe.”) But in two years, she has surprised many people by her political pragmatism and shrewd ability.

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The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:07 GMT

Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in the desert and colluding with smugglers

When she saw them, lined up at the road checkpoint, Marie sensed the situation might turn ugly. Four officers, each wearing the combat green of Tunisia’s national guard. They asked to look inside her bag.

“There was nothing, just some clothes.” For weeks Marie had traversed the Sahara, travelling 3,000 miles from home. Now, minutes from her destination – the north coast of Africa – she feared she might not make it.

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US Senate Warns Big Tech to Act Fast Against Election Meddling
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:56:02 +0000
In an Intelligence Committee hearing with representatives from Google, Apple, and Meta on Wednesday, senators stressed that foreign influence is far from a solved problem.
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Storm Boris batters northern Italy bringing severe flooding and landslides
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:23:06 GMT

Homes evacuated in Emilia-Romagna region as pounding rain ‘well beyond the worst forecasts’ sweeps in

Homes are being evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna as Storm Boris, which has killed at least 24 people in central and eastern Europe since last week, swept into the country, causing severe flooding and landslides.

Pounding rain hit Emilia-Romagna late on Wednesday afternoon and the situation rapidly worsened as night fell.

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Antiwar film or propaganda? ‘Russians at War’ draws protests at festivals.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:22:26 +0000
The documentary focuses on front-line Russian troops in Ukraine. Screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival drew concerns from Canadian officials.
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Celtic put five past Slovan Bratislava in dream Champions League opening win
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:12:38 GMT

This proved a Celtic Park rarity. The Scottish champions were rampant against continental opposition, on an evening absorbing so many years of frustration for Celtic at elite level. New format, new Celtic, new danger.

The paucity of Slovan Bratislava will most likely be borne out by subsequent Champions League outings but Brendan Rodgers and Celtic were fully entitled to relish what played out here after game upon game of European turmoil. Rodgers and his players will travel to Borussia Dortmund believing this environment need not be so chastising after all.

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Massive China-state IoT botnet went undetected for four years—until now
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:58:42 +0000
75% of infected devices were located in homes and offices in North America and Europe.
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The Guardian view on Israel’s booby-trap war: illegal and unacceptable | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:53:40 GMT

Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power depends on his nation being at war. The region is paying a high price

In the second world war, guerrilla forces scattered large quantities of booby-trapped objects likely to be attractive to civilians. The idea was to cause widescale and indiscriminate death. The Japanese manufactured a tobacco pipe with a charge detonated by a spring-loaded striker. The Italians produced a headset that blew up when it was plugged in. More than half a century later, a global treaty came into force which “prohibited in all circumstances to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects that are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material”. Has anyone told Israel and its jubilant supporters that, as Brian Finucane of the International Crisis Group points out, it is a signatory to the protocol?

On Tuesday, pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 12 people – including two children and four hospital workers – and wounding thousands more. This situation is directly analogous to the historical practices that current global arms treaties explicitly prohibit. US media say Israel was behind the attack, and the country has the motive and the means to target its Iran-backed enemies. Israel’s leaders have a long history of carrying out sophisticated remote operations, ranging from cyber-attacks, suicide drone attacks and remote-controlled weapons to assassinate Iranian scientists. On Wednesday it was reported that Israel blew up thousands of two-way personal radios used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, killing nine and wounding hundreds.

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IMF postpones Russia visit after heavy criticism across Europe
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:38:13 GMT

Trip to Moscow to review economy delayed indefinitely after protests it would ‘normalise relations with aggressor’

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indefinitely postponed a staff mission to Moscow this week to review the Russian economy for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine, after the move came under heavy criticism from several of Kyiv’s European allies.

After revelations in the Guardian of widespread condemnation, the IMF said it would spend more time gathering information for a “rigorous analysis”.

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Ukrainian drones hit missile warehouse deep in Russia in massive blast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:21:35 +0000
The apparently successful drone attack comes as Ukraine is pushing its Western allies to lift restrictions on the missiles they have supplied for more such attacks on Russia.
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‘If they don’t die, our infantry will’: Ukraine’s pivotal battle for Donetsk
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:47 GMT

Russian forces are gathering on Pokrovsk, a logistics base and transport hub, after months of slow, brutal advance

The Russian soldiers sent to storm Ukrainian positions arrived at a graveyard. Around them was the ruined village of Mykhailivka. From above, Ukrainian spy drones watched. One soldier vanished under a tree. Another jogged towards a shell-walloped cottage. Back at a control observation centre, Maj Oleksandr Fanagey muttered a few words.

Seconds later, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone hit a moving Russian. A live video stream showed that he survived but his left leg was injured. The soldier bottom-shuffled towards a patch of grass and tried to pull a bandage from a green backpack. “He will die for sure,” Fanagey predicted. “The enemy doesn’t bother evacuating its wounded.”

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Should we believe Putin’s war talk? - podcast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:00:44 GMT

How discussions over long-range missiles led to war threats from Vladimir Putin. Dan Sabbagh reports

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wants his western allies to allow the use of their Storm Shadow missiles to bomb targets inside Russia.

Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian’s defence and security editor, tells Michael Safi why US president Joe Biden’s decision over the missiles is a delicate one.

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Russia targets Harris campaign with wave of fake videos
2024-09-17T20:50:36+00:00

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Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews
2024-09-17T11:02:34Z

Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article

These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking team Lazarus Group are new, but the overall malware campaign against the Python development community has been running since at least August of 2023, when a number of popular open source Python tools were maliciously duplicated with added malware. Now, though, there are also attacks involving “coding tests” that only exist to get the end user to install hidden malware on their system (cleverly hidden with Base64 encoding) that allows remote execution once present. The capacity for exploitation at that point is pretty much unlimited, due to the flexibility of Python and how it interacts with the underlying OS...

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When Russian bombs fall on Kharkiv, this man collects the evidence
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000
This police investigator records the wreckage, measures the shrapnel and gathers the bodies, even without knowing if Russia will ever be held accountable.
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Drone Awards 2024 – in pictures
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:00:18 GMT

A selection of the nominated images from this year’s Drone Awards. A winner will be announced on 28 September at the Siena World Photography Awards ceremony at the Teatro dei Rinnovati in Siena, Italy

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Trump and Harris Agree: More Bombs for Israel
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:02:23 +0000

The candidates fought to out-hawk each other on sustaining the bloody status quo in the Middle East at the presidential debate.

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Vance’s media strategy takes a turn
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 15:58:06 EST
He was Trump’s policy whisperer to key voting blocs. Now, he’s fueling rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating cats and dogs.
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How to Get Under a Strongman’s Skin, with George Conway
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
“All you have to do is figure out what it is that he talks about in self-defense and poke him,” says the co-founder of the Lincoln Project.
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Anushka Asthana on the perils of Keir Starmer’s fragile majority – podcast
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:00:03 GMT

The PM should be enjoying his political honeymoon but, explains Anushka Asthana, his wide but fragile majority is proving difficult to navigate

With his first party conference as prime minister coming up and a huge majority in parliament, Keir Starmer should be riding high. Instead his popularity has taken a hit, the mood in the Labour party seems to be downbeat and he is answering a stream of questions about gifts to him and his wife.

Anushka Asthana, the former Today in Focus presenter turned ITV’s deputy political editor, has been following Starmer closely since the start of his political journey. She tells Helen Pidd why Labour is so focused on spending restraint and discusses the problems that the fragility of the party’s majority is causing. But she says with the junior doctors’ pay disputes resolved, GB Energy and rail nationalisation going ahead there are also reasons for traditional Labour voters to be optimistic.

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The Marshall Star for September 18, 2024
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:21:13 +0000
Marshall Welcomes NASA Chief Scientist for Climate, Science Town Hall NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Kate Calvin, center left, joins team members at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center for a Climate and Science Town Hall on Sept. 17 in Activities Building 4316. Calvin took part in a question-and-answer session during her visit […]
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Beirut blasts: Lebanon rocked by wave of hand-held radio blasts as 'solar energy systems explode'
2024-09-18T18:04:59+00:00

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Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut
2024-09-18T15:38:13+00:00

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Harry Brook given licence to lay down new ODI template against Australia
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:01:03 GMT

Stand-in captain wants to entertain in rare five-match series as he banks more experience before next year’s Ashes

In one sense the five-match ODI series between England and Australia that starts in Nottingham on Thursday is slightly lacking in wider context. Part of a trend that has seen previously lengthy visits by India and Australia broken up by way of format and spread out across the four-year cycle, it feels designed to simply keep the “Big Three” energy burning in between marquee Test summers.

Although the rivalry endures, tickets have been shifted despite autumn’s creep, and for Harry Brook, there is a bit more on it still. For one, Brook has had a slightly underwhelming international season by way of runs, not least that restless double failure against Sri Lanka at the Oval. And then on top of the chance to bank more experience against Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood before Bazball’s moonshot Ashes tour in 2025/26, there is this opportunity to further his captaincy knowhow with a similar eye on the future.

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NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however […]
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Tesla’s Superchargers open up to GM EVs today—adapters needed
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:36 +0000
The adapter will cost $225.
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NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing Hybrid-Electric Airliners with HyTEC
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, part-gas-powered engine may find its way into the skies propelling a future jet airliner. NASA is working in tandem with industry partner GE Aerospace on designing and building just such an engine, one that burns […]
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Every Scientific Field

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The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Part of the intrigue has been which movement would run out of steam first: Trump’s MAGA, through its failures, or Obama’s liberalism, through its successes.
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Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:27:55 +0000

In a total capitulation to a far-right narrative, even typical liberal shibboleths about our “nation of immigrants” were absent on Tuesday night.

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America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:48:15 +0000

Residents of Springfield, Ohio, worry that politicians are inciting violence against Haitian immigrants. It’s a long U.S. tradition.

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An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:04:28 +0000
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
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RFK Campaign Paid $10 Million to Consultant Who Appears to Have Been on Capitol Grounds During Jan. 6 Attack
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Even before making his endorsement, Kennedy was surrounded by far-right supporters of Donald Trump.

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Most Americans Want to Stop Arming Israel. Politicians Don’t Care.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:13:10 +0000

The number of Americans opposed to sending arms to Israel has grown, month after month, as the brutal war on Gaza grinds on.

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Progressives Were Pilloried for Wanting to End the Ukraine War in 2022. Things Have Only Gotten Worse.
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

With tens of thousands more killed and Ukraine’s leverage tanking, the quickly withdrawn House Democrats’ letter is proving prescient.

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Top U.S. General Meets With Alleged War Criminal in Libya
Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:26:05 +0000

Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, described by some in Congress as a “warlord,” is seeking to expand cooperation with the U.S.

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U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:00:12 +0000

In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.

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Better Together: Is communal living the answer to modern malaise? – video
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:16:39 GMT

In the rolling hills of central Italy sits Honeydew, an eco-community created as a direct response to the isolation of the Covid pandemic, enabled by modern technology and aiming to address the profound changes the climate crisis looks set to bring. With stated aims to spread the project globally, the Guardian visited Honeydew to see how founder Benjamin Ramm's vision for the future is playing out, and to learn how sustainable such eco living projects really are.

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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
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How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
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Harris v Trump: highlights of the presidential debate – video
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:54:48 GMT

After weeks of arguments over the format and rules, the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a key swing state. Both candidates went into the event virtually tied in the polls, in search of a campaign-altering moment

• ‘They’re eating the cats’: Trump rambles falsely about immigrants in debate

• Harris’s powerful abortion stance and Trump’s fact-checks: key takeaways from the debate

• Harris slams Trump for falsehoods on abortion and immigration in fiery debate

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Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:38:38 +0000

The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma resulted in the largest restoration of Indigenous land in U.S. history. 

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The Intercept Sues to Release 911 Recordings From Trump Rally Shooting
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:43:13 +0000

Questions remain about the police response to the shooting of former President Donald Trump — questions that 911 logs may help answer.

The post The Intercept Sues to Release 911 Recordings From Trump Rally Shooting appeared first on The Intercept.

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Trump's Wall Street pitch: Punishing tariffs, low taxes, 'explosive' growth
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:11:22 EST
Trump arrived in New York amid growing concerns among some investors about his economic plans as Harris casts his agenda as a financially calamitous wishlist.
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Trump says he would name Elon Musk head of government efficiency commission
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:36:51 EST

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Harris targets small business tax break in contrast with Trump’s corporate tax cuts
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:01:48 EST
The vice president looks to beef up her economic plans ahead of next week's debate.
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Vance warns of China’s influence during Michigan rally
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:16:42 EST
Vance’s rally Tuesday was the first of a series of events in Rust Belt swing states that he and Trump are visiting this week.
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Trump, Harris lay out tax plans with trillions of dollars on the line
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 04:00:00 EST
With a huge swath of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts set to expire at the end of next year, the presidential candidates are putting down markers on the issue.
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Harris goes after Trump on economy and inflation in new ad
Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:51:33 EST
The vice president is trying to shore up the affordability argument.
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Trump hits Harris on the economy: 'She destroys everything she touches'
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:20:14 EST

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Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:18:55 +0000
Donald Trump is just the latest to take a swing. In an interview with The Economist, the SEC chair defends his record
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Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:41:16 +0000
All come with their own drawbacks
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Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:08 +0000
Opposition would come from all angles
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Is America approaching peak tip?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:05:29 +0000
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
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New Chrome Zero-Day
2024-09-10T11:04:29Z

According to Microsoft researchers, North Korean hackers have been using a Chrome zero-day exploit to steal cryptocurrency.

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Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood Data
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Kaspersky’s US business sold, Nigerian sextortion scammers jailed, and Europe’s controversial encryption plans return.
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Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:00:35 +0000
Unit 29155 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings—has branched out into brazen hacking operations with targets across the world.
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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:58:18 +0000
How long can the party last?
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How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:39:56 +0000
Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years
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Research Plane Dons New Colors for NASA Hybrid Electric Flight Tests
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Parked under the lights inside a hangar in Seattle, a hybrid electric research aircraft from electric motor manufacturer magniX showed off a new look symbolizing its journey toward helping NASA make sustainable aviation a reality.   During a special unveiling ceremony hosted by magniX on Aug. 22, leaders from the company and NASA revealed the aircraft, […]
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Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:53:05 +0000
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
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Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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Which rural area will take the UK’s nuclear waste?
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:20:51 GMT
The UK's nuclear waste needs a permanent home - but finding a community willing to take it is tricky.
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Captain Stokes to have scan ahead of Pakistan tour
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:39:45 GMT
Ben Stokes will have a scan on his hamstring injury next week as England wait on the captain’s fitness for the first Test in Pakistan.
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Apple Watch Series 10 Review: Sleep Apnea Notifications and a Bigger Display
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:04:00 +0000
The absence of a blood oxygen sensor is a huge ding. But the Apple Watch still does everything else, and looks hella good doing it.
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My report on the NHS diagnosed its dire condition. Now here’s the cure | Ara Darzi
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:06 GMT

Making healthy life expectancy central to all government policy is the surest way of stemming demand on the health service

When the secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, asked me to investigate the state of the NHS, I thought I knew what we would find. All of us who have worked in the NHS in recent years have known it was under pressure. But, as a surgeon, I am used to seeing just one piece of the puzzle. Hearing the experiences of millions of patients and staff across the country brought together left me shocked and angry.

If effective access and high-quality care are at the heart of the NHS’s social contract with the people, then it is routinely breaking its promise to the public. Too many people are waiting in A&E corridors or struggling to see a GP. Quality care should be the organising principle of the NHS. But my investigation has shown that patient care is stagnating or even declining. It is unsurprising that public trust in the NHS is at an all-time low.

Prof Lord Darzi is a former health minister, Paul Hamlyn chair of surgery at Imperial College London and co-chair of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity

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Would you row across the Atlantic with someone like me? I certainly wouldn’t | Adrian Chiles
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:07 GMT

If you were risking your life in the middle of the ocean, you’d want your shipmate to be a cheerful problem-solver. That’s me out of the running

Here are three of my favourite uses of figures of speech to describe the competence of footballers. Actually, there’s four, but one is too rude. Oh, to hell with it, I’ll share it anyway. It came from a caller on a post-match local radio phone-in and concerned a goalkeeper in an alarmingly lousy run of form. “He couldn’t keep a clean sheet on his honeymoon,” the caller said. If you don’t get it, probably best not to give it too much thought. Another one from a radio phone-in, related to me by the commentator and former athlete Steve Cram, was used to paint a vivid picture of an enthusiastic Sunderland full-back who did a lot of running with the ball without ever seeming to be fully in control of it. “He’s like a dog with a balloon,” wailed a despairing Sunderland fan.

The other two come from the same man, my late friend Jeff Farmer. A football reporter turned TV executive turned board director at the club I support, he was the kind of old-school Brummie I don’t come across so much any more. He had a good way with words. After being soundly beaten by a Blackburn Rovers team that featured in midfield an energetic, abrasive scouser called David Thompson, Jeff said to me: “That Thompson’s like a wasp in your car – an absolute effing nuisance.” But my favourite Jeffism is my favourite because it’s relevant in the real world as well as in football. Of one of our players coming back from injury, Jeff said: “He’s worth a few goals. OK, you wouldn’t want to row the Atlantic with him, but he’s a decent striker.”

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What an athlete’s murder tells us about women’s safety in Kenya
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:20:46 GMT
Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei's killing by her ex-partner revives calls for action on gender-based violence.
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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

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More than 100 ex-Republican officials call Trump ‘unfit to serve’ and endorse Harris
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:59:19 GMT

In recent weeks, a handful of Republicans have crossed party lines to endorse Democratic presidential candidate

• US politics live – latest updates

More than 100 Republican former national security and foreign policy officials on Wednesday endorsed Kamala Harris for president in a joint letter, calling Donald Trump “unfit to serve” another term in the White House.

Former officials from the presidential administrations of Republicans Ronald Reagan, George H W Bush, George W Bush and Donald Trump, as well as Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama voiced their support for Harris, the Democratic nominee for president in this November’s election. They were joined by some former GOP members of Congress.

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AOC calls the US Green party ‘not serious’ – can it be more than a ‘spoiler’ in the election?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:00:06 GMT

Jill Stein, the party’s presidential nominee, is polling at about 1%, and of 500,000 elected positions it holds just 149

American politics often has wild deviations from the norms of other major democracies and one of the most striking differences is set to be on display in this year’s election – the performance of its domestic Green party.

There are elected Greens at the national level in the UK, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany and Australia, sometimes helping form governments, and yet the US Green party has only ever had a handful of state-level representatives (it currently has none) and has never had a federal election winner.

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Working together, Labour and the Lib Dems could exile the Tories for a generation | Martin Kettle
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:09 GMT

Starmer and Davey need to seize the moment. They have enough common ground to ally against their common enemy

Can the Liberal Democrats and Labour see themselves as allies in a common national project? Or are they fated to behave as rivals, always pursuing different goals? The question has been asked repeatedly, in various guises and circumstances, for more than 100 years, frequently in this newspaper. But there has never been a conclusive answer.

Today, as memories of the 2010-2015 Lib Dem-Conservative coalition fade, and following the two parties’ spectacular successes in July’s general election, a new version of the old question is on the agenda. Might the two parties now do to the Conservatives what the Tories and Labour did to the Liberals in the 1920s, and push them to the margins of politics?

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Do Kamala Harris’s Neocon Supporters Just Hate Trump, or Is There Something More to Her Appeal?
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:36:50 +0000

Personally, I would not accept an endorsement from a world-historic war criminal.

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With their lies about Haitian immigrants, Trump and Vance have reached a new low | Moustafa Bayoumi
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:07 GMT

If Trump and Vance can’t take responsibility for their actions now, why would they take responsibility for the country later?

During his debate with Kamala Harris on 10 September, Donald Trump proffered the outrageous lie that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating residents’ pets. He wasn’t alone in promoting this little bigoted nugget, either. Earlier that day on X, formerly known as Twitter, JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice-president, had already pushed the idea that Springfield’s residents “have had their pets abducted and eaten” by “Haitian illegal immigrants”.

Vance subsequently tripled down on the falsehood, even later admitting to CNN: “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

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US House fails to pass federal funding bill as shutdown deadline nears
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:02:26 GMT

Contentious package championed by Mike Johnson voted down 202-220 with potential stoppage looming 1 October

A government funding package championed by Republican House speaker Mike Johnson failed to pass on Wednesday, with less than two weeks left to prevent a shutdown starting 1 October.

The final vote was 202 to 220, with 14 House Republicans and all but three House Democrats opposing the bill. Two Republican members voted “present”.

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Teamsters will not endorse for president, a blow to Democrats
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:28:53 +0000
The Teamsters’ much-anticipated non-endorsement came after a vote of its executive board in Washington.
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Swift’s endorsement of Harris spotlights young voters. They are not a monolith.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:22 +0000
Younger voters have played an increasingly bigger role in presidential elections, but studies show that, as young women become more liberal, some young men are defecting from the Democrats.
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Democrat wins special election to fill seat of late Rep. Donald Payne Jr.
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:26:02 +0000

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Democrats target GOP over reproductive rights as election nears
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:49:15 +0000

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US Senate Warns Big Tech to Act Fast Against Election Meddling
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:56:02 +0000
In an Intelligence Committee hearing with representatives from Google, Apple, and Meta on Wednesday, senators stressed that foreign influence is far from a solved problem.
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The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:08 GMT

She’s been called a neo-fascist and a danger to Italy. But she has won over many heads of Europe, including the UK prime minister. Should we be worried?

In mid-June, Giorgia Meloni was in an exultant mood while hosting the G7 summit, a gathering of the world’s most powerful nations, in the southern Italian region of Apulia. After days in which she presided over meetings speaking English, French and Spanish along with her native Italian, one evening she danced the pizzica – a traditional Apulian dance – twirling and hopping to the trance-like rhythmic folk music often played at local weddings at a contagious 100 beats per minute. Meloni’s uninhibited performance expressed the self-confidence of an emerging political star, who, after a strong showing in the European elections just a few days earlier, was the hottest political leader in Europe. She took a selfie with Indian strongman Narendra Modi, which she posted on Instagram to her 3.5 million followers with the caption “Hello from the MELODI team.” For a politician who only a few years ago was stuck at the margins of Italian politics as the head of a small rightwing party, Brothers of Italy, Meloni, at 47, appeared to be on top of the world.

Meloni has worked hard to achieve the respectability that has eluded other rightwing parties such as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. She was received at the White House by Joe Biden and has been accepted by centrist parties within the EU. This is all the more surprising given the openly neo-fascist origins of her career. (Just before she was elected prime minister in late 2022, author Roberto Saviano wrote in the Guardian: “Giorgia Meloni is a danger to Italy and the rest of Europe.”) But in two years, she has surprised many people by her political pragmatism and shrewd ability.

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Iran sent hacked Trump documents to Biden campaign, FBI says
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:13:05 GMT

Officials say there is no indication Biden campaign responded to the emails, which offered information stolen from Trump campaign

Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other US agencies have said.

The FBI confirmed on 12 August that it was investigating a complaint from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign that Iran had hacked and distributed a trove of sensitive campaign documents. On 19 August intelligence officials confirmed that Iran was behind the hack.

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Election 2024: Harris, addressing Hispanic group, warns of another Trump presidency
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:21:52 +0000
Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
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California Teamsters endorse Harris after national union declines to back any candidate – as it happened
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:55:43 GMT

This blog is closed. You can find the latest election coverage here.

The US is still not prepared for inevitable Russian attacks on its elections, the former special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated Russian interference in 2016 and links between Donald Trump and Moscow, warns in a new book.

“It is … evident that Americans have not learned the lessons of Russia’s attack on our democracy in 2016,” Mueller writes in a preface to Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia and the Mueller Investigation by Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein, prosecutors who worked for Mueller from 2017 to 2019.

As we detailed in our report, the evidence was clear that the Russian government engaged in multiple, systematic attacks designed to undermine our democracy and favor one candidate over the other.”

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Is Eric Adams Impervious to Scandal?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:02:45 +0000
How Eric Adams’s bizarre nature became one of his greatest political assets.
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Who is ahead in Harris vs. Trump 2024 presidential polls right now?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:07:15 +0000
Check out The Washington Post’s presidential polling averages of the seven battleground states most likely to determine the outcome of the election.
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Suspicious mail sent to election officials in multiple states
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:05:05 +0000
The FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating after officials in at least 17 states were sent the pieces of mail.
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Project 2025 Would Drastically Cut Support for Carbon Removal
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The Heritage Foundation’s plan for a potential Trump second term has little time for schemes to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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Trump holds town hall; Harris denounces ‘hateful rhetoric’
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:53:21 +0000
Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
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Justin Trudeau under pressure as his party loses Montreal election
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:45:10 GMT

Victory by separatist Québécois candidate in once-safe Liberal seat raises questions over Canadian PM’s leadership

Canada’s ruling Liberal party has lost a once-safe seat in Montreal, a result that is likely to put more pressure on the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, to quit.

Elections Canada said that with 100% of the votes counted in the parliamentary constituency of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, the separatist Bloc Québécois candidate, Louis-Philippe Sauvé, had beaten the Liberal candidate, Laura Palestini, by a whisker: 28% to 27.2%. The New Democratic party (NDP) candidate received 26.1%.

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One Man’s Stand Against Donald Trump’s Election Denialism
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
After Trump claimed the 2020 Presidential election was “rigged,” a short documentary shows the effect of election conspiracies in the crucial jurisdiction of Maricopa County, Arizona, through the experience of one elected official.
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RFK Campaign Paid $10 Million to Consultant Who Appears to Have Been on Capitol Grounds During Jan. 6 Attack
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Even before making his endorsement, Kennedy was surrounded by far-right supporters of Donald Trump.

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Latino vote will play key role in battleground districts, House Democrats say
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:50:23 +0000

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RALEIGH — Republican vice-presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio said Wednesday’s interest rate cut is...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:39:07 +0000

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Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) is headlining a Republican fundraiser Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., according to...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:26:55 +0000

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Teamsters will not endorse for president, in blow to Democrats
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:08:40 +0000

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Donald Trump has endorsed fellow Republican Nick Begich for the at-large House seat in Alaska, home...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:29:23 +0000

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Republican who voted to impeach Clinton endorses Harris
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:45:40 +0000

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Analysis: Trump cites Democrats’ dangerous rhetoric, but uses it more than they do
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:03:36 +0000

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At a campaign rally in Asheville, N.C., Tim Walz also criticized Senate Republicans for recently voting...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:16:12 +0000

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Tim Walz went after Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, who on Sunday said in a CNN...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:53:07 +0000

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Tim Walz, campaigning in North Carolina, took aim at the state’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, Mark Robinson,...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:40:13 +0000

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Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, speaking at a campaign rally in Asheville, N.C., focused part of...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:32:18 +0000

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JD Vance repeated his claim that Democrats were to blame for the potential attempted assassination of...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:52:17 +0000

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Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance continued to compare the Haitian immigrant population in Springfield, who are...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:51:27 +0000

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While Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance was campaigning in Wisconsin on Tuesday, the senator from Ohio...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:40:17 +0000

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Democrats dramatically outspending GOP on House races in Nevada
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:24:27 +0000

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Trump cites Democrats’ dangerous rhetoric, but uses it more than they do
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:11:19 +0000
Trump and Vance have tied Democrats’ past “threat to democracy” and “fascist” claims to the latest threat to Trump’s safety. But Trump has been deploying this rhetoric a lot more, as Democrats have backed off.
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Suspected Trump Gunman Was Once Charged With Possession of a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 01:31:35 +0000
"I figured he was either dead or in prison by now," says the charging officer in Ryan Routh's 2002 arrest, who spoke with WIRED on Sunday.
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Sue Gray’s £170,000 pay prompts fury among Labour advisers
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:43:02 GMT

Revelation Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is paid more than PM adding to anger over salary cuts, sources say

Sue Gray has been given a salary of £170,000 as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff – more than the prime minister – prompting fury among Labour colleagues who have taken lower pay since entering government.

Gray was given a pay rise after the election despite other political special advisers being unhappy that their salary was reduced compared with their previous jobs at the Labour party.

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Laura Loomer Is MAGA at Its Most Extreme—and She’s Closer to Donald Trump Than Ever
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Right-wing agitator and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer has Donald Trump’s ear. And she has for a while.
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Donors and Starmer’s suits? That’s just a dress rehearsal. Without new probity rules, worse will follow | Peter Geoghegan
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:01 GMT

Labour made big promises while seeking power. It must fulfil them or risk real damage and an irretrievable breach of public trust

“Labour will end the chaos of sleaze,” the party’s election-winning manifesto thundered. The nation, Keir Starmer promised, would “turn the page” after years of Conservative scandal.

Yet, after less than three months in office, the prime minister is facing a slew of cronyism allegations of his own. A former banker was briefly appointed to the Treasury after donating £20,000 to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves. Staffers at Starmer’s in-house thinktank, Labour Together, have been handed supposedly apolitical civil service roles.

Peter Geoghegan runs the Democracy for Sale newsletter on Substack.

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Suspicious mail sent to election officials in several states
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:00:40 +0000

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Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:55:30 +0000
Musk’s now-deleted post questioning why no one has attempted to assassinate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris renews concerns over his work for the US government—and potential to inspire extremist violence.
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It's Good Trump Won't Be Sentenced Until After the Election
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:16:15 +0000

Trump always wants to cast himself as a victim. Delaying his sentencing until after the election makes that harder.

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Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:27:55 +0000

In a total capitulation to a far-right narrative, even typical liberal shibboleths about our “nation of immigrants” were absent on Tuesday night.

The post Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad appeared first on The Intercept.

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NSW police minister blames federal authorities after Sydney’s ‘massive appetite for cocaine’ exposed
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:57:30 GMT

State police allege criminal gang dubbed the Commission controlled price of cocaine in Sydney by manipulating supply

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The New South Wales police minister, Yasmin Catley, has taken a swipe at the Australian Border Force and the federal government for allowing drugs into the country after a state police operation laid bare Sydney’s “massive appetite” for cocaine.

Catley criticised the federal authorities on Thursday after NSW police announced they had disrupted a crime gang that allegedly distributed more than $1.8bn worth of cocaine across the city in just four months.

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Governor Josh Shapiro on How to Win Pennsylvania
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:00:00 +0000
The deeply purple swing state is key to this election. The state’s governor, a runner-up for Kamala Harris’s Vice-Presidential pick, explains how a Democrat can win.
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With Time Running Out, Kamala Harris Makes a Push for the Latino Vote
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
In battleground states, Latino voters could tip the balance of the election. Is the Vice-President doing enough to cultivate them?
Match ID: 49 Score: 47.14 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
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New home planning approvals in England fall to lowest level in a decade
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:07 GMT

Exclusive: Housebuilders blame decline on former government’s decision to end binding targets for local authorities

Planning approvals for new houses in England have dropped to a 10-year low, according to new figures that underline how difficult it will be for Labour to hit its target of building 300,000 homes a year.

The data, from the Home Builders Federation (HBF), shows the number of new houses being approved is just over half what it was three years ago, having fallen to a level not seen since 2014.

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‘Frockgate’ and Starmer’s love-in with Meloni – Politics Weekly UK
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:05 GMT

The row over ‘frockgate’ continues to trouble the prime minister this week, while his decision to visit his far-right Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, has upset many in his party. The Guardian’s John Harris talks to the political correspondent Aletha Adu, who was travelling with Keir Starmer. Also, the Guardian’s Europe correspondent, Jon Henley, joins John Harris to look at the rise of the far-right on the continent

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Anushka Asthana on the perils of Keir Starmer’s fragile majority – podcast
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:00:03 GMT

The PM should be enjoying his political honeymoon but, explains Anushka Asthana, his wide but fragile majority is proving difficult to navigate

With his first party conference as prime minister coming up and a huge majority in parliament, Keir Starmer should be riding high. Instead his popularity has taken a hit, the mood in the Labour party seems to be downbeat and he is answering a stream of questions about gifts to him and his wife.

Anushka Asthana, the former Today in Focus presenter turned ITV’s deputy political editor, has been following Starmer closely since the start of his political journey. She tells Helen Pidd why Labour is so focused on spending restraint and discusses the problems that the fragility of the party’s majority is causing. But she says with the junior doctors’ pay disputes resolved, GB Energy and rail nationalisation going ahead there are also reasons for traditional Labour voters to be optimistic.

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GOP senator insults Arab American advocate: ‘Hide your head in a bag’
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:00:35 +0000
Sen. John Neely Kennedy used a hearing about hate crimes to accuse Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry of supporting terrorists.
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Progressives Were Pilloried for Wanting to End the Ukraine War in 2022. Things Have Only Gotten Worse.
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

With tens of thousands more killed and Ukraine’s leverage tanking, the quickly withdrawn House Democrats’ letter is proving prescient.

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The Marshall Star for September 18, 2024
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:21:13 +0000
Marshall Welcomes NASA Chief Scientist for Climate, Science Town Hall NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Kate Calvin, center left, joins team members at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center for a Climate and Science Town Hall on Sept. 17 in Activities Building 4316. Calvin took part in a question-and-answer session during her visit […]
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Harris urges Latino leaders to help mobilize key voting bloc
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:01:44 +0000
In addressing Hispanic lawmakers, Harris called for border security as well as a path to citizenship
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Kamala Harris wrapped up her remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute conference by thanking Latino...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:24:42 +0000

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Vice President Kamala Harris got applause when she said Congress must reform “our broken immigration system...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:14:38 +0000

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Vice President Kamala Harris’s remarks to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s annual conference come at the...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:06:21 +0000

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Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s leadership conference is underway. She...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:59:10 +0000

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More than 100 GOP former officials, members of Congress endorse Harris
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:24:55 +0000

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Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Protesters in the Same Place They Shot Aysenur Eygi
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:35:26 +0000

Since 2021, Israeli soldiers have met weekly protests in the West Bank village with deadly force.

The post Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Protesters in the Same Place They Shot Aysenur Eygi appeared first on The Intercept.

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Politics live: Australia’s population grows by more than 600,000 people to 27.1 million; Lidia Thorpe wins vote for regular reports on deaths in custody
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:40:16 GMT

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Australia “abstained with great disappointment” on the Palestinian-drafted resolution at the United Nations general assembly in New York early this morning, the Australian ambassador to the UN has said.

The resolution – which sought to act on a recent advisory opinion of the international court of justice – was passed with 124 votes in favour and 14 against. Australia was one of 43 countries to abstain, including the UK, Canada and Germany.

That is why we abstained with great disappointment.

We wanted to vote for a resolution that directly reflected the ICJ Advisory Opinion.

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Moira Deeming ‘couldn’t believe’ there were neo-Nazis in Melbourne, defamation trial hears
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:26:11 GMT

Expelled Liberal MP tells federal court she thought men performing Nazi salute at rally were just ‘offensive idiot young people’

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Ousted Liberal MP Moira Deeming says it was “very difficult for me to conceive” of “real Nazis” in Melbourne after she saw a group of men dressed in black perform the Hitler salute on the steps of state parliament as they gatecrashed a 2023 rally.

Deeming returned to give evidence in the federal court on Thursday, for her third day of cross-examination in the defamation trial she brought against the opposition leader, John Pesutto.

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Campaigners call for unlimited ‘climate card’ UK rail pass
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:09 GMT

Research says flat-fee train travel would bring economic and health benefits as well as simplifying ticket fares

Renationalising the railways does not go far enough – Labour should spur a rail renaissance by allowing people around the UK unlimited train travel for a flat fee, campaigners have said.

Under a “climate card” system, passengers could pay a simple subscription to gain access to train travel across all services. This could be effective if set at £49 a month, according to research published on Thursday, though travellers on fast long-distance trains and those on routes in and through London would need to pay a top-up to reflect the greater demand on those services.

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The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:07 GMT

Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in the desert and colluding with smugglers

When she saw them, lined up at the road checkpoint, Marie sensed the situation might turn ugly. Four officers, each wearing the combat green of Tunisia’s national guard. They asked to look inside her bag.

“There was nothing, just some clothes.” For weeks Marie had traversed the Sahara, travelling 3,000 miles from home. Now, minutes from her destination – the north coast of Africa – she feared she might not make it.

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Artists ‘absolutely heartbroken’ after $60,000 bike-riding bear statue stolen from Melbourne laneway
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:12:10 GMT

Police allege three offenders used a crane to lift Sparkly Bear on to a truck in Sydney Road, Brunswick, before fleeing the scene

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The artists behind a beloved lifesize bear statue stolen from Melbourne’s inner north say they are “absolutely heartbroken” that it has been “taken … in such a violent way”.

The brass statue, valued by police at $60,000, depicts a glasses-wearing bear in a suit and tie, riding a tandem bike with a guitar.

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Hannah McGuire murder trial fast-tracked after ex-boyfriend pleads not guilty to Ballarat killing
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:02:11 GMT

Lachlan Young, 31, denies killing the 23-year-old whose body was found in a burnt-out car in April

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A 21-year-old man will face a supreme court murder trial over the death of Ballarat woman Hannah McGuire after electing to have his case fast-tracked.

Lachlan Young, wearing a maroon T-shirt, faced the Ballarat magistrates court on Thursday, where he formally pleaded not guilty to murdering his former partner.

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Australia’s unemployment rate unchanged at 4.2%, dampening hope of RBA interest rate cut
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:47:30 GMT

ABS figures show employers added 47,500 positions last month, above forecasts

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Australia’s economy added more jobs than expected in August as the unemployment rate remained steady, making a Reserve Bank interest rate cut less likely in the short term.

The jobless rate in August was 4.2%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday. Economists had it expected it to remain in line with the 4.2% in July.

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Trump stumps on Long Island, vowing to ‘win New York’ after losing big twice
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:29:40 +0000
He made the same boast in 2016 and 2020, losing his home state by more than 20 points.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders knocks Harris for not having biological children
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:23:20 +0000
“My kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble,” Sanders said at an event with Donald Trump in Flint, Mich.
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Hacker tried to give stolen Trump material to Biden campaign, U.S. says
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:21:52 +0000

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Trump says he’ll make stops in Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colo.
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:58:01 +0000

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters confirmed on Wednesday that for the first time in nearly three...
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:08:49 +0000

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Trump credited divine intervention after two apparent assassination attempts, amplifying suggestions that he’s God’s chosen candidate...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:56:24 +0000

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Donald Trump said at a rally on Long Island that he was campaigning in the state...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:42:01 +0000

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At the start of his campaign rally in Uniondale, N.Y., Donald Trump recalled the potential assassination...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:33:42 +0000

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House votes to reject GOP bill to avert government shutdown
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:02:18 +0000

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Poor NHS maternity care in danger of becoming normalised, regulator warns
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:01:09 GMT

CQC issues damning report on maternity services in England as minister admits anxiety over ‘risk of disaster’

Maternity services in England are so inadequate that cases of women receiving poor care and being harmed in childbirth are in danger of becoming “normalised”, the NHS regulator has said.

A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report based on inspections of 131 maternity units sets out an array of problems, adding to the sense of crisis that has enveloped an NHS service that cares for the 600,000 women a year who give birth and their babies.

Some women, frustrated at facing such long delays in being assessed at triage, discharge themselves before they are seen.

65% of units are not safe for women to give birth in, 47% of trusts are rated as requiring improvement on safety and another 18% are rated as inadequate.

Some hospitals do not record incidents that have resulted in serious harm.

There is a widespread lack of staff and in some places a lack of potentially life-saving equipment.

Hospitals do not always consider women’s suffering after receiving poor care.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s appeal denied in bail sentencing
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:45:17 +0000
Sean “Diddy” Combs and his attorneys appealed a judge’s order to keep him behind bars amid multiple charges.
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A federal judge in Michigan has rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s request to have his name...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:28:54 +0000

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“Dead Internet theory” comes to life with new AI-powered social media app
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:19:15 +0000
SocialAI takes the social media "filter bubble" to an extreme with 100% fake interactions.
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President Joe Biden marked National Hispanic Heritage Month on Wednesday at the White House with a...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:56:29 +0000

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British MPs and international organisations hacked on X
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:50:05 GMT

World Health Organization and Great British Menu among accounts that posted ‘this is a hacked account’

British politicians and international organisations have had their accounts on X hacked on Wednesday night.

MPs including Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, and the Labour MPs Chris Elmore and Carolyn Harris all shared the same message on the social media site. Although quickly removed, the messages could still be read on TweetDeck, a dashboard used to manage accounts on X, formerly Twitter.

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Springfield, Ohio, and the impact of a racist smear
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:42:28 +0000
After the presidential debate, Donald Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, remain in the spotlight. Where did the story come from, why won’t it go away, and how is it all affecting the community at the center of it?
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Vance continues to falsely claim legal Haitian immigrants are ‘illegal’
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:36:18 +0000

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Kirby says there was ‘no U.S. involvement’ amid new explosions in Lebanon
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:10:27 +0000

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the Federal Reserve’s recent rate cut “a moment of...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:18:22 +0000

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Vice President Kamala Harris joined a national youth organizing call on Wednesday and urged young voters...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:06:26 +0000

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New Jersey voters to fill seat of late Rep. Donald Payne Jr.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:03:18 +0000

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Can Harris’s embrace of the ‘brat’ aesthetic actually move votes?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:00:14 +0000
The pop culture and political crossover is inescapable, whether at Harris campaign rallies or at the first stop of Charli XCX’s Sweat Tour in battleground Michigan
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Ohio county’s political event canceled over ‘safety’ concerns
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:49:14 +0000

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White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said “it’s too soon to know” whether recent...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:48:52 +0000

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Analysis: How Biden and Trump compare on Trump’s favorite metric: Stock prices
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:48:16 +0000

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The White House news briefing was kicked off by Luisana Pérez Fernández, White House director of...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:33:55 +0000

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Rachel Reeves to replace No 11 paintings with art of or by women
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:30:04 GMT

State room artworks will be ‘of or by women’ as Reeves celebrates becoming first female chancellor

Rachel Reeves has announced plans to replace every painting in the lavish state room at No 11 Downing Street with artworks of or by women.

Speaking at a reception for female business leaders on Wednesday evening, the chancellor said she wanted to mark the lives of the “amazing women who have gone before us”.

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The post-debate polls are starting to affect our polling average. Nationally, the debate hasn’t moved the...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:14:17 +0000

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How Biden and Trump compare on Trump’s favorite metric: Stock prices
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:10:29 +0000
The Dow Jones industrial average hit a new high this week. Donald Trump probably won’t say that’s a function of Joe Biden.
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UK must stop being naive over resetting relations with EU, thinktank says
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:09:47 GMT

European Centre for International Political Economy outlines a plan to bring the two sides closer

The UK must stop being “naive” about negotiations to reset relations with the EU and show more flexibility in its approach to Brussels, a trade policy thinktank has said.

As EU leaders question how much has changed in the UK despite the new government, the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) has outlined a plan to bring the two sides closer after a series of reports that the EU doubted Keir Starmer’s commitment to a reset.

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Gallego’s new ad zeroes in on Kari Lake’s abortion comments
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:03:00 +0000

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The Guardian view on Israel’s booby-trap war: illegal and unacceptable | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:53:40 GMT

Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power depends on his nation being at war. The region is paying a high price

In the second world war, guerrilla forces scattered large quantities of booby-trapped objects likely to be attractive to civilians. The idea was to cause widescale and indiscriminate death. The Japanese manufactured a tobacco pipe with a charge detonated by a spring-loaded striker. The Italians produced a headset that blew up when it was plugged in. More than half a century later, a global treaty came into force which “prohibited in all circumstances to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects that are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material”. Has anyone told Israel and its jubilant supporters that, as Brian Finucane of the International Crisis Group points out, it is a signatory to the protocol?

On Tuesday, pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 12 people – including two children and four hospital workers – and wounding thousands more. This situation is directly analogous to the historical practices that current global arms treaties explicitly prohibit. US media say Israel was behind the attack, and the country has the motive and the means to target its Iran-backed enemies. Israel’s leaders have a long history of carrying out sophisticated remote operations, ranging from cyber-attacks, suicide drone attacks and remote-controlled weapons to assassinate Iranian scientists. On Wednesday it was reported that Israel blew up thousands of two-way personal radios used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, killing nine and wounding hundreds.

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NGOs call Home Office ‘unethical’ over £15m offer to help resettle deportees
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:46:40 GMT

More than 30 groups say they will not be ‘complicit’ in department’s ‘divisive anti-migrant agenda’

The Home Office has been accused of “cynical” and “unethical” behaviour after offering millions of pounds to refugee charities to help settle newly deported people.

A government contract put out to tender earlier this month offers to pay £15m over three years to NGOs who work with people being removed from the UK to 11 countries, including Ethiopia, Iraq and Zimbabwe.

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Vice President Kamala Harris is set to join a virtual campaign event Wednesday afternoon to rally...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:40:06 +0000

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Polls: Harris leads Trump in Pennsylvania; race closer in Michigan, Wisconsin
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:39:38 +0000

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The Trump campaign can’t quit ‘childless cat ladies’
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:29:23 +0000
Vance said it first, but Sarah Huckabee Sanders went there again on Harris’s lack of biological children. A liability with female voters and blended families?
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Vice President Kamala Harris, in her remarks Wednesday, noted that 40 percent of Latinas in the...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:22:59 +0000

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Kamala Harris is largely pulling from her campaign stump speech in the remarks she is delivering...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:11:51 +0000

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Vice President Kamala Harris leaned into her familiarity with many in the crowd of several hundred...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:01:41 +0000

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Analysis: For Kamala Harris, winning the debate was the easy part
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:35:25 +0000

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For Kamala Harris, winning the debate was the easy part
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:24:39 +0000
Polling shows that Harris impressed people with her debate performance — but the improvement was largely on non-policy perceptions.
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Biden’s arms transfers to Israel under internal investigation
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:21:56 +0000
The Pentagon and State Department inspectors general will soon disclose the findings of investigations scrutinizing U.S. weapons transfers to Israel.
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Ohio’s senior senator says Vance’s comments are ‘undermining’ Springfield
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:20:27 +0000

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The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:45:00 +0000

An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.

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Poll: Harris, Trump in tight race in Wisconsin
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:45:00 +0000

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Analysis: Vance says Ohio rumors come from locals. His ‘proof’ is from the internet.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:13:32 +0000

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First lady Jill Biden is set to host an event Friday at the White House to...
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:03:10 +0000

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Australians stranded on Kokoda track resume walk after protests shut down sections
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:00:49 GMT

Naoro village residents block sections of track and demand Papua New Guinea government release funds long promised for community projects

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Australians walking the Kokoda track have had treks cancelled while others have been stalled for long periods on the historic route as protests by landowners closed sections of the trail.

A group of 64 walkers, including 52 Australians, were left stranded on Monday after frustrated landowners from Naoro village blocked off the track, demanding the Papua New Guinea government release funds earmarked for community livelihood development projects.

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House to vote Wednesday on doomed GOP bill to avert government shutdown
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:46:36 +0000

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Georgia poll finds tight race, sharpening racial divide
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:33:05 +0000

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Vance says Ohio rumors come from locals. His ‘proof’ is from the internet.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:32:02 +0000
The Ohio senator likes to suggest that he has private knowledge of the accuracy of his claims. What he presents, though, is stuff from the right-wing bubble.
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Families of Americans ensnared in DRC coup plot assert their innocence
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:28:49 GMT

Young Americans face death penalty for ‘amateurish’ assault in Congo that was led by one of their fathers

The family of a Utah student sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for his alleged role in a failed coup d’etat in which his father was killed fears he and two other Americans could be executed within days without US government intervention.

Marcel Malanga, 22, was one of dozens convicted and sentenced at a military tribunal in Kinshasa last week, after the attempted overthrow of the Congolese government in May. The “amateurish” assault, which left six dead, was led by his father, Christian Malanga, a former DRC opposition leader, army captain and self-styled warlord.

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Trump gifted handcuffs used to arrest suspect in potential assassination
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:09:05 +0000

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Analysis: Zuckerberg shrinks from politics as Musk goes all-in for Trump
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:42:50 +0000

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Global alliance buys half a million mpox vaccines for Africa
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:30:21 GMT

Gavi uses newly established First Response Fund to secure doses, but 10 million are needed to meet demand on the continent

A batch of 500,000 mpox vaccines has been bought by the vaccine alliance Gavi, for delivery this year to virus-affected countries in Africa, where until now doses have been scarce.

It is estimated that 10 million vaccines are needed to meet demand, but the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which accounts for most cases, only received 100,000 vaccines earlier this month despite having had more than 700 deaths this year and 22,000 cases of the new Clade 1b strain. Neighbouring countries Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya have each reported a handful of cases.

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Why Big Tobacco is betting on Trump
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:05:24 +0000

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Assassination attempts, threats increase burdens on Trump campaign
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:17:43 +0000

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Woman who was a 12-year-old rape victim is featured in new Harris campaign ad
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:23 +0000

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Analysis: Next year’s massive tax battle has already started
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:35:25 +0000

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Federal Reserve rate cut may boost Harris in campaign’s home stretch
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:15:00 +0000

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Analysis: Swift’s endorsement of Harris spotlights young voters. They are not a monolith.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:52 +0000

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Where the candidates are today
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:45:47 +0000

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Violent threats and attacks escalate tensions in Trump-Harris race
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:30:36 +0000

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Harris bashes Trump’s ‘hateful’ attacks on Haitians in rare interview
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:15:09 +0000

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No, violent crime isn’t soaring, but neither is it falling
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:00:57 +0000
Trump cherry-picks data to argue there’s a crime spree, but violent crime rates are flat over the past ten years
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Josh Johnson Has Become the Funniest Guy on the Internet. That Is Not a Joke
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The Daily Show correspondent and TikTok phenom once said the web was a bad idea. Now it’s the reason he’s famous.
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My report on the NHS diagnosed its dire condition. Now here’s the cure | Ara Darzi
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:06 GMT

Making healthy life expectancy central to all government policy is the surest way of stemming demand on the health service

When the secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, asked me to investigate the state of the NHS, I thought I knew what we would find. All of us who have worked in the NHS in recent years have known it was under pressure. But, as a surgeon, I am used to seeing just one piece of the puzzle. Hearing the experiences of millions of patients and staff across the country brought together left me shocked and angry.

If effective access and high-quality care are at the heart of the NHS’s social contract with the people, then it is routinely breaking its promise to the public. Too many people are waiting in A&E corridors or struggling to see a GP. Quality care should be the organising principle of the NHS. But my investigation has shown that patient care is stagnating or even declining. It is unsurprising that public trust in the NHS is at an all-time low.

Prof Lord Darzi is a former health minister, Paul Hamlyn chair of surgery at Imperial College London and co-chair of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity

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How the Trump campaign has been forced to adapt to assassination threats
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000
The situation has caused a grim mood on the campaign, as the once freewheeling candidate is hemmed in by new constraints.
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Trump defends Secret Service as Hannity presses concerns
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:53:21 +0000

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Kerstin Emhoff fires back at Sarah Sanders’s jab at Kamala Harris
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:13:28 +0000

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Donald Trump had kind words to say about Michigan during his town hall in Flint.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:16:46 +0000

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Donald Trump appeared to misspeak as he mentioned the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan but...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:48:29 +0000

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FLINT, Mich. — Donald Trump briefly noted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s endorsement of Kamala Harris at...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:45:54 +0000

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Former president Donald Trump said he got a “very nice call” from Vice President Kamala Harris...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:20:13 +0000

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Court may decide if Arizonans with missing citizenship records can vote in state races
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:33:08 +0000
Arizona officials discovered they have no records showing if nearly 100,000 longtime residents provided proof of citizenship, which is required by law to vote in state and local races.
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A quick explanation of how bomb threats work, to help JD Vance
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:05:01 +0000
There were threats to people and places in Springfield, Ohio, after Vance and Trump made false claims about Haitian immigrants. The media isn’t to blame.
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‘Our vote means next to nothing’: optimism of young Scottish yes supporters fades 10 years on
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:13:57 GMT

Young people’s support for independence has increased since 2014 but some see a ‘real lack of trust’ in politicians

Steven Campbell was 17 and still a high school pupil during the Scottish independence referendum campaign of 2014. “It didn’t matter what clique you were in, everybody was talking about the referendum and everyone had an opinion,” Campbell recalls. “For the first time young people were included in the conversation and the choice was about the rest of our lives.”

Now a student nurse and chair of Young Scots for Independence, the youth branch of the SNP, Campbell is reflective: “2014 captured a generation but then it felt like not just the SNP but the entire political system in Scotland and UK-wide failed to capitalise on that.”

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After the riots: the Muslim women filming everything to stay safe – video
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:13:19 GMT

Lila Tamea was one of the worshippers inside Abdullah Quilliam Society mosque in Liverpool when it was targeted by far-right rioters in August. Alongside Imam Adam Kelwick, she went out to speak to them and offer food.  In the weeks that followed, Lila took a leading role in trying to rebuild her community after the violence. But now, despite promises of community cohesion in Liverpool, fear and paranoia are still a daily reality for Muslim women

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'It’s an astonishingly fragile time’: Robert Peston on inequality, identity politics and how to heal Britain
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:00:09 GMT

ITV’s political editor has helped explain our national crises, from the 2008 financial crash onwards. Could he also help solve them?

Two seconds earlier, it had been sheet rain and squally winds at the street festival in north London, but as Robert Peston took the stage with his band, Centrist Dad, the weather suddenly swerved back to sunshine, which gave the whole thing a surreal edge. What did these men (including Peston on vocals, John Wilson from Front Row on bass and Ed Balls from New Labour on drums) do, to get blessed by Zeus? What dense thicket of influences informs Peston’s performance, which is a little bit Bowie, a little bit Carly Rae Jepsen, a little bit Ross-from-Friends-in-a-school-musical? The broadcaster, author, journalist and fabulously idiosyncratic emphasiser of words is, of course, well connected (Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper are also here), but he doesn’t strut like a well-connected person. He struts like a guy who really likes being in a band.

I met Peston two days before, in a cafe in Kentish Town. He is 64 but reads as peculiarly ageless, natty in a sharp blue suit, carrying a Brompton bike, a bit like a guy from the BBC sitcom W1A. He has lived his entire life in what you might call the progressive aristocracy. “I never thought of it quite like that,” he says, “but that must be true.” His father, Maurice Peston, was an economist and adviser to various Labour governments from the 60s to the 90s, becoming a life peer in 1987. Robert Peston talks about a “cringe-making section” in his teenage diary – “13- or 14-year-old me saying, ‘Had a good chat with Roy [Hattersley], I don’t think he likes me.’”

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There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:31:13 +0000

A police shooting that injured three people and one officer is the result of New York Mayor Eric Adams’s enforcement-first mentality.

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Planned Shein IPO needs closer scrutiny, says former Labour minister
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:40:27 GMT

Trade committee head Liam Byrne wants checks on firm’s possible supply chain links to forced labour

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A former minister has called on the government to closely scrutinise Shein for possible links to forced working as the China-founded fast-fashion retailer prepares for a stock market listing in London.

Liam Byrne, the Labour MP who heads parliament’s business and trade committee, said the UK should introduce new legislation to increase scrutiny of supply chains that may include products made in the Xinjiang region of north-western China.

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How a Mid-Century Paramour Became a Democratic Power Broker
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Churchill weaponized her powers of seduction—but Pamela Harriman came into her own when she brought her glamour to Washington.
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The Historical Precedents to Trump’s Attacks on Haitian Immigrants
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:24:10 +0000
An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.
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Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:28:19 +0000
PERA and PREVAIL want to re-enable patents struck down by Supreme Court rulings.
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Venezuela opposition leader says he was forced to sign letter accepting Maduro victory
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:08:00 GMT

Edmundo González says he signed election letter under duress as condition for allowing him to flee to Spain

• Is it game over for Venezuela’s opposition as Maduro clings on?

Venezuela’s opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, has said he was coerced into signing a letter recognizing Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the country’s disputed election as a condition for letting him flee to Spain.

The revelation of the letter is the latest strain to the country’s political crisis, which was exacerbated by the disputed election results and González’s recent departure for exile in Spain.

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The Trump Campaign in the Wake of a Second Assassination Attempt
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:37:22 +0000
“There’s something going on,” Donald Trump said. “I mean, perhaps it’s God wanting me to be President to save this country. Nobody knows.”
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Drone Awards 2024 – in pictures
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:00:18 GMT

A selection of the nominated images from this year’s Drone Awards. A winner will be announced on 28 September at the Siena World Photography Awards ceremony at the Teatro dei Rinnovati in Siena, Italy

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Most Americans Want to Stop Arming Israel. Politicians Don’t Care.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:13:10 +0000

The number of Americans opposed to sending arms to Israel has grown, month after month, as the brutal war on Gaza grinds on.

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America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:48:15 +0000

Residents of Springfield, Ohio, worry that politicians are inciting violence against Haitian immigrants. It’s a long U.S. tradition.

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Harris v Trump: highlights of the presidential debate – video
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:54:48 GMT

After weeks of arguments over the format and rules, the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a key swing state. Both candidates went into the event virtually tied in the polls, in search of a campaign-altering moment

• ‘They’re eating the cats’: Trump rambles falsely about immigrants in debate

• Harris’s powerful abortion stance and Trump’s fact-checks: key takeaways from the debate

• Harris slams Trump for falsehoods on abortion and immigration in fiery debate

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US rejects claims of CIA involvement in alleged plot to kill Maduro after Venezuela arrests six
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 01:09:39 GMT

State department says allegations of American collusion are ‘categorically false’ as US navy member identified among foreign citizens detained

The US state department rejected allegations of CIA involvement in an alleged assassination plot against Nicolás Maduro after Venezuelan officials announced the arrest of three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech on Saturday.

The claims of a plot against Maduro – the Venezuelan president, whose recent re-election is contested – were made on state television by Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister. Cabello said the foreign citizens including a US navy member were part of a CIA-led plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government and kill several members of its leadership. In the television programme, Cabello showed images of rifles that he said were confiscated from some of the alleged plotters.

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Vance’s media strategy takes a turn
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 15:58:06 EST
He was Trump’s policy whisperer to key voting blocs. Now, he’s fueling rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating cats and dogs.
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How to Get Under a Strongman’s Skin, with George Conway
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
“All you have to do is figure out what it is that he talks about in self-defense and poke him,” says the co-founder of the Lincoln Project.
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The Trendiest Piercing Studios in N.Y.C.
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Also: The influential aesthetic of “Africa’s Fashion Diaspora,” the return of Bright Eyes, the democratic Fall for Dance festival, and more.
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Trump and Harris Agree: More Bombs for Israel
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:02:23 +0000

The candidates fought to out-hawk each other on sustaining the bloody status quo in the Middle East at the presidential debate.

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Would you row across the Atlantic with someone like me? I certainly wouldn’t | Adrian Chiles
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:07 GMT

If you were risking your life in the middle of the ocean, you’d want your shipmate to be a cheerful problem-solver. That’s me out of the running

Here are three of my favourite uses of figures of speech to describe the competence of footballers. Actually, there’s four, but one is too rude. Oh, to hell with it, I’ll share it anyway. It came from a caller on a post-match local radio phone-in and concerned a goalkeeper in an alarmingly lousy run of form. “He couldn’t keep a clean sheet on his honeymoon,” the caller said. If you don’t get it, probably best not to give it too much thought. Another one from a radio phone-in, related to me by the commentator and former athlete Steve Cram, was used to paint a vivid picture of an enthusiastic Sunderland full-back who did a lot of running with the ball without ever seeming to be fully in control of it. “He’s like a dog with a balloon,” wailed a despairing Sunderland fan.

The other two come from the same man, my late friend Jeff Farmer. A football reporter turned TV executive turned board director at the club I support, he was the kind of old-school Brummie I don’t come across so much any more. He had a good way with words. After being soundly beaten by a Blackburn Rovers team that featured in midfield an energetic, abrasive scouser called David Thompson, Jeff said to me: “That Thompson’s like a wasp in your car – an absolute effing nuisance.” But my favourite Jeffism is my favourite because it’s relevant in the real world as well as in football. Of one of our players coming back from injury, Jeff said: “He’s worth a few goals. OK, you wouldn’t want to row the Atlantic with him, but he’s a decent striker.”

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Match ID: 165 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

The sweeping reorganisation of the brain in pregnancy, and why it matters – podcast
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:06 GMT

Ian Sample talks to Dr Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research using precision scans to capture the profound changes that sweep across the brain during pregnancy. She explains what this new work reveals about how the brain is reorganised in this period, whether it could it help us better understand conditions like pre-eclampsia and postnatal depression, and why women’s brains have often been overlooked by neuroscience

Scans capture sweeping reorganisation of brain in pregnancy

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Match ID: 166 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

The Guardian view on China’s ageing population: an economic and social conundrum | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:52:53 GMT

Raising the retirement age is never popular, particularly for a country that is getting old before it gets rich

No one should be surprised that China is raising its retirement ages. They are currently among the lowest in the world and haven’t shifted for decades, even as lifespans have lengthened dramatically. Women currently retire as early as 50 and men at 60, while life expectancy is around 78 – up from 44 in 1960. Now the male retirement age is to rise to 63, while women’s will rise to 55 (for blue-collar workers) and 58 (for white-collar employees). These changes will be phased in over the next 15 years. Employees will also have to make more contributions from 2030.

China is far from alone in facing the problem of too many old people and too few young workers to support them. But unlike western nations, it is getting old before it has got rich. The scale of the challenge and the speed at which it is arriving are extraordinary, thanks in large part to the decades of birth restrictions known as the one-child policy. It also means that fewer retirees are able to count on their kids supporting them.

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.

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Match ID: 167 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 legislature

Stuart Rose gets hands-on at Asda. This can’t have been plan A | Nils Pratley
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:34:47 GMT

Awkward interregnum in which former M&S boss is taking charge sums up chaotic progress since purchase from Walmart

“We need a full-time fully experienced retail executive to come in,” said Stuart Rose, the chair of Asda, a month ago as he confessed to being “embarrassed” about the supermarket chain’s loss of market share. Now he has found someone who fits the bill temporarily: one Lord Rose of Monewden. He will “assume” day-to-day executive responsibilities from Mohsin Issa, one of the co-owners and leaders of the £6.8bn leveraged buyout of Asda in 2021.

Rose definitely counts as fully experienced since he’s led Burton, Argos, Arcadia, Marks & Spencer and more in his time. But a return to executive duties at the youthful age of 75 probably wasn’t what he envisaged when he hopped onboard the Issa brothers/TDR Capital buyout vehicle. Offerings of sage advice from the back-seat was surely the gist of the original script.

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Match ID: 168 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

The all new Champions League kicks off - Football Weekly podcast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:56:33 GMT

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini and Mark Langdon as the Champions League season begins with big wins for Liverpool and Aston Villa.

Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.

On the podcast today; Liverpool get an early fright at the San Siro but ultimately prove too strong for Milan, meanwhile the other English side in action, Aston Villa, score a comprehensive win over Young Boys.

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Match ID: 169 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea – podcast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:51 GMT

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.

This week, from 2021: Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world. By Robert P Baird

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Match ID: 170 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Should we believe Putin’s war talk? - podcast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:00:44 GMT

How discussions over long-range missiles led to war threats from Vladimir Putin. Dan Sabbagh reports

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wants his western allies to allow the use of their Storm Shadow missiles to bomb targets inside Russia.

Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian’s defence and security editor, tells Michael Safi why US president Joe Biden’s decision over the missiles is a delicate one.

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Match ID: 171 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Is the WPLL takeover good for the English game? – Women’s Football Weekly
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:38:29 GMT

Faye Carruthers is joined by Suzanne Wrack, Tom Garry and Ceylon Andi Hickman to discuss the NewCo, the Women’s Professional League (WPLL) and look ahead to the Barclays Women’s Super League season

On today’s pod, the panel discusses a new era for women’s football as the Women’s Professional League (formerly known as NewCo) takes over the WSL and Women’s Championship from the FA. Is this a good thing or a bad thing for women’s football in England?

The panel also looks forward to an exciting Barclays WSL season by analysing each team's major transfers, assessing their progress, and famously predicting the season's final standings.

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Match ID: 172 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
2024-09-17T00:00:00Z
Is "net zero" better than "carbon neutral"? New rules related to climate risk disclosure are raising the stakes for executives trying to set meaningful decarbonization goals. Michael Toffel demystifies the terms and nuances of climate impact reporting.
Match ID: 173 Score: 15.00 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Part of the intrigue has been which movement would run out of steam first: Trump’s MAGA, through its failures, or Obama’s liberalism, through its successes.
Match ID: 174 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 14.29 election

A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way.
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:00:02 +0000

After the AG's meddling, a trial court judge rejected Williams's innocence claim — even though prosecutors mishandled the murder weapon.

The post A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 175 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 6.43 executive, 6.43 constitution

NASA Shares Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Remarks
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:48:38 +0000
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as prepared for Wednesday’s Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards recognized the women who contributed to the space race, including the NASA mathematicians who helped land the first astronauts on the Moon under the agency’s Apollo Program. “Good afternoon. “The remarkable things that NASA […]
Match ID: 176 Score: 10.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

We Hunted Hidden Police Signals at the DNC
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Using special software, WIRED investigated police surveillance at the DNC. We collected signals from nearly 300,000 devices, revealing vulnerabilities for both law enforcement and everyday citizens alike.
Match ID: 177 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

AI-Generated Fake News Is Coming to an Election Near You
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Targeted, AI-generated political misinformation is already out there—and humans are falling for it.
Match ID: 178 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 240 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Afghan women meet in Albania in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban crackdown
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:28:26 GMT

Organisers of international summit hope to create pressure to reverse laws including a ban on women speaking in public

More than 130 Afghan women have gathered in Albania at an All Afghan Women summit, in an attempt to develop a united voice representing the women and girls of Afghanistan in the fight against the ongoing assault on human rights by the Taliban.

Some women who attempted to reach the summit from inside Afghanistan were prevented from travelling, pulled off flights in Pakistan or stopped at borders. Other women have travelled from countries including Iran, Canada, the UK and the US where they are living as refugees.

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Match ID: 179 Score: 8.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 8.57 politics

Why the far-right AfD has been so successful in Germany – video explainer
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:04:53 GMT

The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is riding a populist wave across Europe’s largest economy.

According to polls conducted this month, the AfD has become the strongest party in Thuringia, a former state of the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR). In Saxony, another former GDR state, the party finished a very close second behind the CDU.

The Guardian's Berlin correspondent, Deborah Cole, explains how the AfD has risen from its eurosceptic origins to a party that is 'managing to set the agenda' in German politics

• Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart

• Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. Here’s why it won’t happen

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Match ID: 180 Score: 8.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat

How Republicans and Democrats paint starkly different pictures of America
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:00:00 EST
This summer's conventions featured strongly diverging visions of the future — and the present.
Match ID: 181 Score: 8.57 source: www.politico.com age: 18 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 democrat

Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:38:38 +0000

The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma resulted in the largest restoration of Indigenous land in U.S. history. 

The post Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 182 Score: 7.86 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat, 2.14 constitution, 1.43 congress

Harris breaks from ‘Bidenomics’ in North Carolina
Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:37:08 EST
The vice president makes her pitch in North Carolina, where Democrats have long hoped to flip the closely divided state.
Match ID: 183 Score: 7.86 source: www.politico.com age: 33 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat, 3.57 election

Weed, wages and same-sex marriage: The most intriguing ballot measures that voters will decide in November
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:00:00 EST
Across the U.S. in November, voters will weigh proposals on election policies, minimum wage increases and marijuana legalization.
Match ID: 184 Score: 7.14 source: www.politico.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 election

U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:00:12 +0000

In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.

The post U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 185 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 5.71 congress

Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:55:47 +0000
Turning a profit from political news is a lot harder than it looks
Match ID: 186 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 55 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

The Intercept Sues to Release 911 Recordings From Trump Rally Shooting
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:43:13 +0000

Questions remain about the police response to the shooting of former President Donald Trump — questions that 911 logs may help answer.

The post The Intercept Sues to Release 911 Recordings From Trump Rally Shooting appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 187 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It.
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:22:57 +0000

A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.

The post Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 188 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat

Harris goes after Trump on economy and inflation in new ad
Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:51:33 EST
The vice president is trying to shore up the affordability argument.
Match ID: 189 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 23 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat

‘America is not a museum’: Why Democrats are going big on housing despite the risks
Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:00:00 EST
Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to flip the script and own an issue impacting large swaths of Americans.
Match ID: 190 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 24 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat

Everything was going Kamala Harris’ way. Then came the market sell-off.
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 04:00:00 EST
"We cannot win if people think we’re headed into a recession," one Democratic National Committee member said.
Match ID: 191 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 43 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat

Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:36:12 +0000
Why, then, are they largely outlawed in America?
Match ID: 192 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, offer independently-minded internet users a safe haven—but it’s also a boon to those with a darker purpose.
Match ID: 193 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 238 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Regulators Are Finally Catching Up With Big Tech
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The lawless, Wild West era of AI and technology is almost at an end, as data protection authorities use new and existing legislation to get tough.
Match ID: 194 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 250 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000

 

In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This platform not only stands out from the multitude of existing AI tools but also brings a fresh approach to content generation. LimeWire not only empowers users to create AI content but also provides creators with creative ways to share and monetize their creations.

As we explore LimeWire, our aim is to uncover its features, benefits for creators, and the exciting possibilities it offers for AI content generation. This platform presents an opportunity for users to harness the power of AI in image creation, all while enjoying the advantages of a free and accessible service.

Let's unravel the distinctive features that set LimeWire apart in the dynamic landscape of AI-powered tools, understanding how creators can leverage its capabilities to craft unique and engaging AI-generated images.

Introduction

This revamped LimeWire invites users to register and unleash their creativity by crafting original AI content, which can then be shared and showcased on the LimeWire Studio. Notably, even acclaimed artists and musicians, such as Deadmau5, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston, have embraced this platform to publish their content in the form of NFT music, videos, and images.

Beyond providing a space for content creation and sharing, LimeWire introduces monetization models to empower users to earn revenue from their creations. This includes avenues such as earning ad revenue and participating in the burgeoning market of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). As we delve further, we'll explore these monetization strategies in more detail to provide a comprehensive understanding of LimeWire's innovative approach to content creation and distribution.

LimeWire Studio welcomes content creators into its fold, providing a space to craft personalized AI-focused content for sharing with fans and followers. Within this creative hub, every piece of content generated becomes not just a creation but a unique asset—ownable and tradable. Fans have the opportunity to subscribe to creators' pages, immersing themselves in the creative journey and gaining ownership of digital collectibles that hold tradeable value within the LimeWire community. Notably, creators earn a 2.5% royalty each time their content is traded, adding a rewarding element to the creative process.

The platform's flexibility is evident in its content publication options. Creators can choose to share their work freely with the public or opt for a premium subscription model, granting exclusive access to specialized content for subscribers.

LimeWire AI Studio

As of the present moment, LimeWire focuses on AI Image Generation, offering a spectrum of creative possibilities to its user base. The platform, however, has ambitious plans on the horizon, aiming to broaden its offerings by introducing AI music and video generation tools in the near future. This strategic expansion promises creators even more avenues for expression and engagement with their audience, positioning LimeWire Studio as a dynamic and evolving platform within the realm of AI-powered content creation.

AI Image Generation Tools

The LimeWire AI image generation tool presents a versatile platform for both the creation and editing of images. Supporting advanced models such as Stable Diffusion 2.1, Stable Diffusion XL, and DALL-E 2, LimeWire offers a sophisticated toolkit for users to delve into the realm of generative AI art.

Much like other tools in the generative AI landscape, LimeWire provides a range of options catering to various levels of complexity in image creation. Users can initiate the creative process with prompts as simple as a few words or opt for more intricate instructions, tailoring the output to their artistic vision.

What sets LimeWire apart is its seamless integration of different AI models and design styles. Users have the flexibility to effortlessly switch between various AI models, exploring diverse design styles such as cinematic, digital art, pixel art, anime, analog film, and more. Each style imparts a distinctive visual identity to the generated AI art, enabling users to explore a broad spectrum of creative possibilities.

The platform also offers additional features, including samplers, allowing users to fine-tune the quality and detail levels of their creations. Customization options and prompt guidance further enhance the user experience, providing a user-friendly interface for both novice and experienced creators.

Excitingly, LimeWire is actively developing its proprietary AI model, signaling ongoing innovation and enhancements to its image generation capabilities. This upcoming addition holds the promise of further expanding the creative horizons for LimeWire users, making it an evolving and dynamic platform within the landscape of AI-driven art and image creation.

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

Upon completing your creative endeavor on LimeWire, the platform allows you the option to publish your content. An intriguing feature follows this step: LimeWire automates the process of minting your creation as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), utilizing either the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. This transformative step imbues your artwork with a unique digital signature, securing its authenticity and ownership in the decentralized realm.

Creators on LimeWire hold the power to decide the accessibility of their NFT creations. By opting for a public release, the content becomes discoverable by anyone, fostering a space for engagement and interaction. Furthermore, this choice opens the avenue for enthusiasts to trade the NFTs, adding a layer of community involvement to the artistic journey.

Alternatively, LimeWire acknowledges the importance of exclusivity. Creators can choose to share their posts exclusively with their premium subscribers. In doing so, the content remains a special offering solely for dedicated fans, creating an intimate and personalized experience within the LimeWire community. This flexibility in sharing options emphasizes LimeWire's commitment to empowering creators with choices in how they connect with their audience and distribute their digital creations.

After creating your content, you can choose to publish the content. It will automatically mint your creation as an NFT on the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. You can also choose whether to make it public or subscriber-only.

If you make it public, anyone can discover your content and even trade the NFTs. If you choose to share the post only with your premium subscribers, it will be exclusive only to your fans.

Earn Revenue From Your Content

Additionally, you can earn ad revenue from your content creations as well.

When you publish content on LimeWire, you will receive 70% of all ad revenue from other users who view your images, music, and videos on the platform.

This revenue model will be much more beneficial to designers. You can experiment with the AI image and content generation tools and share your creations while earning a small income on the side.

LMWR Tokens

The revenue you earn from your creations will come in the form of LMWR tokens, LimeWire’s own cryptocurrency.

Your earnings will be paid every month in LMWR, which you can then trade on many popular crypto exchange platforms like Kraken, ByBit, and UniSwap.

You can also use your LMWR tokens to pay for prompts when using LimeWire generative AI tools.

Pricing Plans

You can sign up to LimeWire to use its AI tools for free. You will receive 10 credits to use and generate up to 20 AI images per day. You will also receive 50% of the ad revenue share. However, you will get more benefits with premium plans.

• Basic plan: 

For $9.99 per month, you will get 1,000 credits per month, up to 2 ,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 50% ad revenue share

• Advanced plan: 

For $29 per month, you will get 3750 credits per month, up to 7500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 60% ad revenue share

• Pro plan: 

For $49 per month, you will get 5,000 credits per month, up to 10,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

• Pro Plus plan: 

For $99 per month, you will get 11,250 credits per month, up to 2 2,500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

With all premium plans, you will receive a Pro profile badge, full creation history, faster image generation, and no ads.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, LimeWire emerges as a democratizing force in the creative landscape, providing an inclusive platform where anyone can unleash their artistic potential and effortlessly share their work. With the integration of AI, LimeWire eliminates traditional barriers, empowering designers, musicians, and artists to publish their creations and earn revenue with just a few clicks.

The ongoing commitment of LimeWire to innovation is evident in its plans to enhance generative AI tools with new features and models. The upcoming expansion to include music and video generation tools holds the promise of unlocking even more possibilities for creators. It sparks anticipation about the diverse and innovative ways in which artists will leverage these tools to produce and publish their own unique creations.

For those eager to explore, LimeWire's AI tools are readily accessible for free, providing an opportunity to experiment and delve into the world of generative art. As LimeWire continues to evolve, creators are encouraged to stay tuned for the launch of its forthcoming AI music and video generation tools, promising a future brimming with creative potential and endless artistic exploration

Match ID: 195 Score: 4.29 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 281 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat

Trump's Wall Street pitch: Punishing tariffs, low taxes, 'explosive' growth
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:11:22 EST
Trump arrived in New York amid growing concerns among some investors about his economic plans as Harris casts his agenda as a financially calamitous wishlist.
Match ID: 196 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
2024-09-03T00:00:00Z
With a US presidential election on the horizon, tech companies are struggling to stem misinformation on social media. Research by Scott Duke Kominers and Jesse Shapiro suggests it's time to focus on eliminating content that can lead to potential harm rather than false beliefs.
Match ID: 197 Score: 3.57 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 16 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

Vance warns of China’s influence during Michigan rally
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:16:42 EST
Vance’s rally Tuesday was the first of a series of events in Rust Belt swing states that he and Trump are visiting this week.
Match ID: 198 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 22 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000

Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Would you like to read a detailed review of Canva? As it's one of the tools I love using. I am also writing my first ebook using canva and publish it soon on my site you can download it is free.  Let's start the review.

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload your own photos from your computer or from Google Drive, and add them to Canva's templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that doesn't require Graphic designing knowledge to use. It’s best for nongraphic designers.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.

To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. To use it, you’ll need to learn its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and it’s best to have a good background in design, too.

Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.

So here  Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easier to use and free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12.95 per month.

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99/month per user or  $119.99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).

Free plan Features

• 250,000+ free templates
• 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
• Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
• Invite members to your team
• Collaborate and comment in real-time
• 5GB of cloud storage
• Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days

Pro Plan Features 

• Everything Free, has plus:
• 100+ million premium and  stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
• 610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
• Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
•  Create a library of your brand or campaign's colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
• Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
• Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
• Save designs as templates for your team to use
• 100GB of cloud storage
• Schedule social media content to 8 platforms

Enterprise Plan Features

• Everything Pro has plus:
• Establish your brand's visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
• Control your team's access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
• Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
• Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
• Unlimited Storage
• Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.

How to Use Canva?

To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between student, teacher, small business, large company, non-profit, or personal. Based on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.

You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.

Canva Sign Up

Designing with Canva

When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Based on the type of account you set up  you'll be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: social media posts, documents, presentations, marketing, events, ads, launch your business, build your online brand, etc.

 Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.

Templates

Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of templates that are ready to go, with customizable photos, text, and other elements.

You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.

 Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose from

Elements

Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.

To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:

Photos

The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.

You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suited to your industry.

You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.

When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop, or animate it.

 When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any stock photo in  library or any image you upload.

Text

The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.

When you click on  text, you'll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows). 

Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content remains on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.

Audio

Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.

If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.

Video

Want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock video clips. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes

You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab. 

Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.

Backgrounds

On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. Change out the background on a template to give it a more personal touch.

Styles

The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your brand’s custom colors and fonts to ensure designs stay on brand.

Logos

If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use throughout your designs.

With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo with stock content in it.

Publishing with Canva

With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.

Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. For example, you can start by designing an Instagram post, and Canva's Magic Resizer can resize it for other networks, Stories, Reels, and other formats.

Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.

Canva Team

Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created inside Canva, and then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can make comments, edits, revisions, and keep track via the version history.

Canva Print

When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With an extensive selection of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall art to mugs and t-shirts. 

Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs people will want to wear, keep, and share. Hand out custom business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers' minds.

Canva Apps

The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.

In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

• A user-friendly interface
• Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
• Hundreds of templates, so you'll never have to start from scratch.
• Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
• Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
• Creating visual content on the go
• You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.

Cons:

• Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
• Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
• Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
• Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
• If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva's features limited.
• Prefers to work with vectors. Especially logos.
• Expensive enterprise pricing

Conclusion

In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. If you are a graphic designer with experience, you will find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features – particularly vectors. But if you have little design experience, you will find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.

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Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:00:03 GMT

Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rights

Extreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools around the world as part of a coordinated and well-funded attack on gender equality, according to a new report.

Well-known conservative organisations aim to restrict girls’ access to education, change what is on the curriculum, and influence educational laws and policies, according to Whose Hands on our Education, a report by the ODI global affairs thinktank

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Top U.S. General Meets With Alleged War Criminal in Libya
Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:26:05 +0000

Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, described by some in Congress as a “warlord,” is seeking to expand cooperation with the U.S.

The post Top U.S. General Meets With Alleged War Criminal in Libya appeared first on The Intercept.

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Reinventing the Clock: NASA’s New Tech for Space Timekeeping
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for example, relies on precise timing signals from satellites to pinpoint locations. Three teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are at work to push timekeeping for space exploration to new levels of precision.
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The Marshall Star for September 18, 2024
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:21:13 +0000
Marshall Welcomes NASA Chief Scientist for Climate, Science Town Hall NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Kate Calvin, center left, joins team members at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center for a Climate and Science Town Hall on Sept. 17 in Activities Building 4316. Calvin took part in a question-and-answer session during her visit […]
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Hubble Examines a Busy Galactic Center
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:39:54 +0000
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the southern constellation Telescopium. Hubble beautifully captures its faint halo and swirling disk filled with stars and dust bands. The compact region at its core might be the most remarkable sight. It holds an active galactic […]
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NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however […]
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65 Years Ago: First Powered Flight of the X-15 Hypersonic Rocket Plane
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
The X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, built by North American Aviation (NAA), greatly expanded our knowledge of flight at speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes above 250,000 feet. A joint project among NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy, the X-15’s first powered flight took place on Sept. 17, 1959, at the Flight Research […]
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NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing Hybrid-Electric Airliners with HyTEC
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, part-gas-powered engine may find its way into the skies propelling a future jet airliner. NASA is working in tandem with industry partner GE Aerospace on designing and building just such an engine, one that burns […]
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NASA Deputy Administrator Talks Future of Agency in Silicon Valley
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:34:55 +0000
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy spent time at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, on Sept. 16, 2024, engaging with center leaders and employees to discuss strategies that could drive meaningful changes to ensure NASA remains the preeminent institution for research, technology, and engineering, and to lead science, aeronautics, and space exploration for […]
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NASA Shares Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Remarks
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:48:38 +0000
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as prepared for Wednesday’s Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards recognized the women who contributed to the space race, including the NASA mathematicians who helped land the first astronauts on the Moon under the agency’s Apollo Program. “Good afternoon. “The remarkable things that NASA […]
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Giant Leaps Start at Johnson for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:41:18 +0000
As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a variety of unique responsibilities and privileges. Those include being the home of NASA’s astronaut corps. One of those astronauts – Nick Hague – is now preparing to launch to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the […]
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NASA, US Department of Education to Launch STEM Project in Washington
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:15:07 +0000
Media are invited to the kickoff event of a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department of Education at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, at the Wheatley Education Campus in Washington. The interagency project, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, aims to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education during after-school hours. […]
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Elon Musk threatens to sue FAA after feds propose fining SpaceX $633,000
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:53:28 +0000
"SpaceX will be filing suit against the FAA for regulatory overreach," Musk said.
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Rob Gutro: Clear Science in the Forecast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:09 +0000
Rob Gutro has never been one to stay idle. From his start working at a paper factory as a teenager, Rob navigated his way to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where he serves as the deputy news chief in the Office of Communications until he retires in October 2024. In this role, Rob manages all […]
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NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson’s Scientific Mission aboard Space Station
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is returning home after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. While on orbit, Dyson conducted an array of experiments and technology demonstrations that contribute to advancements for humanity on Earth and the agency’s trajectory to the Moon and Mars.  Here is a look at some of the science […]
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The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:20:55 +0000
The most ambitious private spaceflight to date was a total success—and it blazed a trail for others to follow.
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Ready at Kennedy
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:28:00 +0200
Image: Unboxing ESA's third European Service Module at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
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Campaigners call for unlimited ‘climate card’ UK rail pass
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:09 GMT

Research says flat-fee train travel would bring economic and health benefits as well as simplifying ticket fares

Renationalising the railways does not go far enough – Labour should spur a rail renaissance by allowing people around the UK unlimited train travel for a flat fee, campaigners have said.

Under a “climate card” system, passengers could pay a simple subscription to gain access to train travel across all services. This could be effective if set at £49 a month, according to research published on Thursday, though travellers on fast long-distance trains and those on routes in and through London would need to pay a top-up to reflect the greater demand on those services.

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With their lies about Haitian immigrants, Trump and Vance have reached a new low | Moustafa Bayoumi
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:07 GMT

If Trump and Vance can’t take responsibility for their actions now, why would they take responsibility for the country later?

During his debate with Kamala Harris on 10 September, Donald Trump proffered the outrageous lie that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating residents’ pets. He wasn’t alone in promoting this little bigoted nugget, either. Earlier that day on X, formerly known as Twitter, JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice-president, had already pushed the idea that Springfield’s residents “have had their pets abducted and eaten” by “Haitian illegal immigrants”.

Vance subsequently tripled down on the falsehood, even later admitting to CNN: “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

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The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:08 GMT

She’s been called a neo-fascist and a danger to Italy. But she has won over many heads of Europe, including the UK prime minister. Should we be worried?

In mid-June, Giorgia Meloni was in an exultant mood while hosting the G7 summit, a gathering of the world’s most powerful nations, in the southern Italian region of Apulia. After days in which she presided over meetings speaking English, French and Spanish along with her native Italian, one evening she danced the pizzica – a traditional Apulian dance – twirling and hopping to the trance-like rhythmic folk music often played at local weddings at a contagious 100 beats per minute. Meloni’s uninhibited performance expressed the self-confidence of an emerging political star, who, after a strong showing in the European elections just a few days earlier, was the hottest political leader in Europe. She took a selfie with Indian strongman Narendra Modi, which she posted on Instagram to her 3.5 million followers with the caption “Hello from the MELODI team.” For a politician who only a few years ago was stuck at the margins of Italian politics as the head of a small rightwing party, Brothers of Italy, Meloni, at 47, appeared to be on top of the world.

Meloni has worked hard to achieve the respectability that has eluded other rightwing parties such as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. She was received at the White House by Joe Biden and has been accepted by centrist parties within the EU. This is all the more surprising given the openly neo-fascist origins of her career. (Just before she was elected prime minister in late 2022, author Roberto Saviano wrote in the Guardian: “Giorgia Meloni is a danger to Italy and the rest of Europe.”) But in two years, she has surprised many people by her political pragmatism and shrewd ability.

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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
2024-09-19T03:27:57+00:00

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‘A long way to go’: in revolution’s wake, questions linger over direction of the new Bangladesh
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:07:28 GMT

After the giddy public highs following Hasina’s departure, the interim government has admitted that weight of expectation is enormous

Like so many of Sheikh Hasina’s political rivals, Amir Chowdhury was in jail the day that the prime minister fled Bangladesh.

Chowdhury, a senior leader in the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP), had been picked up by police three weeks earlier, in July, as mass protests began to engulf the country and a violent crackdown began in response. It was Chowdhury’s third stint in prison since Hasina took power 15 years ago and began a campaign to destroy his party.

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U.S. and allies seize control of massive Chinese tech spying network
2024-09-19T02:00:59+00:00
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‘It breaks us deeply’: anguish as China closes door to foreign adoptions
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:09:01 GMT

For couples in the US mid-way through the adoption process, news of an end to international adoptions has been crushing

Americans Lauren and Harrison Smith met in China as students, and discussed their desire to adopt from the country early on in their relationship. As soon as they reached the minimum age of 30, the couple put together their applications and submitted for inspections of their home in Kunming, the capital of south-west China’s Yunnan province, where they lived with their two-year-old daughter.

“In September 2019, we saw our son’s picture for the first time and were able to submit a letter of intent to adopt him,” Lauren told the Guardian.

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Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair
2024-09-19T00:19:56+00:00

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LinkedIn is training AI models on your data
2024-09-19T00:09:06+00:00

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US Senate Warns Big Tech to Act Fast Against Election Meddling
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:56:02 +0000
In an Intelligence Committee hearing with representatives from Google, Apple, and Meta on Wednesday, senators stressed that foreign influence is far from a solved problem.
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Chinese spies spent 4 months in aerospace firm’s server
2024-09-18T23:28:22+00:00

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Poor NHS maternity care in danger of becoming normalised, regulator warns
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:01:09 GMT

CQC issues damning report on maternity services in England as minister admits anxiety over ‘risk of disaster’

Maternity services in England are so inadequate that cases of women receiving poor care and being harmed in childbirth are in danger of becoming “normalised”, the NHS regulator has said.

A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report based on inspections of 131 maternity units sets out an array of problems, adding to the sense of crisis that has enveloped an NHS service that cares for the 600,000 women a year who give birth and their babies.

Some women, frustrated at facing such long delays in being assessed at triage, discharge themselves before they are seen.

65% of units are not safe for women to give birth in, 47% of trusts are rated as requiring improvement on safety and another 18% are rated as inadequate.

Some hospitals do not record incidents that have resulted in serious harm.

There is a widespread lack of staff and in some places a lack of potentially life-saving equipment.

Hospitals do not always consider women’s suffering after receiving poor care.

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FBI Director Announces Chinese Botnet Disruption, Exposes Flax Typhoon Hacker Group’s True Identity at Aspen Cyber Summit. | Joint operation with partners released botnet’s grip on thousands of devices.
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Spence and Johnson rescue Tottenham late to deny Coventry in Carabao Cup
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:07:44 GMT

Ange Postecoglou lauded the “real spirit and character” that he admits has been missing from the first four games of Tottenham’s season after late goals from substitutes Brennan Johnson and Djed Spence prevented Coventry City recording another remarkable underdog yarn.

The Championship side deservedly took a lead through Brandon Thomas-Asante midway through the second half that Ellis Simms twice came close to doubling before Spurs recovered to sneak through to the fourth round of the Carabao Cup. At least that is one route to a trophy still in Postecoglou’s sights.

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Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:28:19 +0000
PERA and PREVAIL want to re-enable patents struck down by Supreme Court rulings.
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Apple iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount
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Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:00:20 +0000

The United States voted against a U.N. resolution that sets a 12-month timeframe to end Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.

The post Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It. appeared first on The Intercept.

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House panel advances Kids Online Safety Act despite pushback
2024-09-18T19:40:44+00:00

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Top UK food firms urged to do more to cut ‘staggering’ emissions
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:20:09 GMT

Food campaign Bite Back says 10 firms account for more carbon emissions globally than aviation industry

Britain’s biggest food and drink firms are doing too little to tackle the climate emergency and are producing “staggering” amounts of greenhouse gases, campaigners claim.

The 10 companies that manufacture more of the UK’s food than anyone else produce more carbon emissions between them than even the aviation industry, a report says.

Three of the firms increased their annual emissions in 2022 – Ferrero, Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo.

Seven are on course to miss meeting emissions targets they have set themselves to achieve by 2050.

Only four have a verifiable commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050 – Danone, Mars, Mondelēz and Nestlé.

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Dozens arrested as crime message network dismantled
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Pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah were audacious and carefully planned
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:52:10 GMT

Israel is widely believed to be behind the operations – but who made the devices, and how did they explode?

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It may be years before the full story is told of how the coordinated explosions of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah were orchestrated. But, even without Israel publicly admitting responsibility, it is clear that the attack must have been carefully planned – however uncertain its consequences.

Experts generally believe a small mount of stable explosive was carefully implanted into each sabotaged device. Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, said: “There wouldn’t need to be much explosive, as proximity to a human body means it would cause injury even if it was a few grams.”

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Age of Mythology: Retold is surprisingly playable with a controller
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:46:36 +0000
Despite annoyances, Microsoft proves RTS is possible without a keyboard/mouse.
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UK must stop being naive over resetting relations with EU, thinktank says
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:09:47 GMT

European Centre for International Political Economy outlines a plan to bring the two sides closer

The UK must stop being “naive” about negotiations to reset relations with the EU and show more flexibility in its approach to Brussels, a trade policy thinktank has said.

As EU leaders question how much has changed in the UK despite the new government, the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) has outlined a plan to bring the two sides closer after a series of reports that the EU doubted Keir Starmer’s commitment to a reset.

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Beirut blasts: Lebanon rocked by wave of hand-held radio blasts as 'solar energy systems explode'
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The Guardian view on Israel’s booby-trap war: illegal and unacceptable | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:53:40 GMT

Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power depends on his nation being at war. The region is paying a high price

In the second world war, guerrilla forces scattered large quantities of booby-trapped objects likely to be attractive to civilians. The idea was to cause widescale and indiscriminate death. The Japanese manufactured a tobacco pipe with a charge detonated by a spring-loaded striker. The Italians produced a headset that blew up when it was plugged in. More than half a century later, a global treaty came into force which “prohibited in all circumstances to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects that are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material”. Has anyone told Israel and its jubilant supporters that, as Brian Finucane of the International Crisis Group points out, it is a signatory to the protocol?

On Tuesday, pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 12 people – including two children and four hospital workers – and wounding thousands more. This situation is directly analogous to the historical practices that current global arms treaties explicitly prohibit. US media say Israel was behind the attack, and the country has the motive and the means to target its Iran-backed enemies. Israel’s leaders have a long history of carrying out sophisticated remote operations, ranging from cyber-attacks, suicide drone attacks and remote-controlled weapons to assassinate Iranian scientists. On Wednesday it was reported that Israel blew up thousands of two-way personal radios used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, killing nine and wounding hundreds.

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The Guardian view on China’s ageing population: an economic and social conundrum | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:52:53 GMT

Raising the retirement age is never popular, particularly for a country that is getting old before it gets rich

No one should be surprised that China is raising its retirement ages. They are currently among the lowest in the world and haven’t shifted for decades, even as lifespans have lengthened dramatically. Women currently retire as early as 50 and men at 60, while life expectancy is around 78 – up from 44 in 1960. Now the male retirement age is to rise to 63, while women’s will rise to 55 (for blue-collar workers) and 58 (for white-collar employees). These changes will be phased in over the next 15 years. Employees will also have to make more contributions from 2030.

China is far from alone in facing the problem of too many old people and too few young workers to support them. But unlike western nations, it is getting old before it has got rich. The scale of the challenge and the speed at which it is arriving are extraordinary, thanks in large part to the decades of birth restrictions known as the one-child policy. It also means that fewer retirees are able to count on their kids supporting them.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy ordered a five-day return to office policy, but research suggests he’ll backtrack next year
2024-09-18T17:51:03+00:00

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Amazon “tricks” customers into buying Fire TVs with false sales prices: Lawsuit
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:16:50 +0000
Lawsuit claims list prices only available for "extremely short period" sometimes.
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Researchers spot largest black hole jets ever discovered
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:57:05 +0000
The jets are 140 times larger than the Milky Way.
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Piling on privilege in higher education | Letters
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:44:14 GMT

Bernie Evans and Prof Colin Richards respond to a proposal for leading universities to limit their intake of pupils from private schools to 10%

Numerous letters have been sent to the Guardian in recent decades urging the government to force universities to limit their intake of privately educated UK undergraduates to about 6%, in line with the proportion of children attending private schools. So it is encouraging to see that two London School of Economics professors recommend something similar to boost social mobility (Leading universities urged to take no more than 10% of students from private schools, 12 September).

Opening up Oxbridge and Russell Group universities “to wider segments of society” would prove, as Prof Aaron Reeves says, that “we’re serious about trying to generate greater social mobility”. But unfortunately, the opposite has been the case. Many private schools for years, with government approval, ensured their students achieved top grades by using the little-regulated Pre-U examinations, usually set and marked by teachers in the independent sector, and avoided the highly regulated and recently reformed A-levels.

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US targets second major Chinese hacking group
2024-09-18T16:19:19+00:00

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Bloodied, humiliated and knocked off guard by deadly pager warfare – what will Hezbollah do next? | Lina Khatib
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:02:26 GMT

With thousands injured in a coordinated attack, the Lebanese group is seriously hobbled but under unprecedented pressure to strike back

The extraordinary 17 September pager attack in Lebanon, followed by today’s walkie-talkie attack, constitute the biggest security breach that Hezbollah has encountered in its history. The attacks – widely attributed to Israel’s Mossad agency though not yet officially claimed by Israel – present a serious dilemma for Hezbollah. They add to the pressure on the group to retaliate against Israel but at the same time severely limit its military options. The attacks also deal a blow to Hezbollah’s morale and credibility as an armed group purporting to possess high security standards.

Hezbollah can no longer claim to be impenetrable when it comes to its security. For decades, the group presented observing secrecy in its operations and communications network as necessary for its role in supporting Lebanon’s defence. This is why it insisted on having a telecommunications network that is completely separate from the national grid. It is also why Hezbollah defended its clandestine activities in Beirut’s port and airport. It has been importing and exporting goods through those public facilities as well as across Lebanon’s border with Syria without any supervision or intervention by Lebanon’s state authorities.

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The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:45:00 +0000

An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.

The post The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk appeared first on The Intercept.

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Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut
2024-09-18T15:38:13+00:00

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Walkie talkies explode in Lebanon at funeral for those killed in pager attack
2024-09-18T15:34:04+00:00

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Cricket Discipline Commission fines Essex £100,000 for ‘systemic’ racism
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:59:33 GMT

• Club punished over conduct dating from 2001-10
• ‘Essex County Cricket Club has admitted a charge’

Essex have been fined £100,000 – half of it suspended for two years – by the Cricket Discipline Commission after admitting to the “systemic use” of racist language at the club from 2001 to 2010 which they “failed to address”.

The charge was brought by the Cricket Regulator following the publication of a report by Katharine Newton KC last December investigating allegations of racist abuse suffered by former players at the club.

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Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies in second wave after pager attack
2024-09-18T14:56:13+00:00

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A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:46:41 +0000

Israel’s attack that turned pagers belonging to Hezbollah members into explosive devices is shocking — but not unprecedented.

The post A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up appeared first on The Intercept.

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There is a light that never goes out: is a Smiths reunion genuinely impossible?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:39:27 GMT

Relations between Morrissey and Johnny Marr seem at their lowest ebb following disagreements over trademarks and reissues. But fans will hold out hope nonetheless

One of pop’s longest, coldest wars flickered with heat again this month, as Morrissey fired off a series of messages on his personal blog.

First, he claimed that concert promoters AEG offered him and Johnny Marr “a lucrative offer” for a world tour, saying that he agreed to it but Marr ignored it. Then he claimed that Marr had blocked the release of a new Smiths best-of and reissue programme proposed by Warner Music, who had approached Morrissey and a sleeve designer “to assemble artwork for all four releases, all of which were rejected and halted out of hand by J Marr”. You can understand why Marr might have demurred, given the cover art featured the words Smiths Rule OK! in bright faux-painterly daubs above a photo of the band, and thus looked like a flyer for a soft play centre themed around 80s indie.

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23andMe sees independent board directors quit en masse
2024-09-18T14:32:13+00:00

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Harry Brook given licence to lay down new ODI template against Australia
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:01:03 GMT

Stand-in captain wants to entertain in rare five-match series as he banks more experience before next year’s Ashes

In one sense the five-match ODI series between England and Australia that starts in Nottingham on Thursday is slightly lacking in wider context. Part of a trend that has seen previously lengthy visits by India and Australia broken up by way of format and spread out across the four-year cycle, it feels designed to simply keep the “Big Three” energy burning in between marquee Test summers.

Although the rivalry endures, tickets have been shifted despite autumn’s creep, and for Harry Brook, there is a bit more on it still. For one, Brook has had a slightly underwhelming international season by way of runs, not least that restless double failure against Sri Lanka at the Oval. And then on top of the chance to bank more experience against Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood before Bazball’s moonshot Ashes tour in 2025/26, there is this opportunity to further his captaincy knowhow with a similar eye on the future.

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SpaceX dinged by FAA for failing to get mission changes approved
2024-09-18T14:00:21+00:00

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Cobb Tuning Must Pay $2.9 Million for Making ‘Defeat Devices’
2024-09-18T11:44:34+00:00

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Donors and Starmer’s suits? That’s just a dress rehearsal. Without new probity rules, worse will follow | Peter Geoghegan
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:01 GMT

Labour made big promises while seeking power. It must fulfil them or risk real damage and an irretrievable breach of public trust

“Labour will end the chaos of sleaze,” the party’s election-winning manifesto thundered. The nation, Keir Starmer promised, would “turn the page” after years of Conservative scandal.

Yet, after less than three months in office, the prime minister is facing a slew of cronyism allegations of his own. A former banker was briefly appointed to the Treasury after donating £20,000 to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves. Staffers at Starmer’s in-house thinktank, Labour Together, have been handed supposedly apolitical civil service roles.

Peter Geoghegan runs the Democracy for Sale newsletter on Substack.

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Former MoviePass CEO admits the $9.95 ‘unlimited’ ticket scheme was fraud | The CEO behind 2017’s ridiculous movie deal is facing up to five years in prison for committing securities fraud.
2024-09-18T09:49:15+00:00
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Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Hezbollah: Reports
2024-09-18T08:59:35+00:00

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Pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a company in Budapest, Gold Apollo says
2024-09-18T06:36:47+00:00

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A journey through Ukraine: living in a war zone – in pictures
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:00:01 GMT

Byron Smith spent six months travelling across the battle-torn nation, meeting injured civilians, amateur bomb-makers and daredevil swimmers

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Nearly half of Gen Zers wish TikTok ‘was never invented,’ survey finds
2024-09-18T05:43:47+00:00

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Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah's pagers, say sources
2024-09-18T05:05:38+00:00
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Using AI to Replace an Actor Is Now Against the Law in California
2024-09-17T21:51:47+00:00

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Russia targets Harris campaign with wave of fake videos
2024-09-17T20:50:36+00:00

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Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Protesters in the Same Place They Shot Aysenur Eygi
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:35:26 +0000

Since 2021, Israeli soldiers have met weekly protests in the West Bank village with deadly force.

The post Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Protesters in the Same Place They Shot Aysenur Eygi appeared first on The Intercept.

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Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews
2024-09-17T11:02:34Z

Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article

These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking team Lazarus Group are new, but the overall malware campaign against the Python development community has been running since at least August of 2023, when a number of popular open source Python tools were maliciously duplicated with added malware. Now, though, there are also attacks involving “coding tests” that only exist to get the end user to install hidden malware on their system (cleverly hidden with Base64 encoding) that allows remote execution once present. The capacity for exploitation at that point is pretty much unlimited, due to the flexibility of Python and how it interacts with the underlying OS...

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Terrae Novae: Earth orbit, Moon and Mars
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200
Video: 00:02:18

Terrae Novae is ESA’s exploration programme.

Terrae Novae is not only literally about exploring new worlds, but by describing the limitless opportunities for discovery, economic growth and inspiration it also expresses our ambitions for Europe’s future innovators, scientists and explorers.

This video shows the many exploration activities ESA is conducting or has planned in our Solar System, from the International Space Station to the Moon with the European Service Module and lunar Gateway modules for Artemis, and on to Mars with the Mars Sample Return campaign.

For more on ESA’s human and robotic exploration strategy see: https://www.esa.int/terraenovae

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There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:31:13 +0000

A police shooting that injured three people and one officer is the result of New York Mayor Eric Adams’s enforcement-first mentality.

The post There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other appeared first on The Intercept.

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Relationship with father among psychological factors cited in Huw Edwards case
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:40:38 GMT

Social media and a perception of Oxbridge elitism at the BBC also featured in experts’ reports

Huw Edwards’s downfall was of his own making, the chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, concluded in his sentencing remarks, but that was not the entire picture painted by the BBC star in his interviews with forensic medical experts.

The consultant psychiatrist and neuropsychiatrist Michael Isaac wrote two reports in which the broadcaster’s father, the Welsh academic Hywel Teifi Edwards, who died in 2010, was pinpointed as the source of some of the mental anguish that led to the criminal behaviour of 2020 to 2021.

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Planned Shein IPO needs closer scrutiny, says former Labour minister
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:40:27 GMT

Trade committee head Liam Byrne wants checks on firm’s possible supply chain links to forced labour

• Business live – latest updates

A former minister has called on the government to closely scrutinise Shein for possible links to forced working as the China-founded fast-fashion retailer prepares for a stock market listing in London.

Liam Byrne, the Labour MP who heads parliament’s business and trade committee, said the UK should introduce new legislation to increase scrutiny of supply chains that may include products made in the Xinjiang region of north-western China.

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Do Kamala Harris’s Neocon Supporters Just Hate Trump, or Is There Something More to Her Appeal?
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:36:50 +0000

Personally, I would not accept an endorsement from a world-historic war criminal.

The post Do Kamala Harris’s Neocon Supporters Just Hate Trump, or Is There Something More to Her Appeal? appeared first on The Intercept.

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America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:48:15 +0000

Residents of Springfield, Ohio, worry that politicians are inciting violence against Haitian immigrants. It’s a long U.S. tradition.

The post America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti appeared first on The Intercept.

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They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal.

The post They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects. appeared first on The Intercept.

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NASA Tunnel Generates Decades of Icy Aircraft Safety Data
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:12:18 +0000
On Sept. 13, 1944, researchers subjected a Bell P-39L Airacobra to frigid temperatures and a freezing water spray in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s new Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) to study inflight ice buildup. Since that first run at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) in Cleveland, the facility […]
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2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition
Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:28:22 +0000
The agriculture industry faces several challenges, including limited resources and growing demands to reduce agriculture’s environmental impact while increasing its climate resilience. NASA Aeronautics is dedicated to expanding its efforts to assist commercial, industry, and government partners in advancing aviation systems that could modernize capabilities in agriculture. In NASA’s 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition: […]
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A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way.
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:00:02 +0000

After the AG's meddling, a trial court judge rejected Williams's innocence claim — even though prosecutors mishandled the murder weapon.

The post A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way. appeared first on The Intercept.

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RFK Campaign Paid $10 Million to Consultant Who Appears to Have Been on Capitol Grounds During Jan. 6 Attack
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Even before making his endorsement, Kennedy was surrounded by far-right supporters of Donald Trump.

The post RFK Campaign Paid $10 Million to Consultant Who Appears to Have Been on Capitol Grounds During Jan. 6 Attack appeared first on The Intercept.

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Mars rover trials
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0200
Video: 00:01:00

Rover trials in a quarry in the UK showing a four-wheeled rover, known as Codi, using its robotic arm and a powerful computer vision system to pick up sample tubes. 

The rover drives to the samples with an accuracy of 10cm, constantly mapping the terrain. Codi uses its arm and four cameras to locate the sample tube, retrieve it and safely store it on the rover – all of it without human intervention. At every stop, the rover uses stereo cameras to build up a 180-degree map of the surroundings and plan its next maneouvres. Once parked, the camera on top of the mast detects the tube and estimates its position with respect to the rover. The robotic arm initiates a complex choreography to move closer to the sample, fetch it and store it. 

The sample tubes are a replica of the hermetically sealed samples inside which NASA’s Perseverance rover is collecting precious martian soil inside. To most people on Earth, they resemble lightsabres.

The reddish terrain, although not fully representative of Mars in terms of soil composition, has plenty of slopes and rocks of different sizes, similar to what a rover might encounter on the martian surface. Quarry testing is an essential next step in the development process, providing a unique and dynamic landscape that cannot be replicated indoors. 

ESA continues to run further research using the rover to maintain and develop rover capabilities in Europe.

Read the full article: Rovers, lightsabres and a piglet.

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Research Plane Dons New Colors for NASA Hybrid Electric Flight Tests
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Parked under the lights inside a hangar in Seattle, a hybrid electric research aircraft from electric motor manufacturer magniX showed off a new look symbolizing its journey toward helping NASA make sustainable aviation a reality.   During a special unveiling ceremony hosted by magniX on Aug. 22, leaders from the company and NASA revealed the aircraft, […]
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European drill and mini lab secure ride to the Moon
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0200

ESA's Prospect package, including drill and a miniaturised laboratory, will fly to the Moon’s South Polar region in search of volatiles, including water ice, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.

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NASA G-IV Plane Will Carry Next-Generation Science Instrument
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:55:55 +0000
In June 2024, a new tail number swept the sky above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Pilots conducted flights of a Gulfstream IV (G-IV) to evaluate its handling characteristics and to familiarize pilots with it before it begins structural modifications. The research plane is joining the center’s fleet serving NASA’s Airborne Science […]
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NASA Develops Pod to Help Autonomous Aircraft Operators
Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:54:05 +0000
For self-flying aircraft to take to the skies, they need to learn about their environments to avoid hazards. NASA aeronautics researchers recently developed a camera pod with sensors to help with this challenge by advancing computer vision for autonomous aviation.   This pod is called the Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE). It […]
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First Look at Hybrid Electric Research Aircraft
Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:20:22 +0000
In a special unveiling ceremony on Aug. 22, 2024, the public received a first look at magniX’s Dash 7 aircraft that will serve as a testbed for sustainable aviation research with NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) project.  Hosted by magniX at King County International Airport, commonly known as Boeing Field, in Seattle, Washington, leaders […]
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NASA Composite Manufacturing Initiative Gains Two New Members
Fri, 23 Aug 2024 01:46:14 +0000
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and Fives Machining Systems Inc. have joined 20 other organizations to support NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project. The project is addressing industry’s needs to meet growing demand for air travel, replace aging airliners, and secure U.S. competitiveness in the commercial aircraft industry.   NASA and its partners are collaborating and […]
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Beyond the Textbook: DC-8 Aircraft Inspires Students in Retirement
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:29:22 +0000
In May 2024, Idaho State University’s class of 2025 received a new learning tool from NASA. The DC-8 aircraft served the world’s scientific community for decades as a platform under NASA’s Airborne Science Program before retiring to Idaho State University (ISU) to provide a hands-on learning experience for students in the university’s aircraft maintenance technology […]
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/26/2024
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:00:20 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): The CFT crew continued assisting the ISS crew with various audits and housekeeping.  They also performed CloudNet Testing and STEMonstration Earth Science activities. Payloads: Sleep in Orbit: A crewmember transferred the MicroSD memory card into a Columbus Payload Laptop to allow the ground to downlink data. The Sleep in …
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/25/2024
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:00:48 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew performed checkouts and measurements in preparation for a future potential CFT undock. They also assisted the ISS crew in NanoRacks Airlock (NRAL) restow operations. Payloads: KIBO Robot Programming Challenge 5: Preparation activities and the Robo-Pro Challenge #5 Technical Rehearsal were performed using JEM Camera Robot …
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From Concordia to the Moon
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0200
Image:

Concordia is a research station in Antarctica that places you farther away from humankind than even the International Space Station. Every year, ESA sponsors a medical doctor to spend a year, or "winterover," at Concordia station. This year, our medical doctor is Jessica Kehala Studer, who is seen in this picture gazing at the Moon and the vast expanse of Antarctica. Around May, the Sun dips below the horizon for the last time, and the crew experiences four months of total darkness, with temperatures dropping to –80°C in winter. 

The station serves as an analogue for space, mirroring the challenges and conditions faced by astronauts such as isolation, extreme cold and darkness, along with their impact on  health. Concordia is a unique platform for research in human physiology and psychology, as well as astronomy, meteorology, glaciology and other fields. 

Last Saturday, we celebrated Moon Day: 55 years ago on 20 July 1969, humankind stepped on the Moon for the first time during the Apollo 11 mission. Today, ESA is a key part of NASA's Artemis programme which aims to return humans to the Moon. The insights gained from ESA's experience in analogue facilities such as Concordia will be invaluable for this mission. 

Find out more about Concordia on our blog. 

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/24/2024
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:00:08 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by installing the ArgUS 1-1 Multi Payload Platform in the NanoRacks Airlock (NRAL).  They also assisted the ISS crew in the Butterfly iQ Scans and stowage management in the Columbus Module. Payloads: ArgUS 1-1: The assembled ArgUS 1-1 plate was installed …
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/23/2024
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:00:01 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): The CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by performing payload activities. They completed the ArgUS 1-1 sub-payloads installation and several Thor-Davis sessions. Payloads: ArgUS 1-1: The ArgUS 1-1 sub-payloads were installed onto the ArgUS Multi Payload Platform and stowed in the NanoRacks Airlock (NRAL). More information about this investigation …
Match ID: 92 Score: 9.29 source: blogs.nasa.gov age: 57 days
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/22/2024
Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:00:51 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by performing stowage clearing operations to prepare for the ArgUS installation operations. They also uploaded new software into the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) Laptop Computer (MLC). Payloads: JEM Internal Ball Camera 2: The JEM Internal Ball Camera Robot 2 was setup …
Match ID: 93 Score: 9.29 source: blogs.nasa.gov age: 58 days
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/18/2024
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:00:38 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew with a few payload activities and completed Onboard Training for Backup Flight Control Proficiency. Payloads: Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): The ELF cartridge holder containing the latest melted sample was removed and replaced with a new sample holder and sample. The completed …
Match ID: 94 Score: 9.29 source: blogs.nasa.gov age: 62 days
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/17/2024
Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:00:39 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by completing the ongoing Plant Water Management 6 (PWM-6) activities. Payloads: Plant Ultraviolet-B (Plant UV-B): A laptop was connected and setup in preparation for future Plant UV-B operations. More information on this experiment can be found here. Plant Water Management 6 …
Match ID: 95 Score: 9.29 source: blogs.nasa.gov age: 63 days
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/16/2024
Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:00:17 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by completing a Waste Hygiene Compartment (WHC) Filter Removal & Replacement (R&R), and completing various hydroponic flow tests with Plant Water Management 6 (PWM-6) hardware. Payloads: Lumina: The crew power-cycled the Lumina hardware, and transferred the science data to a Station …
Match ID: 96 Score: 9.29 source: blogs.nasa.gov age: 64 days
qualifiers: 9.29 nasa

ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/15/2024
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:00:09 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by performing a USOS food audit and continuing to complete different payload activities. Payloads: Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR): Fuel Oxidizer Management Assembly (FOMA) Calibration was performed. The upper rack doors were opened, the bottle valves were closed, the pressure in the …
Match ID: 97 Score: 9.29 source: blogs.nasa.gov age: 65 days
qualifiers: 9.29 nasa

ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/12/2024
Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:00:32 +0000
Northrup Grumman 20 (NG-20) Cygnus Departure: Today, Cygnus unberthed from the Node 1 Nadir Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) using the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), then maneuvered to the release position and released for departure at 6:03 AM CST. Cygnus, filled with waste/trash from the space station packed by the crew, will perform a …
Match ID: 98 Score: 9.29 source: blogs.nasa.gov age: 68 days
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Trump and Harris Agree: More Bombs for Israel
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:02:23 +0000

The candidates fought to out-hawk each other on sustaining the bloody status quo in the Middle East at the presidential debate.

The post Trump and Harris Agree: More Bombs for Israel appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 99 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 mit

Afghan women meet in Albania in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban crackdown
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:28:26 GMT

Organisers of international summit hope to create pressure to reverse laws including a ban on women speaking in public

More than 130 Afghan women have gathered in Albania at an All Afghan Women summit, in an attempt to develop a united voice representing the women and girls of Afghanistan in the fight against the ongoing assault on human rights by the Taliban.

Some women who attempted to reach the summit from inside Afghanistan were prevented from travelling, pulled off flights in Pakistan or stopped at borders. Other women have travelled from countries including Iran, Canada, the UK and the US where they are living as refugees.

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Match ID: 100 Score: 7.14 source: www.theguardian.com age: 7 days
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Progressives Were Pilloried for Wanting to End the Ukraine War in 2022. Things Have Only Gotten Worse.
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

With tens of thousands more killed and Ukraine’s leverage tanking, the quickly withdrawn House Democrats’ letter is proving prescient.

The post Progressives Were Pilloried for Wanting to End the Ukraine War in 2022. Things Have Only Gotten Worse. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 101 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 mit

Most Americans Want to Stop Arming Israel. Politicians Don’t Care.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:13:10 +0000

The number of Americans opposed to sending arms to Israel has grown, month after month, as the brutal war on Gaza grinds on.

The post Most Americans Want to Stop Arming Israel. Politicians Don’t Care. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 102 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 mit

Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:38:38 +0000

The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma resulted in the largest restoration of Indigenous land in U.S. history. 

The post Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 103 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 mit

The Intercept Sues to Release 911 Recordings From Trump Rally Shooting
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:43:13 +0000

Questions remain about the police response to the shooting of former President Donald Trump — questions that 911 logs may help answer.

The post The Intercept Sues to Release 911 Recordings From Trump Rally Shooting appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 104 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 mit

Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It.
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:22:57 +0000

A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.

The post Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 105 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 3.57 mit

Top U.S. General Meets With Alleged War Criminal in Libya
Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:26:05 +0000

Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, described by some in Congress as a “warlord,” is seeking to expand cooperation with the U.S.

The post Top U.S. General Meets With Alleged War Criminal in Libya appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 106 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 3.57 mit

Trump's Wall Street pitch: Punishing tariffs, low taxes, 'explosive' growth
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:11:22 EST
Trump arrived in New York amid growing concerns among some investors about his economic plans as Harris casts his agenda as a financially calamitous wishlist.
Match ID: 107 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 13 days
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How the US Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing
2024-09-03T00:00:00Z

Match ID: 108 Score: 3.57 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 16 days
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Everything was going Kamala Harris’ way. Then came the market sell-off.
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 04:00:00 EST
"We cannot win if people think we’re headed into a recession," one Democratic National Committee member said.
Match ID: 109 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 43 days
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Space is not the limit
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:58:00 +0200
Image: Space is not the limit
Match ID: 110 Score: 3.57 source: www.esa.int age: 48 days
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The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration
Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:04:06 +0000
Moderates want to limit numbers. Radicals want mass deportations. What will be the economic consequence?
Match ID: 111 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 59 days
qualifiers: 3.57 mit

Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:53:40 +0000
He balances that with being unshakeably committed to state-owned enterprises, too
Match ID: 112 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
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Greener Is Getting Going
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000
We’ve reached a tipping point where we’ve got a cleaner alternative for most transport. Now we have to commit.
Match ID: 113 Score: 3.57 source: www.wired.com age: 91 days
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LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000

 

In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This platform not only stands out from the multitude of existing AI tools but also brings a fresh approach to content generation. LimeWire not only empowers users to create AI content but also provides creators with creative ways to share and monetize their creations.

As we explore LimeWire, our aim is to uncover its features, benefits for creators, and the exciting possibilities it offers for AI content generation. This platform presents an opportunity for users to harness the power of AI in image creation, all while enjoying the advantages of a free and accessible service.

Let's unravel the distinctive features that set LimeWire apart in the dynamic landscape of AI-powered tools, understanding how creators can leverage its capabilities to craft unique and engaging AI-generated images.

Introduction

This revamped LimeWire invites users to register and unleash their creativity by crafting original AI content, which can then be shared and showcased on the LimeWire Studio. Notably, even acclaimed artists and musicians, such as Deadmau5, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston, have embraced this platform to publish their content in the form of NFT music, videos, and images.

Beyond providing a space for content creation and sharing, LimeWire introduces monetization models to empower users to earn revenue from their creations. This includes avenues such as earning ad revenue and participating in the burgeoning market of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). As we delve further, we'll explore these monetization strategies in more detail to provide a comprehensive understanding of LimeWire's innovative approach to content creation and distribution.

LimeWire Studio welcomes content creators into its fold, providing a space to craft personalized AI-focused content for sharing with fans and followers. Within this creative hub, every piece of content generated becomes not just a creation but a unique asset—ownable and tradable. Fans have the opportunity to subscribe to creators' pages, immersing themselves in the creative journey and gaining ownership of digital collectibles that hold tradeable value within the LimeWire community. Notably, creators earn a 2.5% royalty each time their content is traded, adding a rewarding element to the creative process.

The platform's flexibility is evident in its content publication options. Creators can choose to share their work freely with the public or opt for a premium subscription model, granting exclusive access to specialized content for subscribers.

LimeWire AI Studio

As of the present moment, LimeWire focuses on AI Image Generation, offering a spectrum of creative possibilities to its user base. The platform, however, has ambitious plans on the horizon, aiming to broaden its offerings by introducing AI music and video generation tools in the near future. This strategic expansion promises creators even more avenues for expression and engagement with their audience, positioning LimeWire Studio as a dynamic and evolving platform within the realm of AI-powered content creation.

AI Image Generation Tools

The LimeWire AI image generation tool presents a versatile platform for both the creation and editing of images. Supporting advanced models such as Stable Diffusion 2.1, Stable Diffusion XL, and DALL-E 2, LimeWire offers a sophisticated toolkit for users to delve into the realm of generative AI art.

Much like other tools in the generative AI landscape, LimeWire provides a range of options catering to various levels of complexity in image creation. Users can initiate the creative process with prompts as simple as a few words or opt for more intricate instructions, tailoring the output to their artistic vision.

What sets LimeWire apart is its seamless integration of different AI models and design styles. Users have the flexibility to effortlessly switch between various AI models, exploring diverse design styles such as cinematic, digital art, pixel art, anime, analog film, and more. Each style imparts a distinctive visual identity to the generated AI art, enabling users to explore a broad spectrum of creative possibilities.

The platform also offers additional features, including samplers, allowing users to fine-tune the quality and detail levels of their creations. Customization options and prompt guidance further enhance the user experience, providing a user-friendly interface for both novice and experienced creators.

Excitingly, LimeWire is actively developing its proprietary AI model, signaling ongoing innovation and enhancements to its image generation capabilities. This upcoming addition holds the promise of further expanding the creative horizons for LimeWire users, making it an evolving and dynamic platform within the landscape of AI-driven art and image creation.

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

Upon completing your creative endeavor on LimeWire, the platform allows you the option to publish your content. An intriguing feature follows this step: LimeWire automates the process of minting your creation as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), utilizing either the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. This transformative step imbues your artwork with a unique digital signature, securing its authenticity and ownership in the decentralized realm.

Creators on LimeWire hold the power to decide the accessibility of their NFT creations. By opting for a public release, the content becomes discoverable by anyone, fostering a space for engagement and interaction. Furthermore, this choice opens the avenue for enthusiasts to trade the NFTs, adding a layer of community involvement to the artistic journey.

Alternatively, LimeWire acknowledges the importance of exclusivity. Creators can choose to share their posts exclusively with their premium subscribers. In doing so, the content remains a special offering solely for dedicated fans, creating an intimate and personalized experience within the LimeWire community. This flexibility in sharing options emphasizes LimeWire's commitment to empowering creators with choices in how they connect with their audience and distribute their digital creations.

After creating your content, you can choose to publish the content. It will automatically mint your creation as an NFT on the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. You can also choose whether to make it public or subscriber-only.

If you make it public, anyone can discover your content and even trade the NFTs. If you choose to share the post only with your premium subscribers, it will be exclusive only to your fans.

Earn Revenue From Your Content

Additionally, you can earn ad revenue from your content creations as well.

When you publish content on LimeWire, you will receive 70% of all ad revenue from other users who view your images, music, and videos on the platform.

This revenue model will be much more beneficial to designers. You can experiment with the AI image and content generation tools and share your creations while earning a small income on the side.

LMWR Tokens

The revenue you earn from your creations will come in the form of LMWR tokens, LimeWire’s own cryptocurrency.

Your earnings will be paid every month in LMWR, which you can then trade on many popular crypto exchange platforms like Kraken, ByBit, and UniSwap.

You can also use your LMWR tokens to pay for prompts when using LimeWire generative AI tools.

Pricing Plans

You can sign up to LimeWire to use its AI tools for free. You will receive 10 credits to use and generate up to 20 AI images per day. You will also receive 50% of the ad revenue share. However, you will get more benefits with premium plans.

• Basic plan: 

For $9.99 per month, you will get 1,000 credits per month, up to 2 ,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 50% ad revenue share

• Advanced plan: 

For $29 per month, you will get 3750 credits per month, up to 7500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 60% ad revenue share

• Pro plan: 

For $49 per month, you will get 5,000 credits per month, up to 10,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

• Pro Plus plan: 

For $99 per month, you will get 11,250 credits per month, up to 2 2,500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

With all premium plans, you will receive a Pro profile badge, full creation history, faster image generation, and no ads.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, LimeWire emerges as a democratizing force in the creative landscape, providing an inclusive platform where anyone can unleash their artistic potential and effortlessly share their work. With the integration of AI, LimeWire eliminates traditional barriers, empowering designers, musicians, and artists to publish their creations and earn revenue with just a few clicks.

The ongoing commitment of LimeWire to innovation is evident in its plans to enhance generative AI tools with new features and models. The upcoming expansion to include music and video generation tools holds the promise of unlocking even more possibilities for creators. It sparks anticipation about the diverse and innovative ways in which artists will leverage these tools to produce and publish their own unique creations.

For those eager to explore, LimeWire's AI tools are readily accessible for free, providing an opportunity to experiment and delve into the world of generative art. As LimeWire continues to evolve, creators are encouraged to stay tuned for the launch of its forthcoming AI music and video generation tools, promising a future brimming with creative potential and endless artistic exploration

Match ID: 114 Score: 3.57 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 281 days
qualifiers: 3.57 mit

Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier
Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:52:00 +0000

 In this article, we explore the top 10 AI tools that are driving innovation and efficiency in various industries. These tools are designed to automate repetitive tasks, improve workflow, and increase productivity. The tools included in our list are some of the most advanced and widely used in the market, and are suitable for a variety of applications. Some of the tools focus on natural language processing, such as ChatGPT and Grammarly, while others focus on image and video generation, such as DALL-E and Lumen5. Other tools such as OpenAI Codex, Tabnine, Canva, Jasper AI,, and Surfer SEO are designed to help with specific tasks such as code understanding content writing and website optimization. This list is a great starting point for anyone looking to explore the possibilities of AI and how it can be applied to their business or project.

So let’s dive into

1. ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a large language model that generates human-like responses to a variety of prompts. It can be used for tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion. It can handle a wide range of topics and styles of writing, and generates coherent and fluent text, but should be used with care as it may generate text that is biased, offensive, or factually incorrect.

Pros:

• Generates human-like responses to a variety of prompts
• Can be fine-tuned for specific tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion
• Can handle a wide range of topics and styles of writing
• Can generate coherent and fluent text, even when completing a given text prompt.

Cons:

• May generate text that is biased or offensive
• Can generate text that is not accurate or factually correct
• May require large amounts of computational resources to run
• The model can sometimes generate text that is not coherent or fluent, depending on the prompt given.

Overall, ChatGPT is a powerful tool for natural language processing, but it should be used with care and with an understanding of its limitations.

2. DALL-E

DALL-E is a generative model developed by OpenAI that is capable of generating images from text prompts. It is based on the GPT-3 architecture, which is a transformer-based neural network language model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text. DALL-E can generate images that are similar to a training dataset and it can generate high-resolution images that are suitable for commercial use.

Pros:

• Generates high-resolution images
• Can generate images from text prompts
• It can be fine-tuned for specific tasks such as generating images of a certain style or category

Cons:

• May generate images that are not entirely original and could be influenced by the training data
• May require significant computational resources to run
• The quality of the generated images may vary depending on the specific prompt

Overall, DALL-E is a powerful AI-based tool for generating images, it can be used for a variety of applications such as creating images for commercial use, gaming, and other creative projects. It is important to note that the generated images should be reviewed and used with care, as they may not be entirely original and could be influenced by the training data.

3. Lumen5

Lumen5 is a content creation platform that uses AI to help users create videos, social media posts, and other types of content. It has several features that make it useful for content creation and marketing, including:

Pros:

• Automatically summarizes text from a blog post, article, or another source into a script for a video or social media post
• Offers a library of royalty-free videos, images, and music to use in content
• Has a drag-and-drop interface for easy content creation
• Can create videos in multiple languages
• Has a built-in analytics tool to track the performance of created content.

Cons:

• The quality of the generated content may vary depending on the source material
• The automatic summarization feature may not always capture the main points of the source material
• The library of videos, images, and music is limited.
• The analytics feature is basic

Overall, Lumen5 is a useful tool for creating content quickly and easily, it can help automate the process of creating videos, social media posts, and other types of content. However, the quality of the generated content may vary depending on the source material and it is important to review and edit the content before publishing it.

4. Grammarly

Grammarly is a writing-enhancement platform that uses AI to check for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors in the text. It also provides suggestions for improving the clarity, concision, and readability of the text. It has several features that make it useful for improving writing, including:

Pros:

• Checks for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors in the text
• Provides suggestions for improving clarity, concision, and readability
• Can be integrated with various apps and platforms such as Microsoft Office, Google Docs, and social media platforms
• Offers a browser extension and a desktop app
• Has a premium version with more advanced features such as plagiarism detection and more

Cons:

• The suggestions provided may not always be accurate or appropriate
• The grammar checker may not always recognize context-specific language use
• The free version has limited features
• Limited to English language only
• Overall, Grammarly is a useful tool for improving writing, it can help users identify and correct grammar and punctuation errors, and improve the clarity, concision, and readability of their text. However, it is important to review the suggestions provided by the tool and use them with caution, as they may not always be accurate or appropriate.

5.OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex is a system developed by OpenAI that can create code from natural language descriptions of software tasks. The system is based on the GPT-3 model and can generate code in multiple programming languages.

Pros:

• Can automate the process of writing code
• Can help developers to be more productive
• Can help non-technical people to create software
• Can generate code in multiple programming languages

Cons:

• The quality of the generated code may vary depending on the task description
• The generated code may not always be optimal or efficient
• The system may not be able to handle complex software tasks
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the code.

Overall, OpenAI Codex is a powerful tool that can help automate the process of writing code and make it more accessible to non-technical people. However, the quality of the generated code may vary depending on the task description and it is important to review and test the code before using it in a production environment. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the developer's knowledge.

6. Tabnine

Tabnine is a code completion tool that uses AI to predict and suggest code snippets. It is compatible with multiple programming languages and can be integrated with various code editors.

Pros:

• Can improve coding efficiency by suggesting code snippets based on context
• Can complete entire code blocks
• Can predict variables, functions, and other elements of code
• Can be integrated with various code editors

Cons:

• The suggestions may not always be accurate or appropriate
• The system may not always be able to understand the context of the code
• May not work with all code editors
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the code.

Overall, TabNine is a useful tool for developers that can help improve coding efficiency and reduce the time spent on writing code. However, it is important to review the suggestions provided by the tool and use them with caution, as they may not always be accurate or appropriate. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the developer's knowledge.

7. Jasper AI

Jasper is a content writing and content generation tool that uses artificial intelligence to identify the best words and sentences for your writing style and medium in the most efficient, quick, and accessible way.

Pros:

• User-friendly interface
• Generates a wide variety of content types
• Guarantees 100% unique and free-plagiarism content
• SEO friendly
•  Create articles of up to 10k words

Cons:

• Not the cheapest AI writer on the market

8. Surfer SEO

Surfer SEO is a software tool designed to help website owners and digital marketers improve their search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. The tool provides a variety of features that can be used to analyze a website's on-page SEO, including:

Features:

• A site audit tool that checks for technical SEO issues
• A content editor that suggests optimizations for individual pages
• A keyword research tool that suggests keywords to target
• A SERP analyzer that shows how a website's pages rank for specific keywords
• A backlink analysis tool that shows the backlinks pointing to a website.

Pros:

• Can help website owners and marketers identify technical SEO issues
• Can provide suggestions for optimizing individual pages
• Can help with keyword research
• Can show how a website's pages rank for specific keywords
• Can provide insight into a website's backlink profile

Cons:

• Some features may require a paid subscription
• The tool is not a guarantee of better ranking
• The tool can only analyze the data it has access to
• The tool's suggestions may not always be applicable or optimal

Overall, Surfer SEO can be a useful tool for website owners and digital marketers looking to improve their SEO efforts. However, it is important to remember that it is just a tool and should be used in conjunction with other SEO best practices. Additionally, the tool is not a guarantee of better ranking.

9. Zapier

Zapier is a web automation tool that allows users to automate repetitive tasks by connecting different web applications together. It does this by creating "Zaps" that automatically move data between apps, and can also be used to trigger certain actions in one app based on events in another app.

Features:

• Can connect over 3,000 web applications
• Can automate repetitive tasks
• Can create "Zaps" to move data between apps
• Can trigger certain actions in one app based on events in another app.

Pros:

• Can automate repetitive tasks
• Can save time
• Can improve workflow
• Can increase productivity
• Can be integrated with a wide range of web applications

Cons:

• Can be difficult to set up
• May require some technical skills
• May require a paid subscription for some features
• Some apps may not be compatible
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the apps

Overall, Zapier is a useful tool that can help users automate repetitive tasks and improve workflow. It can save time and increase productivity by connecting different web applications together. However, it may require some technical skills and some features may require a paid subscription. It is important to use the tool with caution and not to rely too much on it, to understand the apps better.

10. Compose AI

Compose AI is a company that specializes in developing natural language generation (NLG) software. Their software uses AI to automatically generate written or spoken text from structured data, such as spreadsheets, databases, or APIs.

Features:

• Automatically generates written or spoken text from structured data
• Can be integrated with a wide range of data sources
• Can be used for a variety of applications such as creating reports, summaries, and explanations
• Provides an API and a user-friendly interface

Pros:

• Can automate the process of creating written or spoken content
• Can help users create more accurate and consistent content
• Can help users save time by automating repetitive tasks
• Can be integrated with a wide range of data sources

Cons:

• The quality of the generated content may vary depending on the data source
• The generated content may not always be optimal or efficient
• The system may not be able to handle complex tasks
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the data

Overall, Compose AI's NLG software can be a useful tool for automating the process of creating written or spoken content from structured data. However, the quality of the generated content may vary depending on the data source, and it is essential to review the generated content before using it in a production environment. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the understanding of the data.

Conclusion

AI tools are becoming increasingly important in today's business and technology landscape. They are designed to automate repetitive tasks, improve workflow, and increase productivity. The top 10 AI tools included in this article are some of the most advanced and widely used in the market, and are suitable for various applications. Whether you're looking to improve your natural language processing, create high-resolution images, or optimize your website, there is an AI tool that can help. It's important to research and evaluate the different tools available to determine which one is the best fit for your specific needs. As AI technology continues to evolve, these tools will become even more powerful and versatile and will play an even greater role in shaping the future of business and technology.

Match ID: 115 Score: 3.57 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 602 days
qualifiers: 3.57 mit

Top 10 AI Content Generator & Writer Tools in 2022
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:58:00 +0000

Are you looking for a way to create content that is both effective and efficient? If so, then you should consider using an AI content generator. AI content generators are a great way to create content that is both engaging and relevant to your audience. 

There are a number of different AI content generator tools available on the market, and it can be difficult to know which one is right for you. To help you make the best decision, we have compiled a list of the top 10 AI content generator tools that you should use in 2022.

So, without further ado, let’s get started!

1. Jasper Ai(Formerly known as Jarvis)

Features

•  It's trusted by 50,000+ marketers for creating engaging marketing campaigns, ad copy, blog posts, and articles within minutes which would traditionally take hours or days. Special Features:
• Blog posts have been optimized for search engines and rank high on Google and other search engines. This is a huge plus for online businesses that want to generate traffic to their website through content marketing.
• 99.9% Original Content and guarantees that all content it generates will be original, so businesses can focus on their online reputation rather than worrying about penalties from Google for duplicate content.
• Long-Form Article Writing – Jasper.ai is also useful for long-form writing, allowing users to create articles of up to 10,000 words without any difficulty. This is ideal for businesses that want to produce in-depth content that will capture their audience’s attention.

Pros

• User-friendly interface
• Generates a wide variety of content types
• Guarantees 100% unique and free-plagiarism content
• SEO friendly
•  Create articles of up to 10k words

Cons

• Not the cheapest AI writer on the market

Pricing

• Jasper.ai offers a free trial
• Starter Plan: $29/Month 

Features:

• 50 AI copywriting skills 
• Unlimited projects,  
• Up to 5 user logins

• The cheapest option covers up to 20,000 words generated each month.

Boss Mode:  $99/Month 

Features:

• Up to 100k words are generated each month and can go up to over 300k.

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2. Copy Ai

Copy.ai is a content writing tool that enables its users to create marketing copy, social media posts, Facebook Ads, and many more formats by using more than 90 templates such as Bullet Points to Blogs, General Ads, Hook Text, etc. 

The utility of this service can be used for short-term or format business purposes such as product descriptions, website copy, market copy, and sales reports.

Key Features:

• Provides a large set of templates where you can input the data and the AI will generate Templates with around 10 or more options to make it easy for the user to choose.
•  Smooth and efficient user experience with chrome extension where one can easily transfer information from Copy.ai to a content management forum, Google docs, etc without having to switch tabs.
• Generates content  in 25 languages where your input and output language may differ if you are not a native English speaker.

Pros

• The best option for short-length content generation such as market copy, sales reports, blogs, etc.
• Facebook community and email support for users to understand the AI better and to interact with other users.
• Beginner-friendly user experience with various templates to help the process of content generation.
• Free plan and no credit card required.

Cons

• The free plan from Copy AI is a welcome sight, however, it is just suitable for testing the software.

Pricing

Free Trial – 7 days with 24/7 email support and 100 runs per day.

Pro Plan:  $49 and yearly, it will cost you $420 i.e. $35 per month.

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3. Frase Ai

Just like Outranking, Frase is an AI that helps you research, create and optimize your content to make it high quality within seconds. Frase works on SEO optimization where the content is made to the liking of search engines by optimizing keywords and keywords.

Features:

• Generate full-length, optimized content briefs in  seconds and review the main keywords, headers, and concepts in your SEO competitors’ content in one intuitive research panel.
• Write high-converting, SEO-optimized copy and make writer’s block a thing of the past with automated outlines, blog introductions, product descriptions, FAQs, and more.
• An intuitive text editor that uses a topic model to score your content Optimization against your competitors.
• A dashboard that automatically identifies and categorizes your best content opportunities. Frase uses your Google Search Console data to serve up actionable insights about what you should work on next.

Pros

• Unlike Outranking, the interface to Frase is very user-friendly and accessible.
• Users who are content writers and have to research get a lot of time to write and ideate instead of juggling from one website to another as data can be easily accessed on Frase for research on a topic.
• Optimizing content with keyword analysis and SEO optimization has been made easier with Frase's Content Optimization.
• Reports on competitors' websites help in optimizing our own articles and websites.
• Content briefs make research very easy and efficient.

Cons

• The paid plans are a bit pricey because they include many tools for content optimization.

Pricing

Frase provides two plans for all users and a customizable plan for an enterprise or business.

Solo Plan: $14.99/Month and $12/Month if billed yearly with 4  Document Credits for 1 user seat.

Basic Plan: $44.99/month and $39.99/month if billed yearly with 30 Document Credits for 1 user seat.

Team Plan: $114.99/month and $99.99/month if billed yearly for unlimited document credits for 3 users.

*SEO Add-ons and other premium features for $35/month irrespective of the plan.

4. Article Forge — Popular Blog Writing Software for Efficiency and Affordability 

Article Forge is another content generator that operates quite differently from the others on this list. Unlike Jasper.ai, which requires you to provide a brief and some information on what you want it to write this tool only asks for a keyword. From there, it’ll generate a complete article for you.

Features

•  Article Forge integrates with several other software, including WordAi, RankerX, SEnuke TNG, and SEO Autopilot.
• The software takes information from high-ranking websites and then creates more credible articles to rank well in search engines.
•  If you want to generate content regularly, Article Forge can help. You can set it up to automatically generate articles based on your specific keyword or topic. Or, if you need a lot of content quickly, you can use the bulk content feature to get many articles in a short period.

Pros

• Excellent for engaging with readers on multiple CMS platforms
• No spinner content. Create multiple unique articles
• Extremely quick and efficient
• One of the cheapest options online

Cons

• You need to pay attention to the content since it’s not always on point
• Only ideal for decent-quality articles – if you’re lucky

Pricing

What’s excellent about Article Forge is they provide a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can choose between a monthly or yearly subscription. Unfortunately, they offer a free trial and no free plan:

Basic Plan:  $27/Month

Features:

 This plan allows users to produce up to 25k words each month. This is excellent for smaller blogs or those who are just starting.

Standard Plan: $57/month)

Features:

•  This plan allows users to produce up to 250k words each month. This is excellent for smaller blogs or those who are just starting.

Unlimited Plan: $117/month

Features:

• If you’re looking for an unlimited amount of content, this is the plan for you. You can create as many articles as you want, and there’s no word limit.

It’s important to note that Article Forge guarantees that all content generated through the platform passes Copyscape.

5. Rytr — Superb AI Content Writing Assistant

Rytr.me is a free AI content generator perfect for small businesses, bloggers, and students. The software is easy to use and can generate SEO-friendly blog posts, articles, and school papers in minutes.

Features

• Rytr can be used for various purposes, from writing blog posts to creating school papers. You can also generate captions for social media, product descriptions, and meta descriptions.
•  Rytr supports writing for over 30 languages, so you can easily create content in your native language.
• The AI helps you write content in over 30 tones to find the perfect tone for your brand or project.
• Rytr has a built-in plagiarism checker that ensures all your content is original and plagiarism free.

Pros

• Easy to use
• Creates unique content
• It supports over 30 languages
• Multi-tone writing capabilities

Cons

• It can be slow at times
• Grammar and flow could use improvement

Pricing

Rytr offers a free plan that comes with limited features. It covers up to 5,000 characters generated each month and has access to the built-in plagiarism checker. If you want to use all the features of the software, you can purchase one of the following plans:

Saver Plan: $9/month, $90/year 

Features:

• Generate 100k  characters per month
• Access 40+ use-cases
• Write in 30+ languages
• Access 20+ tones
• Built-in plagiarism checker
• Generate up to 20 images per month with AI
• Access to premium community
• Create your own custom use-case
• Unlimited Plan: $29/month, $290/year

Features:

• Generate UNLIMITED* characters per month
• Access 40+ use-cases
• Write in 30+ languages
• Access 20+ tones

• Built-in plagiarism checker
• Generate up to 100 images per month with AI
• Access to premium community
• Create your own custom use-case
• Dedicated account manager
• Priority email & chat support

6. Writesonic — Best AI Article Writing Software with a Grammar and Plagiarism Checker

Writesonic is a free, easy-to-use AI content generator. The software is designed to help you create copy for marketing content, websites, and blogs. It's also helpful for small businesses or solopreneurs who need to produce content on a budget.

Features

• The tone checker, is a great feature that helps you ensure that your content is consistent with your brand’s voice. This is excellent for crafting cohesive and on-brand content.
• The grammar checker is another valuable tool that helps you produce error-free content.
• The plagiarism checker is a great way to ensure that your content is original.

Pricing

Writesonic is free with limited features. The free plan is more like a free trial, providing ten credits. After that, you’d need to upgrade to a paid plan. Here are your options:

Short-form: $15/month 

Features:

• Access to all the short-form content templates like Facebook ads, product descriptions, paragraphs, and more.

Long-Form: $19/month

Features:

• Awesome tools to help you write short and long-form content like blog posts, ebooks, and more.

7. CopySmith — Produces Quality Content in Seconds 

CopySmith is an AI content generator that can be used to create personal and professional documents, blogs, and presentations. It offers a wide range of features including the ability to easily create documents and presentations.

 CopySmith also has several templates that you can use to get started quickly.

 Features

• This software allows you to create product descriptions, landing pages, and more in minutes.
•  Offers rewritten content that is both unique and plagiarism free.
•  This feature helps you create product descriptions for your Shopify store that are SEO-friendly and attractive to customers.
• This is an excellent tool for new content ideas.

Pros

• Excellent for generating eCommerce-ready content
• No credit card is required for the free trial
• SEO-ready content

Cons

• The blog content isn’t the best
• Better suited for short copy

Pricing

CopySmith offers a free trial with no credit card required. After the free trial, the paid plans are as follows:

Starter Plan: $19/month

Features:

• Get 50 credits monthly with up to 20 plagiarism checks.
• Professional Plan: $59/month 

Features:

• Upgrade to 400 credits per month with up to 100 plagiarism checks.  

Enterprise – Create a custom-tailored plan by contacting the sales team.

8. Hypotenuse.ai — Best AI Writing Software for E-Commerce and Product Descriptions

Hypotenuse.ai is a free online tool that can help you create AI content. It's great for beginners because it allows you to create videos, articles, and infographics with ease. The software has a simple and easy-to-use interface that makes it perfect for new people looking for AI content generation.

Special Features

• You can create custom-tailored copy specific to your audience’s needs. This is impressive since most free AI content generators do not offer this feature.
• Hypotenuse takes data from social media sites, websites, and more sources to provide accurate information for your content.
• If you’re selling a product online, you can use Hypotenuse to create automated product descriptions that are of high quality and will help you sell more products.

Pros

• Excellent research capabilities
• Custom-tailored copy
• Automated product descriptions

Cons

• No free plan

Pricing

Hypotenuse doesn’t offer a free plan. Instead, it offers a free trial period where you can take the software for a run before deciding whether it’s the right choice for you or not. Other than that, here are its paid options:

Starter Plan: $29/month

Features:

•  This plan comes with 100 credits/month with 25k Words with one user seat. It’s an excellent option for individuals or small businesses.

Growth Plan: $59/month

Features:

•  This plan comes with 350 credits/month with 87.5k words and 1 user seat. It’s perfect for larger businesses or agencies.

Enterprise – pricing is custom, so don’t hesitate to contact the company for more information.

9. Kafkai — Leading AI Writing Tool for SEOs and Marketers

 Features

• Kafkai offers a host of features that make it SEO-ready, including the ability to add keywords and tags to your content.
• Kafkai is designed explicitly for creating niche-specific content, which can be a significant advantage for businesses or bloggers looking to target a specific audience.
•  Kafkai produces high-quality content, a significant advantage for businesses or bloggers looking to set themselves apart from the competition.
• Kafkai offers a unique feature that allows you to seed content from other sources, which can be a significant time-saver when creating content.

Pros

• Quick results with high efficiency
• You can add seed content and phrases
• It can be used to craft complete articles

Cons

• Its long-form-content generator isn’t very high quality

Pricing

Kafkai comes with a free trial to help you understand whether it’s the right choice for you or not. Additionally, you can also take a look at its paid plans:

Writer Plan: $29/month Create 100 articles per month.  $0.29/article

Newsroom Plan $49/month – Generate 250 articles a month at $0.20 per article.

Printing Press Plan: $129 /month   Create up to 1000 articles a month at roughly $0.13/article.

Industrial Printer Plan: ($199 a month) – Generate 2500 articles each month for $0.08/article.

10. Peppertype.ai — Best AI Content Writing Software for Blogging

Peppertype.ai is an online AI content generator that’s easy to use and best for small business owners looking for a powerful copy and content writing tool to help them craft and generate various content for many purposes.

Features

• You can choose from various pre-trained templates to create your content. This can save you a lot of time since you don’t have to spend time designing your templates or starting entirely from scratch.
• Peppertype offers various copywriting frameworks to help you write better content.
• Peppertype is lightweight and easy to use. This makes it perfect for beginners who want to get started with AI content generation.
• Peppertype’s autocorrect feature automatically corrects your grammar and spelling mistakes as you type. This ensures that your content is free of errors.
• Peppertype tracks user engagement data to help you create content that resonates with your audience.

Pros

• It doesn’t have a steep learning curve
• It helps users to create entirely original content
• The basic plan comes with access to all of their frameworks and templates
• Built-in style editor

Cons

• More hits than misses on content generated
• Tons of typos and grammatical errors

Pricing

Unfortunately, Peppertype.ai isn’t free. However, it does have a free trial to try out the software before deciding whether it’s the right choice for you. Here are its paid plans:

personal Plan:$35/Month

Features:

• 50,000 words included
• 40+ content types
• Notes and Text Editor
• Access to templates
• Unlimited projects
• Active customer support

Team Plan: $199/month

Features:

• Everything included in the Personal
• Collaborate & share results
• Access control
• Export results
• Request custom content types

Enterprise – pricing is custom, so please contact the company for more information.

Final thoughts:

It is no longer a secret that humans are getting overwhelmed with the daily task of creating content. Our lives are busy, and the process of writing blog posts, video scripts, or other types of content is not our day job. In comparison, AI writers are not only cheaper to hire, but also perform tasks at a high level of excellence. This article explores 10 writing tools that used AI to create better content choose the one which meets your requirements and budget but in my opinion Jasper ai is one of the best tools to use to make high-quality content. 

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TOP 11 AI MARKETING TOOLS YOU SHOULD USE (Updated 2022)
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:25:00 +0000

  

 The marketing industry is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to save time and execute smarter, more personalized campaigns. 61% of marketers say AI software is the most important aspect of their data strategy.

  If you’re late to the AI party, don’t worry. It’s easier than you think to start leveraging artificial intelligence tools in your marketing strategy. Here are 11 AI marketing tools every marketer should start using today.

1. Jasper Ai(Formerly known as Jarvis)

2. Personalize

 Personalize is an AI-powered technology that helps you identify and produce highly targeted sales and marketing campaigns by tracking the products and services your contacts are most interested in at any given time. The platform uses an algorithm to identify each contact’s top three interests, which are updated in real-time based on recent site activity.

Key Features

• Identifies  top three interests based on metrics like time on page, recency, and frequency of each contact
• Works with every ESP and CRM
• Easy to get up and running in days
• Enterprise-grade technology at a low cost for SMBs

3. Seventh Sense

  Seventh Sense provides behavioral analytics that helps you win attention in your customers’ overcrowded email inboxes. Choosing the best day and time to send an email is always a gamble. And while some days of the week generally get higher open rates than others, you’ll never be able to nail down a time that’s best for every customer. Seventh Sense eases your stress of having to figure out the perfect send-time and day for your email campaigns. The AI-based platform figures out the best timing and email frequency for each contact based on when they’re opening emails. The tool is primarily geared toward HubSpot and Marketo customers 

Key Features 

4. Phrasee

  Phrasee uses artificial intelligence to help you write more effective subject lines. With its AI-based Natural Language Generation system, Phrasee uses data-driven insights to generate millions of natural-sounding copy variants that match your brand voice. The model is end-to-end, meaning when you feed the results back to Phrasee, the prediction model rebuilds so it can continuously learn from your audience.

Key Features 

• Instantly generates millions of human-sounding, brand-compliant copy variants
• Creates tailored language models for every customer
• Learns what your audience responds to and rebuilds the prediction model every time

5. Hubspot Seo

  HubSpot Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an integral tool for the Human Content team. It uses machine learning to determine how search engines understand and categorize your content. HubSpot SEO helps you improve your search engine rankings and outrank your competitors. Search engines reward websites that organize their content around core subjects, or topic clusters. HubSpot SEO helps you discover and rank for the topics that matter to your business and customers.

Key Features 

• Helps you discover and rank topics that people are searching for
• Provides suggestions for your topic clusters and related subjects
• Integrates with all other HubSpot content tools to help you create a well-rounded content strategy

 6. Evolve AI

  When you’re limited to testing two variables against each other at a time, it can take months to get the results you’re looking for. Evolv AI lets you test all your ideas at once. It uses advanced algorithms to identify the top-performing concepts, combine them with each other, and repeat the process to achieve the best site experience.

Key Features 

• Figures out which content provides the best performance
• Lets you test multiple ideas in a single experiment instead of having to perform many individual tests over a long period
• Lets you try all your ideas across multiple pages for full-funnel optimization
• Offers visual and code editors

7. Acrolinx

  Acrolinx is a content alignment platform that helps brands scale and improves the quality of their content. It’s geared toward enterprises – its major customers include big brands like Google, Adobe, and Amazon - to help them scale their writing efforts. Instead of spending time chasing down and fixing typos in multiple places throughout an article or blog post, you can use Acrolinx to do it all right there in one place. You start by setting your preferences for style, grammar, tone of voice, and company-specific word usage. Then, Acrolinx checks and scores your existing content to find what’s working and suggest areas for improvement. The platform provides real-time guidance and suggestions to make writing better and strengthen weak pages.

Key features

• Reviews and scores existing content to ensure it meets your brand guidelines
• Finds opportunities to improve your content and use automation to shorten your editorial process.
• Integrates with more than 50 tools and platforms, including Google Docs, Microsoft Word, WordPress, and most web browsers.

8. MarketMuse 

MarketMuse uses an algorithm to help marketers build content strategies. The tool shows you where to target keywords to rank in specific topic categories, and recommends keywords you should go after if you want to own particular topics. It also identifies gaps and opportunities for new content and prioritizes them by their probable impact on your rankings. The algorithm compares your content with thousands of articles related to the same topic to uncover what’s missing from your site.

Key features:

• The built-in editor shows how in-depth your topic is covered and what needs improvement
• Finds gaps and opportunities for new content creation, prioritized by their probable impact and your chance of ranking

9. Copilot

Copilot is a suite of tools that help eCommerce businesses maintain real-time communication with customers around the clock at every stage of the funnel. Promote products, recover shopping carts and send updates or reminders directly through Messenger.

Key features: 

• Integrate Facebook Messenger directly with your website, including chat history and recent interactions for a fluid customer service experience 
• Run drip messenger campaigns to keep customers engaged with your brand
• Send abandoned carts, out-of-stock, restock, preorder, order status, and shipment notifications to contacts 
• Send branded images, promotional content, or coupon codes to those who opt in
• Collect post-purchase feedback, reviews, and customer insight
• Demonstrate social proof on your website with a widget, or push automatic Facebook posts sharing recent purchases
• Display a promotional banner on your website to capture contacts instantly

10. Yotpo

Yotpo’s deep learning technology evaluates your customers’ product reviews to help you make better business decisions. It identifies key topics that customers mention related to your products—and their feelings toward them. The AI engine extracts relevant reviews from past buyers and presents them in smart displays to convert new shoppers. Yotpo also saves you time moderating reviews. The AI-powered moderation tool automatically assigns a score to each review and flags reviews with negative sentiment so you can focus on quality control instead of manually reviewing every post.

Key features:

• Makes it easy for shoppers to filter reviews and find the exact information they’re looking for
• Analyzes customer feedback and sentiments to help you improve your products
• Integrates with most leading eCommerce platforms, including BigCommerce, Magento, and Shopify.

11. Albert AI

  Albert is a self-learning software that automates the creation of marketing campaigns for your brand. It analyzes vast amounts of data to run optimized campaigns autonomously, allowing you to feed in your own creative content and target markets, and then use data from its database to determine key characteristics of a serious buyer. Albert identifies potential customers that match those traits, and runs trial campaigns on a small group of customers—with results refined by Albert himself—before launching it on a larger scale.

  Albert plugs into your existing marketing technology stack, so you still have access to your accounts, ads, search, social media, and more. Albert maps tracking and attribution to your source of truth so you can determine which channels are driving your business.

Key features:

• Breaks down large amounts of data to help you customize campaigns
• Plugs into your marketing technology stack and can be used across diverse media outlets, including email, content, paid media, and mobile

Final Saying

There are many tools and companies out there that offer AI tools, but this is a small list of resources that we have found to be helpful. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to share them in the comments below this article. As marketing evolves at such a rapid pace, new marketing strategies will be invented that we haven't even dreamed of yet. But for now, this list should give you a good starting point on your way to implementing AI into your marketing mix.

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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:49:00 +0000

If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don't have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become old.

Imagine a world in which you can do transactions and many other things without having to give your personal information. A world in which you don’t need to rely on banks or governments anymore. Sounds amazing, right? That’s exactly what blockchain technology allows us to do.

It’s like your computer’s hard drive. blockchain is a technology that lets you store data in digital blocks, which are connected together like links in a chain. 

Blockchain technology was originally invented in 1991 by two mathematicians, Stuart Haber and W. Scot Stornetta. They first proposed the system to ensure that timestamps could not be tampered with.

A few years later, in 1998, software developer Nick Szabo proposed using a similar kind of technology to secure a digital payments system he called “Bit Gold.” However, this innovation was not adopted until Satoshi Nakamoto claimed to have invented the first Blockchain and Bitcoin.

So, What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed database shared between the nodes of a computer network. It saves information in digital format. Many people first heard of blockchain technology when they started to look up information about bitcoin.

Blockchain is used in cryptocurrency systems to ensure secure, decentralized records of transactions.

Blockchain allowed people to guarantee the fidelity and security of a record of data without the need for a third party to ensure accuracy.

To understand how a blockchain works, Consider these basic steps:

• Blockchain collects information in “blocks”.
• A block has a storage capacity, and once it's used up, it can be closed and linked to a previously served block.
• Blocks form chains, which are called “Blockchains.”
• More information will be added to the block with the most content until its capacity is full. The process repeats itself.
• Each block in the chain has an exact timestamp and can't be changed.

Let’s get to know more about the blockchain.

How does blockchain work?

Blockchain records digital information and distributes it across the network without changing it. The information is distributed among many users and stored in an immutable, permanent ledger that can't be changed or destroyed. That's why blockchain is also called "Distributed Ledger Technology" or DLT.

Here’s how it works:

• Someone or a computer will transacts
• The transaction is transmitted throughout the network.
• A network of computers can confirm the transaction.
• When it is confirmed a transaction is added to a block
• The blocks are linked together to create a history.

And that’s the beauty of it! The process may seem complicated, but it’s done in minutes with modern technology. And because technology is advancing rapidly, I expect things to move even more quickly than ever.

• A new transaction is added to the system. It is then relayed to a network of computers located around the world. The computers then solve equations to ensure the authenticity of the transaction.
• Once a transaction is confirmed, it is placed in a block after the confirmation. All of the blocks are chained together to create a permanent history of every transaction.

How are Blockchains used?

Even though blockchain is integral to cryptocurrency, it has other applications. For example, blockchain can be used for storing reliable data about transactions. Many people confuse blockchain with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.

Blockchain already being adopted by some big-name companies, such as Walmart, AIG, Siemens, Pfizer, and Unilever. For example, IBM's Food Trust uses blockchain to track food's journey before reaching its final destination.

Although some of you may consider this practice excessive, food suppliers and manufacturers adhere to the policy of tracing their products because bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella have been found in packaged foods. In addition, there have been isolated cases where dangerous allergens such as peanuts have accidentally been introduced into certain products.

Tracing and identifying the sources of an outbreak is a challenging task that can take months or years. Thanks to the Blockchain, however, companies now know exactly where their food has been—so they can trace its location and prevent future outbreaks.

Blockchain technology allows systems to react much faster in the event of a hazard. It also has many other uses in the modern world.

What is Blockchain Decentralization?

Blockchain technology is safe, even if it’s public. People can access the technology using an internet connection.

Have you ever been in a situation where you had all your data stored at one place and that one secure place got compromised? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to prevent your data from leaking out even when the security of your storage systems is compromised?

Blockchain technology provides a way of avoiding this situation by using multiple computers at different locations to store information about transactions. If one computer experiences problems with a transaction, it will not affect the other nodes.

Instead, other nodes will use the correct information to cross-reference your incorrect node. This is called “Decentralization,” meaning all the information is stored in multiple places.

Blockchain guarantees your data's authenticity—not just its accuracy, but also its irreversibility. It can also be used to store data that are difficult to register, like legal contracts, state identifications, or a company's product inventory.

Pros and Cons of Blockchain

Blockchain has many advantages and disadvantages. 

Pros

• Accuracy is increased because there is no human involvement in the verification process.
• One of the great things about decentralization is that it makes information harder to tamper with.
• Safe, private, and easy transactions
• Provides a banking alternative and safe storage of personal information

Cons

• Data storage has limits.
• The regulations are always changing, as they differ from place to place.
• It has a risk of being used for illicit activities 

Frequently Asked Questions About Blockchain

I’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about blockchain in this section.

Is Blockchain a cryptocurrency?

Blockchain is not a cryptocurrency but a technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. It's a digital ledger that records every transaction seamlessly.

Is it possible for Blockchain to be hacked?

Yes, blockchain can be theoretically hacked, but it is a complicated task to be achieved. A network of users constantly reviews it, which makes hacking the blockchain difficult.

What is the most prominent blockchain company?

Coinbase Global is currently the biggest blockchain company in the world. The company runs a commendable infrastructure, services, and technology for the digital currency economy.

Who owns Blockchain?

Blockchain is a decentralized technology. It’s a chain of distributed ledgers connected with nodes. Each node can be any electronic device. Thus, one owns blockhain.

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain technology?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is powered by Blockchain technology while Blockchain is a distributed ledger of cryptocurrency 

What is the difference between Blockchain and a Database?

Generally a database is a collection of data which can be stored and organized using a database management system. The people who have access to the database can view or edit the information stored there. The client-server network architecture is used to implement databases. whereas a blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, stored in a distributed system. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, timestamp and transaction information. Modification of data is not allowed due to the design of the blockchain. The technology allows decentralized control and eliminates risks of data modification by other parties.

Final Saying

Blockchain has a wide spectrum of applications and, over the next 5-10 years, we will likely see it being integrated into all sorts of industries. From finance to healthcare, blockchain could revolutionize the way we store and share data. Although there is some hesitation to adopt blockchain systems right now, that won't be the case in 2022-2023 (and even less so in 2026). Once people become more comfortable with the technology and understand how it can work for them, owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs alike will be quick to leverage blockchain technology for their own gain. Hope you like this article if you have any question let me know in the comments section

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ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:04:00 +0000

What is Grammarly?

Grammarly is a tool that checks for grammatical errors, spelling, and punctuation.it gives you comprehensive feedback on your writing. You can use this tool to proofread and edit articles, blog posts, emails, etc.

Grammarly also detects all types of mistakes, including sentence structure issues and misused words. It also gives you suggestions on style changes, punctuation, spelling, and grammar all are in real-time. The free version covers the basics like identifying grammar and spelling mistakes

whereas the Premium version offers a lot more functionality, it detects plagiarism in your content, suggests word choice, or adds fluency to it.

Features of Grammarly

• Spelling and Word Suggestion: Grammarly detects basic to advance grammatical errors and also help you why this is an error and suggest to you how you can improve it
• Create a Personal Dictionary: The Grammarly app allows you to add words to your personal dictionary so that the same mistake isn't highlighted every time you run Grammarly.
• Different English Style: Check to spell for American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.
• Plagiarism: This feature helps you detect if a text has been plagiarized by comparing it with over eight billion web pages.
• Wordiness: This tool will help you check your writing for long and hard-to-read sentences. It also shows you how to shorten sentences so that they are more concise.
• Passive Voice: The program also notifies users when passive voice is used too frequently in a document.
• Punctuations: This feature flags all incorrect and missing punctuation.
• Repetition: The tool provides recommendations for replacing the repeated word.
• Proposition: Grammarly identifies misplaced and confused prepositions.
  
• Plugins: It offers Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Chrome plugins.

What is ProWritingAid?

ProWritingAid is a style and grammar checker for content creators and writers. It helps to optimize word choice, punctuation errors, and common grammar mistakes, providing detailed reports to help you improve your writing. 

ProWritingAid can be used as an add-on to WordPress, Gmail, and Google Docs. The software also offers helpful articles, videos, quizzes, and explanations to help improve your writing.

Features of ProWriting Aid

Here are some key features of ProWriting Aid:

• Grammar checker and spell checker: This tool helps you to find all grammatical and spelling errors.
• Find repeated words:  The tool also allows you to search for repeated words and phrases in your content.
• Context-sensitive style suggestions:  You can find the exact style of writing you intend and suggest if it flows well in your writing.
• Check the readability of your content: Pro Writing Aid helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your article by pointing out difficult sentences and paragraphs.
• Sentence Length: It also indicates the length of your sentences.
• Check Grammatical error: It also checks your work for any grammatical errors or typos, as well.
• Overused words: As a writer, you might find yourself using the same word repeatedly. ProWritingAid's overused words checker helps you avoid this lazy writing mistake.
• Consistency: Check your work for inconsistent usage of open and closed quotation marks.
• Echoes: Check your writing for uniformly repetitive words and phrases.

Difference between Grammarly and Pro-Writing Aid

Grammarly and ProWritingAid are well-known grammar-checking software. However, if you're like most people who can't decide which to use, here are some different points that may be helpful in your decision.

Grammarly vs ProWritingAid

• Grammarly is a writing enhancement tool that offers suggestions for grammar, vocabulary, and syntax whereas ProWritingAid offers world-class grammar and style checking, as well as advanced reports to help you strengthen your writing.
• Grammarly provides Android and IOS apps whereas ProWritingAid doesn't have a mobile or IOS app.
• Grammarly offers important suggestions about mistakes you've made whereas ProWritingAid  shows more suggestions than Grammarly but all recommendations are not accurate
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX whereas the ProWritingAid interface is not friendly as Grammarly.
• Grammarly is an accurate grammar checker for non-fiction writing whereas ProWritingAid is an accurate grammar checker for fiction writers.
• Grammarly finds grammar and punctuation mistakes, whereas ProWritingAid identifies run-on sentences and fragments.
• Grammarly provides 24/7 support via submitting a ticket and sending emails. ProWritingAid’s support team is available via email, though the response time is approximately 48 hours.
• Grammarly offers many features in its free plan, whereas ProWritingAid offers some basic features in the free plan.
• Grammarly does not offer much feedback on big picture writing; ProWritingAid offers complete feedback on big picture writing.
• Grammarly is a better option for accuracy, whereas ProWritingAid is better for handling fragmented sentences and dialogue. It can be quite useful for fiction writers.

ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Pricing Difference

• ProWritingAid comes with three pricing structures. The full-year cost of ProWritingAid is $79, while its lifetime plans cost $339. You also can opt for a monthly plan of $20.
• Grammarly offers a Premium subscription for $30/month for a monthly plan  $20/month for quarterly and $12/month for an annual subscription.
• The Business plan costs $12.50 per month for each member of your company.

ProWritingAid vs Grammarly – Pros and Cons

Grammarly Pros

• It allows you to fix common mistakes like grammar and spelling.
• Offers most features in the free plan
• Allows you to edit a document without affecting the formatting.
• Active and passive voice checker
• Personal dictionary 
• Plagiarism checker (paid version)
• Proofread your writing and correct all punctuation, grammar, and spelling errors.
• Allows you to make changes to a document without altering its formatting.
• Helps users improve vocabulary
• User-friendly interface
• Browser extensions and MS word add-ons
• Available on all major devices and platforms
• Grammarly will also offer suggestions to improve your style.
• Enhance the readability of your sentence
• Free mobile apps 
• Offers  free version

Grammarly Cons

• Supports only English 
• Customer support only via email
• Limits to 150,000 words
• Subscription plans can be a bit pricey 
• Plagiarism checker is only available in a premium plan
• Doesn’t offer a free trial
• No refund policy
• The free version is ideal for basic spelling and grammatical mistakes, but it does not correct advanced writing issues.
• Some features are not available for Mac.

ProwritingAid Pros

• It offers more than 20 different reports to help you improve your writing.
• Less expensive than other grammar checkers.
• This tool helps you strengthen your writing style as it offers big-picture feedback.
• ProWritingAid has a life plan with no further payments required.
• Compatible with Google Docs!
• Prowritingaid works on both Windows and Mac.
• They offer more integrations than most tools.

ProWritingAid Cons

• Editing can be a little more time-consuming when you add larger passages of text.
• ProWritingAid currently offers no mobile app for Android or iOS devices.
• Plagiarism checker is only available in premium plans.
• All recommendations are not accurate

Summarizing the Ginger VS Grammarly: My Recommendation

As both writing assistants are great in their own way, you need to choose the one that suits you best.

• For example, go for Grammarly  if you are a non-fiction writer
• Go for ProWritingAid if you are a fiction writer.
• ProWritingAid is better at catching errors found in long-form content. However, Grammarly is more suited to short blog posts and other similar tasks.
• ProWritingAid helps you clean up your writing by checking for style, structure, and content while Grammarly focuses on grammar and punctuation.
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX whereas; ProWritingAid offers complete feedback on big picture writing.

Both ProWritingAid and Grammarly are awesome writing tools, without a doubt. but as per my experience, Grammarly is a winner here because Grammarly helps you to review and edit your content. Grammarly highlights all the mistakes in your writing within seconds of copying and pasting the content into Grammarly’s editor or using the software’s native feature in other text editors.

Not only does it identify tiny grammatical and spelling errors, it tells you when you overlook punctuations where they are needed. And, beyond its plagiarism-checking capabilities, Grammarly helps you proofread your content. Even better, the software offers a free plan that gives you access to some of its features.

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Sellfy Review 2022: How Good Is This Ecommerce Platform?
Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:54:00 +0000

 

Are you searching for an ecomerce platform to help you build an online store and sell products?

In this Sellfy review, we'll talk about how this eCommerce platform can let you sell digital products while keeping full control of your marketing.

And the best part? Starting your business can be done in just five minutes.

Let us then talk about the Sellfy platform and all the benefits it can bring to your business.

What is Sellfy?

Sellfy is an eCommerce solution that allows digital content creators, including writers, illustrators, designers, musicians, and filmmakers, to sell their products online. Sellfy provides a customizable storefront where users can display their digital products and embed "Buy Now" buttons on their website or blog. Sellfy product pages enable users to showcase their products from different angles with multiple images and previews from Soundcloud, Vimeo, and YouTube. Files of up to 2GB can be uploaded to Sellfy, and the company offers unlimited bandwidth and secure file storage. Users can also embed their entire store or individual project widgets in their site, with the ability to preview how widgets will appear before they are displayed.

Features

Sellfy includes:

Online Store

Sellfy is a powerful e-commerce platform that helps you personalize your online storefront. You can add your logo, change colors, revise navigation, and edit the layout of your store. Sellfy also allows you to create a full shopping cart so customers can purchase multiple items. And Sellfy gives you the ability to set your language or let customers see a translated version of your store based on their location.

Sellfy gives you the option to host your store directly on its platform, add a custom domain to your store, and use it as an embedded storefront on your website. Sellfy also optimizes its store offerings for mobile devices, allowing for a seamless checkout experience.

Product hosting

Sellfy allows creators to host all their products and sell all of their digital products on one platform. Sellfy also does not place storage limits on your store but recommends that files be no larger than 5GB. Creators can sell both standard and subscription-based products in any file format that is supported by the online marketplace. Customers can purchase products instantly after making a purchase – there is no waiting period.

You can organize your store by creating your product categories, sorting by any characteristic you choose. Your title, description, and the image will be included on each product page. In this way, customers can immediately evaluate all of your products. You can offer different pricing options for all of your products, including "pay what you want," in which the price is entirely up to the customer. This option allows you to give customers control over the cost of individual items (without a minimum price) or to set pricing minimums—a good option if you're in a competitive market or when you have higher-end products. You can also offer set prices per product as well as free products to help build your store's popularity.

Sellfy is ideal for selling digital content, such as ebooks. But it does not allow you to copyrighted material (that you don't have rights to distribute).

Embed options

Sellfy offers several ways to share your store, enabling you to promote your business on different platforms. Sellfy lets you integrate it with your existing website using "buy now" buttons, embed your entire storefront, or embed certain products so you can reach more people. Sellfy also enables you to connect with your Facebook page and YouTube channel, maximizing your visibility.

Payments and security

Sellfy is a simple online platform that allows customers to buy your products directly through your store. Sellfy has two payment processing options: PayPal and Stripe. You will receive instant payments with both of these processors, and your customer data is protected by Sellfy's secure (PCI-compliant) payment security measures. In addition to payment security, Sellfy provides anti-fraud tools to help protect your products including PDF stamping, unique download links, and limited download attempts.

Marketing and analytics tools

The Sellfy platform includes marketing and analytics tools to help you manage your online store. You can send email product updates and collect newsletter subscribers through the platform. With Sellfy, you can also offer discount codes and product upsells, as well as create and track Facebook and Twitter ads for your store. The software's analytics dashboard will help you track your best-performing products, generated revenue, traffic channels, top locations, and overall store performance.

Integrations

To expand functionality and make your e-commerce store run more efficiently, Sellfy offers several integrations. Google Analytics and Webhooks, as well as integrations with Patreon and Facebook Live Chat, are just a few of the options available. Sellfy allows you to connect to Zapier, which gives you access to hundreds of third-party apps, including tools like Mailchimp, Trello, Salesforce, and more.

Pricing and Premium Plan Features

Free Plan

• Price: $0

The free plan comes with:

• Up to 10 products
• Print-on-demand products
• Physical products

Starter Plan

• Price: $19/month

Starter plan comes with:

• Everything is Free, plus:
• Unlimited products
• Digital products
• Subscription products
• Connect your domain
• 2,000 email credits

Business Plan

• Price: $49/month

The business plan comes with:

• Everything in Starter, plus:
• Remove "Sellfy" branding
• Store design migration
• Cart abandonment
• Product upselling
• 10,000 email credits

Premium Plan

• Price: $99/month

The premium plan comes with:

• Everything in Business, plus:
• Product migration
• Priority support
• 50,000 email credits

Sellfy Review: Pros and Cons

Sellfy has its benefits and downsides, but fortunately, the pros outweigh the cons.

Pros

• It takes only a few minutes to set up an online store and begin selling products.
• You can sell your products on a single storefront, even if you are selling multiple product types.
• Sellfy supports selling a variety of product types, including physical items, digital goods, subscriptions, and print-on-demand products.
  
  
• Sellfy offers a free plan for those who want to test out the features before committing to a paid plan.
• You get paid the same day you make a sale. Sellfy doesn't delay your funds as some other payment processors do. 
• Print-on-demand services are available directly from your store, so you can sell merchandise to fans without setting up an integration. 
• You can conduct all store-related activities via the mobile app and all online stores have mobile responsive designs.
• Everything you need to make your website is included, including a custom domain name hosting, security for your files, and the ability to customize your store
• The file security features can help you protect your digital property by allowing you to put PDF stamps, set download limits, and SSL encryption.
• Sellfy provides unlimited support.
• Sellfy provides simple and intuitive tax and VAT configuration settings.
• Marketing strategies include coupons, email marketing, upselling, tracking pixels, and cart abandonment.

Cons

• Although the free plan is helpful, but it limits you to only 10 products.
• Payment plans often require an upgrade if you exceed a certain sales amount per year.
• The storefront designs are clean, but they're not unique templates for creating a completely different brand image.
• Sellfy's branding is removed from your hosted product when you upgrade to the $49 per month Business plan.
• The free plan does not allow for selling digital or subscription products.

Conclusion

In this article, we have taken a look at some of the biggest benefits associated with using sellfy for eCommerce. Once you compare these benefits to what you get with other platforms such as Shopify, you should find that it is worth your time to consider sellfy for your business. After reading this article all of your questions will be solved but if you have still some questions let me know in the comment section below, I will be happy to answer your questions.

Note: This article contains affiliate links which means we make a small commission if you buy sellfy premium plan from our link.

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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

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Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000

Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Would you like to read a detailed review of Canva? As it's one of the tools I love using. I am also writing my first ebook using canva and publish it soon on my site you can download it is free.  Let's start the review.

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload your own photos from your computer or from Google Drive, and add them to Canva's templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that doesn't require Graphic designing knowledge to use. It’s best for nongraphic designers.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.

To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. To use it, you’ll need to learn its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and it’s best to have a good background in design, too.

Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.

So here  Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easier to use and free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12.95 per month.

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99/month per user or  $119.99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).

Free plan Features

• 250,000+ free templates
• 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
• Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
• Invite members to your team
• Collaborate and comment in real-time
• 5GB of cloud storage
• Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days

Pro Plan Features 

• Everything Free, has plus:
• 100+ million premium and  stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
• 610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
• Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
•  Create a library of your brand or campaign's colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
• Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
• Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
• Save designs as templates for your team to use
• 100GB of cloud storage
• Schedule social media content to 8 platforms

Enterprise Plan Features

• Everything Pro has plus:
• Establish your brand's visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
• Control your team's access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
• Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
• Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
• Unlimited Storage
• Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.

How to Use Canva?

To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between student, teacher, small business, large company, non-profit, or personal. Based on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.

You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.

Canva Sign Up

Designing with Canva

When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Based on the type of account you set up  you'll be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: social media posts, documents, presentations, marketing, events, ads, launch your business, build your online brand, etc.

 Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.

Templates

Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of templates that are ready to go, with customizable photos, text, and other elements.

You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.

 Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose from

Elements

Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.

To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:

Photos

The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.

You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suited to your industry.

You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.

When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop, or animate it.

 When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any stock photo in  library or any image you upload.

Text

The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.

When you click on  text, you'll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows). 

Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content remains on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.

Audio

Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.

If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.

Video

Want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock video clips. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes

You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab. 

Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.

Backgrounds

On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. Change out the background on a template to give it a more personal touch.

Styles

The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your brand’s custom colors and fonts to ensure designs stay on brand.

Logos

If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use throughout your designs.

With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo with stock content in it.

Publishing with Canva

With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.

Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. For example, you can start by designing an Instagram post, and Canva's Magic Resizer can resize it for other networks, Stories, Reels, and other formats.

Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.

Canva Team

Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created inside Canva, and then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can make comments, edits, revisions, and keep track via the version history.

Canva Print

When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With an extensive selection of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall art to mugs and t-shirts. 

Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs people will want to wear, keep, and share. Hand out custom business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers' minds.

Canva Apps

The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.

In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

• A user-friendly interface
• Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
• Hundreds of templates, so you'll never have to start from scratch.
• Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
• Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
• Creating visual content on the go
• You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.

Cons:

• Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
• Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
• Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
• Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
• If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva's features limited.
• Prefers to work with vectors. Especially logos.
• Expensive enterprise pricing

Conclusion

In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. If you are a graphic designer with experience, you will find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features – particularly vectors. But if you have little design experience, you will find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.

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Top 7 Best Wordpress Plugin Of All Time
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0000

 

If you are looking for the best wordpress plugins, then you are at the right place. Here is the list of best wordpress plugins that you should use in your blog to boost SEO, strong your security and know every aspects of your blog . Although creating a good content is one factor but there are many wordpress plugins that perform different actions and add on to your success. So let's  start

1.Yoast SEO

Those users who are serious about SEO, Yoast SEO will do the work for them to reach their goals. All they need to do is select a keyword, and the plugin will then optimize your page according to the specified keyword

Yoast offers many popular SEO WordPress plugin functions. It gives you real-time page analysis to optimize your content, images, meta descriptions, titles, and kewords. Yoast also checks the length of your sentences and paragraphs, whether you’re using enough transition words or subheadings, how often you use passive voice, and so on. Yoast tells Google whether or not to index a page or a set of pages too.

Let me summarize these points in bullets:

• Enhance the readability of your article to reduce bounce rate
• Optimize your articles with targetted keywords
• Let Google know who you are and what your site is about
• Improve your on-page SEO with advanced, real-time guidance and advice on keyword usage, linking, and external linking.
• Keep your focus keywords consistent to help rank better on  Google.
• Preview how your page would appear in the search engine results page (SERP)
• Crawl your site daily to ensure Google indexes it as quickly as possible.
• Rate your article informing you of any mistakes you might have made so that you can fix them before publishing.
• Stay up-to-date with Google’s latest algorithm changes and adapt your on-page SEO as needed with smartsuggestionss from the Yoast SEO plugin. This plugin is always up-to-date.
• Free Version is available 

Pricing

• Premium version=$89/year that comes with extra functions, allowing you to optimize your content up to five keywords, among other benefits.

2. WP Rocket

A website running WordPress can put a lot of strain on a server, which increases the chances that the website will crash and harm your business. To avoid such an unfortunate situation and ensure that all your pages load quickly, you need a caching plugin like WP Rocket.

WP Rocket plugin designed to increases your website speed. Instead of waiting for pages to be saved to cache, WP Rocket turns on desired caching settings, like page cache and gzip compression. The plugin also activates other features, such as CDN support and llazy image loadding, to enhance your site speed.

Features in bullets:

• Browser Catching
• Preloading the cache of pages
• Reducing the number of HTTP requests allows websites to load more quickly.
• Decreasing bandwidth usage with GZIP compression
• Apply optimal browser caching headers (expires)
• Minifying and combining JavaScript and CSS files
• Remove Unused CSS
• Deferred loading of images (LazyLoad)
• WebP compatibility
• Deferred loading of JavaScript files
• Delay JavaScript Execution
• Critical Path CSS generation and deferred loading of CSS files
• Database optimization
• WordPress Heartbeat API control
• DNS prefetch
• CDN integration
• Cloudflare integration
• Sucuri integration
• Easy import/export of settings
• Easy roll back to a previous version

Pricing

• Single License =$49/year for one website
• Plus License =$99/year for 3 websites
• Infinite License =$249/year for unlimited websites

3.Wordfence Security

Wordfence Security is a WordPress firewall and security scanner that keeps your site safe from malicious hackers, spam, and other online threats. This Plugin comes with a web application firewall (WAF) called tthread Defence  Feed  that helps to prevents brute force attacks by ensuring you set stronger passwords and limiting login attempts. It searches for malware and compares code, theme, and plugin files with the records in the WordPress.org repository to verify their integrity and reports changes to you.

Wordfence security scanner provides you with actionable insights into your website's security status and will alert you to any potential threats, keeping it safe and secure. It also includes login security features that let you activate reCAPTCHA and two-factor authentication for your website.

Features in Bullets.

• Scans your site for vulnerabilities.
• Alerts you by email when new threats are detected.
• Supports advanced login security measures.
• IP addresses may be blocked automatically if suspicious activity is detected.

Pricing

• Premium Plan= $99/Year that comes with extra security features like the real time IP backlist and country blocking option and also support from highly qualified experts.

4. Akismet

Akismet can help prevent spam from appearing on your site. Every day, it automatically checks every comment against a global database of spam to block malicious content. With Akismet, you also won’t have to worry about innocent comments being caught by the filter or false positives. You can simply tell Akismet about those and it will get better over time. It also checks your contact form submissions against its global spam database and weed out unnecessary fake information.

Features in Bullets:

• The program automatically checks comments and filters out spam.
• Hidden or misleading links are often revealed in the comment body. 
• Akismet tracks the status of each comment, allowing you to see which ones were caught by Akismet and which ones were cleared by a moderator.
• A spam-blocking feature that saves disk space and makes your site run faster.
• Moderators can view a list of comments approved by each user.

Pricing

• Free to use for personal blog 

5. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is a plug-in that allows you to create contact forms that make it easy for your users to send messages to your site. The plug-in was developed by Takayuki Miyoshi and lets you create multiple contact forms on the same site; it also integrates Akismet spam filtering and lets you customize the styling and fields that you want to use in the form. The plug-in provides CAPTCHA and Ajax submitting.

Features in bullets:

• Create and manage multiple contact forms
• Easily customize form fields
• Use simple markup to alter mail content
• Add Lots of third-party extensions for additional functionality
• Shortcode offers a way to insert content into pages or posts.
• Akismet spam filtering, Ajax-powered submitting, and CAPTCHA are all features of this plugin.

Pricing

• Free to use

6. Monster Insights

When you’re looking for an easy way to manage your Google Analytics-related web tracking services, Monster Insights can help. You can add, customize, and integrate Google Analytics data with ease so you’ll be able to see how every webpage performs, which online campaigns bring in the most traffic, and which content readers engage with the most. It’s same as Google Analytics

It is a powerful tool to keep track of your traffic stats. With it, you can view stats for your active sessions, conversions, and bounce rates. You’ll also be able to see your total revenue, the products you sell, and how your site is performing when it comes to referrals.

MonsterInsights offers a free plan that includes basic Google Analytics integration, data insights, and user activity metrics.

Features in bullets:

• Demographics and interest reports:
• Anonymize the  IPs of visitor
• See the results of how far visitors Scroll down
• Show the insights of multiple links to the same page and show you which links get more clicks
• See sessions of two related sites as a single session
• Google AdSense tracking
• Send you weekly analytics report of your blog you can download it as pdf

Pricing

• Premium plan= $99.50/year that comes with extra features like page and post tracking, Adsense tracking,  custom tracking and reports.

7. Pretty Links

Pretty Links is a powerful WordPress plugin that enables you to easily cloak affiliate links on your websiteIt even allows you to easily redirect visitors based on a specific request, including permanent 301 and temporary 302/307 redirects.

Pretty links also helps you to automatically shorten your url for your post and pages.

You can also enable auto-linking feature to automatically add affiliate links for certain keywords

Features

•  Create clean, easy-to-remember URLs on your website (301, 302, and 307 redirects only)
• Random-generator or custom URL slugs
• Track the number of clicks
• Easy to understand reports
• View click details including ip address, remote host, browser, operating system, and referring site
• You can pass custom parameters to your scripts when using pretty permalinks, and still have full tracking capability.
• Exclude IP Addresses from Stats
• Cookie-based system to track your activity across clicks
• Create nofollow/noindex links
• Toggle tracking on / off on each link.
• Pretty Link Bookmarklet
•  Update redirected links easily to new URLs!

Pricing

• Beginner Plan=$79/year that can be used on 1 site
• Marketer Plan: $99/year – that can be used on upto 2 sites
• Super Affiliate Plan: $149/year – that can be use on upto 5 sites

We hope you’ve found this article useful. We appreciate you reading and welcome your feedback if you have it.

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Ginger VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:28:00 +0000

Ginger VS Grammarly: When it comes to grammar checkers, Ginger and Grammarly are two of the most popular choices on the market. This article aims to highlight the specifics of each one so that you can make a more informed decision about the one you'll use.

What is Grammarly?

If you are a writer, you must have heard of  Grammarly before. Grammarly has over 10M users across the globe, it's probably the most popular AI writing enhancement tool, without a doubt. That's why there's a high chance that you already know about Grammarly.

But today we are going to do a comparison between Ginger and Grammarly, So let's define Grammarly here. Like Ginger, Grammarly is an AI writing assistant that checks for grammatical errors, spellings, and punctuation. The free version covers the basics like identifying grammar and spelling mistakes

While the Premium version offers a lot more functionality, it detects plagiarism in your content, suggests word choice, or adds fluency to it.

Features of Grammarly

• Grammarly detects basic to advance grammatical errors and also help you why this is an error and suggest to you how you can improve it
• Create a personal dictionary 
• Check to spell for American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.
• Understand inconsistencies. 
• Detect unclear structure. 
• Detect Plagiarism.
• Explore overuse of words and wordiness. 
• Get to know about the improper tones. 
• Discover the insensitive language aligns with your intent, audience, style, emotion, and more.

What is Ginger

 Ginger is a writing enhancement tool that not only catches typos and grammatical mistakes but also suggests content improvements. As you type, it picks up on errors then shows you what’s wrong, and suggests a fix. It also provides you with synonyms and definitions of words and allows you to translate your text into dozens of languages.

Ginger Software: Features & Benefits

• Ginger's software helps you identify and correct common grammatical mistakes, such as consecutive nouns, or contextual spelling correction.
• The sentence rephrasing feature can help you convey your meaning perfectly.
• Ginger acts like a personal coach that helps you practice certain exercises based on your mistakes.
• The dictionary feature helps users understand the meanings of words.

In addition, the program provides a text reader, so you can gauge your writing’s conversational tone.

Ginger vs Grammarly

Grammarly and Ginger are two popular grammar checker software brands that help you to become a better writer. But if you’re undecided about which software to use, consider these differences:

• Grammarly only supports the English language while Ginger supports 40+ languages.
• Grammarly offers a wordiness feature while Ginger lacks a Wordiness feature.
• Grammarly shows an accuracy score while Ginger lacks an accuracy score feature.
• Grammarly has a plagiarism checker while ginger doesn't have such a feature.
• Grammarly can recognize an incorrect use of numbers while Ginger can’t recognize an incorrect use of numbers.
• Grammarly and Ginger both have mobile apps.
• Ginger and Grammarly offer monthly, quarterly, and annual plans.
• Grammarly allows you to check uploaded documents. while Ginger doesn't check uploaded documents.
• Grammarly Offers a tone suggestion feature while Ginger doesn't offer a tone suggestion feature.
• Ginger helps to translate documents into 40+ languages while Grammarly doesn't have a translation feature.
• Ginger Offers text to speech features while Grammarly doesn't have such features.

Grammarly Score: 7/10

Ginger:4/10

So Grammarly  wins here.

Ginger VS Grammarly: Pricing Difference

• Ginger offers a Premium subscription for 13.99$/month. it comes at $11.19/month for quarterly and $7.49/month for an annual subscription with 40$ off.
• On the other hand,  Grammarly offers a Premium subscription for $30/month for a monthly plan  $20/month for quarterly, and $12/month for an annual subscription.

For companies with three or more employees, the Business plan costs $12.50/month for each member of your team. 

Ginger Wins Here

Ginger vs Grammarly – Pros and Cons

Grammarly Pros

• Offers  free version
• All-in-one tool (grammar checker + spell checker + punctuation checker)
• Allows you to edit a document without affecting the formatting.
• Style checker (paid version)


• Active and passive voice checker
• Personal dictionary 
• Plagiarism checker (paid version)
• Available on all major devices and platforms
• Free mobile apps 
• User-friendly interface
• Browser extensions and MS word add-ons
• Can upload and download documents

Grammarly Cons

• Supports only English 
• Customer support only via email
• Limits to 150,000 words
• Subscription plans can be a bit pricey 
• Doesn’t offer a free trial
• No refund policy

Ginger Pros

• Offers free version
• All-in-one tool (grammar checker + spell checker + punctuation checker)
• Affordable Subscription plans (Additionals discounts are available)
• Active and passive voice changer
• Translates documents in 40+ languages 
• Personal dictionary
• Browser extension available 
•  Personal trainers help clients develop their knowledge of grammar.
• Text-to-speech feature reads work out loud
• Get a full refund within 7 days

Ginger Cons

• Mobile apps aren't free
• Limited monthly corrections for free users
• No style checker
• No plagiarism checker
• Not as user-friendly as Grammarly
• You are unable to upload or download documents; however, you may copy and paste files as needed.
• Doesn't offer a free trial

Summarizing the Ginger VS Grammarly: My Recommendation

While both writing assistants are fantastic in their ways, you need to choose the one you want. 

For example, go for Grammarly if you want a plagiarism tool included. 

Choose Ginger if you want to write in languages other than English. I will to the differences for you in order to make the distinctions clearer.

• Grammarly offers a plagiarism checking tool
• Ginger provides text to speech tool
• Grammarly helps you check uploaded documents
• Ginger supports over 40 languages
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX

Which one you like let me know in the comments section also give your opinions in the comments section below.

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Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most popular digital assets today, capturing the attention of cryptocurrency investors, whales and people from around the world. People find it amazing that some users spend thousands or millions of dollars on a single NFT-based image of a monkey or other token, but you can simply take a screenshot for free. So here we share some freuently asked question about NFTs.

1) What is an NFT?

NFT stands for non-fungible  token, which is a cryptographic token on a blockchain with unique identification codes that distinguish it from other tokens. NFTs are unique and not interchangeable, which means no two NFTs are the same. NFTs can be a unique artwork, GIF, Images, videos, Audio album. in-game items, collectibles etc.

2) What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger that allows for the secure storage of data. By recording any kind of information—such as bank account transactions, the ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), or Decentralized Finance (DeFi) smart contracts—in one place, and distributing it to many different computers, blockchains ensure that data can’t be manipulated without everyone in the system being aware.

3) What makes an NFT valuable?

The value of an NFT comes from its ability to be traded freely and securely on the blockchain, which is not possible with other current digital ownership solutionsThe NFT points to its location on the blockchain, but doesn’t necessarily contain the digital property. For example, if you replace one bitcoin with another, you will still have the same thing. If you buy a non-fungible item, such as a movie ticket, it is impossible to replace it with any other movie ticket because each ticket is unique to a specific time and place.

4) How do NFTs work?

One of the unique characteristics of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is that they can be tokenised to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought, sold and traded on the blockchain. 

As with crypto-currency, records of who owns what are stored on a ledger that is maintained by thousands of computers around the world. These records can’t be forged because the whole system operates on an open-source network. 

NFTs also contain smart contracts—small computer programs that run on the blockchain—that give the artist, for example, a cut of any future sale of the token.

5) What’s the connection between NFTs and cryptocurrency?

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren't cryptocurrencies, but they do use blockchain technology. Many NFTs are based on Ethereum, where the blockchain serves as a ledger for all the transactions related to said NFT and the properties it represents.5) How to make an NFT?

Anyone can create an NFT. All you need is a digital wallet, some ethereum tokens and a connection to an NFT marketplace where you’ll be able to upload and sell your creations

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

When you purchase a stock in NFT, that purchase is recorded on the blockchain—the bitcoin ledger of transactions—and that entry acts as your proof of ownership.

7) How is an NFT valued? What are the most expensive NFTs?

The value of an NFT varies a lot based on the digital asset up for grabs. People use NFTs to trade and sell digital art, so when creating an NFT, you should consider the popularity of your digital artwork along with historical statistics.

In the year 2021, a digital artist called Pak created an artwork called The Merge. It was sold on the Nifty Gateway NFT market for $91.8 million.

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

Non-fungible tokens can be used in investment opportunities. One can purchase an NFT and resell it at a profit. Certain NFT marketplaces let sellers of NFTs keep a percentage of the profits from sales of the assets they create.

9) Will NFTs be the future of art and collectibles?

Many people want to buy NFTs because it lets them support the arts and own something cool from their favorite musicians, brands, and celebrities. NFTs also give artists an opportunity to program in continual royalties if someone buys their work. Galleries see this as a way to reach new buyers interested in art.

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

There are many places to buy digital assets, like opensea and their policies vary. On top shot, for instance, you sign up for a waitlist that can be thousands of people long. When a digital asset goes on sale, you are occasionally chosen to purchase it.

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

To mint an NFT token, you must pay some amount of gas fee to process the transaction on the Etherum blockchain, but you can mint your NFT on a different blockchain called Polygon to avoid paying gas fees. This option is available on OpenSea and this simply denotes that your NFT will only be able to trade using Polygon's blockchain and not Etherum's blockchain. Mintable allows you to mint NFTs for free without paying any gas fees.

12) Do i own an NFT if i screenshot it?

The answer is no. Non-Fungible Tokens are minted on the blockchain using cryptocurrencies such as Etherum, Solana, Polygon, and so on. Once a Non-Fungible Token is minted, the transaction is recorded on the blockchain and the contract or license is awarded to whoever has that Non-Fungible Token in their wallet.

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?

 Non-fungible tokens have gained the hearts of people around the world, and they have given digital creators the recognition they deserve. One of the remarkable things about non-fungible tokens is that you can take a screenshot of one, but you don’t own it. This is because when a non-fungible token is created, then the transaction is stored on the blockchain, and the license or contract to hold such a token is awarded to the person owning the token in their digital wallet.

You can sell your work and creations by attaching a license to it on the blockchain, where its ownership can be transferred. This lets you get exposure without losing full ownership of your work. Some of the most successful projects include Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yatch Club NFTs, SandBox, World of Women and so on. These NFT projects have gained popularity globally and are owned by celebrities and other successful entrepreneurs. Owning one of these NFTs gives you an automatic ticket to exclusive business meetings and life-changing connections.

Final Saying

That’s a wrap. Hope you guys found this article enlightening. I just answer some question with my limited knowledge about NFTs. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comment section below. Also I have a question for you, Is bitcoin an NFTs? let me know in The comment section below

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10 Best Chrome Extensions That Are Perfect for Everyone
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:56:00 +0000

Are you a great Chrome user? That’s nice to hear. But first, consider whether or not there are any essential Chrome extensions you are currently missing from your browsing life, so here we're going to share with you 10 Best Chrome Extensions That Are Perfect for Everyone. So Let's Start.

1. LastPass

When you have too several passwords to remember, LastPass remembers them for you.

This chrome extension is an easy way to save you time and increase security. It’s a single password manager that will log you into all of your accounts. you simply ought to bear in mind one word: your LastPass password to log in to all or any your accounts.

Features

• Save usernames and passwords and LastPasswill  log you  in  automatically.
• Fill the forms quickly to save your addresses, credit card numbers and more.

2. MozBar

MozBar is an SEO toolbar extension that makes it easy for you to analyze your web pages' SEO while you surf. You can customize your search so that you see data for a particular region or for all regions. You get data such as website and domain authority and link profile. The status column tells you whether there are any no-followed links to the page.You can also compare link metrics. There is a pro version of MozBar, too.

3. Grammerly

Grammarly is a real-time grammar checking and spelling  tool for online writing. It checks spelling, grammar, and punctuation as you type, and has a dictionary feature that suggests related words. if you use mobile phones for writing than  Grammerly also have a mobile keyboard app.

4. VidlQ

VidIQ is a SaaS product and Chrome Extension that makes it easier to manage and optimize your YouTube channels. It keeps you informed about your channel's performance with real-time analytics and powerful insights.

Features

• Learn more about insights and statistics beyond YouTube Analytics
• Find great videos with the Trending tab.
• You can check out any video’s YouTube rankings and see how your own video is doing on the charts.
• Keep track  the  history of the keyword to determine when a keyword is rising or down  in popularity over time.
• Quickly find out which videos are performing the best on YouTube right now.
• Let this tool suggest keywords for you to use in your title, description and tags.

5. ColorZilla

ColorZilla is a browser extension that allows you to find out the exact color of any object in your web browser. This is especially useful when you want to match elements on your page to the color of an image.

Features 

•  Advanced Color Picker (similar to Photoshop's)
• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
• The "Webpage Color Analyzer" site helps you determine the palette of colors used in a particular website.
• Palette Viewer with 7 pre-installed palettes
• Eyedropper - sample the color of any pixel on the page
• Color History of recently picked colors
• Displays some info about the element, including the tag name, class, id and size.
• Auto copy picked colors to clipboard
• Get colors of dynamic hover elements 
• Pick colors from Flash objects
• Pick colors at any zoom level

6. Honey

Honey is a chrome extension with which you  save each product from the website and notify it when it is available at  low price it's one among the highest extensions for Chrome that finds coupon codes whenever you look online.

Features

• Best for finding exclusive prices on Amazon.
• A free reward program called Honey Gold.
• Searches and filters the simplest value fitting your demand.
• Instant notifications.

7. GMass: Powerful Chrome Extension for Gmail Marketers

GMass (or Gmail Mass) permits users to compose and send mass emails using Gmail. it is a great tool as a result of you'll use it as a replacement for a third-party email sending platform. you will love GMass to spice up your emailing functionality on the platform.

8. Notion Web Clipper: Chrome Extension for Geeks

It's a Chrome extension for geeks that enables you to highlight and save what you see on the web.

It's been designed by Notion, that could be a Google space different that helps groups craft higher ideas and collaborate effectively.

Features

• Save anything online with just one click  
• Use it on any device
• Organize your saved clips quickly
• Tag, share and comment on the clips

If you are someone who works online, you need to surf the internet to get your business done. And often there is no time to read or analyze something. But it's important that you  do it. Notion Web Clipper will help you with that.

9. WhatFont: Chrome Extension for identifying Any Site Fonts

WhatFont is a Chrome extension that allows web designers to easily identify and compare different fonts on a page. The first time you use it on any page, WhatFont will copy the selected page.It  Uses this page to find out what fonts are present and generate an image that shows all those fonts in different sizes. Besides the apparent websites like Google or Amazon,  you'll conjointly use it on sites wherever embedded fonts ar used. 

10. SimilarWeb: Traffic Rank & Website Analysis Extension

Similar Web is an SEO add on for both Chrome and Firefox.It allows you  to check web site traffic and key metrics for any web site, as well as engagement rate, traffic ranking, keyword ranking, and traffic source. this is often a good tool if you are looking to seek out new and effective SEO ways similarly as analyze trends across the web.

Features

• Discover keyword trends
• Know fresh keywords
• Get benefit from the real traffic insights
• Analyze engagement metrics
• Explore unique visitors data
• Analyze your industry's category
• Use month to date data

How to Install chrome Extension in Android

I know everyone knows how to install extension in pc but most of people don't know how to install it in android phone so i will show you how to install it in android

1. Download Kiwi browser from Play Store and then Open it.

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 2. Tap the three dots at the top right corner and select Extension. 

3. Click on (+From Store) to access chrome web store or simple search chrome web store and access it.

4. Once you found an extension click on add to chrome a message will pop-up  asking if you wish to confirm your choice. Hit OK to install the extension in the Kiwi browser.

5. To manage  extensions on the browser, tap the three dots in the upper right corner. Then select Extensions to access a catalog of installed extensions that you can disable, update or remove with just a few clicks.

Your Chrome extensions should install on Android, but there’s no guarantee all of them will work. Because Google Chrome Extensions are not optimized for Android devices.

Final Saying

We hope this list of 10 best chrome extensions that is perfect for everyone will help you in picking the right Chrome Extensions. We have selected the extensions after matching their features to the needs of different categories of people. Also which extension you like the most let me know in the comment section

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65 Years Ago: First Powered Flight of the X-15 Hypersonic Rocket Plane
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
The X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, built by North American Aviation (NAA), greatly expanded our knowledge of flight at speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes above 250,000 feet. A joint project among NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy, the X-15’s first powered flight took place on Sept. 17, 1959, at the Flight Research […]
Match ID: 16 Score: 20.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 1 day
qualifiers: 10.00 development, 10.00 california

Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:01:00 +0000
The founder of Oculus VR is returning to headsets—this time for the battlefield.
Match ID: 17 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 microsoft, 5.00 startup

Elon Musk’s X circumvents court-ordered block in Brazil
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:14:50 GMT

Social media platform routes internet traffic outside of Brazil using a communications network update

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, became accessible to many users in Brazil on Wednesday as an update to its communications network circumvented a block ordered by the country’s supreme court.

The X update used cloud services offered by third parties, namely the security firm Cloudflare, allowing some Brazilian users to take a route outside of the country to reach X, even without a virtual private network, according to Abrint, the Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers.

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Match ID: 18 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 musk

MrBeast sued over ‘unsafe’ environment on upcoming Amazon reality show
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:51:39 GMT

Popular YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson accused of harmful conditions behind scenes of competition show Beast Games

MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning the $5m grand prize on his new Amazon reality show, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants.

The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube’s most popular channel failed to provide minimum wages, overtime pay, uninterrupted meal breaks and rest time for competitors – whose “work on the show was the entertainment product” sold by MrBeast.

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Match ID: 19 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 amazon, 5.00 uber

SpaceX dinged by FAA for failing to get mission changes approved
2024-09-18T14:00:21+00:00

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Match ID: 20 Score: 15.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Analysis: Zuckerberg shrinks from politics as Musk goes all-in for Trump
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:42:50 +0000

Match ID: 21 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Musk's satellites 'blocking' view of the universe
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:57:39 GMT
Radio waves from the satellites are "blinding" radio telescopes and hurting research, say scientists.
Match ID: 22 Score: 15.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 musk

Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:55:30 +0000
Musk’s now-deleted post questioning why no one has attempted to assassinate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris renews concerns over his work for the US government—and potential to inspire extremist violence.
Match ID: 23 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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Microsoft Is Adding New Cryptography Algorithms
2024-09-12T15:42:49Z

Microsoft is updating SymCrypt, its core cryptographic library, with new quantum-secure algorithms. Microsoft’s details are here. From a news article:

The first new algorithm Microsoft added to SymCrypt is called ML-KEM. Previously known as CRYSTALS-Kyber, ML-KEM is one of three post-quantum standards formalized last month by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The KEM in the new name is short for key encapsulation. KEMs can be used by two parties to negotiate a shared secret over a public channel. Shared secrets generated by a KEM can then be used with symmetric-key cryptographic operations, which aren’t vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm when the keys are of a sufficient size...

Match ID: 24 Score: 15.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 10.71 trade, 4.29 microsoft

U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:00:12 +0000

In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.

The post U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 25 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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Global AI fund needed to help developing nations tap tech benefits, UN says
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:06 GMT

Governments and private firms should contribute to help states unable to invest and benefit from advances

Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund that will allow developing nations to benefit from advances in the technology, according to a UN report.

The fund would help provide models, computing power and AI-related training programmes, according to recommendations from the UN secretary general’s high-level AI advisory body.

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Match ID: 26 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 development

The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:07 GMT

Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in the desert and colluding with smugglers

When she saw them, lined up at the road checkpoint, Marie sensed the situation might turn ugly. Four officers, each wearing the combat green of Tunisia’s national guard. They asked to look inside her bag.

“There was nothing, just some clothes.” For weeks Marie had traversed the Sahara, travelling 3,000 miles from home. Now, minutes from her destination – the north coast of Africa – she feared she might not make it.

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Match ID: 27 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 development

California Teamsters endorse Harris after national union declines to back any candidate – as it happened
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:55:43 GMT

This blog is closed. You can find the latest election coverage here.

The US is still not prepared for inevitable Russian attacks on its elections, the former special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated Russian interference in 2016 and links between Donald Trump and Moscow, warns in a new book.

“It is … evident that Americans have not learned the lessons of Russia’s attack on our democracy in 2016,” Mueller writes in a preface to Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia and the Mueller Investigation by Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein, prosecutors who worked for Mueller from 2017 to 2019.

As we detailed in our report, the evidence was clear that the Russian government engaged in multiple, systematic attacks designed to undermine our democracy and favor one candidate over the other.”

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Match ID: 28 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 california

NASA Deputy Administrator Talks Future of Agency in Silicon Valley
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:34:55 +0000
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy spent time at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, on Sept. 16, 2024, engaging with center leaders and employees to discuss strategies that could drive meaningful changes to ensure NASA remains the preeminent institution for research, technology, and engineering, and to lead science, aeronautics, and space exploration for […]
Match ID: 29 Score: 10.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Apple iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount
2024-09-18T20:13:57+00:00

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Match ID: 30 Score: 10.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Giant Leaps Start at Johnson for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:41:18 +0000
As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a variety of unique responsibilities and privileges. Those include being the home of NASA’s astronaut corps. One of those astronauts – Nick Hague – is now preparing to launch to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the […]
Match ID: 31 Score: 10.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Age of Mythology: Retold is surprisingly playable with a controller
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:46:36 +0000
Despite annoyances, Microsoft proves RTS is possible without a keyboard/mouse.
Match ID: 32 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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Backlash over Amazon’s return to office comes as workers demand higher wages
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:20:46 +0000
Pressure increases for Amazon to raise wages amid return-to-office turmoil.
Match ID: 33 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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The Guardian view on China’s ageing population: an economic and social conundrum | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:52:53 GMT

Raising the retirement age is never popular, particularly for a country that is getting old before it gets rich

No one should be surprised that China is raising its retirement ages. They are currently among the lowest in the world and haven’t shifted for decades, even as lifespans have lengthened dramatically. Women currently retire as early as 50 and men at 60, while life expectancy is around 78 – up from 44 in 1960. Now the male retirement age is to rise to 63, while women’s will rise to 55 (for blue-collar workers) and 58 (for white-collar employees). These changes will be phased in over the next 15 years. Employees will also have to make more contributions from 2030.

China is far from alone in facing the problem of too many old people and too few young workers to support them. But unlike western nations, it is getting old before it has got rich. The scale of the challenge and the speed at which it is arriving are extraordinary, thanks in large part to the decades of birth restrictions known as the one-child policy. It also means that fewer retirees are able to count on their kids supporting them.

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.

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Match ID: 34 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 apple

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy ordered a five-day return to office policy, but research suggests he’ll backtrack next year
2024-09-18T17:51:03+00:00

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Match ID: 35 Score: 10.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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NASA, US Department of Education to Launch STEM Project in Washington
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:15:07 +0000
Media are invited to the kickoff event of a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department of Education at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, at the Wheatley Education Campus in Washington. The interagency project, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, aims to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education during after-school hours. […]
Match ID: 36 Score: 10.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Bricked iPhones 16 feature wireless recovery mode for phone-to-phone resuscitation
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:41:32 +0000
Recovery mode has historically required a cable and a Mac or PC.
Match ID: 37 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: murder charge dropped against one of three suspects
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:15:15 GMT

Activists greet decision over killings of British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert with ‘indignation’

Appeal judges in Brazil yesterday upheld charges against only two of the three men accused of murdering Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, in a decision “received with indignation” by Indigenous activists.

The three judges ruled that there was “insufficient evidence of authorship or participation” by Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, a fisher, in the 2022 deaths of the Brazilian Indigenous expert and the British Guardian journalist.

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Match ID: 38 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Australians stranded on Kokoda track resume walk after protests shut down sections
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:00:49 GMT

Naoro village residents block sections of track and demand Papua New Guinea government release funds long promised for community projects

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Australians walking the Kokoda track have had treks cancelled while others have been stalled for long periods on the historic route as protests by landowners closed sections of the trail.

A group of 64 walkers, including 52 Australians, were left stranded on Monday after frustrated landowners from Naoro village blocked off the track, demanding the Papua New Guinea government release funds earmarked for community livelihood development projects.

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Match ID: 39 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 development

MrBeast and Amazon named in legal action over Beast Games
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:31:42 GMT
The Amazon series offered 1,000 participants the chance to win a cash prize of $5m.
Match ID: 40 Score: 10.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Global alliance buys half a million mpox vaccines for Africa
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:30:21 GMT

Gavi uses newly established First Response Fund to secure doses, but 10 million are needed to meet demand on the continent

A batch of 500,000 mpox vaccines has been bought by the vaccine alliance Gavi, for delivery this year to virus-affected countries in Africa, where until now doses have been scarce.

It is estimated that 10 million vaccines are needed to meet demand, but the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which accounts for most cases, only received 100,000 vaccines earlier this month despite having had more than 700 deaths this year and 22,000 cases of the new Clade 1b strain. Neighbouring countries Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya have each reported a handful of cases.

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Match ID: 41 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Do You Need an Antivirus Program on Windows?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000
Just keeping all your software up to date will go a long way toward ensuring you’re safe from threats. But follow these tips to stay as protected as possible.
Match ID: 42 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 microsoft

22 Amazon Prime Perks You Might Not Be Using
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:03:00 +0000
Your membership gets you more than free two-day shipping. Here’s what you may be missing ahead of Amazon Prime Day 2024.
Match ID: 43 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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Tesla’s Superchargers open up to GM EVs today—adapters needed
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:36 +0000
The adapter will cost $225.
Match ID: 44 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 tesla

Reinventing the Clock: NASA’s New Tech for Space Timekeeping
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for example, relies on precise timing signals from satellites to pinpoint locations. Three teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are at work to push timekeeping for space exploration to new levels of precision.
Match ID: 45 Score: 10.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 development

Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max Review: Smarter iPhones
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Apple Intelligence might be overhyped, but it brings some helpful capabilities to the iPhone.
Match ID: 46 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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macOS 15 Sequoia: The Ars Technica review
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:40:28 +0000
Apple Intelligence isn't ready yet. There's still a lot here to like.
Match ID: 47 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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iOS 18’s new home screen features are a long-awaited win for flexibility
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:59:50 +0000
Wiggle mode gets an update that opens up almost Android-like customization.
Match ID: 48 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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The all new Champions League kicks off - Football Weekly podcast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:56:33 GMT

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini and Mark Langdon as the Champions League season begins with big wins for Liverpool and Aston Villa.

Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.

On the podcast today; Liverpool get an early fright at the San Siro but ultimately prove too strong for Milan, meanwhile the other English side in action, Aston Villa, score a comprehensive win over Young Boys.

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Match ID: 49 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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‘We empower ourselves’: the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:48 GMT

Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem

• Photographs by Claudia Morales for the Guardian

Looking out over Lake Uru Uru in the Bolivian highlands, it is hard to imagine that it once supported thousands of people, and was a sanctuary for wildlife, including 76 species of birds.

Plastic waste now stretches as far as the eye can see, the water is tinged black or brown, and the stench is overwhelming.

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Match ID: 50 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Europe grapples with its decline
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:04 +0000
A report on the “future of European competitiveness” has been received as a declaration of continental intent. Whether it can be implemented is another matter.
Match ID: 51 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Using AI to Replace an Actor Is Now Against the Law in California
2024-09-17T21:51:47+00:00

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Match ID: 52 Score: 10.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 1 day
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How to Shop Like a Pro During Amazon Prime Day October 2024
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:36:21 +0000
We’ve got tips to help you find real deals on Amazon’s Big Deal Days on October 8 and 9.
Match ID: 53 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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The 31 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now (September 2024)
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:00:00 +0000
Slow Horses, Constellation, and Bad Monkey are among the best shows on Apple TV+ this month.
Match ID: 54 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Afghanistan risks polio outbreak as Taliban restricts women from delivering vaccines
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:42:06 GMT

Health officials issue warning as successful door-to-door vaccination drive suspended by regime over security fears and women’s role

Afghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security fears and restrictions on women.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 18 new cases of polio infection in the country so far this year, a significant increase from the six cases reported in 2023. Local healthcare workers say these numbers could be higher as many cases will not yet have been detected.

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Match ID: 55 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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What Is a Copilot+ PC? Explaining Microsoft’s AI Term for Windows Laptops
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Microsoft aimed to revolutionize its Windows operating system with this AI-soaked laptop certification. It’s still a work in progress.
Match ID: 56 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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A spicy beef stir-fry highlights the accessibility of African flavors
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:00:49 +0000
The “AfriCali” cookbook champions the connections between African and Californian cuisines.
Match ID: 57 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Apple Watch Series 10 Review: Sleep Apnea Notifications and a Bigger Display
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:04:00 +0000
The absence of a blood oxygen sensor is a huge ding. But the Apple Watch still does everything else, and looks hella good doing it.
Match ID: 58 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews
2024-09-17T11:02:34Z

Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article

These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking team Lazarus Group are new, but the overall malware campaign against the Python development community has been running since at least August of 2023, when a number of popular open source Python tools were maliciously duplicated with added malware. Now, though, there are also attacks involving “coding tests” that only exist to get the end user to install hidden malware on their system (cleverly hidden with Base64 encoding) that allows remote execution once present. The capacity for exploitation at that point is pretty much unlimited, due to the flexibility of Python and how it interacts with the underlying OS...

Match ID: 59 Score: 10.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 1 day
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NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing Hybrid-Electric Airliners with HyTEC
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, part-gas-powered engine may find its way into the skies propelling a future jet airliner. NASA is working in tandem with industry partner GE Aerospace on designing and building just such an engine, one that burns […]
Match ID: 60 Score: 10.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 1 day
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All the Top New Features in MacOS Sequoia
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:20:05 +0000
Apple has officially released macOS 15 Sequoia. Here's how to install it, get new features, and figure out whether your current Mac will support the new operating system.
Match ID: 61 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:00:00 +0000
Apple has officially released iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. We break down all the top new features and how to download it.
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Apple’s New Passwords App May Solve Your Login Nightmares
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:52:52 +0000
Apple is launching its first stand-alone password manager app in iOS 18. Here’s what you need to know.
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Apple AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 With Active Noise Cancellation Review: Not Worth It
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:49:44 +0000
Apple has refreshed its cheapest wireless earbuds and split features into two models. The AirPods 4 raise more questions than answers.
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How to Choose the Right Soundbar (2024): Size, Price, Surround Sound, and Subwoofers
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
What size should you get? Do you need a subwoofer? Here’s everything you need to know when upgrading your TV’s audio.
Match ID: 65 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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This Brain Implant Lets People Control Amazon Alexa With Their Minds
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Neuralink rival Synchron is connecting its brain–computer interface with consumer technologies to allow people with paralysis more functionality.
Match ID: 66 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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White Men Can’t Accessorize
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Nietzche’s kneecaps, Tesla’s caftan, and Tolstoy’s chest hair tell the story.
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The Best Clitoral Suction Toys (2024), Tested and Reviewed
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000
The world of clitoral suction sex toys is getting bigger every day. We’ve tested dozens, and these are our favorites.
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Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000

Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Would you like to read a detailed review of Canva? As it's one of the tools I love using. I am also writing my first ebook using canva and publish it soon on my site you can download it is free.  Let's start the review.

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload your own photos from your computer or from Google Drive, and add them to Canva's templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that doesn't require Graphic designing knowledge to use. It’s best for nongraphic designers.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.

To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. To use it, you’ll need to learn its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and it’s best to have a good background in design, too.

Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.

So here  Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easier to use and free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12.95 per month.

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99/month per user or  $119.99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).

Free plan Features

• 250,000+ free templates
• 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
• Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
• Invite members to your team
• Collaborate and comment in real-time
• 5GB of cloud storage
• Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days

Pro Plan Features 

• Everything Free, has plus:
• 100+ million premium and  stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
• 610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
• Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
•  Create a library of your brand or campaign's colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
• Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
• Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
• Save designs as templates for your team to use
• 100GB of cloud storage
• Schedule social media content to 8 platforms

Enterprise Plan Features

• Everything Pro has plus:
• Establish your brand's visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
• Control your team's access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
• Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
• Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
• Unlimited Storage
• Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.

How to Use Canva?

To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between student, teacher, small business, large company, non-profit, or personal. Based on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.

You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.

Canva Sign Up

Designing with Canva

When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Based on the type of account you set up  you'll be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: social media posts, documents, presentations, marketing, events, ads, launch your business, build your online brand, etc.

 Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.

Templates

Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of templates that are ready to go, with customizable photos, text, and other elements.

You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.

 Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose from

Elements

Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.

To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:

Photos

The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.

You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suited to your industry.

You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.

When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop, or animate it.

 When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any stock photo in  library or any image you upload.

Text

The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.

When you click on  text, you'll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows). 

Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content remains on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.

Audio

Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.

If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.

Video

Want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock video clips. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes

You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab. 

Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.

Backgrounds

On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. Change out the background on a template to give it a more personal touch.

Styles

The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your brand’s custom colors and fonts to ensure designs stay on brand.

Logos

If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use throughout your designs.

With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo with stock content in it.

Publishing with Canva

With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.

Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. For example, you can start by designing an Instagram post, and Canva's Magic Resizer can resize it for other networks, Stories, Reels, and other formats.

Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.

Canva Team

Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created inside Canva, and then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can make comments, edits, revisions, and keep track via the version history.

Canva Print

When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With an extensive selection of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall art to mugs and t-shirts. 

Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs people will want to wear, keep, and share. Hand out custom business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers' minds.

Canva Apps

The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.

In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

• A user-friendly interface
• Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
• Hundreds of templates, so you'll never have to start from scratch.
• Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
• Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
• Creating visual content on the go
• You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.

Cons:

• Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
• Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
• Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
• Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
• If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva's features limited.
• Prefers to work with vectors. Especially logos.
• Expensive enterprise pricing

Conclusion

In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. If you are a graphic designer with experience, you will find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features – particularly vectors. But if you have little design experience, you will find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.

Match ID: 69 Score: 8.57 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 941 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trade, 3.57 google, 1.43 apple

LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000

 

In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This platform not only stands out from the multitude of existing AI tools but also brings a fresh approach to content generation. LimeWire not only empowers users to create AI content but also provides creators with creative ways to share and monetize their creations.

As we explore LimeWire, our aim is to uncover its features, benefits for creators, and the exciting possibilities it offers for AI content generation. This platform presents an opportunity for users to harness the power of AI in image creation, all while enjoying the advantages of a free and accessible service.

Let's unravel the distinctive features that set LimeWire apart in the dynamic landscape of AI-powered tools, understanding how creators can leverage its capabilities to craft unique and engaging AI-generated images.

Introduction

This revamped LimeWire invites users to register and unleash their creativity by crafting original AI content, which can then be shared and showcased on the LimeWire Studio. Notably, even acclaimed artists and musicians, such as Deadmau5, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston, have embraced this platform to publish their content in the form of NFT music, videos, and images.

Beyond providing a space for content creation and sharing, LimeWire introduces monetization models to empower users to earn revenue from their creations. This includes avenues such as earning ad revenue and participating in the burgeoning market of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). As we delve further, we'll explore these monetization strategies in more detail to provide a comprehensive understanding of LimeWire's innovative approach to content creation and distribution.

LimeWire Studio welcomes content creators into its fold, providing a space to craft personalized AI-focused content for sharing with fans and followers. Within this creative hub, every piece of content generated becomes not just a creation but a unique asset—ownable and tradable. Fans have the opportunity to subscribe to creators' pages, immersing themselves in the creative journey and gaining ownership of digital collectibles that hold tradeable value within the LimeWire community. Notably, creators earn a 2.5% royalty each time their content is traded, adding a rewarding element to the creative process.

The platform's flexibility is evident in its content publication options. Creators can choose to share their work freely with the public or opt for a premium subscription model, granting exclusive access to specialized content for subscribers.

LimeWire AI Studio

As of the present moment, LimeWire focuses on AI Image Generation, offering a spectrum of creative possibilities to its user base. The platform, however, has ambitious plans on the horizon, aiming to broaden its offerings by introducing AI music and video generation tools in the near future. This strategic expansion promises creators even more avenues for expression and engagement with their audience, positioning LimeWire Studio as a dynamic and evolving platform within the realm of AI-powered content creation.

AI Image Generation Tools

The LimeWire AI image generation tool presents a versatile platform for both the creation and editing of images. Supporting advanced models such as Stable Diffusion 2.1, Stable Diffusion XL, and DALL-E 2, LimeWire offers a sophisticated toolkit for users to delve into the realm of generative AI art.

Much like other tools in the generative AI landscape, LimeWire provides a range of options catering to various levels of complexity in image creation. Users can initiate the creative process with prompts as simple as a few words or opt for more intricate instructions, tailoring the output to their artistic vision.

What sets LimeWire apart is its seamless integration of different AI models and design styles. Users have the flexibility to effortlessly switch between various AI models, exploring diverse design styles such as cinematic, digital art, pixel art, anime, analog film, and more. Each style imparts a distinctive visual identity to the generated AI art, enabling users to explore a broad spectrum of creative possibilities.

The platform also offers additional features, including samplers, allowing users to fine-tune the quality and detail levels of their creations. Customization options and prompt guidance further enhance the user experience, providing a user-friendly interface for both novice and experienced creators.

Excitingly, LimeWire is actively developing its proprietary AI model, signaling ongoing innovation and enhancements to its image generation capabilities. This upcoming addition holds the promise of further expanding the creative horizons for LimeWire users, making it an evolving and dynamic platform within the landscape of AI-driven art and image creation.

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

Upon completing your creative endeavor on LimeWire, the platform allows you the option to publish your content. An intriguing feature follows this step: LimeWire automates the process of minting your creation as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), utilizing either the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. This transformative step imbues your artwork with a unique digital signature, securing its authenticity and ownership in the decentralized realm.

Creators on LimeWire hold the power to decide the accessibility of their NFT creations. By opting for a public release, the content becomes discoverable by anyone, fostering a space for engagement and interaction. Furthermore, this choice opens the avenue for enthusiasts to trade the NFTs, adding a layer of community involvement to the artistic journey.

Alternatively, LimeWire acknowledges the importance of exclusivity. Creators can choose to share their posts exclusively with their premium subscribers. In doing so, the content remains a special offering solely for dedicated fans, creating an intimate and personalized experience within the LimeWire community. This flexibility in sharing options emphasizes LimeWire's commitment to empowering creators with choices in how they connect with their audience and distribute their digital creations.

After creating your content, you can choose to publish the content. It will automatically mint your creation as an NFT on the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. You can also choose whether to make it public or subscriber-only.

If you make it public, anyone can discover your content and even trade the NFTs. If you choose to share the post only with your premium subscribers, it will be exclusive only to your fans.

Earn Revenue From Your Content

Additionally, you can earn ad revenue from your content creations as well.

When you publish content on LimeWire, you will receive 70% of all ad revenue from other users who view your images, music, and videos on the platform.

This revenue model will be much more beneficial to designers. You can experiment with the AI image and content generation tools and share your creations while earning a small income on the side.

LMWR Tokens

The revenue you earn from your creations will come in the form of LMWR tokens, LimeWire’s own cryptocurrency.

Your earnings will be paid every month in LMWR, which you can then trade on many popular crypto exchange platforms like Kraken, ByBit, and UniSwap.

You can also use your LMWR tokens to pay for prompts when using LimeWire generative AI tools.

Pricing Plans

You can sign up to LimeWire to use its AI tools for free. You will receive 10 credits to use and generate up to 20 AI images per day. You will also receive 50% of the ad revenue share. However, you will get more benefits with premium plans.

• Basic plan: 

For $9.99 per month, you will get 1,000 credits per month, up to 2 ,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 50% ad revenue share

• Advanced plan: 

For $29 per month, you will get 3750 credits per month, up to 7500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 60% ad revenue share

• Pro plan: 

For $49 per month, you will get 5,000 credits per month, up to 10,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

• Pro Plus plan: 

For $99 per month, you will get 11,250 credits per month, up to 2 2,500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

With all premium plans, you will receive a Pro profile badge, full creation history, faster image generation, and no ads.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, LimeWire emerges as a democratizing force in the creative landscape, providing an inclusive platform where anyone can unleash their artistic potential and effortlessly share their work. With the integration of AI, LimeWire eliminates traditional barriers, empowering designers, musicians, and artists to publish their creations and earn revenue with just a few clicks.

The ongoing commitment of LimeWire to innovation is evident in its plans to enhance generative AI tools with new features and models. The upcoming expansion to include music and video generation tools holds the promise of unlocking even more possibilities for creators. It sparks anticipation about the diverse and innovative ways in which artists will leverage these tools to produce and publish their own unique creations.

For those eager to explore, LimeWire's AI tools are readily accessible for free, providing an opportunity to experiment and delve into the world of generative art. As LimeWire continues to evolve, creators are encouraged to stay tuned for the launch of its forthcoming AI music and video generation tools, promising a future brimming with creative potential and endless artistic exploration

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qualifiers: 3.57 trade, 3.57 google

Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most popular digital assets today, capturing the attention of cryptocurrency investors, whales and people from around the world. People find it amazing that some users spend thousands or millions of dollars on a single NFT-based image of a monkey or other token, but you can simply take a screenshot for free. So here we share some freuently asked question about NFTs.

1) What is an NFT?

NFT stands for non-fungible  token, which is a cryptographic token on a blockchain with unique identification codes that distinguish it from other tokens. NFTs are unique and not interchangeable, which means no two NFTs are the same. NFTs can be a unique artwork, GIF, Images, videos, Audio album. in-game items, collectibles etc.

2) What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger that allows for the secure storage of data. By recording any kind of information—such as bank account transactions, the ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), or Decentralized Finance (DeFi) smart contracts—in one place, and distributing it to many different computers, blockchains ensure that data can’t be manipulated without everyone in the system being aware.

3) What makes an NFT valuable?

The value of an NFT comes from its ability to be traded freely and securely on the blockchain, which is not possible with other current digital ownership solutionsThe NFT points to its location on the blockchain, but doesn’t necessarily contain the digital property. For example, if you replace one bitcoin with another, you will still have the same thing. If you buy a non-fungible item, such as a movie ticket, it is impossible to replace it with any other movie ticket because each ticket is unique to a specific time and place.

4) How do NFTs work?

One of the unique characteristics of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is that they can be tokenised to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought, sold and traded on the blockchain. 

As with crypto-currency, records of who owns what are stored on a ledger that is maintained by thousands of computers around the world. These records can’t be forged because the whole system operates on an open-source network. 

NFTs also contain smart contracts—small computer programs that run on the blockchain—that give the artist, for example, a cut of any future sale of the token.

5) What’s the connection between NFTs and cryptocurrency?

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren't cryptocurrencies, but they do use blockchain technology. Many NFTs are based on Ethereum, where the blockchain serves as a ledger for all the transactions related to said NFT and the properties it represents.5) How to make an NFT?

Anyone can create an NFT. All you need is a digital wallet, some ethereum tokens and a connection to an NFT marketplace where you’ll be able to upload and sell your creations

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

When you purchase a stock in NFT, that purchase is recorded on the blockchain—the bitcoin ledger of transactions—and that entry acts as your proof of ownership.

7) How is an NFT valued? What are the most expensive NFTs?

The value of an NFT varies a lot based on the digital asset up for grabs. People use NFTs to trade and sell digital art, so when creating an NFT, you should consider the popularity of your digital artwork along with historical statistics.

In the year 2021, a digital artist called Pak created an artwork called The Merge. It was sold on the Nifty Gateway NFT market for $91.8 million.

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

Non-fungible tokens can be used in investment opportunities. One can purchase an NFT and resell it at a profit. Certain NFT marketplaces let sellers of NFTs keep a percentage of the profits from sales of the assets they create.

9) Will NFTs be the future of art and collectibles?

Many people want to buy NFTs because it lets them support the arts and own something cool from their favorite musicians, brands, and celebrities. NFTs also give artists an opportunity to program in continual royalties if someone buys their work. Galleries see this as a way to reach new buyers interested in art.

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

There are many places to buy digital assets, like opensea and their policies vary. On top shot, for instance, you sign up for a waitlist that can be thousands of people long. When a digital asset goes on sale, you are occasionally chosen to purchase it.

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

To mint an NFT token, you must pay some amount of gas fee to process the transaction on the Etherum blockchain, but you can mint your NFT on a different blockchain called Polygon to avoid paying gas fees. This option is available on OpenSea and this simply denotes that your NFT will only be able to trade using Polygon's blockchain and not Etherum's blockchain. Mintable allows you to mint NFTs for free without paying any gas fees.

12) Do i own an NFT if i screenshot it?

The answer is no. Non-Fungible Tokens are minted on the blockchain using cryptocurrencies such as Etherum, Solana, Polygon, and so on. Once a Non-Fungible Token is minted, the transaction is recorded on the blockchain and the contract or license is awarded to whoever has that Non-Fungible Token in their wallet.

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?

 Non-fungible tokens have gained the hearts of people around the world, and they have given digital creators the recognition they deserve. One of the remarkable things about non-fungible tokens is that you can take a screenshot of one, but you don’t own it. This is because when a non-fungible token is created, then the transaction is stored on the blockchain, and the license or contract to hold such a token is awarded to the person owning the token in their digital wallet.

You can sell your work and creations by attaching a license to it on the blockchain, where its ownership can be transferred. This lets you get exposure without losing full ownership of your work. Some of the most successful projects include Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yatch Club NFTs, SandBox, World of Women and so on. These NFT projects have gained popularity globally and are owned by celebrities and other successful entrepreneurs. Owning one of these NFTs gives you an automatic ticket to exclusive business meetings and life-changing connections.

Final Saying

That’s a wrap. Hope you guys found this article enlightening. I just answer some question with my limited knowledge about NFTs. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comment section below. Also I have a question for you, Is bitcoin an NFTs? let me know in The comment section below

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qualifiers: 3.57 trade, 3.57 google

TOP 11 AI MARKETING TOOLS YOU SHOULD USE (Updated 2022)
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:25:00 +0000

  

 The marketing industry is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to save time and execute smarter, more personalized campaigns. 61% of marketers say AI software is the most important aspect of their data strategy.

  If you’re late to the AI party, don’t worry. It’s easier than you think to start leveraging artificial intelligence tools in your marketing strategy. Here are 11 AI marketing tools every marketer should start using today.

1. Jasper Ai(Formerly known as Jarvis)

2. Personalize

 Personalize is an AI-powered technology that helps you identify and produce highly targeted sales and marketing campaigns by tracking the products and services your contacts are most interested in at any given time. The platform uses an algorithm to identify each contact’s top three interests, which are updated in real-time based on recent site activity.

Key Features

• Identifies  top three interests based on metrics like time on page, recency, and frequency of each contact
• Works with every ESP and CRM
• Easy to get up and running in days
• Enterprise-grade technology at a low cost for SMBs

3. Seventh Sense

  Seventh Sense provides behavioral analytics that helps you win attention in your customers’ overcrowded email inboxes. Choosing the best day and time to send an email is always a gamble. And while some days of the week generally get higher open rates than others, you’ll never be able to nail down a time that’s best for every customer. Seventh Sense eases your stress of having to figure out the perfect send-time and day for your email campaigns. The AI-based platform figures out the best timing and email frequency for each contact based on when they’re opening emails. The tool is primarily geared toward HubSpot and Marketo customers 

Key Features 

4. Phrasee

  Phrasee uses artificial intelligence to help you write more effective subject lines. With its AI-based Natural Language Generation system, Phrasee uses data-driven insights to generate millions of natural-sounding copy variants that match your brand voice. The model is end-to-end, meaning when you feed the results back to Phrasee, the prediction model rebuilds so it can continuously learn from your audience.

Key Features 

• Instantly generates millions of human-sounding, brand-compliant copy variants
• Creates tailored language models for every customer
• Learns what your audience responds to and rebuilds the prediction model every time

5. Hubspot Seo

  HubSpot Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an integral tool for the Human Content team. It uses machine learning to determine how search engines understand and categorize your content. HubSpot SEO helps you improve your search engine rankings and outrank your competitors. Search engines reward websites that organize their content around core subjects, or topic clusters. HubSpot SEO helps you discover and rank for the topics that matter to your business and customers.

Key Features 

• Helps you discover and rank topics that people are searching for
• Provides suggestions for your topic clusters and related subjects
• Integrates with all other HubSpot content tools to help you create a well-rounded content strategy

 6. Evolve AI

  When you’re limited to testing two variables against each other at a time, it can take months to get the results you’re looking for. Evolv AI lets you test all your ideas at once. It uses advanced algorithms to identify the top-performing concepts, combine them with each other, and repeat the process to achieve the best site experience.

Key Features 

• Figures out which content provides the best performance
• Lets you test multiple ideas in a single experiment instead of having to perform many individual tests over a long period
• Lets you try all your ideas across multiple pages for full-funnel optimization
• Offers visual and code editors

7. Acrolinx

  Acrolinx is a content alignment platform that helps brands scale and improves the quality of their content. It’s geared toward enterprises – its major customers include big brands like Google, Adobe, and Amazon - to help them scale their writing efforts. Instead of spending time chasing down and fixing typos in multiple places throughout an article or blog post, you can use Acrolinx to do it all right there in one place. You start by setting your preferences for style, grammar, tone of voice, and company-specific word usage. Then, Acrolinx checks and scores your existing content to find what’s working and suggest areas for improvement. The platform provides real-time guidance and suggestions to make writing better and strengthen weak pages.

Key features

• Reviews and scores existing content to ensure it meets your brand guidelines
• Finds opportunities to improve your content and use automation to shorten your editorial process.
• Integrates with more than 50 tools and platforms, including Google Docs, Microsoft Word, WordPress, and most web browsers.

8. MarketMuse 

MarketMuse uses an algorithm to help marketers build content strategies. The tool shows you where to target keywords to rank in specific topic categories, and recommends keywords you should go after if you want to own particular topics. It also identifies gaps and opportunities for new content and prioritizes them by their probable impact on your rankings. The algorithm compares your content with thousands of articles related to the same topic to uncover what’s missing from your site.

Key features:

• The built-in editor shows how in-depth your topic is covered and what needs improvement
• Finds gaps and opportunities for new content creation, prioritized by their probable impact and your chance of ranking

9. Copilot

Copilot is a suite of tools that help eCommerce businesses maintain real-time communication with customers around the clock at every stage of the funnel. Promote products, recover shopping carts and send updates or reminders directly through Messenger.

Key features: 

• Integrate Facebook Messenger directly with your website, including chat history and recent interactions for a fluid customer service experience 
• Run drip messenger campaigns to keep customers engaged with your brand
• Send abandoned carts, out-of-stock, restock, preorder, order status, and shipment notifications to contacts 
• Send branded images, promotional content, or coupon codes to those who opt in
• Collect post-purchase feedback, reviews, and customer insight
• Demonstrate social proof on your website with a widget, or push automatic Facebook posts sharing recent purchases
• Display a promotional banner on your website to capture contacts instantly

10. Yotpo

Yotpo’s deep learning technology evaluates your customers’ product reviews to help you make better business decisions. It identifies key topics that customers mention related to your products—and their feelings toward them. The AI engine extracts relevant reviews from past buyers and presents them in smart displays to convert new shoppers. Yotpo also saves you time moderating reviews. The AI-powered moderation tool automatically assigns a score to each review and flags reviews with negative sentiment so you can focus on quality control instead of manually reviewing every post.

Key features:

• Makes it easy for shoppers to filter reviews and find the exact information they’re looking for
• Analyzes customer feedback and sentiments to help you improve your products
• Integrates with most leading eCommerce platforms, including BigCommerce, Magento, and Shopify.

11. Albert AI

  Albert is a self-learning software that automates the creation of marketing campaigns for your brand. It analyzes vast amounts of data to run optimized campaigns autonomously, allowing you to feed in your own creative content and target markets, and then use data from its database to determine key characteristics of a serious buyer. Albert identifies potential customers that match those traits, and runs trial campaigns on a small group of customers—with results refined by Albert himself—before launching it on a larger scale.

  Albert plugs into your existing marketing technology stack, so you still have access to your accounts, ads, search, social media, and more. Albert maps tracking and attribution to your source of truth so you can determine which channels are driving your business.

Key features:

• Breaks down large amounts of data to help you customize campaigns
• Plugs into your marketing technology stack and can be used across diverse media outlets, including email, content, paid media, and mobile

Final Saying

There are many tools and companies out there that offer AI tools, but this is a small list of resources that we have found to be helpful. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to share them in the comments below this article. As marketing evolves at such a rapid pace, new marketing strategies will be invented that we haven't even dreamed of yet. But for now, this list should give you a good starting point on your way to implementing AI into your marketing mix.

Note: This article contains affiliate links, meaning we make a small commission if you buy any premium plan from our link.

Match ID: 72 Score: 6.43 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 798 days
qualifiers: 3.57 google, 1.43 microsoft, 1.43 amazon

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid as a Legislative Negotiating Tactic
2024-09-13T21:00:24Z

This is an odd story of serving squid during legislative negotiations in the Philippines.

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qualifiers: 5.71 apple

Lionsgate’s New Deal Is a Test of Hollywood’s Relationship With AI
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:25:58 +0000
The studio behind the John Wick, Hunger Games, and Twilight franchises just made a deal with an artificial intelligence startup to use its back catalog to build a custom AI model. It could be a tipping point.
Match ID: 74 Score: 5.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers double up and dazzle
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:04:38 GMT

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Exuberant production sees spoken word and physically expressive BSL users mirroring each other as they audition to take the lead roles

Unusually for a Shakespeare, the printed programme lists the actors’ names but assigns no parts. You soon see why. Jenny Sealey’s brisk co-production by Graeae and Shakespeare North Playhouse in association with Theatre by the Lake starts not on the streets of Verona but in the queue for a modern-day audition.

Her actors are used to playing extras not leads; whether they are a wheelchair user, neurodivergent or deaf, they are rarely the centre of the story. But when a script of Romeo and Juliet magically drops from the heavens, they agree to give it a go – audition be damned.

At Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot, until 5 October. At Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, 12–26 October.

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qualifiers: 5.00 uber

Lionsgate partners with AI firm to train generative model on film and TV library
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:40:49 GMT

Major entertainment company gives Runway access to vast portfolio to help film-makers ‘augment their work’

Lionsgate has signed a deal with the artificial intelligence research firm Runway, allowing it access to the company’s large film and TV library to train a new generative model.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the model will be “customized to Lionsgate’s proprietary portfolio” which includes hit franchises such as John Wick, Saw and The Hunger Games. The aim is to help film-makers and other creatives “augment their work” through the use of AI.

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qualifiers: 5.00 startup

Tim Walz, campaigning in North Carolina, took aim at the state’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, Mark Robinson,...
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:40:13 +0000

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Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It.
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:22:57 +0000

A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.

The post Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 78 Score: 5.00 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 3.57 google, 1.43 apple

Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier
Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:52:00 +0000

 In this article, we explore the top 10 AI tools that are driving innovation and efficiency in various industries. These tools are designed to automate repetitive tasks, improve workflow, and increase productivity. The tools included in our list are some of the most advanced and widely used in the market, and are suitable for a variety of applications. Some of the tools focus on natural language processing, such as ChatGPT and Grammarly, while others focus on image and video generation, such as DALL-E and Lumen5. Other tools such as OpenAI Codex, Tabnine, Canva, Jasper AI,, and Surfer SEO are designed to help with specific tasks such as code understanding content writing and website optimization. This list is a great starting point for anyone looking to explore the possibilities of AI and how it can be applied to their business or project.

So let’s dive into

1. ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a large language model that generates human-like responses to a variety of prompts. It can be used for tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion. It can handle a wide range of topics and styles of writing, and generates coherent and fluent text, but should be used with care as it may generate text that is biased, offensive, or factually incorrect.

Pros:

• Generates human-like responses to a variety of prompts
• Can be fine-tuned for specific tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion
• Can handle a wide range of topics and styles of writing
• Can generate coherent and fluent text, even when completing a given text prompt.

Cons:

• May generate text that is biased or offensive
• Can generate text that is not accurate or factually correct
• May require large amounts of computational resources to run
• The model can sometimes generate text that is not coherent or fluent, depending on the prompt given.

Overall, ChatGPT is a powerful tool for natural language processing, but it should be used with care and with an understanding of its limitations.

2. DALL-E

DALL-E is a generative model developed by OpenAI that is capable of generating images from text prompts. It is based on the GPT-3 architecture, which is a transformer-based neural network language model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text. DALL-E can generate images that are similar to a training dataset and it can generate high-resolution images that are suitable for commercial use.

Pros:

• Generates high-resolution images
• Can generate images from text prompts
• It can be fine-tuned for specific tasks such as generating images of a certain style or category

Cons:

• May generate images that are not entirely original and could be influenced by the training data
• May require significant computational resources to run
• The quality of the generated images may vary depending on the specific prompt

Overall, DALL-E is a powerful AI-based tool for generating images, it can be used for a variety of applications such as creating images for commercial use, gaming, and other creative projects. It is important to note that the generated images should be reviewed and used with care, as they may not be entirely original and could be influenced by the training data.

3. Lumen5

Lumen5 is a content creation platform that uses AI to help users create videos, social media posts, and other types of content. It has several features that make it useful for content creation and marketing, including:

Pros:

• Automatically summarizes text from a blog post, article, or another source into a script for a video or social media post
• Offers a library of royalty-free videos, images, and music to use in content
• Has a drag-and-drop interface for easy content creation
• Can create videos in multiple languages
• Has a built-in analytics tool to track the performance of created content.

Cons:

• The quality of the generated content may vary depending on the source material
• The automatic summarization feature may not always capture the main points of the source material
• The library of videos, images, and music is limited.
• The analytics feature is basic

Overall, Lumen5 is a useful tool for creating content quickly and easily, it can help automate the process of creating videos, social media posts, and other types of content. However, the quality of the generated content may vary depending on the source material and it is important to review and edit the content before publishing it.

4. Grammarly

Grammarly is a writing-enhancement platform that uses AI to check for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors in the text. It also provides suggestions for improving the clarity, concision, and readability of the text. It has several features that make it useful for improving writing, including:

Pros:

• Checks for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors in the text
• Provides suggestions for improving clarity, concision, and readability
• Can be integrated with various apps and platforms such as Microsoft Office, Google Docs, and social media platforms
• Offers a browser extension and a desktop app
• Has a premium version with more advanced features such as plagiarism detection and more

Cons:

• The suggestions provided may not always be accurate or appropriate
• The grammar checker may not always recognize context-specific language use
• The free version has limited features
• Limited to English language only
• Overall, Grammarly is a useful tool for improving writing, it can help users identify and correct grammar and punctuation errors, and improve the clarity, concision, and readability of their text. However, it is important to review the suggestions provided by the tool and use them with caution, as they may not always be accurate or appropriate.

5.OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex is a system developed by OpenAI that can create code from natural language descriptions of software tasks. The system is based on the GPT-3 model and can generate code in multiple programming languages.

Pros:

• Can automate the process of writing code
• Can help developers to be more productive
• Can help non-technical people to create software
• Can generate code in multiple programming languages

Cons:

• The quality of the generated code may vary depending on the task description
• The generated code may not always be optimal or efficient
• The system may not be able to handle complex software tasks
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the code.

Overall, OpenAI Codex is a powerful tool that can help automate the process of writing code and make it more accessible to non-technical people. However, the quality of the generated code may vary depending on the task description and it is important to review and test the code before using it in a production environment. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the developer's knowledge.

6. Tabnine

Tabnine is a code completion tool that uses AI to predict and suggest code snippets. It is compatible with multiple programming languages and can be integrated with various code editors.

Pros:

• Can improve coding efficiency by suggesting code snippets based on context
• Can complete entire code blocks
• Can predict variables, functions, and other elements of code
• Can be integrated with various code editors

Cons:

• The suggestions may not always be accurate or appropriate
• The system may not always be able to understand the context of the code
• May not work with all code editors
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the code.

Overall, TabNine is a useful tool for developers that can help improve coding efficiency and reduce the time spent on writing code. However, it is important to review the suggestions provided by the tool and use them with caution, as they may not always be accurate or appropriate. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the developer's knowledge.

7. Jasper AI

Jasper is a content writing and content generation tool that uses artificial intelligence to identify the best words and sentences for your writing style and medium in the most efficient, quick, and accessible way.

Pros:

• User-friendly interface
• Generates a wide variety of content types
• Guarantees 100% unique and free-plagiarism content
• SEO friendly
•  Create articles of up to 10k words

Cons:

• Not the cheapest AI writer on the market

8. Surfer SEO

Surfer SEO is a software tool designed to help website owners and digital marketers improve their search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. The tool provides a variety of features that can be used to analyze a website's on-page SEO, including:

Features:

• A site audit tool that checks for technical SEO issues
• A content editor that suggests optimizations for individual pages
• A keyword research tool that suggests keywords to target
• A SERP analyzer that shows how a website's pages rank for specific keywords
• A backlink analysis tool that shows the backlinks pointing to a website.

Pros:

• Can help website owners and marketers identify technical SEO issues
• Can provide suggestions for optimizing individual pages
• Can help with keyword research
• Can show how a website's pages rank for specific keywords
• Can provide insight into a website's backlink profile

Cons:

• Some features may require a paid subscription
• The tool is not a guarantee of better ranking
• The tool can only analyze the data it has access to
• The tool's suggestions may not always be applicable or optimal

Overall, Surfer SEO can be a useful tool for website owners and digital marketers looking to improve their SEO efforts. However, it is important to remember that it is just a tool and should be used in conjunction with other SEO best practices. Additionally, the tool is not a guarantee of better ranking.

9. Zapier

Zapier is a web automation tool that allows users to automate repetitive tasks by connecting different web applications together. It does this by creating "Zaps" that automatically move data between apps, and can also be used to trigger certain actions in one app based on events in another app.

Features:

• Can connect over 3,000 web applications
• Can automate repetitive tasks
• Can create "Zaps" to move data between apps
• Can trigger certain actions in one app based on events in another app.

Pros:

• Can automate repetitive tasks
• Can save time
• Can improve workflow
• Can increase productivity
• Can be integrated with a wide range of web applications

Cons:

• Can be difficult to set up
• May require some technical skills
• May require a paid subscription for some features
• Some apps may not be compatible
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the apps

Overall, Zapier is a useful tool that can help users automate repetitive tasks and improve workflow. It can save time and increase productivity by connecting different web applications together. However, it may require some technical skills and some features may require a paid subscription. It is important to use the tool with caution and not to rely too much on it, to understand the apps better.

10. Compose AI

Compose AI is a company that specializes in developing natural language generation (NLG) software. Their software uses AI to automatically generate written or spoken text from structured data, such as spreadsheets, databases, or APIs.

Features:

• Automatically generates written or spoken text from structured data
• Can be integrated with a wide range of data sources
• Can be used for a variety of applications such as creating reports, summaries, and explanations
• Provides an API and a user-friendly interface

Pros:

• Can automate the process of creating written or spoken content
• Can help users create more accurate and consistent content
• Can help users save time by automating repetitive tasks
• Can be integrated with a wide range of data sources

Cons:

• The quality of the generated content may vary depending on the data source
• The generated content may not always be optimal or efficient
• The system may not be able to handle complex tasks
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the data

Overall, Compose AI's NLG software can be a useful tool for automating the process of creating written or spoken content from structured data. However, the quality of the generated content may vary depending on the data source, and it is essential to review the generated content before using it in a production environment. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the understanding of the data.

Conclusion

AI tools are becoming increasingly important in today's business and technology landscape. They are designed to automate repetitive tasks, improve workflow, and increase productivity. The top 10 AI tools included in this article are some of the most advanced and widely used in the market, and are suitable for various applications. Whether you're looking to improve your natural language processing, create high-resolution images, or optimize your website, there is an AI tool that can help. It's important to research and evaluate the different tools available to determine which one is the best fit for your specific needs. As AI technology continues to evolve, these tools will become even more powerful and versatile and will play an even greater role in shaping the future of business and technology.

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qualifiers: 3.57 google, 1.43 microsoft

ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:04:00 +0000

What is Grammarly?

Grammarly is a tool that checks for grammatical errors, spelling, and punctuation.it gives you comprehensive feedback on your writing. You can use this tool to proofread and edit articles, blog posts, emails, etc.

Grammarly also detects all types of mistakes, including sentence structure issues and misused words. It also gives you suggestions on style changes, punctuation, spelling, and grammar all are in real-time. The free version covers the basics like identifying grammar and spelling mistakes

whereas the Premium version offers a lot more functionality, it detects plagiarism in your content, suggests word choice, or adds fluency to it.

Features of Grammarly

• Spelling and Word Suggestion: Grammarly detects basic to advance grammatical errors and also help you why this is an error and suggest to you how you can improve it
• Create a Personal Dictionary: The Grammarly app allows you to add words to your personal dictionary so that the same mistake isn't highlighted every time you run Grammarly.
• Different English Style: Check to spell for American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.
• Plagiarism: This feature helps you detect if a text has been plagiarized by comparing it with over eight billion web pages.
• Wordiness: This tool will help you check your writing for long and hard-to-read sentences. It also shows you how to shorten sentences so that they are more concise.
• Passive Voice: The program also notifies users when passive voice is used too frequently in a document.
• Punctuations: This feature flags all incorrect and missing punctuation.
• Repetition: The tool provides recommendations for replacing the repeated word.
• Proposition: Grammarly identifies misplaced and confused prepositions.
  
• Plugins: It offers Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Chrome plugins.

What is ProWritingAid?

ProWritingAid is a style and grammar checker for content creators and writers. It helps to optimize word choice, punctuation errors, and common grammar mistakes, providing detailed reports to help you improve your writing. 

ProWritingAid can be used as an add-on to WordPress, Gmail, and Google Docs. The software also offers helpful articles, videos, quizzes, and explanations to help improve your writing.

Features of ProWriting Aid

Here are some key features of ProWriting Aid:

• Grammar checker and spell checker: This tool helps you to find all grammatical and spelling errors.
• Find repeated words:  The tool also allows you to search for repeated words and phrases in your content.
• Context-sensitive style suggestions:  You can find the exact style of writing you intend and suggest if it flows well in your writing.
• Check the readability of your content: Pro Writing Aid helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your article by pointing out difficult sentences and paragraphs.
• Sentence Length: It also indicates the length of your sentences.
• Check Grammatical error: It also checks your work for any grammatical errors or typos, as well.
• Overused words: As a writer, you might find yourself using the same word repeatedly. ProWritingAid's overused words checker helps you avoid this lazy writing mistake.
• Consistency: Check your work for inconsistent usage of open and closed quotation marks.
• Echoes: Check your writing for uniformly repetitive words and phrases.

Difference between Grammarly and Pro-Writing Aid

Grammarly and ProWritingAid are well-known grammar-checking software. However, if you're like most people who can't decide which to use, here are some different points that may be helpful in your decision.

Grammarly vs ProWritingAid

• Grammarly is a writing enhancement tool that offers suggestions for grammar, vocabulary, and syntax whereas ProWritingAid offers world-class grammar and style checking, as well as advanced reports to help you strengthen your writing.
• Grammarly provides Android and IOS apps whereas ProWritingAid doesn't have a mobile or IOS app.
• Grammarly offers important suggestions about mistakes you've made whereas ProWritingAid  shows more suggestions than Grammarly but all recommendations are not accurate
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX whereas the ProWritingAid interface is not friendly as Grammarly.
• Grammarly is an accurate grammar checker for non-fiction writing whereas ProWritingAid is an accurate grammar checker for fiction writers.
• Grammarly finds grammar and punctuation mistakes, whereas ProWritingAid identifies run-on sentences and fragments.
• Grammarly provides 24/7 support via submitting a ticket and sending emails. ProWritingAid’s support team is available via email, though the response time is approximately 48 hours.
• Grammarly offers many features in its free plan, whereas ProWritingAid offers some basic features in the free plan.
• Grammarly does not offer much feedback on big picture writing; ProWritingAid offers complete feedback on big picture writing.
• Grammarly is a better option for accuracy, whereas ProWritingAid is better for handling fragmented sentences and dialogue. It can be quite useful for fiction writers.

ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Pricing Difference

• ProWritingAid comes with three pricing structures. The full-year cost of ProWritingAid is $79, while its lifetime plans cost $339. You also can opt for a monthly plan of $20.
• Grammarly offers a Premium subscription for $30/month for a monthly plan  $20/month for quarterly and $12/month for an annual subscription.
• The Business plan costs $12.50 per month for each member of your company.

ProWritingAid vs Grammarly – Pros and Cons

Grammarly Pros

• It allows you to fix common mistakes like grammar and spelling.
• Offers most features in the free plan
• Allows you to edit a document without affecting the formatting.
• Active and passive voice checker
• Personal dictionary 
• Plagiarism checker (paid version)
• Proofread your writing and correct all punctuation, grammar, and spelling errors.
• Allows you to make changes to a document without altering its formatting.
• Helps users improve vocabulary
• User-friendly interface
• Browser extensions and MS word add-ons
• Available on all major devices and platforms
• Grammarly will also offer suggestions to improve your style.
• Enhance the readability of your sentence
• Free mobile apps 
• Offers  free version

Grammarly Cons

• Supports only English 
• Customer support only via email
• Limits to 150,000 words
• Subscription plans can be a bit pricey 
• Plagiarism checker is only available in a premium plan
• Doesn’t offer a free trial
• No refund policy
• The free version is ideal for basic spelling and grammatical mistakes, but it does not correct advanced writing issues.
• Some features are not available for Mac.

ProwritingAid Pros

• It offers more than 20 different reports to help you improve your writing.
• Less expensive than other grammar checkers.
• This tool helps you strengthen your writing style as it offers big-picture feedback.
• ProWritingAid has a life plan with no further payments required.
• Compatible with Google Docs!
• Prowritingaid works on both Windows and Mac.
• They offer more integrations than most tools.

ProWritingAid Cons

• Editing can be a little more time-consuming when you add larger passages of text.
• ProWritingAid currently offers no mobile app for Android or iOS devices.
• Plagiarism checker is only available in premium plans.
• All recommendations are not accurate

Summarizing the Ginger VS Grammarly: My Recommendation

As both writing assistants are great in their own way, you need to choose the one that suits you best.

• For example, go for Grammarly  if you are a non-fiction writer
• Go for ProWritingAid if you are a fiction writer.
• ProWritingAid is better at catching errors found in long-form content. However, Grammarly is more suited to short blog posts and other similar tasks.
• ProWritingAid helps you clean up your writing by checking for style, structure, and content while Grammarly focuses on grammar and punctuation.
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX whereas; ProWritingAid offers complete feedback on big picture writing.

Both ProWritingAid and Grammarly are awesome writing tools, without a doubt. but as per my experience, Grammarly is a winner here because Grammarly helps you to review and edit your content. Grammarly highlights all the mistakes in your writing within seconds of copying and pasting the content into Grammarly’s editor or using the software’s native feature in other text editors.

Not only does it identify tiny grammatical and spelling errors, it tells you when you overlook punctuations where they are needed. And, beyond its plagiarism-checking capabilities, Grammarly helps you proofread your content. Even better, the software offers a free plan that gives you access to some of its features.

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qualifiers: 3.57 google, 1.43 microsoft

Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

SEMrush and Ahrefs are among the most popular tools in the SEO industry. Both companies have been in business for years and have thousands of customers per month.

If you're a professional SEO or trying to do digital marketing on your own, at some point you'll likely consider using a tool to help with your efforts. Ahrefs and SEMrush are two names that will likely appear on your shortlist.

In this guide, I'm going to help you learn more about these SEO tools and how to choose the one that's best for your purposes.

What is SEMrush?

SEMrush is a popular SEO tool with a wide range of features—it's the leading competitor research service for online marketers. SEMrush's SEO Keyword Magic tool offers over 20 billion Google-approved keywords, which are constantly updated and it's the largest keyword database.

The program was developed in 2007 as SeoQuake is a small Firefox extension

Features

• Most accurate keyword data: Accurate keyword search volume data is crucial for SEO and PPC campaigns by allowing you to identify what keywords are most likely to bring in big sales from ad clicks. SEMrush constantly updates its databases and provides the most accurate data.
• Largest Keyword database: SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool now features 20-billion keywords, providing marketers and SEO professionals the largest database of keywords.


• All SEMrush users receive daily ranking data, mobile volume information, and the option to buy additional keywords by default with no additional payment or add-ons needed
• Most accurate position tracking tool: This tool provides all subscribers with basic tracking capabilities, making it suitable for SEO professionals. Plus, the Position Tracking tool provides local-level data to everyone who uses the tool.
• SEO Data Management: SEMrush makes managing your online data easy by allowing you to create visually appealing custom PDF reports, including Branded and White Label reports, report scheduling, and integration with GA, GMB, and GSC.
• Toxic link monitoring and penalty recovery: With SEMrush, you can make a detailed analysis of toxic backlinks, toxic scores, toxic markers, and outreach to those sites.
• Content Optimization and Creation Tools: SEMrush offers content optimization and creation tools that let you create SEO-friendly content. Some features include the SEO Writing Assistant, On-Page SEO Check, er/SEO Content Template, Content Audit, Post Tracking, Brand Monitoring.

Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading SEO platform that offers a set of tools to grow your search traffic, research your competitors, and monitor your niche. The company was founded in 2010, and it has become a popular choice among SEO tools. Ahrefs has a keyword index of over 10.3 billion keywords and offers accurate and extensive backlink data updated every 15-30 minutes and it is the world's most extensive backlink index database.

Features

• Backlink alerts data and new keywords: Get an alert when your site is linked to or discussed in blogs, forums, comments, or when new keywords are added to a blog posting about you.
• Intuitive interface: The intuitive design of the widget helps you see the overall health of your website and search engine ranking at a glance.
• Site Explorer: The Site Explorer will give you an in-depth look at your site's search traffic.
• Domain Comparison
• Reports with charts and graphs
• JavaScript rendering and a site audit can identify SEO issues.
• A question explorer that provides well-crafted topic suggestions

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

Now that you know a little more about each tool, let's take a look at how they compare. I'll analyze each tool to see how they differ in interfaces, keyword research resources, rank tracking, and competitor analysis.

User Interface

Ahrefs and SEMrush both offer comprehensive information and quick metrics regarding your website's SEO performance. However, Ahrefs takes a bit more of a hands-on approach to getting your account fully set up, whereas SEMrush's simpler dashboard can give you access to the data you need quickly.

In this section, we provide a brief overview of the elements found on each dashboard and highlight the ease with which you can complete tasks.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs dashboard is less cluttered than that of SEMrush, and its primary menu is at the very top of the page, with a search bar designed only for entering URLs.

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

• You can see analytics from the dashboard, including search engine rankings to domain ratings, referring domains, and backlink
• Jumping from one tool to another is easy. You can use the Keyword Explorer to find a keyword to target and then directly track your ranking with one click.
• The website offers a tooltip helper tool that allows you to hover your mouse over something that isn't clear and get an in-depth explanation.

SEMRUSH

When you log into the SEMrush Tool, you will find four main modules. These include information about your domains, organic keyword analysis, ad keyword, and site traffic.

You'll also find some other options like

• A search bar allows you to enter a domain, keyword, or anything else you wish to explore.
• A menu on the left side of the page provides quick links to relevant information, including marketing insights, projects, keyword analytics, and more.
• The customer support resources located directly within the dashboard can be used to communicate with the support team or to learn about other resources such as webinars and blogs.
• Detailed descriptions of every resource offered. This detail is beneficial for new marketers, who are just starting.

WHO WINS?

Both Ahrefs and SEMrush have user-friendly dashboards, but Ahrefs is less cluttered and easier to navigate. On the other hand, SEMrush offers dozens of extra tools, including access to customer support resources.

When deciding on which dashboard to use, consider what you value in the user interface, and test out both.

Rank Tracking

If you're looking to track your website's search engine ranking, rank tracking features can help. You can also use them to monitor your competitors.

Let's take a look at Ahrefs vs. SEMrush to see which tool does a better job.

Ahrefs

The Ahrefs Rank Tracker is simpler to use. Just type in the domain name and keywords you want to analyze, and it spits out a report showing you the search engine results page (SERP) ranking for each keyword you enter.

Rank Tracker looks at the ranking performance of keywords and compares them with the top rankings for those keywords. Ahrefs also offers:

You'll see metrics that help you understand your visibility, traffic, average position, and keyword difficulty.

It gives you an idea of whether a keyword would be profitable to target or not.

SEMRUSH

SEMRush offers a tool called Position Tracking. This tool is a project tool—you must set it up as a new project. Below are a few of the most popular features of the SEMrush Position Tracking tool:

All subscribers are given regular data updates and mobile search rankings upon subscribing

The platform provides opportunities to track several SERP features, including Local tracking.

Intuitive reports allow you to track statistics for the pages on your website, as well as the keywords used in those pages.

Identify pages that may be competing with each other using the Cannibalization report.

WHO WINS?

Ahrefs is a more user-friendly option. It takes seconds to enter a domain name and keywords. From there, you can quickly decide whether to proceed with that keyword or figure out how to rank better for other keywords.

SEMrush allows you to check your mobile rankings and ranking updates daily, which is something Ahrefs does not offer. SEMrush also offers social media rankings, a tool you won't find within the Ahrefs platform. Both are good which one do you like let me know in the comment.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is closely related to rank tracking, but it's used for deciding which keywords you plan on using for future content rather than those you use now.

When it comes to SEO, keyword research is the most important thing to consider when comparing the two platforms.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs Keyword Explorer provides you with thousands of keyword ideas and filters search results based on the chosen search engine.

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

• It can search multiple keywords in a single search and analyze them together. At SEMrush, you also have this feature in Keyword Overview.
• Ahrefs has a variety of keywords for different search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and other search engines.
• When you click on a keyword, you can see its search volume and keyword difficulty, but also other keywords related to it, which you didn't use.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool has over 20 billion keywords for Google. You can type in any keyword you want, and a list of suggested keywords will appear.

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

• Show performance metrics by keyword
• Search results are based on both broad and exact keyword matches.
• Show data like search volume, trends, keyword difficulty, and CPC.
• Show the first 100 Google search results for any keyword.
• Identify SERP Features and Questions related to each keyword
• SEMrush has released a new Keyword Gap Tool that uncovers potentially useful keyword opportunities for you, including both paid and organic keywords.

WHO WINS?

Both of these tools offer keyword research features and allow users to break down complicated tasks into something that can be understood by beginners and advanced users alike.

If you're interested in keyword suggestions, SEMrush appears to have more keyword suggestions than Ahrefs does. It also continues to add new features, like the Keyword Gap tool and SERP Questions recommendations.

Competitor Analysis

Both platforms offer competitor analysis tools, eliminating the need to come up with keywords off the top of your head. Each tool is useful for finding keywords that will be useful for your competition so you know they will be valuable to you.

AHREFS

Ahrefs' domain comparison tool lets you compare up to five websites (your website and four competitors) side-by-side.it also shows you how your site is ranked against others with metrics such as backlinks, domain ratings, and more.

Use the Competing Domains section to see a list of your most direct competitors, and explore how many keywords matches your competitors have.

To find more information about your competitor, you can look at the Site Explorer and Content Explorer tools and type in their URL instead of yours.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush provides a variety of insights into your competitors' marketing tactics. The platform enables you to research your competitors effectively. It also offers several resources for competitor analysis including:

Traffic Analytics helps you identify where your audience comes from, how they engage with your site, what devices visitors use to view your site, and how your audiences overlap with other websites.

SEMrush's Organic Research examines your website's major competitors and shows their organic search rankings, keywords they are ranking for, and even if they are ranking for any (SERP) features and more.

The Market Explorer search field allows you to type in a domain and lists websites or articles similar to what you entered. Market Explorer also allows users to perform in-depth data analytics on These companies and markets.

WHO WINS?

SEMrush wins here because it has more tools dedicated to competitor analysis than Ahrefs. However, Ahrefs offers a lot of functionality in this area, too. It takes a combination of both tools to gain an advantage over your competition.

Pricing

Ahrefs

• Lite Monthly: $99/month
• Standard Monthly: $179/month
• Annually Lite: $990/year
• Annually Standard: $1790/year

SEMRUSH

• Pro Plan: $119.95/month
• Guru Plan:$229.95/month
• Business Plan: $449.95/month

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

When it comes to keyword data research, you will become confused about which one to choose.

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

• Like friendly and clean interface
• Searching for simple keyword suggestions

• Want to get more keywords for different search engines like Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, and more

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

• Want more marketing and SEO features
• Need competitor analysis tool
• Need to keep your backlinks profile clean
• Looking for more keyword suggestions for Google

Both tools are great. Choose the one which meets your requirements and if you have any experience using either Ahrefs or SEMrush let me know in the comment section which works well for you.

 

 

Match ID: 81 Score: 5.00 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 932 days
qualifiers: 3.57 google, 1.43 amazon

10 Best Chrome Extensions That Are Perfect for Everyone
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:56:00 +0000

Are you a great Chrome user? That’s nice to hear. But first, consider whether or not there are any essential Chrome extensions you are currently missing from your browsing life, so here we're going to share with you 10 Best Chrome Extensions That Are Perfect for Everyone. So Let's Start.

1. LastPass

When you have too several passwords to remember, LastPass remembers them for you.

This chrome extension is an easy way to save you time and increase security. It’s a single password manager that will log you into all of your accounts. you simply ought to bear in mind one word: your LastPass password to log in to all or any your accounts.

Features

• Save usernames and passwords and LastPasswill  log you  in  automatically.
• Fill the forms quickly to save your addresses, credit card numbers and more.

2. MozBar

MozBar is an SEO toolbar extension that makes it easy for you to analyze your web pages' SEO while you surf. You can customize your search so that you see data for a particular region or for all regions. You get data such as website and domain authority and link profile. The status column tells you whether there are any no-followed links to the page.You can also compare link metrics. There is a pro version of MozBar, too.

3. Grammerly

Grammarly is a real-time grammar checking and spelling  tool for online writing. It checks spelling, grammar, and punctuation as you type, and has a dictionary feature that suggests related words. if you use mobile phones for writing than  Grammerly also have a mobile keyboard app.

4. VidlQ

VidIQ is a SaaS product and Chrome Extension that makes it easier to manage and optimize your YouTube channels. It keeps you informed about your channel's performance with real-time analytics and powerful insights.

Features

• Learn more about insights and statistics beyond YouTube Analytics
• Find great videos with the Trending tab.
• You can check out any video’s YouTube rankings and see how your own video is doing on the charts.
• Keep track  the  history of the keyword to determine when a keyword is rising or down  in popularity over time.
• Quickly find out which videos are performing the best on YouTube right now.
• Let this tool suggest keywords for you to use in your title, description and tags.

5. ColorZilla

ColorZilla is a browser extension that allows you to find out the exact color of any object in your web browser. This is especially useful when you want to match elements on your page to the color of an image.

Features 

•  Advanced Color Picker (similar to Photoshop's)
• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
• The "Webpage Color Analyzer" site helps you determine the palette of colors used in a particular website.
• Palette Viewer with 7 pre-installed palettes
• Eyedropper - sample the color of any pixel on the page
• Color History of recently picked colors
• Displays some info about the element, including the tag name, class, id and size.
• Auto copy picked colors to clipboard
• Get colors of dynamic hover elements 
• Pick colors from Flash objects
• Pick colors at any zoom level

6. Honey

Honey is a chrome extension with which you  save each product from the website and notify it when it is available at  low price it's one among the highest extensions for Chrome that finds coupon codes whenever you look online.

Features

• Best for finding exclusive prices on Amazon.
• A free reward program called Honey Gold.
• Searches and filters the simplest value fitting your demand.
• Instant notifications.

7. GMass: Powerful Chrome Extension for Gmail Marketers

GMass (or Gmail Mass) permits users to compose and send mass emails using Gmail. it is a great tool as a result of you'll use it as a replacement for a third-party email sending platform. you will love GMass to spice up your emailing functionality on the platform.

8. Notion Web Clipper: Chrome Extension for Geeks

It's a Chrome extension for geeks that enables you to highlight and save what you see on the web.

It's been designed by Notion, that could be a Google space different that helps groups craft higher ideas and collaborate effectively.

Features

• Save anything online with just one click  
• Use it on any device
• Organize your saved clips quickly
• Tag, share and comment on the clips

If you are someone who works online, you need to surf the internet to get your business done. And often there is no time to read or analyze something. But it's important that you  do it. Notion Web Clipper will help you with that.

9. WhatFont: Chrome Extension for identifying Any Site Fonts

WhatFont is a Chrome extension that allows web designers to easily identify and compare different fonts on a page. The first time you use it on any page, WhatFont will copy the selected page.It  Uses this page to find out what fonts are present and generate an image that shows all those fonts in different sizes. Besides the apparent websites like Google or Amazon,  you'll conjointly use it on sites wherever embedded fonts ar used. 

10. SimilarWeb: Traffic Rank & Website Analysis Extension

Similar Web is an SEO add on for both Chrome and Firefox.It allows you  to check web site traffic and key metrics for any web site, as well as engagement rate, traffic ranking, keyword ranking, and traffic source. this is often a good tool if you are looking to seek out new and effective SEO ways similarly as analyze trends across the web.

Features

• Discover keyword trends
• Know fresh keywords
• Get benefit from the real traffic insights
• Analyze engagement metrics
• Explore unique visitors data
• Analyze your industry's category
• Use month to date data

How to Install chrome Extension in Android

I know everyone knows how to install extension in pc but most of people don't know how to install it in android phone so i will show you how to install it in android

1. Download Kiwi browser from Play Store and then Open it.

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 2. Tap the three dots at the top right corner and select Extension. 

3. Click on (+From Store) to access chrome web store or simple search chrome web store and access it.

4. Once you found an extension click on add to chrome a message will pop-up  asking if you wish to confirm your choice. Hit OK to install the extension in the Kiwi browser.

5. To manage  extensions on the browser, tap the three dots in the upper right corner. Then select Extensions to access a catalog of installed extensions that you can disable, update or remove with just a few clicks.

Your Chrome extensions should install on Android, but there’s no guarantee all of them will work. Because Google Chrome Extensions are not optimized for Android devices.

Final Saying

We hope this list of 10 best chrome extensions that is perfect for everyone will help you in picking the right Chrome Extensions. We have selected the extensions after matching their features to the needs of different categories of people. Also which extension you like the most let me know in the comment section

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In a total capitulation to a far-right narrative, even typical liberal shibboleths about our “nation of immigrants” were absent on Tuesday night.

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Top 9 Free AI Tools That Make Your Life Easier
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:07:00 +0000

• Copy.ai

Photo:- Copy.ai

First one on the list is copy.ai. It is an AI based copy writer tool. Basically  what a copywriter tool does is, it gives you content that you can post on your blog or video  when you give it a few descriptions about the topic you want content on.So copy ai can help you write instagram captions gives you blog idea, product descriptions,  facebook content, startup ideas, viral ideas, a lot of things it can do, you just make an account  in this website, then select a tool and fill in the necessary description and the AI will generate  content on what you ask for.

For tutorials go to their official Youtube  channel .An awesome tool that is going to be really handy in the future.

• Hotpot.ai

Hotpot.ai offers a collection of  AI tools for designers, as well as for anyone, it has an “AI picture restorer” which removes  scratches ,and basically restores your old photo into amazing pictures and makes it look brand new. 

 Ai picture colorizer , turns your black and white photo into color. And there is a background  remover tool, picture enlarger and a lot more for designers, check it out,and explore all the tools.

• Deep-nostalgia

Deep-nostalgia became  very popular on the internet when people started 

making reaction videos of their parents reacting  to animated pictures of their grandparents. So deep - nostalgia is a very cool app, that will  animate any photo of a person.

 So what makes it really cool is that fact that you can upload an  old photo of your family and see them animate and living. Which is pretty cool and creepy at  the same time if they are dead already.. Really amazing service from myheritage, I created a  lot of cool animations with my old photos as well as with the photos of my grandparents.

• Pfpmaker.com

Having a nice  looking profile picture is really important if you want that professional feel in your socials.  Whether in linkedin or twitter having a 

distinct and catchy profile picture can make  all the difference. So that's where pfpmaker comes in. it a free online tool to create amazing professional profile pictures that fits you. It generates a lot of profile pictures  and you can also make small changes to already created profile pictures if you want to,as well.

• Brandmark.io

Speaking of brands, getting a  good logo for your brand is the most frustrating 

thing ever, so brandmark.io makes it super easy.  It will create a logo for your brand within 2 clicks. So you goto this website. Type in your brand name and slogan if you have any, and give BRAND KEYWORDS that relate to your brand,  then pick a color style and done, the ai will 

generate amazing logos for you. 

You can also make  minor edits to the suggested logos to better fit your needs as well. But to get that png you need  to pay a hefty price, but if you are looking for some logo ideas, this is a great place to start.

• Deep-image.ai

Even in the previous websites, some  had picture enlarger tools. This deep-image.ai is a dedicated image enlarger, which supports upto 4x  enlargement for free. The UI is pretty good and the tool is pretty fast with amazing results.

• Bigjpg

Bigjpg does the same as  deep-image.ai , but this service offers a little bit more options like if your photo is an artwork  it scales image differently than normal photos and it supports upto 4x enlargement for free  and you can also set noise reduction options. Very good tool,

• Lumen5

Lumen5 is an  online marketing video maker that makes it really easy to create branding or informational videos  within a couple of clicks. They have really great templates and various aspect ratios for various  social media platforms. 
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Musk's SpaceX to destroy retired space station
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Top 10 AI Content Generator & Writer Tools in 2022
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:58:00 +0000

Are you looking for a way to create content that is both effective and efficient? If so, then you should consider using an AI content generator. AI content generators are a great way to create content that is both engaging and relevant to your audience. 

There are a number of different AI content generator tools available on the market, and it can be difficult to know which one is right for you. To help you make the best decision, we have compiled a list of the top 10 AI content generator tools that you should use in 2022.

So, without further ado, let’s get started!

1. Jasper Ai(Formerly known as Jarvis)

Features

•  It's trusted by 50,000+ marketers for creating engaging marketing campaigns, ad copy, blog posts, and articles within minutes which would traditionally take hours or days. Special Features:
• Blog posts have been optimized for search engines and rank high on Google and other search engines. This is a huge plus for online businesses that want to generate traffic to their website through content marketing.
• 99.9% Original Content and guarantees that all content it generates will be original, so businesses can focus on their online reputation rather than worrying about penalties from Google for duplicate content.
• Long-Form Article Writing – Jasper.ai is also useful for long-form writing, allowing users to create articles of up to 10,000 words without any difficulty. This is ideal for businesses that want to produce in-depth content that will capture their audience’s attention.

Pros

• User-friendly interface
• Generates a wide variety of content types
• Guarantees 100% unique and free-plagiarism content
• SEO friendly
•  Create articles of up to 10k words

Cons

• Not the cheapest AI writer on the market

Pricing

• Jasper.ai offers a free trial
• Starter Plan: $29/Month 

Features:

• 50 AI copywriting skills 
• Unlimited projects,  
• Up to 5 user logins

• The cheapest option covers up to 20,000 words generated each month.

Boss Mode:  $99/Month 

Features:

• Up to 100k words are generated each month and can go up to over 300k.

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2. Copy Ai

Copy.ai is a content writing tool that enables its users to create marketing copy, social media posts, Facebook Ads, and many more formats by using more than 90 templates such as Bullet Points to Blogs, General Ads, Hook Text, etc. 

The utility of this service can be used for short-term or format business purposes such as product descriptions, website copy, market copy, and sales reports.

Key Features:

• Provides a large set of templates where you can input the data and the AI will generate Templates with around 10 or more options to make it easy for the user to choose.
•  Smooth and efficient user experience with chrome extension where one can easily transfer information from Copy.ai to a content management forum, Google docs, etc without having to switch tabs.
• Generates content  in 25 languages where your input and output language may differ if you are not a native English speaker.

Pros

• The best option for short-length content generation such as market copy, sales reports, blogs, etc.
• Facebook community and email support for users to understand the AI better and to interact with other users.
• Beginner-friendly user experience with various templates to help the process of content generation.
• Free plan and no credit card required.

Cons

• The free plan from Copy AI is a welcome sight, however, it is just suitable for testing the software.

Pricing

Free Trial – 7 days with 24/7 email support and 100 runs per day.

Pro Plan:  $49 and yearly, it will cost you $420 i.e. $35 per month.

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3. Frase Ai

Just like Outranking, Frase is an AI that helps you research, create and optimize your content to make it high quality within seconds. Frase works on SEO optimization where the content is made to the liking of search engines by optimizing keywords and keywords.

Features:

• Generate full-length, optimized content briefs in  seconds and review the main keywords, headers, and concepts in your SEO competitors’ content in one intuitive research panel.
• Write high-converting, SEO-optimized copy and make writer’s block a thing of the past with automated outlines, blog introductions, product descriptions, FAQs, and more.
• An intuitive text editor that uses a topic model to score your content Optimization against your competitors.
• A dashboard that automatically identifies and categorizes your best content opportunities. Frase uses your Google Search Console data to serve up actionable insights about what you should work on next.

Pros

• Unlike Outranking, the interface to Frase is very user-friendly and accessible.
• Users who are content writers and have to research get a lot of time to write and ideate instead of juggling from one website to another as data can be easily accessed on Frase for research on a topic.
• Optimizing content with keyword analysis and SEO optimization has been made easier with Frase's Content Optimization.
• Reports on competitors' websites help in optimizing our own articles and websites.
• Content briefs make research very easy and efficient.

Cons

• The paid plans are a bit pricey because they include many tools for content optimization.

Pricing

Frase provides two plans for all users and a customizable plan for an enterprise or business.

Solo Plan: $14.99/Month and $12/Month if billed yearly with 4  Document Credits for 1 user seat.

Basic Plan: $44.99/month and $39.99/month if billed yearly with 30 Document Credits for 1 user seat.

Team Plan: $114.99/month and $99.99/month if billed yearly for unlimited document credits for 3 users.

*SEO Add-ons and other premium features for $35/month irrespective of the plan.

4. Article Forge — Popular Blog Writing Software for Efficiency and Affordability 

Article Forge is another content generator that operates quite differently from the others on this list. Unlike Jasper.ai, which requires you to provide a brief and some information on what you want it to write this tool only asks for a keyword. From there, it’ll generate a complete article for you.

Features

•  Article Forge integrates with several other software, including WordAi, RankerX, SEnuke TNG, and SEO Autopilot.
• The software takes information from high-ranking websites and then creates more credible articles to rank well in search engines.
•  If you want to generate content regularly, Article Forge can help. You can set it up to automatically generate articles based on your specific keyword or topic. Or, if you need a lot of content quickly, you can use the bulk content feature to get many articles in a short period.

Pros

• Excellent for engaging with readers on multiple CMS platforms
• No spinner content. Create multiple unique articles
• Extremely quick and efficient
• One of the cheapest options online

Cons

• You need to pay attention to the content since it’s not always on point
• Only ideal for decent-quality articles – if you’re lucky

Pricing

What’s excellent about Article Forge is they provide a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can choose between a monthly or yearly subscription. Unfortunately, they offer a free trial and no free plan:

Basic Plan:  $27/Month

Features:

 This plan allows users to produce up to 25k words each month. This is excellent for smaller blogs or those who are just starting.

Standard Plan: $57/month)

Features:

•  This plan allows users to produce up to 250k words each month. This is excellent for smaller blogs or those who are just starting.

Unlimited Plan: $117/month

Features:

• If you’re looking for an unlimited amount of content, this is the plan for you. You can create as many articles as you want, and there’s no word limit.

It’s important to note that Article Forge guarantees that all content generated through the platform passes Copyscape.

5. Rytr — Superb AI Content Writing Assistant

Rytr.me is a free AI content generator perfect for small businesses, bloggers, and students. The software is easy to use and can generate SEO-friendly blog posts, articles, and school papers in minutes.

Features

• Rytr can be used for various purposes, from writing blog posts to creating school papers. You can also generate captions for social media, product descriptions, and meta descriptions.
•  Rytr supports writing for over 30 languages, so you can easily create content in your native language.
• The AI helps you write content in over 30 tones to find the perfect tone for your brand or project.
• Rytr has a built-in plagiarism checker that ensures all your content is original and plagiarism free.

Pros

• Easy to use
• Creates unique content
• It supports over 30 languages
• Multi-tone writing capabilities

Cons

• It can be slow at times
• Grammar and flow could use improvement

Pricing

Rytr offers a free plan that comes with limited features. It covers up to 5,000 characters generated each month and has access to the built-in plagiarism checker. If you want to use all the features of the software, you can purchase one of the following plans:

Saver Plan: $9/month, $90/year 

Features:

• Generate 100k  characters per month
• Access 40+ use-cases
• Write in 30+ languages
• Access 20+ tones
• Built-in plagiarism checker
• Generate up to 20 images per month with AI
• Access to premium community
• Create your own custom use-case
• Unlimited Plan: $29/month, $290/year

Features:

• Generate UNLIMITED* characters per month
• Access 40+ use-cases
• Write in 30+ languages
• Access 20+ tones

• Built-in plagiarism checker
• Generate up to 100 images per month with AI
• Access to premium community
• Create your own custom use-case
• Dedicated account manager
• Priority email & chat support

6. Writesonic — Best AI Article Writing Software with a Grammar and Plagiarism Checker

Writesonic is a free, easy-to-use AI content generator. The software is designed to help you create copy for marketing content, websites, and blogs. It's also helpful for small businesses or solopreneurs who need to produce content on a budget.

Features

• The tone checker, is a great feature that helps you ensure that your content is consistent with your brand’s voice. This is excellent for crafting cohesive and on-brand content.
• The grammar checker is another valuable tool that helps you produce error-free content.
• The plagiarism checker is a great way to ensure that your content is original.

Pricing

Writesonic is free with limited features. The free plan is more like a free trial, providing ten credits. After that, you’d need to upgrade to a paid plan. Here are your options:

Short-form: $15/month 

Features:

• Access to all the short-form content templates like Facebook ads, product descriptions, paragraphs, and more.

Long-Form: $19/month

Features:

• Awesome tools to help you write short and long-form content like blog posts, ebooks, and more.

7. CopySmith — Produces Quality Content in Seconds 

CopySmith is an AI content generator that can be used to create personal and professional documents, blogs, and presentations. It offers a wide range of features including the ability to easily create documents and presentations.

 CopySmith also has several templates that you can use to get started quickly.

 Features

• This software allows you to create product descriptions, landing pages, and more in minutes.
•  Offers rewritten content that is both unique and plagiarism free.
•  This feature helps you create product descriptions for your Shopify store that are SEO-friendly and attractive to customers.
• This is an excellent tool for new content ideas.

Pros

• Excellent for generating eCommerce-ready content
• No credit card is required for the free trial
• SEO-ready content

Cons

• The blog content isn’t the best
• Better suited for short copy

Pricing

CopySmith offers a free trial with no credit card required. After the free trial, the paid plans are as follows:

Starter Plan: $19/month

Features:

• Get 50 credits monthly with up to 20 plagiarism checks.
• Professional Plan: $59/month 

Features:

• Upgrade to 400 credits per month with up to 100 plagiarism checks.  

Enterprise – Create a custom-tailored plan by contacting the sales team.

8. Hypotenuse.ai — Best AI Writing Software for E-Commerce and Product Descriptions

Hypotenuse.ai is a free online tool that can help you create AI content. It's great for beginners because it allows you to create videos, articles, and infographics with ease. The software has a simple and easy-to-use interface that makes it perfect for new people looking for AI content generation.

Special Features

• You can create custom-tailored copy specific to your audience’s needs. This is impressive since most free AI content generators do not offer this feature.
• Hypotenuse takes data from social media sites, websites, and more sources to provide accurate information for your content.
• If you’re selling a product online, you can use Hypotenuse to create automated product descriptions that are of high quality and will help you sell more products.

Pros

• Excellent research capabilities
• Custom-tailored copy
• Automated product descriptions

Cons

• No free plan

Pricing

Hypotenuse doesn’t offer a free plan. Instead, it offers a free trial period where you can take the software for a run before deciding whether it’s the right choice for you or not. Other than that, here are its paid options:

Starter Plan: $29/month

Features:

•  This plan comes with 100 credits/month with 25k Words with one user seat. It’s an excellent option for individuals or small businesses.

Growth Plan: $59/month

Features:

•  This plan comes with 350 credits/month with 87.5k words and 1 user seat. It’s perfect for larger businesses or agencies.

Enterprise – pricing is custom, so don’t hesitate to contact the company for more information.

9. Kafkai — Leading AI Writing Tool for SEOs and Marketers

 Features

• Kafkai offers a host of features that make it SEO-ready, including the ability to add keywords and tags to your content.
• Kafkai is designed explicitly for creating niche-specific content, which can be a significant advantage for businesses or bloggers looking to target a specific audience.
•  Kafkai produces high-quality content, a significant advantage for businesses or bloggers looking to set themselves apart from the competition.
• Kafkai offers a unique feature that allows you to seed content from other sources, which can be a significant time-saver when creating content.

Pros

• Quick results with high efficiency
• You can add seed content and phrases
• It can be used to craft complete articles

Cons

• Its long-form-content generator isn’t very high quality

Pricing

Kafkai comes with a free trial to help you understand whether it’s the right choice for you or not. Additionally, you can also take a look at its paid plans:

Writer Plan: $29/month Create 100 articles per month.  $0.29/article

Newsroom Plan $49/month – Generate 250 articles a month at $0.20 per article.

Printing Press Plan: $129 /month   Create up to 1000 articles a month at roughly $0.13/article.

Industrial Printer Plan: ($199 a month) – Generate 2500 articles each month for $0.08/article.

10. Peppertype.ai — Best AI Content Writing Software for Blogging

Peppertype.ai is an online AI content generator that’s easy to use and best for small business owners looking for a powerful copy and content writing tool to help them craft and generate various content for many purposes.

Features

• You can choose from various pre-trained templates to create your content. This can save you a lot of time since you don’t have to spend time designing your templates or starting entirely from scratch.
• Peppertype offers various copywriting frameworks to help you write better content.
• Peppertype is lightweight and easy to use. This makes it perfect for beginners who want to get started with AI content generation.
• Peppertype’s autocorrect feature automatically corrects your grammar and spelling mistakes as you type. This ensures that your content is free of errors.
• Peppertype tracks user engagement data to help you create content that resonates with your audience.

Pros

• It doesn’t have a steep learning curve
• It helps users to create entirely original content
• The basic plan comes with access to all of their frameworks and templates
• Built-in style editor

Cons

• More hits than misses on content generated
• Tons of typos and grammatical errors

Pricing

Unfortunately, Peppertype.ai isn’t free. However, it does have a free trial to try out the software before deciding whether it’s the right choice for you. Here are its paid plans:

personal Plan:$35/Month

Features:

• 50,000 words included
• 40+ content types
• Notes and Text Editor
• Access to templates
• Unlimited projects
• Active customer support

Team Plan: $199/month

Features:

• Everything included in the Personal
• Collaborate & share results
• Access control
• Export results
• Request custom content types

Enterprise – pricing is custom, so please contact the company for more information.

Final thoughts:

It is no longer a secret that humans are getting overwhelmed with the daily task of creating content. Our lives are busy, and the process of writing blog posts, video scripts, or other types of content is not our day job. In comparison, AI writers are not only cheaper to hire, but also perform tasks at a high level of excellence. This article explores 10 writing tools that used AI to create better content choose the one which meets your requirements and budget but in my opinion Jasper ai is one of the best tools to use to make high-quality content. 

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Beginner Guide to CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction) in 2022
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:57:00 +0000

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What is CJ Affiliate?

For Advertiser:

For Publishers: 

Requirements 

How Does CJ Affiliate Work?

How to Start Making Money Online Using CJ Affiliate

Best CJ Affiliate Programs in 2022

A Quick CJ Affiliate Review: Is It Good Enough?

Top Alternatives and Competitors

Frequently Asked Questions About Cj Affiliate Marketplace 

Final Saying 

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Most Frequently Asked Questions About Affiliate Marketing
Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:03:00 +0000

There are lots of questions floating around about how affiliate marketing works, what to do and what not to do when it comes to setting up a business. With so much uncertainty surrounding both personal and business aspects of affiliate marketing. In this post, we will answer the most frequently asked question about affiliate marketing

1. What is affiliate marketing?

 Affiliate marketing is a way to make money by promoting the products and services of other people and companies. You don't need to create your product or service, just promote existing ones. That's why it's so easy to get started with affiliate marketing. You can even get started with no budget at all!

2. What is an affiliate program?

 An affiliate program is a package of information you create for your product, which is then made available to potential publishers. The program will typically include details about the product and its retail value, commission levels, and promotional materials. Many affiliate programs are managed via an affiliate network like ShareASale, which acts as a platform to connect publishers and advertisers, but it is also possible to offer your program directly.

3. What is an affiliate network and how do affiliate networks make money? 

 Affiliate networks connect publishers to advertisers.  Affiliate networks make money by charging fees to the merchants who advertise with them; these merchants are known as advertisers. The percentage of each sale that the advertiser pays is negotiated between the merchant and the affiliate network.

4. What's the difference between affiliate marketing and dropshipping?

 Dropshipping is a method of selling that allows you to run an online store without having to stock products. You advertise the products as if you owned them, but when someone makes an order, you create a duplicate order with the distributor at a reduced price. The distributor takes care of the post and packaging on your behalf. As affiliate marketing is based on referrals and this type of drop shipping requires no investment in inventory when a customer buys through the affiliate link, no money exchanges hands.

 5. Can affiliate marketing and performance marketing be considered the same thing?

 Performance marketing is a method of marketing that pays for performance, like when a sale is made or an ad is clicked This can include methods like PPC (pay-per-click) or display advertising. Affiliate marketing is one form of performance marketing where commissions are paid out to affiliates on a performance basis when they click on their affiliate link and make a purchase or action.

 6. Is it possible to promote affiliate offers on mobile devices?

 Smartphones are essentially miniature computers, so publishers can display the same websites and offers that are available on a PC. But mobiles also offer specific tools not available on computers, and these can be used to good effect for publishers. Publishers can optimize their ads for mobile users by making them easy to access by this audience. Publishers can also make good use of text and instant messaging to promote their offers. As the mobile market is predicted to make up 80% of traffic in the future, publishers who do not promote on mobile devices are missing out on a big opportunity.

7. Where do I find qualified publishers?

 The best way to find affiliate publishers is on reputable networks like ShareASale Cj(Commission Junction), Awin, and Impact radius. These networks have a strict application process and compliance checks, which means that all affiliates are trustworthy.

8. What is an affiliate disclosure statement?

 An affiliate disclosure statement discloses to the reader that there may be affiliate links on a website, for which a commission may be paid to the publisher if visitors follow these links and make purchases.

 9. Does social media activity play a significant role in affiliate marketing?

 Publishers promote their programs through a variety of means, including blogs, websites, email marketing, and pay-per-click ads. Social media has a huge interactive audience, making this platform a good source of potential traffic.

10. What is a super affiliate?

 A super affiliate is an affiliate partner who consistently drives a large majority of sales from any program they promote, compared to other affiliate partners involved in that program.  Affiliates make a lot of money from affiliate marketing Pat Flynn earned more than $50000 in 2013 from affiliate marketing.

11. How do we track publisher sales activity?

 Publishers can be identified by their publisher ID, which is used in tracking cookies to determine which publishers generate sales. The activity is then viewed within a network's dashboard.

 12. Could we set up an affiliate program in multiple countries?

 Because the Internet is so widespread, affiliate programs can be promoted in any country. Affiliate strategies that are set internationally need to be tailored to the language of the targeted country.

13. How can affiliate marketing help my business?

Affiliate marketing can help you grow your business in the following ways:

•  It allows you to save time and money on marketing, which frees you up to focus on other aspects of your business.
•  You get access to friendly marketers who are eager to help you succeed. 
• It also helps you to promote your products by sharing links and banners with a new audience.
•  It offers high ROI(Return on investment) and is cost-effective.

 14. How do I find quality publishers?

 One of the best ways to work with qualified affiliates is to hire an affiliate marketing agency that works with all the networks. Affiliates are carefully selected and go through a rigorous application process to be included in the network.

15. How Can we Promote Affiliate Links?

 Affiliate marketing is generally associated with websites, but there are other ways to promote your affiliate links, including:

• A website or blog
• Through email marketing and newsletter
• Social media, like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
•  Leave a comment on blogs or forums.
• Write an e-book or other digital product.
• Youtube

 16. Do you have to pay to sign up for an affiliate program?

 To build your affiliate marketing business, you don't have to invest money in the beginning. You can sign up for free with any affiliate network and start promoting their brands right away.

17. What is a commission rate?

 Commission rates are typically based on a percentage of the total sale and in some cases can also be a flat fee for each transaction. The rates are set by the merchant.

Who manages your affiliate program?

 Some merchants run their affiliate programs internally, while others choose to contract out management to a network or an external agency.

18. What is a cookie?

 Cookies are small pieces of data that work with web browsers to store information such as user preferences, login or registration data, and shopping cart contents. When someone clicks on your affiliate link, a cookie is placed on the user's computer or mobile device. That cookie is used to remember the link or ad that the visitor clicked on. Even if the user leaves your site and comes back a week later to make a purchase, you will still get credit for the sale and receive a commission it depends on the site cookies duration

19. How long do cookies last?

 The merchant determines the duration of a cookie, also known as its “cookie life.” The most common length for an affiliate program is 30 days. If someone clicks on your affiliate link, you’ll be paid a commission if they purchase within 30 days of the click.

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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:49:00 +0000

If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don't have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become old.

Imagine a world in which you can do transactions and many other things without having to give your personal information. A world in which you don’t need to rely on banks or governments anymore. Sounds amazing, right? That’s exactly what blockchain technology allows us to do.

It’s like your computer’s hard drive. blockchain is a technology that lets you store data in digital blocks, which are connected together like links in a chain. 

Blockchain technology was originally invented in 1991 by two mathematicians, Stuart Haber and W. Scot Stornetta. They first proposed the system to ensure that timestamps could not be tampered with.

A few years later, in 1998, software developer Nick Szabo proposed using a similar kind of technology to secure a digital payments system he called “Bit Gold.” However, this innovation was not adopted until Satoshi Nakamoto claimed to have invented the first Blockchain and Bitcoin.

So, What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed database shared between the nodes of a computer network. It saves information in digital format. Many people first heard of blockchain technology when they started to look up information about bitcoin.

Blockchain is used in cryptocurrency systems to ensure secure, decentralized records of transactions.

Blockchain allowed people to guarantee the fidelity and security of a record of data without the need for a third party to ensure accuracy.

To understand how a blockchain works, Consider these basic steps:

• Blockchain collects information in “blocks”.
• A block has a storage capacity, and once it's used up, it can be closed and linked to a previously served block.
• Blocks form chains, which are called “Blockchains.”
• More information will be added to the block with the most content until its capacity is full. The process repeats itself.
• Each block in the chain has an exact timestamp and can't be changed.

Let’s get to know more about the blockchain.

How does blockchain work?

Blockchain records digital information and distributes it across the network without changing it. The information is distributed among many users and stored in an immutable, permanent ledger that can't be changed or destroyed. That's why blockchain is also called "Distributed Ledger Technology" or DLT.

Here’s how it works:

• Someone or a computer will transacts
• The transaction is transmitted throughout the network.
• A network of computers can confirm the transaction.
• When it is confirmed a transaction is added to a block
• The blocks are linked together to create a history.

And that’s the beauty of it! The process may seem complicated, but it’s done in minutes with modern technology. And because technology is advancing rapidly, I expect things to move even more quickly than ever.

• A new transaction is added to the system. It is then relayed to a network of computers located around the world. The computers then solve equations to ensure the authenticity of the transaction.
• Once a transaction is confirmed, it is placed in a block after the confirmation. All of the blocks are chained together to create a permanent history of every transaction.

How are Blockchains used?

Even though blockchain is integral to cryptocurrency, it has other applications. For example, blockchain can be used for storing reliable data about transactions. Many people confuse blockchain with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.

Blockchain already being adopted by some big-name companies, such as Walmart, AIG, Siemens, Pfizer, and Unilever. For example, IBM's Food Trust uses blockchain to track food's journey before reaching its final destination.

Although some of you may consider this practice excessive, food suppliers and manufacturers adhere to the policy of tracing their products because bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella have been found in packaged foods. In addition, there have been isolated cases where dangerous allergens such as peanuts have accidentally been introduced into certain products.

Tracing and identifying the sources of an outbreak is a challenging task that can take months or years. Thanks to the Blockchain, however, companies now know exactly where their food has been—so they can trace its location and prevent future outbreaks.

Blockchain technology allows systems to react much faster in the event of a hazard. It also has many other uses in the modern world.

What is Blockchain Decentralization?

Blockchain technology is safe, even if it’s public. People can access the technology using an internet connection.

Have you ever been in a situation where you had all your data stored at one place and that one secure place got compromised? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to prevent your data from leaking out even when the security of your storage systems is compromised?

Blockchain technology provides a way of avoiding this situation by using multiple computers at different locations to store information about transactions. If one computer experiences problems with a transaction, it will not affect the other nodes.

Instead, other nodes will use the correct information to cross-reference your incorrect node. This is called “Decentralization,” meaning all the information is stored in multiple places.

Blockchain guarantees your data's authenticity—not just its accuracy, but also its irreversibility. It can also be used to store data that are difficult to register, like legal contracts, state identifications, or a company's product inventory.

Pros and Cons of Blockchain

Blockchain has many advantages and disadvantages. 

Pros

• Accuracy is increased because there is no human involvement in the verification process.
• One of the great things about decentralization is that it makes information harder to tamper with.
• Safe, private, and easy transactions
• Provides a banking alternative and safe storage of personal information

Cons

• Data storage has limits.
• The regulations are always changing, as they differ from place to place.
• It has a risk of being used for illicit activities 

Frequently Asked Questions About Blockchain

I’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about blockchain in this section.

Is Blockchain a cryptocurrency?

Blockchain is not a cryptocurrency but a technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. It's a digital ledger that records every transaction seamlessly.

Is it possible for Blockchain to be hacked?

Yes, blockchain can be theoretically hacked, but it is a complicated task to be achieved. A network of users constantly reviews it, which makes hacking the blockchain difficult.

What is the most prominent blockchain company?

Coinbase Global is currently the biggest blockchain company in the world. The company runs a commendable infrastructure, services, and technology for the digital currency economy.

Who owns Blockchain?

Blockchain is a decentralized technology. It’s a chain of distributed ledgers connected with nodes. Each node can be any electronic device. Thus, one owns blockhain.

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain technology?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is powered by Blockchain technology while Blockchain is a distributed ledger of cryptocurrency 

What is the difference between Blockchain and a Database?

Generally a database is a collection of data which can be stored and organized using a database management system. The people who have access to the database can view or edit the information stored there. The client-server network architecture is used to implement databases. whereas a blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, stored in a distributed system. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, timestamp and transaction information. Modification of data is not allowed due to the design of the blockchain. The technology allows decentralized control and eliminates risks of data modification by other parties.

Final Saying

Blockchain has a wide spectrum of applications and, over the next 5-10 years, we will likely see it being integrated into all sorts of industries. From finance to healthcare, blockchain could revolutionize the way we store and share data. Although there is some hesitation to adopt blockchain systems right now, that won't be the case in 2022-2023 (and even less so in 2026). Once people become more comfortable with the technology and understand how it can work for them, owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs alike will be quick to leverage blockchain technology for their own gain. Hope you like this article if you have any question let me know in the comments section

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Sellfy Review 2022: How Good Is This Ecommerce Platform?
Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:54:00 +0000

 

Are you searching for an ecomerce platform to help you build an online store and sell products?

In this Sellfy review, we'll talk about how this eCommerce platform can let you sell digital products while keeping full control of your marketing.

And the best part? Starting your business can be done in just five minutes.

Let us then talk about the Sellfy platform and all the benefits it can bring to your business.

What is Sellfy?

Sellfy is an eCommerce solution that allows digital content creators, including writers, illustrators, designers, musicians, and filmmakers, to sell their products online. Sellfy provides a customizable storefront where users can display their digital products and embed "Buy Now" buttons on their website or blog. Sellfy product pages enable users to showcase their products from different angles with multiple images and previews from Soundcloud, Vimeo, and YouTube. Files of up to 2GB can be uploaded to Sellfy, and the company offers unlimited bandwidth and secure file storage. Users can also embed their entire store or individual project widgets in their site, with the ability to preview how widgets will appear before they are displayed.

Features

Sellfy includes:

Online Store

Sellfy is a powerful e-commerce platform that helps you personalize your online storefront. You can add your logo, change colors, revise navigation, and edit the layout of your store. Sellfy also allows you to create a full shopping cart so customers can purchase multiple items. And Sellfy gives you the ability to set your language or let customers see a translated version of your store based on their location.

Sellfy gives you the option to host your store directly on its platform, add a custom domain to your store, and use it as an embedded storefront on your website. Sellfy also optimizes its store offerings for mobile devices, allowing for a seamless checkout experience.

Product hosting

Sellfy allows creators to host all their products and sell all of their digital products on one platform. Sellfy also does not place storage limits on your store but recommends that files be no larger than 5GB. Creators can sell both standard and subscription-based products in any file format that is supported by the online marketplace. Customers can purchase products instantly after making a purchase – there is no waiting period.

You can organize your store by creating your product categories, sorting by any characteristic you choose. Your title, description, and the image will be included on each product page. In this way, customers can immediately evaluate all of your products. You can offer different pricing options for all of your products, including "pay what you want," in which the price is entirely up to the customer. This option allows you to give customers control over the cost of individual items (without a minimum price) or to set pricing minimums—a good option if you're in a competitive market or when you have higher-end products. You can also offer set prices per product as well as free products to help build your store's popularity.

Sellfy is ideal for selling digital content, such as ebooks. But it does not allow you to copyrighted material (that you don't have rights to distribute).

Embed options

Sellfy offers several ways to share your store, enabling you to promote your business on different platforms. Sellfy lets you integrate it with your existing website using "buy now" buttons, embed your entire storefront, or embed certain products so you can reach more people. Sellfy also enables you to connect with your Facebook page and YouTube channel, maximizing your visibility.

Payments and security

Sellfy is a simple online platform that allows customers to buy your products directly through your store. Sellfy has two payment processing options: PayPal and Stripe. You will receive instant payments with both of these processors, and your customer data is protected by Sellfy's secure (PCI-compliant) payment security measures. In addition to payment security, Sellfy provides anti-fraud tools to help protect your products including PDF stamping, unique download links, and limited download attempts.

Marketing and analytics tools

The Sellfy platform includes marketing and analytics tools to help you manage your online store. You can send email product updates and collect newsletter subscribers through the platform. With Sellfy, you can also offer discount codes and product upsells, as well as create and track Facebook and Twitter ads for your store. The software's analytics dashboard will help you track your best-performing products, generated revenue, traffic channels, top locations, and overall store performance.

Integrations

To expand functionality and make your e-commerce store run more efficiently, Sellfy offers several integrations. Google Analytics and Webhooks, as well as integrations with Patreon and Facebook Live Chat, are just a few of the options available. Sellfy allows you to connect to Zapier, which gives you access to hundreds of third-party apps, including tools like Mailchimp, Trello, Salesforce, and more.

Pricing and Premium Plan Features

Free Plan

• Price: $0

The free plan comes with:

• Up to 10 products
• Print-on-demand products
• Physical products

Starter Plan

• Price: $19/month

Starter plan comes with:

• Everything is Free, plus:
• Unlimited products
• Digital products
• Subscription products
• Connect your domain
• 2,000 email credits

Business Plan

• Price: $49/month

The business plan comes with:

• Everything in Starter, plus:
• Remove "Sellfy" branding
• Store design migration
• Cart abandonment
• Product upselling
• 10,000 email credits

Premium Plan

• Price: $99/month

The premium plan comes with:

• Everything in Business, plus:
• Product migration
• Priority support
• 50,000 email credits

Sellfy Review: Pros and Cons

Sellfy has its benefits and downsides, but fortunately, the pros outweigh the cons.

Pros

• It takes only a few minutes to set up an online store and begin selling products.
• You can sell your products on a single storefront, even if you are selling multiple product types.
• Sellfy supports selling a variety of product types, including physical items, digital goods, subscriptions, and print-on-demand products.
  
  
• Sellfy offers a free plan for those who want to test out the features before committing to a paid plan.
• You get paid the same day you make a sale. Sellfy doesn't delay your funds as some other payment processors do. 
• Print-on-demand services are available directly from your store, so you can sell merchandise to fans without setting up an integration. 
• You can conduct all store-related activities via the mobile app and all online stores have mobile responsive designs.
• Everything you need to make your website is included, including a custom domain name hosting, security for your files, and the ability to customize your store
• The file security features can help you protect your digital property by allowing you to put PDF stamps, set download limits, and SSL encryption.
• Sellfy provides unlimited support.
• Sellfy provides simple and intuitive tax and VAT configuration settings.
• Marketing strategies include coupons, email marketing, upselling, tracking pixels, and cart abandonment.

Cons

• Although the free plan is helpful, but it limits you to only 10 products.
• Payment plans often require an upgrade if you exceed a certain sales amount per year.
• The storefront designs are clean, but they're not unique templates for creating a completely different brand image.
• Sellfy's branding is removed from your hosted product when you upgrade to the $49 per month Business plan.
• The free plan does not allow for selling digital or subscription products.

Conclusion

In this article, we have taken a look at some of the biggest benefits associated with using sellfy for eCommerce. Once you compare these benefits to what you get with other platforms such as Shopify, you should find that it is worth your time to consider sellfy for your business. After reading this article all of your questions will be solved but if you have still some questions let me know in the comment section below, I will be happy to answer your questions.

Note: This article contains affiliate links which means we make a small commission if you buy sellfy premium plan from our link.

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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
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Top 7 Best Wordpress Plugin Of All Time
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0000

 

If you are looking for the best wordpress plugins, then you are at the right place. Here is the list of best wordpress plugins that you should use in your blog to boost SEO, strong your security and know every aspects of your blog . Although creating a good content is one factor but there are many wordpress plugins that perform different actions and add on to your success. So let's  start

1.Yoast SEO

Those users who are serious about SEO, Yoast SEO will do the work for them to reach their goals. All they need to do is select a keyword, and the plugin will then optimize your page according to the specified keyword

Yoast offers many popular SEO WordPress plugin functions. It gives you real-time page analysis to optimize your content, images, meta descriptions, titles, and kewords. Yoast also checks the length of your sentences and paragraphs, whether you’re using enough transition words or subheadings, how often you use passive voice, and so on. Yoast tells Google whether or not to index a page or a set of pages too.

Let me summarize these points in bullets:

• Enhance the readability of your article to reduce bounce rate
• Optimize your articles with targetted keywords
• Let Google know who you are and what your site is about
• Improve your on-page SEO with advanced, real-time guidance and advice on keyword usage, linking, and external linking.
• Keep your focus keywords consistent to help rank better on  Google.
• Preview how your page would appear in the search engine results page (SERP)
• Crawl your site daily to ensure Google indexes it as quickly as possible.
• Rate your article informing you of any mistakes you might have made so that you can fix them before publishing.
• Stay up-to-date with Google’s latest algorithm changes and adapt your on-page SEO as needed with smartsuggestionss from the Yoast SEO plugin. This plugin is always up-to-date.
• Free Version is available 

Pricing

• Premium version=$89/year that comes with extra functions, allowing you to optimize your content up to five keywords, among other benefits.

2. WP Rocket

A website running WordPress can put a lot of strain on a server, which increases the chances that the website will crash and harm your business. To avoid such an unfortunate situation and ensure that all your pages load quickly, you need a caching plugin like WP Rocket.

WP Rocket plugin designed to increases your website speed. Instead of waiting for pages to be saved to cache, WP Rocket turns on desired caching settings, like page cache and gzip compression. The plugin also activates other features, such as CDN support and llazy image loadding, to enhance your site speed.

Features in bullets:

• Browser Catching
• Preloading the cache of pages
• Reducing the number of HTTP requests allows websites to load more quickly.
• Decreasing bandwidth usage with GZIP compression
• Apply optimal browser caching headers (expires)
• Minifying and combining JavaScript and CSS files
• Remove Unused CSS
• Deferred loading of images (LazyLoad)
• WebP compatibility
• Deferred loading of JavaScript files
• Delay JavaScript Execution
• Critical Path CSS generation and deferred loading of CSS files
• Database optimization
• WordPress Heartbeat API control
• DNS prefetch
• CDN integration
• Cloudflare integration
• Sucuri integration
• Easy import/export of settings
• Easy roll back to a previous version

Pricing

• Single License =$49/year for one website
• Plus License =$99/year for 3 websites
• Infinite License =$249/year for unlimited websites

3.Wordfence Security

Wordfence Security is a WordPress firewall and security scanner that keeps your site safe from malicious hackers, spam, and other online threats. This Plugin comes with a web application firewall (WAF) called tthread Defence  Feed  that helps to prevents brute force attacks by ensuring you set stronger passwords and limiting login attempts. It searches for malware and compares code, theme, and plugin files with the records in the WordPress.org repository to verify their integrity and reports changes to you.

Wordfence security scanner provides you with actionable insights into your website's security status and will alert you to any potential threats, keeping it safe and secure. It also includes login security features that let you activate reCAPTCHA and two-factor authentication for your website.

Features in Bullets.

• Scans your site for vulnerabilities.
• Alerts you by email when new threats are detected.
• Supports advanced login security measures.
• IP addresses may be blocked automatically if suspicious activity is detected.

Pricing

• Premium Plan= $99/Year that comes with extra security features like the real time IP backlist and country blocking option and also support from highly qualified experts.

4. Akismet

Akismet can help prevent spam from appearing on your site. Every day, it automatically checks every comment against a global database of spam to block malicious content. With Akismet, you also won’t have to worry about innocent comments being caught by the filter or false positives. You can simply tell Akismet about those and it will get better over time. It also checks your contact form submissions against its global spam database and weed out unnecessary fake information.

Features in Bullets:

• The program automatically checks comments and filters out spam.
• Hidden or misleading links are often revealed in the comment body. 
• Akismet tracks the status of each comment, allowing you to see which ones were caught by Akismet and which ones were cleared by a moderator.
• A spam-blocking feature that saves disk space and makes your site run faster.
• Moderators can view a list of comments approved by each user.

Pricing

• Free to use for personal blog 

5. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is a plug-in that allows you to create contact forms that make it easy for your users to send messages to your site. The plug-in was developed by Takayuki Miyoshi and lets you create multiple contact forms on the same site; it also integrates Akismet spam filtering and lets you customize the styling and fields that you want to use in the form. The plug-in provides CAPTCHA and Ajax submitting.

Features in bullets:

• Create and manage multiple contact forms
• Easily customize form fields
• Use simple markup to alter mail content
• Add Lots of third-party extensions for additional functionality
• Shortcode offers a way to insert content into pages or posts.
• Akismet spam filtering, Ajax-powered submitting, and CAPTCHA are all features of this plugin.

Pricing

• Free to use

6. Monster Insights

When you’re looking for an easy way to manage your Google Analytics-related web tracking services, Monster Insights can help. You can add, customize, and integrate Google Analytics data with ease so you’ll be able to see how every webpage performs, which online campaigns bring in the most traffic, and which content readers engage with the most. It’s same as Google Analytics

It is a powerful tool to keep track of your traffic stats. With it, you can view stats for your active sessions, conversions, and bounce rates. You’ll also be able to see your total revenue, the products you sell, and how your site is performing when it comes to referrals.

MonsterInsights offers a free plan that includes basic Google Analytics integration, data insights, and user activity metrics.

Features in bullets:

• Demographics and interest reports:
• Anonymize the  IPs of visitor
• See the results of how far visitors Scroll down
• Show the insights of multiple links to the same page and show you which links get more clicks
• See sessions of two related sites as a single session
• Google AdSense tracking
• Send you weekly analytics report of your blog you can download it as pdf

Pricing

• Premium plan= $99.50/year that comes with extra features like page and post tracking, Adsense tracking,  custom tracking and reports.

7. Pretty Links

Pretty Links is a powerful WordPress plugin that enables you to easily cloak affiliate links on your websiteIt even allows you to easily redirect visitors based on a specific request, including permanent 301 and temporary 302/307 redirects.

Pretty links also helps you to automatically shorten your url for your post and pages.

You can also enable auto-linking feature to automatically add affiliate links for certain keywords

Features

•  Create clean, easy-to-remember URLs on your website (301, 302, and 307 redirects only)
• Random-generator or custom URL slugs
• Track the number of clicks
• Easy to understand reports
• View click details including ip address, remote host, browser, operating system, and referring site
• You can pass custom parameters to your scripts when using pretty permalinks, and still have full tracking capability.
• Exclude IP Addresses from Stats
• Cookie-based system to track your activity across clicks
• Create nofollow/noindex links
• Toggle tracking on / off on each link.
• Pretty Link Bookmarklet
•  Update redirected links easily to new URLs!

Pricing

• Beginner Plan=$79/year that can be used on 1 site
• Marketer Plan: $99/year – that can be used on upto 2 sites
• Super Affiliate Plan: $149/year – that can be use on upto 5 sites

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Ginger VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:28:00 +0000

Ginger VS Grammarly: When it comes to grammar checkers, Ginger and Grammarly are two of the most popular choices on the market. This article aims to highlight the specifics of each one so that you can make a more informed decision about the one you'll use.

What is Grammarly?

If you are a writer, you must have heard of  Grammarly before. Grammarly has over 10M users across the globe, it's probably the most popular AI writing enhancement tool, without a doubt. That's why there's a high chance that you already know about Grammarly.

But today we are going to do a comparison between Ginger and Grammarly, So let's define Grammarly here. Like Ginger, Grammarly is an AI writing assistant that checks for grammatical errors, spellings, and punctuation. The free version covers the basics like identifying grammar and spelling mistakes

While the Premium version offers a lot more functionality, it detects plagiarism in your content, suggests word choice, or adds fluency to it.

Features of Grammarly

• Grammarly detects basic to advance grammatical errors and also help you why this is an error and suggest to you how you can improve it
• Create a personal dictionary 
• Check to spell for American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.
• Understand inconsistencies. 
• Detect unclear structure. 
• Detect Plagiarism.
• Explore overuse of words and wordiness. 
• Get to know about the improper tones. 
• Discover the insensitive language aligns with your intent, audience, style, emotion, and more.

What is Ginger

 Ginger is a writing enhancement tool that not only catches typos and grammatical mistakes but also suggests content improvements. As you type, it picks up on errors then shows you what’s wrong, and suggests a fix. It also provides you with synonyms and definitions of words and allows you to translate your text into dozens of languages.

Ginger Software: Features & Benefits

• Ginger's software helps you identify and correct common grammatical mistakes, such as consecutive nouns, or contextual spelling correction.
• The sentence rephrasing feature can help you convey your meaning perfectly.
• Ginger acts like a personal coach that helps you practice certain exercises based on your mistakes.
• The dictionary feature helps users understand the meanings of words.

In addition, the program provides a text reader, so you can gauge your writing’s conversational tone.

Ginger vs Grammarly

Grammarly and Ginger are two popular grammar checker software brands that help you to become a better writer. But if you’re undecided about which software to use, consider these differences:

• Grammarly only supports the English language while Ginger supports 40+ languages.
• Grammarly offers a wordiness feature while Ginger lacks a Wordiness feature.
• Grammarly shows an accuracy score while Ginger lacks an accuracy score feature.
• Grammarly has a plagiarism checker while ginger doesn't have such a feature.
• Grammarly can recognize an incorrect use of numbers while Ginger can’t recognize an incorrect use of numbers.
• Grammarly and Ginger both have mobile apps.
• Ginger and Grammarly offer monthly, quarterly, and annual plans.
• Grammarly allows you to check uploaded documents. while Ginger doesn't check uploaded documents.
• Grammarly Offers a tone suggestion feature while Ginger doesn't offer a tone suggestion feature.
• Ginger helps to translate documents into 40+ languages while Grammarly doesn't have a translation feature.
• Ginger Offers text to speech features while Grammarly doesn't have such features.

Grammarly Score: 7/10

Ginger:4/10

So Grammarly  wins here.

Ginger VS Grammarly: Pricing Difference

• Ginger offers a Premium subscription for 13.99$/month. it comes at $11.19/month for quarterly and $7.49/month for an annual subscription with 40$ off.
• On the other hand,  Grammarly offers a Premium subscription for $30/month for a monthly plan  $20/month for quarterly, and $12/month for an annual subscription.

For companies with three or more employees, the Business plan costs $12.50/month for each member of your team. 

Ginger Wins Here

Ginger vs Grammarly – Pros and Cons

Grammarly Pros

• Offers  free version
• All-in-one tool (grammar checker + spell checker + punctuation checker)
• Allows you to edit a document without affecting the formatting.
• Style checker (paid version)


• Active and passive voice checker
• Personal dictionary 
• Plagiarism checker (paid version)
• Available on all major devices and platforms
• Free mobile apps 
• User-friendly interface
• Browser extensions and MS word add-ons
• Can upload and download documents

Grammarly Cons

• Supports only English 
• Customer support only via email
• Limits to 150,000 words
• Subscription plans can be a bit pricey 
• Doesn’t offer a free trial
• No refund policy

Ginger Pros

• Offers free version
• All-in-one tool (grammar checker + spell checker + punctuation checker)
• Affordable Subscription plans (Additionals discounts are available)
• Active and passive voice changer
• Translates documents in 40+ languages 
• Personal dictionary
• Browser extension available 
•  Personal trainers help clients develop their knowledge of grammar.
• Text-to-speech feature reads work out loud
• Get a full refund within 7 days

Ginger Cons

• Mobile apps aren't free
• Limited monthly corrections for free users
• No style checker
• No plagiarism checker
• Not as user-friendly as Grammarly
• You are unable to upload or download documents; however, you may copy and paste files as needed.
• Doesn't offer a free trial

Summarizing the Ginger VS Grammarly: My Recommendation

While both writing assistants are fantastic in their ways, you need to choose the one you want. 

For example, go for Grammarly if you want a plagiarism tool included. 

Choose Ginger if you want to write in languages other than English. I will to the differences for you in order to make the distinctions clearer.

• Grammarly offers a plagiarism checking tool
• Ginger provides text to speech tool
• Grammarly helps you check uploaded documents
• Ginger supports over 40 languages
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX

Which one you like let me know in the comments section also give your opinions in the comments section below.

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7 Free Websites Every Content Creator Needs to Know
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:19:00 +0000
Do you have the desire to become a content creator, but not have the money to start? Here are 7 free websites every content creator needs to know.

1.Exploding Topics (Trending Topics)

Some examples can be:

• Use the most popular hashtags and keywords to get inspiration for ideas.
•  Find out what people are talking about in real-time.
•  Find new audiences you may not have known were interested in your topic.

There’s no excuse not to try this website — it’s free and easy to use!

Visit Exploding Topics From Here

2. Headline Studio (Headline Grader)

Headline Studio allows you to create catchy headlines for your content. After writing a title there is data on how often people view articles with similar titles and why they are involved with them.

This is a valuable tool when creating new blog posts because it generates catchy headlines for your blog post to catch a reader’s attention.

Visit Headline Studio From Here

3. Answer the public

Answer The public is an excellent tool for content creators. It gives you insight into what people are asking on social media sites and communities and lets you guess about topics that matter to your audience. Answer the public allows you to enter a keyword or topic related to your niche and it will show results with popular questions and keywords related to your topic. It's an amazing way to get insights into what people are searching online and allows you to identify topics driven by new blog posts or social media content on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter as well as the types of questions they ask and  also want answers.

Visit Answer The Public From Here

4. Surfer Seo (SEO Ranking)

With this tool, content creators can quickly and easily check the ranking of their websites and those of other competitors. This tool allows you to see how your website compares to others in different categories, including: 

• Rank Potential
• Organic Search Ranking

Surfer Seo is free and the interface is very friendly. It's a great tool for anyone who wants to do quick competitor research or check their site's rankings at any time.

Visit SurferSeo From Here

5. Canva (Templates/Graphics)

Canva is a free graphic design platform that makes it easy to create invitations, business cards, mobile videos, Instagram posts, Instagram stories, flyers, and more with professionally designed templates. You can even upload your photos and drag and drop them into Canva templates. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop. You can also remove background from images with one click.

Canva offers thousands of free, professionally designed templates that can be customized with just a few clicks. Simply upload your photos to Canva, drag them into the template of your choice, and save the file to your computer.

It is free to use for basic use but if you want access to different fonts or more features, then you need to buy a premium plan.

Visit Canva From Here

6. Facebook Audience Insights (Audience Research)

Facebook Audience Insights is a powerful tool for content creators when researching their target market. This can help you understand the demographics, interests, and behaviors of your target audience. This information helps determine the direction of your content so that it resonates with them. The most important tools to consider in Facebook Audience Insights are Demographics and Behavior. These two sections provide you with valuable information about your target market, such as their age and from where they belong, how much time they spend on social media per day, what devices they use to access it, etc.

There is another section of Facebook Audits that is very helpful. This will let you know the interests, hobbies, and activities that people in your target market are most interested in. You can use this information to create content for them about things they will be about as opposed to topics they may not be so keen on.

Visit Facebook Audience Insights From Here

7. Pexels (Images)

Pexels is a warehouse for any content creator with millions of free royalty images who wants to find high-quality images that can be used freely without having to worry about permissions or licensing so you are free to use the photos in your content and also there is no watermark on photos

The only cons are that some photos contain people, and Pexels doesn't allow you to remove people from photos. Search your keyword and download as many as you want!

Visit Pexel From Here

So there you have it. We hope that these specially curated websites will come in handy for content creators and small businesses alike. If you've got a site that should be on this list, let us know! And if you're looking for more content creator resources, then let us know in the comments section below

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Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:38:43 +0000
Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple’s Craig Federighi tells WIRED, allows your personal data to be “hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble.”
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Afghan women meet in Albania in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban crackdown
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:28:26 GMT

Organisers of international summit hope to create pressure to reverse laws including a ban on women speaking in public

More than 130 Afghan women have gathered in Albania at an All Afghan Women summit, in an attempt to develop a united voice representing the women and girls of Afghanistan in the fight against the ongoing assault on human rights by the Taliban.

Some women who attempted to reach the summit from inside Afghanistan were prevented from travelling, pulled off flights in Pakistan or stopped at borders. Other women have travelled from countries including Iran, Canada, the UK and the US where they are living as refugees.

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Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption
2024-09-09T11:03:31Z

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption.

The Assistance and Access Act includes key components that outline investigatory powers between government and industry. These components include:

• Technical Assistance Requests (TARs): TARs are voluntary requests for assistance accessing encrypted data from law enforcement to teleco and technology companies. Companies are not legally obligated to comply with a TAR but law enforcement sends requests to solicit cooperation. ...

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Research Plane Dons New Colors for NASA Hybrid Electric Flight Tests
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Parked under the lights inside a hangar in Seattle, a hybrid electric research aircraft from electric motor manufacturer magniX showed off a new look symbolizing its journey toward helping NASA make sustainable aviation a reality.   During a special unveiling ceremony hosted by magniX on Aug. 22, leaders from the company and NASA revealed the aircraft, […]
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America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:48:15 +0000

Residents of Springfield, Ohio, worry that politicians are inciting violence against Haitian immigrants. It’s a long U.S. tradition.

The post America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti appeared first on The Intercept.

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What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:30:00 +0000
xAI’s generative AI tool, Grok AI, is unhinged compared to its competitors. It’s also scooping up a ton of data that people post on X. Here’s how to keep your posts out of Grok—and why you should.
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Trump says he would name Elon Musk head of government efficiency commission
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:36:51 EST

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Why It's So Hard to Fully Block X in Brazil
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:41:52 +0000
With 20,000 internet providers across the country, the technical challenges of blocking X in Brazil mean some connections are slipping through the cracks.
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The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The Navy is testing out the Elon Musk–owned satellite constellation to provide high-speed internet access to sailors at sea. It’s part of a bigger project that’s about more than just getting online.
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Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:00:03 GMT

Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rights

Extreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools around the world as part of a coordinated and well-funded attack on gender equality, according to a new report.

Well-known conservative organisations aim to restrict girls’ access to education, change what is on the curriculum, and influence educational laws and policies, according to Whose Hands on our Education, a report by the ODI global affairs thinktank

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New Chrome Zero-Day
2024-09-10T11:04:29Z

According to Microsoft researchers, North Korean hackers have been using a Chrome zero-day exploit to steal cryptocurrency.

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Mars rover trials
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0200
Video: 00:01:00

Rover trials in a quarry in the UK showing a four-wheeled rover, known as Codi, using its robotic arm and a powerful computer vision system to pick up sample tubes. 

The rover drives to the samples with an accuracy of 10cm, constantly mapping the terrain. Codi uses its arm and four cameras to locate the sample tube, retrieve it and safely store it on the rover – all of it without human intervention. At every stop, the rover uses stereo cameras to build up a 180-degree map of the surroundings and plan its next maneouvres. Once parked, the camera on top of the mast detects the tube and estimates its position with respect to the rover. The robotic arm initiates a complex choreography to move closer to the sample, fetch it and store it. 

The sample tubes are a replica of the hermetically sealed samples inside which NASA’s Perseverance rover is collecting precious martian soil inside. To most people on Earth, they resemble lightsabres.

The reddish terrain, although not fully representative of Mars in terms of soil composition, has plenty of slopes and rocks of different sizes, similar to what a rover might encounter on the martian surface. Quarry testing is an essential next step in the development process, providing a unique and dynamic landscape that cannot be replicated indoors. 

ESA continues to run further research using the rover to maintain and develop rover capabilities in Europe.

Read the full article: Rovers, lightsabres and a piglet.

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NASA Tunnel Generates Decades of Icy Aircraft Safety Data
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:12:18 +0000
On Sept. 13, 1944, researchers subjected a Bell P-39L Airacobra to frigid temperatures and a freezing water spray in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s new Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) to study inflight ice buildup. Since that first run at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) in Cleveland, the facility […]
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NASA G-IV Plane Will Carry Next-Generation Science Instrument
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:55:55 +0000
In June 2024, a new tail number swept the sky above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Pilots conducted flights of a Gulfstream IV (G-IV) to evaluate its handling characteristics and to familiarize pilots with it before it begins structural modifications. The research plane is joining the center’s fleet serving NASA’s Airborne Science […]
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NASA Develops Pod to Help Autonomous Aircraft Operators
Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:54:05 +0000
For self-flying aircraft to take to the skies, they need to learn about their environments to avoid hazards. NASA aeronautics researchers recently developed a camera pod with sensors to help with this challenge by advancing computer vision for autonomous aviation.   This pod is called the Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE). It […]
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First Look at Hybrid Electric Research Aircraft
Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:20:22 +0000
In a special unveiling ceremony on Aug. 22, 2024, the public received a first look at magniX’s Dash 7 aircraft that will serve as a testbed for sustainable aviation research with NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) project.  Hosted by magniX at King County International Airport, commonly known as Boeing Field, in Seattle, Washington, leaders […]
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NASA Composite Manufacturing Initiative Gains Two New Members
Fri, 23 Aug 2024 01:46:14 +0000
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and Fives Machining Systems Inc. have joined 20 other organizations to support NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project. The project is addressing industry’s needs to meet growing demand for air travel, replace aging airliners, and secure U.S. competitiveness in the commercial aircraft industry.   NASA and its partners are collaborating and […]
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Beyond the Textbook: DC-8 Aircraft Inspires Students in Retirement
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:29:22 +0000
In May 2024, Idaho State University’s class of 2025 received a new learning tool from NASA. The DC-8 aircraft served the world’s scientific community for decades as a platform under NASA’s Airborne Science Program before retiring to Idaho State University (ISU) to provide a hands-on learning experience for students in the university’s aircraft maintenance technology […]
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Amazon completes $4 billion investment in Anthropic
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:28:00 GMT

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Badger culling to end in England within five years
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:24:42 GMT
Efforts to stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis will now focus on vaccinating badgers not killing them.
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The Marshall Star for September 18, 2024
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:21:13 +0000
Marshall Welcomes NASA Chief Scientist for Climate, Science Town Hall NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Kate Calvin, center left, joins team members at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center for a Climate and Science Town Hall on Sept. 17 in Activities Building 4316. Calvin took part in a question-and-answer session during her visit […]
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Top UK food firms urged to do more to cut ‘staggering’ emissions
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:20:09 GMT

Food campaign Bite Back says 10 firms account for more carbon emissions globally than aviation industry

Britain’s biggest food and drink firms are doing too little to tackle the climate emergency and are producing “staggering” amounts of greenhouse gases, campaigners claim.

The 10 companies that manufacture more of the UK’s food than anyone else produce more carbon emissions between them than even the aviation industry, a report says.

Three of the firms increased their annual emissions in 2022 – Ferrero, Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo.

Seven are on course to miss meeting emissions targets they have set themselves to achieve by 2050.

Only four have a verifiable commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050 – Danone, Mars, Mondelēz and Nestlé.

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Cooking chat: How do you bring hardened honey back to life?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Every Wednesday at noon Eastern, Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal answer your cooking questions.
Match ID: 2 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Easy and cheesy: Alice Zaslavsky’s cauliflower and asparagus mac ‘n’ cheese – recipe
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:00:54 GMT

The cookbook author’s recipe takes a bechamel-free approach to achieve a double-veg, double-cheese macaroni in minutes

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When it comes to buying cauliflower, the vegetable’s lily-whiteness and delicate flesh make it easy to tell you’re picking a winner. Available for most of the year, peaking in autumn, look for a clean canopy (AKA “curd”) and sprightly leaves. For another good indicator, check underneath where the head has been lopped off from the stalk – the more moisture there, the fresher your florets. Any “ashiness” (in colour and texture) of the stalk or discoloration on the curd tells you these heads have seen some things, but it’s nothing that the flick of a paring knife or peeler can’t solve.

Floppy florets are also not the end of the world – use them in a cauliflower soup and people will be none the wiser. It’s always more cost-effective to buy a whole head and simply add any leftovers – roasted or steamed – to bulk out whatever dish you’re making the next day.

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Want to add more vegetables to your meal? ‘Put a salad on it.’
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:47 +0000
Give pasta with shrimp, toasted garlic and arugula a nutrition boost with a handful of arugula.
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NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson’s Scientific Mission aboard Space Station
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is returning home after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. While on orbit, Dyson conducted an array of experiments and technology demonstrations that contribute to advancements for humanity on Earth and the agency’s trajectory to the Moon and Mars.  Here is a look at some of the science […]
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My report on the NHS diagnosed its dire condition. Now here’s the cure | Ara Darzi
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:06 GMT

Making healthy life expectancy central to all government policy is the surest way of stemming demand on the health service

When the secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, asked me to investigate the state of the NHS, I thought I knew what we would find. All of us who have worked in the NHS in recent years have known it was under pressure. But, as a surgeon, I am used to seeing just one piece of the puzzle. Hearing the experiences of millions of patients and staff across the country brought together left me shocked and angry.

If effective access and high-quality care are at the heart of the NHS’s social contract with the people, then it is routinely breaking its promise to the public. Too many people are waiting in A&E corridors or struggling to see a GP. Quality care should be the organising principle of the NHS. But my investigation has shown that patient care is stagnating or even declining. It is unsurprising that public trust in the NHS is at an all-time low.

Prof Lord Darzi is a former health minister, Paul Hamlyn chair of surgery at Imperial College London and co-chair of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity

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A spicy beef stir-fry highlights the accessibility of African flavors
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:00:49 +0000
The “AfriCali” cookbook champions the connections between African and Californian cuisines.
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After the riots: the Muslim women filming everything to stay safe – video
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:13:19 GMT

Lila Tamea was one of the worshippers inside Abdullah Quilliam Society mosque in Liverpool when it was targeted by far-right rioters in August. Alongside Imam Adam Kelwick, she went out to speak to them and offer food.  In the weeks that followed, Lila took a leading role in trying to rebuild her community after the violence. But now, despite promises of community cohesion in Liverpool, fear and paranoia are still a daily reality for Muslim women

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Restaurant Review: At Din Tai Fung, Soup Dumplings with a Side of Spectacle
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The Taiwanese chain’s first New York location offers consistently excellent meals choreographed with the friendly inflexibility of a mass-entertainment experience.
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Grilled Skirt Steak With Arugula Chimichurri
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:00 +0000
This easy skirt steak gets a lick of char on the grill before it’s dressed with a garlicky, lemony chimichurri.
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Virgin Bloody Mary
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:00:00 +0000
This nonalcoholic Bloody Mary is best when its ingredients have had time to mingle, but it’s still fantastic when whipped up on the fly.
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Virgin Bellini
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:00:00 +0000
The original Bellini cocktail is made with fresh pureed white peaches, which have a short season.
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Penne With Shrimp, Toasted Garlic and Arugula
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0000
In this family-friendly dish, penne pasta and plump shrimp are tossed with a fresh tomato sauce that’s aromatic with toasted garlic.
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America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:48:15 +0000

Residents of Springfield, Ohio, worry that politicians are inciting violence against Haitian immigrants. It’s a long U.S. tradition.

The post America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti appeared first on The Intercept.

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Tue, 09 Jul 2019 08:19:21 GMT

A weekly email from Yotam Ottolenghi, Meera Sodha, Felicity Cloake and Rachel Roddy, featuring the latest recipes and seasonal eating ideas

Each week we’ll send you an exclusive newsletter from our star food writers. We’ll also send you the latest recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi, Nigel Slater, Meera Sodha and all our star cooks, stand-out food features and seasonal eating inspiration, plus restaurant reviews from Grace Dent and Jay Rayner.

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The great gene editing debate: can it be safe and ethical?
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:17:18 GMT
A UK law allowing gene-edited food has been paused and some British scientists fear being overtaken.
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/15/2024
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:00:09 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by performing a USOS food audit and continuing to complete different payload activities. Payloads: Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR): Fuel Oxidizer Management Assembly (FOMA) Calibration was performed. The upper rack doors were opened, the bottle valves were closed, the pressure in the …
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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:49:00 +0000

If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don't have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become old.

Imagine a world in which you can do transactions and many other things without having to give your personal information. A world in which you don’t need to rely on banks or governments anymore. Sounds amazing, right? That’s exactly what blockchain technology allows us to do.

It’s like your computer’s hard drive. blockchain is a technology that lets you store data in digital blocks, which are connected together like links in a chain. 

Blockchain technology was originally invented in 1991 by two mathematicians, Stuart Haber and W. Scot Stornetta. They first proposed the system to ensure that timestamps could not be tampered with.

A few years later, in 1998, software developer Nick Szabo proposed using a similar kind of technology to secure a digital payments system he called “Bit Gold.” However, this innovation was not adopted until Satoshi Nakamoto claimed to have invented the first Blockchain and Bitcoin.

So, What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed database shared between the nodes of a computer network. It saves information in digital format. Many people first heard of blockchain technology when they started to look up information about bitcoin.

Blockchain is used in cryptocurrency systems to ensure secure, decentralized records of transactions.

Blockchain allowed people to guarantee the fidelity and security of a record of data without the need for a third party to ensure accuracy.

To understand how a blockchain works, Consider these basic steps:

• Blockchain collects information in “blocks”.
• A block has a storage capacity, and once it's used up, it can be closed and linked to a previously served block.
• Blocks form chains, which are called “Blockchains.”
• More information will be added to the block with the most content until its capacity is full. The process repeats itself.
• Each block in the chain has an exact timestamp and can't be changed.

Let’s get to know more about the blockchain.

How does blockchain work?

Blockchain records digital information and distributes it across the network without changing it. The information is distributed among many users and stored in an immutable, permanent ledger that can't be changed or destroyed. That's why blockchain is also called "Distributed Ledger Technology" or DLT.

Here’s how it works:

• Someone or a computer will transacts
• The transaction is transmitted throughout the network.
• A network of computers can confirm the transaction.
• When it is confirmed a transaction is added to a block
• The blocks are linked together to create a history.

And that’s the beauty of it! The process may seem complicated, but it’s done in minutes with modern technology. And because technology is advancing rapidly, I expect things to move even more quickly than ever.

• A new transaction is added to the system. It is then relayed to a network of computers located around the world. The computers then solve equations to ensure the authenticity of the transaction.
• Once a transaction is confirmed, it is placed in a block after the confirmation. All of the blocks are chained together to create a permanent history of every transaction.

How are Blockchains used?

Even though blockchain is integral to cryptocurrency, it has other applications. For example, blockchain can be used for storing reliable data about transactions. Many people confuse blockchain with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.

Blockchain already being adopted by some big-name companies, such as Walmart, AIG, Siemens, Pfizer, and Unilever. For example, IBM's Food Trust uses blockchain to track food's journey before reaching its final destination.

Although some of you may consider this practice excessive, food suppliers and manufacturers adhere to the policy of tracing their products because bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella have been found in packaged foods. In addition, there have been isolated cases where dangerous allergens such as peanuts have accidentally been introduced into certain products.

Tracing and identifying the sources of an outbreak is a challenging task that can take months or years. Thanks to the Blockchain, however, companies now know exactly where their food has been—so they can trace its location and prevent future outbreaks.

Blockchain technology allows systems to react much faster in the event of a hazard. It also has many other uses in the modern world.

What is Blockchain Decentralization?

Blockchain technology is safe, even if it’s public. People can access the technology using an internet connection.

Have you ever been in a situation where you had all your data stored at one place and that one secure place got compromised? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to prevent your data from leaking out even when the security of your storage systems is compromised?

Blockchain technology provides a way of avoiding this situation by using multiple computers at different locations to store information about transactions. If one computer experiences problems with a transaction, it will not affect the other nodes.

Instead, other nodes will use the correct information to cross-reference your incorrect node. This is called “Decentralization,” meaning all the information is stored in multiple places.

Blockchain guarantees your data's authenticity—not just its accuracy, but also its irreversibility. It can also be used to store data that are difficult to register, like legal contracts, state identifications, or a company's product inventory.

Pros and Cons of Blockchain

Blockchain has many advantages and disadvantages. 

Pros

• Accuracy is increased because there is no human involvement in the verification process.
• One of the great things about decentralization is that it makes information harder to tamper with.
• Safe, private, and easy transactions
• Provides a banking alternative and safe storage of personal information

Cons

• Data storage has limits.
• The regulations are always changing, as they differ from place to place.
• It has a risk of being used for illicit activities 

Frequently Asked Questions About Blockchain

I’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about blockchain in this section.

Is Blockchain a cryptocurrency?

Blockchain is not a cryptocurrency but a technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. It's a digital ledger that records every transaction seamlessly.

Is it possible for Blockchain to be hacked?

Yes, blockchain can be theoretically hacked, but it is a complicated task to be achieved. A network of users constantly reviews it, which makes hacking the blockchain difficult.

What is the most prominent blockchain company?

Coinbase Global is currently the biggest blockchain company in the world. The company runs a commendable infrastructure, services, and technology for the digital currency economy.

Who owns Blockchain?

Blockchain is a decentralized technology. It’s a chain of distributed ledgers connected with nodes. Each node can be any electronic device. Thus, one owns blockhain.

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain technology?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is powered by Blockchain technology while Blockchain is a distributed ledger of cryptocurrency 

What is the difference between Blockchain and a Database?

Generally a database is a collection of data which can be stored and organized using a database management system. The people who have access to the database can view or edit the information stored there. The client-server network architecture is used to implement databases. whereas a blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, stored in a distributed system. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, timestamp and transaction information. Modification of data is not allowed due to the design of the blockchain. The technology allows decentralized control and eliminates risks of data modification by other parties.

Final Saying

Blockchain has a wide spectrum of applications and, over the next 5-10 years, we will likely see it being integrated into all sorts of industries. From finance to healthcare, blockchain could revolutionize the way we store and share data. Although there is some hesitation to adopt blockchain systems right now, that won't be the case in 2022-2023 (and even less so in 2026). Once people become more comfortable with the technology and understand how it can work for them, owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs alike will be quick to leverage blockchain technology for their own gain. Hope you like this article if you have any question let me know in the comments section

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Tokyo demands answers over fatal stabbing of 10-year-old Japanese boy in China
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:13:29 GMT

It is unclear if the suspect targeted the boy because he was Japanese, but there is concern that the incident could trigger a further deterioration in ties

Japan’s foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, has described as “despicable” the alleged killing in China of a 10-year-old Japanese boy and demanded that Chinese authorities do everything possible to ensure the safety of Japanese nationals living in the country.

The boy, who has not been named by Japanese media, died on Thursday, a day after he was allegedly stabbed about 200 metres from his school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

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Massive China-state IoT botnet went undetected for four years—until now
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:58:42 +0000
75% of infected devices were located in homes and offices in North America and Europe.
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The Guardian view on Israel’s booby-trap war: illegal and unacceptable | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:53:40 GMT

Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power depends on his nation being at war. The region is paying a high price

In the second world war, guerrilla forces scattered large quantities of booby-trapped objects likely to be attractive to civilians. The idea was to cause widescale and indiscriminate death. The Japanese manufactured a tobacco pipe with a charge detonated by a spring-loaded striker. The Italians produced a headset that blew up when it was plugged in. More than half a century later, a global treaty came into force which “prohibited in all circumstances to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects that are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material”. Has anyone told Israel and its jubilant supporters that, as Brian Finucane of the International Crisis Group points out, it is a signatory to the protocol?

On Tuesday, pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 12 people – including two children and four hospital workers – and wounding thousands more. This situation is directly analogous to the historical practices that current global arms treaties explicitly prohibit. US media say Israel was behind the attack, and the country has the motive and the means to target its Iran-backed enemies. Israel’s leaders have a long history of carrying out sophisticated remote operations, ranging from cyber-attacks, suicide drone attacks and remote-controlled weapons to assassinate Iranian scientists. On Wednesday it was reported that Israel blew up thousands of two-way personal radios used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, killing nine and wounding hundreds.

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Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Hezbollah: Reports
2024-09-18T08:59:35+00:00

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Harry Brook given licence to lay down new ODI template against Australia
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:01:03 GMT

Stand-in captain wants to entertain in rare five-match series as he banks more experience before next year’s Ashes

In one sense the five-match ODI series between England and Australia that starts in Nottingham on Thursday is slightly lacking in wider context. Part of a trend that has seen previously lengthy visits by India and Australia broken up by way of format and spread out across the four-year cycle, it feels designed to simply keep the “Big Three” energy burning in between marquee Test summers.

Although the rivalry endures, tickets have been shifted despite autumn’s creep, and for Harry Brook, there is a bit more on it still. For one, Brook has had a slightly underwhelming international season by way of runs, not least that restless double failure against Sri Lanka at the Oval. And then on top of the chance to bank more experience against Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood before Bazball’s moonshot Ashes tour in 2025/26, there is this opportunity to further his captaincy knowhow with a similar eye on the future.

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The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0000
A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI.
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Nintendo sues 'Pokémon with guns' video game firm
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:57:17 GMT
The Japanese company alleges that the Palworld video game "infringes multiple patent rights".
Match ID: 6 Score: 40.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Japanese walkie-talkie maker investigating Lebanon explosion reports
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:33:10 +0000
Icom says the two-way radios apparently used in attacks across Lebanon, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 450, were discontinued a decade ago.
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‘It breaks us deeply’: anguish as China closes door to foreign adoptions
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:09:01 GMT

For couples in the US mid-way through the adoption process, news of an end to international adoptions has been crushing

Americans Lauren and Harrison Smith met in China as students, and discussed their desire to adopt from the country early on in their relationship. As soon as they reached the minimum age of 30, the couple put together their applications and submitted for inspections of their home in Kunming, the capital of south-west China’s Yunnan province, where they lived with their two-year-old daughter.

“In September 2019, we saw our son’s picture for the first time and were able to submit a letter of intent to adopt him,” Lauren told the Guardian.

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Nintendo, The Pokemon Company sue Palworld maker Pocketpair
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:02:48 +0000
Japanese patent infringement lawsuit follows "investigation" announced in January.
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The Guardian view on China’s ageing population: an economic and social conundrum | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:52:53 GMT

Raising the retirement age is never popular, particularly for a country that is getting old before it gets rich

No one should be surprised that China is raising its retirement ages. They are currently among the lowest in the world and haven’t shifted for decades, even as lifespans have lengthened dramatically. Women currently retire as early as 50 and men at 60, while life expectancy is around 78 – up from 44 in 1960. Now the male retirement age is to rise to 63, while women’s will rise to 55 (for blue-collar workers) and 58 (for white-collar employees). These changes will be phased in over the next 15 years. Employees will also have to make more contributions from 2030.

China is far from alone in facing the problem of too many old people and too few young workers to support them. But unlike western nations, it is getting old before it has got rich. The scale of the challenge and the speed at which it is arriving are extraordinary, thanks in large part to the decades of birth restrictions known as the one-child policy. It also means that fewer retirees are able to count on their kids supporting them.

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‘I placed the goldfish bowl over my head and hit the self-timer’: Benji Reid’s best photograph
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:29:39 GMT

‘Using rocks from my garden, I built myself a plinth, scattered flour over the floor and turned the place into a desolate hinterland, like the surface of the moon. The result felt like a direct reflection of my emotions’

Even before the pandemic, I struggled with feelings of isolation. I go through bouts of depression and needed to make something that reflected that. So, using rocks from my rock garden, I built a plinth in the middle of my makeshift home studio. I scattered flour over the floor and it turned the space into a desolate hinterland – like the surface of the moon, another world for the viewer to step into. I set up the camera, took my position, placed the goldfish bowl over my head like a space helmet, and hit the self-timer.

When I saw the image, it felt like a direct reflection of my emotions. It looked like a marriage of two passions of mine: Afrofuturism, a cultural movement blending science-fiction, fantasy and history to explore the Black experience, and butoh, a Japanese avant-garde dance of the dead in which performers often wear thick white face and body paint. The contrasting materials – the coldness of glass, the ashen quality of the flour, the warmth of human skin – made the image texturally rich, giving it a depth that felt like another universe.

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China’s divorce rate soars. Cue the high-powered wedding photo shredder.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000
As China’s divorce rate has skyrocketed, many are left with expensive, and unwanted, wedding photos. Enter the industrial-strength shredding businesses.
Match ID: 12 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Did a Chinese University Hacking Competition Target a Real Victim?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0000
Participants in a hacking competition with ties to China’s military were, unusually, required to keep their activities secret, but security researchers say the mystery only gets stranger from there.
Match ID: 13 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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Europe grapples with its decline
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:04 +0000
A report on the “future of European competitiveness” has been received as a declaration of continental intent. Whether it can be implemented is another matter.
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65 Years Ago: First Powered Flight of the X-15 Hypersonic Rocket Plane
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
The X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, built by North American Aviation (NAA), greatly expanded our knowledge of flight at speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes above 250,000 feet. A joint project among NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy, the X-15’s first powered flight took place on Sept. 17, 1959, at the Flight Research […]
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Planned Shein IPO needs closer scrutiny, says former Labour minister
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:40:27 GMT

Trade committee head Liam Byrne wants checks on firm’s possible supply chain links to forced labour

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A former minister has called on the government to closely scrutinise Shein for possible links to forced working as the China-founded fast-fashion retailer prepares for a stock market listing in London.

Liam Byrne, the Labour MP who heads parliament’s business and trade committee, said the UK should introduce new legislation to increase scrutiny of supply chains that may include products made in the Xinjiang region of north-western China.

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Kanye West performs in China after rare approval by country’s censors
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:53:22 GMT

Flow of foreign artists to China has slowed to a trickle, but economic pressures could be forcing authorities to rethink

When Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, took to the stage in Haikou on Sunday, his Chinese fans could barely believe it. One of the biggest and most controversial foreign acts in the world had been allowed in by China’s notoriously censorious regime.

Ye’s only China show – all the more surprising for skipping big cities in lieu of the holiday island of Hainan – was announced just days earlier, and more than 42,000 tickets sold out within minutes. It was his first time back in the country for 16 years. In that time the Chinese government’s tolerance for western musicians has diminished, while Ye’s reputation for controversy has grown.

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The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:08 GMT

She’s been called a neo-fascist and a danger to Italy. But she has won over many heads of Europe, including the UK prime minister. Should we be worried?

In mid-June, Giorgia Meloni was in an exultant mood while hosting the G7 summit, a gathering of the world’s most powerful nations, in the southern Italian region of Apulia. After days in which she presided over meetings speaking English, French and Spanish along with her native Italian, one evening she danced the pizzica – a traditional Apulian dance – twirling and hopping to the trance-like rhythmic folk music often played at local weddings at a contagious 100 beats per minute. Meloni’s uninhibited performance expressed the self-confidence of an emerging political star, who, after a strong showing in the European elections just a few days earlier, was the hottest political leader in Europe. She took a selfie with Indian strongman Narendra Modi, which she posted on Instagram to her 3.5 million followers with the caption “Hello from the MELODI team.” For a politician who only a few years ago was stuck at the margins of Italian politics as the head of a small rightwing party, Brothers of Italy, Meloni, at 47, appeared to be on top of the world.

Meloni has worked hard to achieve the respectability that has eluded other rightwing parties such as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. She was received at the White House by Joe Biden and has been accepted by centrist parties within the EU. This is all the more surprising given the openly neo-fascist origins of her career. (Just before she was elected prime minister in late 2022, author Roberto Saviano wrote in the Guardian: “Giorgia Meloni is a danger to Italy and the rest of Europe.”) But in two years, she has surprised many people by her political pragmatism and shrewd ability.

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Why hundreds of Samsung workers are protesting in India
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:10:13 GMT
About 1500 workers in Tamil Nadu state have been striking work for the past 11 days.
Match ID: 19 Score: 35.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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British activist denied bail after years in Indian jail without trial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:35:33 GMT

Jagtar Singh Johal is being arbitrarily detained and targeted for his human rights activism, say campaigners

Delhi’s high court has denied bail to the British activist Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been imprisoned in India for nearly seven years, in seven cases brought against him by the country’s National Investigations Agency.

The ruling has shocked family and supporters who claim it should jolt the British government into recognising that Johal is not receiving justice at the hands of the Indian legal system.

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How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:33:09 +0000
Even though they are not very good at it
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West Papua rebels propose terms for release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:40:00 GMT

Announcement comes hours after rebels said the Indonesian army had bombed its headquarters where Mehrtens is being kept

Rebels in Indonesia’s West Papua region have proposed terms for the release of the New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens a year and seven months after he was detained.

It comes hours after the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) released a statement saying the Indonesian army bombed its headquarters in Alguru, which is where Mehrtens is being kept. The statement also said Mehrtens “survived the attack”.

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Do Kamala Harris’s Neocon Supporters Just Hate Trump, or Is There Something More to Her Appeal?
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:36:50 +0000

Personally, I would not accept an endorsement from a world-historic war criminal.

The post Do Kamala Harris’s Neocon Supporters Just Hate Trump, or Is There Something More to Her Appeal? appeared first on The Intercept.

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Taiwanese firm Gold Apollo and Hungary deny links to exploded Hezbollah pagers
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:38:15 +0000
The pagers, deemed by Hezbollah to be safer than cellphones, were probably rigged with explosives before they were delivered to Lebanon, experts said.
Match ID: 24 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Thai woman rescued after two hours trapped in four-metre python’s coils
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:08:32 GMT

Arom Arunroj, 64, said she was doing the washing-up at about 8.30pm when the 20kg snake attacked her

A Thai woman has described being trapped in the coils of a 20kg (44lb) python for about two hours in her home before rescuers were able to free her.

Arom Arunroj, 64, was bitten several times by the snake, which had entered her home in Samut Prakan, a province south of Bangkok. She said she had been doing the washing-up at about 8.30pm when she suddenly felt something biting her leg. “I looked at it, and it was a snake,” she said in an interview broadcast on Thai media.

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‘This is very embarrassing’: Middle East crisis takes a detour to an office park in Taiwan
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:00:30 GMT

Media spotlight shifted to Taiwan tech company Gold Apollo which has denied supplying the pagers that exploded across the Hezbollah network in Lebanon

• Pagers in deadly attack on Hezbollah ‘made in Europe’, as Middle East braces for reprisals
• Middle East crisis - live updates

It was an unusual and alarming day at work for the staff and neighbours of Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese tech company in an office park in a leafy district half an hour outside Taipei.

On the third floor of building “B”, dozens of media crowded the corridor outside Gold Apollo’s glass entrance, which was still festooned with leftover Lunar New Year decorations wishing for prosperity.

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Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah's pagers, say sources
2024-09-18T05:05:38+00:00
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Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal released on bail
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:09:33 GMT

Delhi chief minister had been in jail since being arrested in March in corruption case he says is politically motivated

One of India’s most prominent opposition leaders has been granted bail after spending almost six months in jail for a corruption case he alleged was politically motivated.

On Friday, India’s supreme court ruled that, Arvind Kejriwal, who is the chief minister of Delhi, should be immediately released from jail in Delhi, where he has been held since his arrest in March.

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Restaurant Review: At Din Tai Fung, Soup Dumplings with a Side of Spectacle
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The Taiwanese chain’s first New York location offers consistently excellent meals choreographed with the friendly inflexibility of a mass-entertainment experience.
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China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0000
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
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Rob Gutro: Clear Science in the Forecast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:09 +0000
Rob Gutro has never been one to stay idle. From his start working at a paper factory as a teenager, Rob navigated his way to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where he serves as the deputy news chief in the Office of Communications until he retires in October 2024. In this role, Rob manages all […]
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Typhoon Yagi: scores dead from flooding in Myanmar
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:31:07 GMT

At least 320,000 people have been displaced and 64 were still missing after the strongest storm to hit Asia this year

Myanmar’s death toll from floods rose to at least 113, the country’s military government said, following heavy rains brought on by Typhoon Yagi that has caused havoc across parts of Southeast Asia.

At least 320,000 people have been displaced and 64 were still missing, government spokesperson Zaw Min Tun said, according to a late-night bulletin on state-run MRTV.

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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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‘A long way to go’: in revolution’s wake, questions linger over direction of the new Bangladesh
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:07:28 GMT

After the giddy public highs following Hasina’s departure, the interim government has admitted that weight of expectation is enormous

Like so many of Sheikh Hasina’s political rivals, Amir Chowdhury was in jail the day that the prime minister fled Bangladesh.

Chowdhury, a senior leader in the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP), had been picked up by police three weeks earlier, in July, as mass protests began to engulf the country and a violent crackdown began in response. It was Chowdhury’s third stint in prison since Hasina took power 15 years ago and began a campaign to destroy his party.

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People in Port Talbot: how will the steelworks job cuts affect the town?
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:07:27 GMT

We would like to hear about the impact of the job cuts on workers and their families, as well as the local community and businesses

The steel manufacturer Tata Steel is to cut 2,500 jobs at the Port Talbot steelworks despite a taxpayer-backed deal securing the long-term future of the plant.

The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has agreed a deal under which the government will provide £500m towards the construction of a new, greener electric arc furnace at the site, with the plant’s Indian owners paying £750m. However, the deal fell short of job guarantees for current employees.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid as a Legislative Negotiating Tactic
2024-09-13T21:00:24Z

This is an odd story of serving squid during legislative negotiations in the Philippines.

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NASA Tunnel Generates Decades of Icy Aircraft Safety Data
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:12:18 +0000
On Sept. 13, 1944, researchers subjected a Bell P-39L Airacobra to frigid temperatures and a freezing water spray in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s new Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) to study inflight ice buildup. Since that first run at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) in Cleveland, the facility […]
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China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:53:31 +0000
Can anything perk up its economy?
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The Japanese Robot Controversy Lurking in Israel’s Military Supply Chain
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0000
Activists claim Japanese industrial robots are being used to build military equipment for Israel. The robot maker denies the claims, but the episode reveals the complex ethics of global manufacturing.
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Taylor Swift Concert Terror Plot Was Thwarted by Key CIA Tip
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: China-linked hackers infiltrate US internet providers, authorities crack down on a major piracy operation, and a ransomware gang claims attacks during the Paris Olympics.
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Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:36 +0000
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
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Vance warns of China’s influence during Michigan rally
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:16:42 EST
Vance’s rally Tuesday was the first of a series of events in Rust Belt swing states that he and Trump are visiting this week.
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What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0000
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
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Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:24:53 +0000
Volatility in global markets continues
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Why Japanese markets have plummeted
Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:21:56 +0000
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
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Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:41:12 +0000
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
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China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:09:53 +0000
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
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Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:17:13 +0000
Currency meddling will prove futile
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China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:49:47 +0000
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
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Satellite captures first-of-a-kind cloud image
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:26:50 GMT
A joint European-Japanese mission captures a space view of the internal structure of a cloud.
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China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:38:25 +0000
Its share of international reserves has stalled
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Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:38:38 +0000

The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma resulted in the largest restoration of Indigenous land in U.S. history. 

The post Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible. appeared first on The Intercept.

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India’s economic policy will not make it rich
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:58:55 +0000
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
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Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:59:48 +0000
A weakened Narendra Modi is bad news for investors in government-controlled firms
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Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:00:03 GMT

Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rights

Extreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools around the world as part of a coordinated and well-funded attack on gender equality, according to a new report.

Well-known conservative organisations aim to restrict girls’ access to education, change what is on the curriculum, and influence educational laws and policies, according to Whose Hands on our Education, a report by the ODI global affairs thinktank

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Will services make the world rich?
Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:51:25 +0000
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
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UK must stop being naive over resetting relations with EU, thinktank says
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:09:47 GMT

European Centre for International Political Economy outlines a plan to bring the two sides closer

The UK must stop being “naive” about negotiations to reset relations with the EU and show more flexibility in its approach to Brussels, a trade policy thinktank has said.

As EU leaders question how much has changed in the UK despite the new government, the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) has outlined a plan to bring the two sides closer after a series of reports that the EU doubted Keir Starmer’s commitment to a reset.

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How Leipzig became 'perfect' destination for Europe's young stars
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:50:43 GMT
When RB Leipzig sold Dani Olmo to Barcelona this summer, it was seen as confirmation the club's philosophy is working.
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Too hard to get Irish street signs approved - report
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:20:09 GMT
The Council of Europe report says Ulster-Scots speakers are also "in a very weak position" in NI.
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‘Frockgate’ and Starmer’s love-in with Meloni – Politics Weekly UK
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:05 GMT

The row over ‘frockgate’ continues to trouble the prime minister this week, while his decision to visit his far-right Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, has upset many in his party. The Guardian’s John Harris talks to the political correspondent Aletha Adu, who was travelling with Keir Starmer. Also, the Guardian’s Europe correspondent, Jon Henley, joins John Harris to look at the rise of the far-right on the continent

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The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:08 GMT

She’s been called a neo-fascist and a danger to Italy. But she has won over many heads of Europe, including the UK prime minister. Should we be worried?

In mid-June, Giorgia Meloni was in an exultant mood while hosting the G7 summit, a gathering of the world’s most powerful nations, in the southern Italian region of Apulia. After days in which she presided over meetings speaking English, French and Spanish along with her native Italian, one evening she danced the pizzica – a traditional Apulian dance – twirling and hopping to the trance-like rhythmic folk music often played at local weddings at a contagious 100 beats per minute. Meloni’s uninhibited performance expressed the self-confidence of an emerging political star, who, after a strong showing in the European elections just a few days earlier, was the hottest political leader in Europe. She took a selfie with Indian strongman Narendra Modi, which she posted on Instagram to her 3.5 million followers with the caption “Hello from the MELODI team.” For a politician who only a few years ago was stuck at the margins of Italian politics as the head of a small rightwing party, Brothers of Italy, Meloni, at 47, appeared to be on top of the world.

Meloni has worked hard to achieve the respectability that has eluded other rightwing parties such as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. She was received at the White House by Joe Biden and has been accepted by centrist parties within the EU. This is all the more surprising given the openly neo-fascist origins of her career. (Just before she was elected prime minister in late 2022, author Roberto Saviano wrote in the Guardian: “Giorgia Meloni is a danger to Italy and the rest of Europe.”) But in two years, she has surprised many people by her political pragmatism and shrewd ability.

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The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:07 GMT

Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in the desert and colluding with smugglers

When she saw them, lined up at the road checkpoint, Marie sensed the situation might turn ugly. Four officers, each wearing the combat green of Tunisia’s national guard. They asked to look inside her bag.

“There was nothing, just some clothes.” For weeks Marie had traversed the Sahara, travelling 3,000 miles from home. Now, minutes from her destination – the north coast of Africa – she feared she might not make it.

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Swedish children to start school a year earlier in move away from play
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:05 GMT

Compulsory preschool year for six-year-olds to be replaced with extra year in primary school from 2028

Children in Sweden are to start school at six years old from 2028, a year earlier than at present, in an overhaul of the country’s education system that signals a switch from play-based teaching for younger children.

The government has announced plans to replace a compulsory preschool year for six-year-olds known as förskoleklass with an additional year in grundskola (primary school).

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UK urged to promote speaking of Irish and Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:01:10 GMT

Council of Europe also calls for more support for Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Manx Gaelic

The UK is being urged by Europe’s leading human rights organisation to push ahead with strategies to promote the use of Irish and Ulster Scots languages in Northern Ireland despite continued tensions over the issue.

The Council of Europe experts also want to see the strengthening of teaching of all minority languages in the UK including Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Manx Gaelic in the Isle of Man.

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Storm Boris batters northern Italy bringing severe flooding and landslides
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:23:06 GMT

Homes evacuated in Emilia-Romagna region as pounding rain ‘well beyond the worst forecasts’ sweeps in

Homes are being evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna as Storm Boris, which has killed at least 24 people in central and eastern Europe since last week, swept into the country, causing severe flooding and landslides.

Pounding rain hit Emilia-Romagna late on Wednesday afternoon and the situation rapidly worsened as night fell.

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The Marshall Star for September 18, 2024
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:21:13 +0000
Marshall Welcomes NASA Chief Scientist for Climate, Science Town Hall NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Kate Calvin, center left, joins team members at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center for a Climate and Science Town Hall on Sept. 17 in Activities Building 4316. Calvin took part in a question-and-answer session during her visit […]
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Celtic put five past Slovan Bratislava in dream Champions League opening win
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:12:38 GMT

This proved a Celtic Park rarity. The Scottish champions were rampant against continental opposition, on an evening absorbing so many years of frustration for Celtic at elite level. New format, new Celtic, new danger.

The paucity of Slovan Bratislava will most likely be borne out by subsequent Champions League outings but Brendan Rodgers and Celtic were fully entitled to relish what played out here after game upon game of European turmoil. Rodgers and his players will travel to Borussia Dortmund believing this environment need not be so chastising after all.

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Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:00:20 +0000

The United States voted against a U.N. resolution that sets a 12-month timeframe to end Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.

The post Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Massive China-state IoT botnet went undetected for four years—until now
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:58:42 +0000
75% of infected devices were located in homes and offices in North America and Europe.
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Gisèle Pélicot tells mass rape trial that she ‘never gave consent’
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:07:55 GMT

Former wife of Dominique Pélicot, who allegedly recruited strangers to assault her, calls accused men ‘degenerates’

The former wife of a French man accused of recruiting strangers to rape her while she was drugged has told a court she never consented and the men who allegedly assaulted her were “degenerates”.

Appearing at the trial of her former husband, Dominique Pélicot, and 50 men he allegedly invited to rape her, Gisèle Pélicot, 72, said: “I never, even for a single second, gave my consent to Mr Pélicot or those other men.”

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Poulter 'too far removed' to be Ryder Cup captain - McIlroy
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:55:38 GMT
Rory McIlroy says LIV defectors Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood are too far removed from the European players to be considered as future Ryder Cup captains.
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IMF postpones Russia visit after heavy criticism across Europe
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:38:13 GMT

Trip to Moscow to review economy delayed indefinitely after protests it would ‘normalise relations with aggressor’

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indefinitely postponed a staff mission to Moscow this week to review the Russian economy for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine, after the move came under heavy criticism from several of Kyiv’s European allies.

After revelations in the Guardian of widespread condemnation, the IMF said it would spend more time gathering information for a “rigorous analysis”.

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The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:45:00 +0000

An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.

The post The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk appeared first on The Intercept.

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NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however […]
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Google gets win from European court as €1.5 billion fine overturned
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:52:13 +0000
European Commission is likely to appeal the ruling.
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Floods in Poland and wildfires in Portugal show reality of climate breakdown, says EU
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:46:50 GMT

Emergency crews battle to reinforce defences around Wrocław in Poland amid devastating rainfall

Soldiers, emergency workers and volunteers battled through the night to reinforce defences around Wrocław, Poland’s third biggest city, as the EU said flooding in central Europe happening simultaneously alongside wildfires in Portugal showed climate breakdown in action.

More than five times the average rainfall for the whole of September has fallen in five days on swathes of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, triggering devastating flooding that has killed 23 people in four countries.

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Don’t fear the boomers! How Poland is celebrating its old people – and making life better for every age
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:03 GMT

While the rest of Europe worries about a ‘silver tsunami’ or ‘demographic bomb’, the cities of Wrocław and Kraków are treating their ageing populations as an opportunity rather than a burden – with remarkable results

On a balmy Friday afternoon earlier this month, the most feared group of people in Europe breached the 13th-century defensive walls of Wrocław and poured into the town square. Some wore blue berets, others cowboy hats, straw boaters and, in one instance, a three-tiered cake stand adorned with kitchen sponges and pompoms. Resistance was futile: less than an hour after their arrival, the mayor ceremonially handed over the key to the Polish city’s gate to the flamboyantly dressed couple they had chosen as their queen and king.

Baby boomers are often talked of as an existential threat to Europe’s economic prosperity and welfare state model. The population of men and women born in the mid-1940s to mid-60s, who are now in their 60s, 70s and 80s, is calculated by the World Health Organization to have overtaken people younger than 15 in Europe this year, and it is estimated boomers will make up more than 30% of the EU’s population by 2100. They are forecast to leave workplaces understaffed and healthcare services overwhelmed. Economists talk of them in terms of natural catastrophes (“the silver tsunami”) or acts of terrorism (“the demographic bomb”).

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‘This is very embarrassing’: Middle East crisis takes a detour to an office park in Taiwan
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:00:30 GMT

Media spotlight shifted to Taiwan tech company Gold Apollo which has denied supplying the pagers that exploded across the Hezbollah network in Lebanon

• Pagers in deadly attack on Hezbollah ‘made in Europe’, as Middle East braces for reprisals
• Middle East crisis - live updates

It was an unusual and alarming day at work for the staff and neighbours of Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese tech company in an office park in a leafy district half an hour outside Taipei.

On the third floor of building “B”, dozens of media crowded the corridor outside Gold Apollo’s glass entrance, which was still festooned with leftover Lunar New Year decorations wishing for prosperity.

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‘Success breeds success’: why Ireland’s cricket lovers are bullish about the future
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:51 GMT

A historic T20 win over England and multimillion-pound stadium deal have helped Ireland embrace a sport once demonised as a foreign import

In cricket a century is a score of 100 or more runs by a batter in a single innings. In Irish cricket a century marks the gulf in time between the sport’s demonisation as a “foreign” import and its metamorphosis into an emblem of a new Ireland.

In 1901, nationalists declared a “struggle to crush English pastimes” and for decades marginalised cricket and other imports such as football and rugby to promote Gaelic football and hurling and to elevate Irish identity.

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‘If they don’t die, our infantry will’: Ukraine’s pivotal battle for Donetsk
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:47 GMT

Russian forces are gathering on Pokrovsk, a logistics base and transport hub, after months of slow, brutal advance

The Russian soldiers sent to storm Ukrainian positions arrived at a graveyard. Around them was the ruined village of Mykhailivka. From above, Ukrainian spy drones watched. One soldier vanished under a tree. Another jogged towards a shell-walloped cottage. Back at a control observation centre, Maj Oleksandr Fanagey muttered a few words.

Seconds later, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone hit a moving Russian. A live video stream showed that he survived but his left leg was injured. The soldier bottom-shuffled towards a patch of grass and tried to pull a bandage from a green backpack. “He will die for sure,” Fanagey predicted. “The enemy doesn’t bother evacuating its wounded.”

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Europe grapples with its decline
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:04 +0000
A report on the “future of European competitiveness” has been received as a declaration of continental intent. Whether it can be implemented is another matter.
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Portugal wracked by blazes at tail end of Europe’s wildfire season
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:18:34 +0000
Three firefighters died battling the blazes, Portugal’s prime minister said, adding the country was going through “difficult days.”
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Remotely Exploding Pagers
2024-09-17T15:54:36Z

Wow.

It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered.

Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger a thermal runaway remotely? Supply chain attack? Malicious code update, or natural vulnerability?

I have no idea, but I expect we will all learn over the next few days.

EDITED TO ADD: I’m reading nine killed and 2,800 injured. That’s a lot of collateral damage. (I haven’t seen a good number as to the number of pagers yet.)

EDITED TO ADD: Reuters writes: “The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources said.” That implies supply chain attack. And it seems to be a large detonation for an overloaded battery...

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Death toll rises in European floods; more severe weather expected
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:26:50 +0000
At least 19 people have died in floods in central Europe, including in Romania, Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic, according to officials.
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Terrae Novae: Earth orbit, Moon and Mars
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200
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Terrae Novae is ESA’s exploration programme.

Terrae Novae is not only literally about exploring new worlds, but by describing the limitless opportunities for discovery, economic growth and inspiration it also expresses our ambitions for Europe’s future innovators, scientists and explorers.

This video shows the many exploration activities ESA is conducting or has planned in our Solar System, from the International Space Station to the Moon with the European Service Module and lunar Gateway modules for Artemis, and on to Mars with the Mars Sample Return campaign.

For more on ESA’s human and robotic exploration strategy see: https://www.esa.int/terraenovae

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Storm Boris batters central Europe – in pictures
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:23:31 GMT

Storm Boris has caused several deaths, and thousands have been evacuated from their homes across Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia

• Europe floods – latest updates
• ‘Dramatic’ flooding in central Europe continues

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Venezuela opposition leader says he was forced to sign letter accepting Maduro victory
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:08:00 GMT

Edmundo González says he signed election letter under duress as condition for allowing him to flee to Spain

• Is it game over for Venezuela’s opposition as Maduro clings on?

Venezuela’s opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, has said he was coerced into signing a letter recognizing Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the country’s disputed election as a condition for letting him flee to Spain.

The revelation of the letter is the latest strain to the country’s political crisis, which was exacerbated by the disputed election results and González’s recent departure for exile in Spain.

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AOC calls the US Green party ‘not serious’ – can it be more than a ‘spoiler’ in the election?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:00:06 GMT

Jill Stein, the party’s presidential nominee, is polling at about 1%, and of 500,000 elected positions it holds just 149

American politics often has wild deviations from the norms of other major democracies and one of the most striking differences is set to be on display in this year’s election – the performance of its domestic Green party.

There are elected Greens at the national level in the UK, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany and Australia, sometimes helping form governments, and yet the US Green party has only ever had a handful of state-level representatives (it currently has none) and has never had a federal election winner.

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It's Good Trump Won't Be Sentenced Until After the Election
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:16:15 +0000

Trump always wants to cast himself as a victim. Delaying his sentencing until after the election makes that harder.

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Politics live: Australia’s population grows by more than 600,000 people to 27.1 million; Lidia Thorpe wins vote for regular reports on deaths in custody
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:40:16 GMT

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Australia “abstained with great disappointment” on the Palestinian-drafted resolution at the United Nations general assembly in New York early this morning, the Australian ambassador to the UN has said.

The resolution – which sought to act on a recent advisory opinion of the international court of justice – was passed with 124 votes in favour and 14 against. Australia was one of 43 countries to abstain, including the UK, Canada and Germany.

That is why we abstained with great disappointment.

We wanted to vote for a resolution that directly reflected the ICJ Advisory Opinion.

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With their lies about Haitian immigrants, Trump and Vance have reached a new low | Moustafa Bayoumi
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:07 GMT

If Trump and Vance can’t take responsibility for their actions now, why would they take responsibility for the country later?

During his debate with Kamala Harris on 10 September, Donald Trump proffered the outrageous lie that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating residents’ pets. He wasn’t alone in promoting this little bigoted nugget, either. Earlier that day on X, formerly known as Twitter, JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice-president, had already pushed the idea that Springfield’s residents “have had their pets abducted and eaten” by “Haitian illegal immigrants”.

Vance subsequently tripled down on the falsehood, even later admitting to CNN: “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

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The Historical Precedents to Trump’s Attacks on Haitian Immigrants
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:24:10 +0000
An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.
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Springfield, Ohio, and the impact of a racist smear
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:42:28 +0000
After the presidential debate, Donald Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, remain in the spotlight. Where did the story come from, why won’t it go away, and how is it all affecting the community at the center of it?
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Vance continues to falsely claim legal Haitian immigrants are ‘illegal’
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:36:18 +0000

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A quick explanation of how bomb threats work, to help JD Vance
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:05:01 +0000
There were threats to people and places in Springfield, Ohio, after Vance and Trump made false claims about Haitian immigrants. The media isn’t to blame.
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The Haitian Question
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:18:43 +0000
The history of Haitian immigration to the United States is that of politicians on both sides of the aisle fighting to keep Haitians out of the country, with equal cruelty.
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Ready at Kennedy
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:28:00 +0200
Image: Unboxing ESA's third European Service Module at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
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Hugo Hamilton on Life as an “Elsewhere Man”
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The author discusses his story “Autobahn.”
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New home planning approvals in England fall to lowest level in a decade
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:07 GMT

Exclusive: Housebuilders blame decline on former government’s decision to end binding targets for local authorities

Planning approvals for new houses in England have dropped to a 10-year low, according to new figures that underline how difficult it will be for Labour to hit its target of building 300,000 homes a year.

The data, from the Home Builders Federation (HBF), shows the number of new houses being approved is just over half what it was three years ago, having fallen to a level not seen since 2014.

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Global AI fund needed to help developing nations tap tech benefits, UN says
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:06 GMT

Governments and private firms should contribute to help states unable to invest and benefit from advances

Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund that will allow developing nations to benefit from advances in the technology, according to a UN report.

The fund would help provide models, computing power and AI-related training programmes, according to recommendations from the UN secretary general’s high-level AI advisory body.

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The sweeping reorganisation of the brain in pregnancy, and why it matters – podcast
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:06 GMT

Ian Sample talks to Dr Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research using precision scans to capture the profound changes that sweep across the brain during pregnancy. She explains what this new work reveals about how the brain is reorganised in this period, whether it could it help us better understand conditions like pre-eclampsia and postnatal depression, and why women’s brains have often been overlooked by neuroscience

Scans capture sweeping reorganisation of brain in pregnancy

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Australia’s unemployment rate unchanged at 4.2%, dampening hope of RBA interest rate cut
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:47:30 GMT

ABS figures show employers added 47,500 positions last month, above forecasts

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Australia’s economy added more jobs than expected in August as the unemployment rate remained steady, making a Reserve Bank interest rate cut less likely in the short term.

The jobless rate in August was 4.2%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday. Economists had it expected it to remain in line with the 4.2% in July.

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Iran sent hacked Trump documents to Biden campaign, FBI says
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:13:05 GMT

Officials say there is no indication Biden campaign responded to the emails, which offered information stolen from Trump campaign

Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other US agencies have said.

The FBI confirmed on 12 August that it was investigating a complaint from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign that Iran had hacked and distributed a trove of sensitive campaign documents. On 19 August intelligence officials confirmed that Iran was behind the hack.

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Kevin De Bruyne a doubt to face Arsenal due to groin injury in draw with Inter
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:48:27 GMT

• City playmaker taken off in Champions League match
• Guardiola pleased with draw against Italian champions

Kevin De Bruyne is an injury doubt for Manchester City’s showdown with Arsenal on Sunday after suffering what appeared to be a groin injury in the Champions League goalless draw with Inter at the Etihad Stadium.

The Belgian was hurt when running in on goal and being challenged by Yann Sommer, the Inter No 1, during the first half, afterwards seeming to clutch his groin area. Following treatment De Bruyne continued until the break but was then taken off.

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Elon Musk’s X circumvents court-ordered block in Brazil
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:14:50 GMT

Social media platform routes internet traffic outside of Brazil using a communications network update

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, became accessible to many users in Brazil on Wednesday as an update to its communications network circumvented a block ordered by the country’s supreme court.

The X update used cloud services offered by third parties, namely the security firm Cloudflare, allowing some Brazilian users to take a route outside of the country to reach X, even without a virtual private network, according to Abrint, the Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers.

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NASA Deputy Administrator Talks Future of Agency in Silicon Valley
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:34:55 +0000
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy spent time at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, on Sept. 16, 2024, engaging with center leaders and employees to discuss strategies that could drive meaningful changes to ensure NASA remains the preeminent institution for research, technology, and engineering, and to lead science, aeronautics, and space exploration for […]
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Giant Leaps Start at Johnson for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:41:18 +0000
As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a variety of unique responsibilities and privileges. Those include being the home of NASA’s astronaut corps. One of those astronauts – Nick Hague – is now preparing to launch to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the […]
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Hubble Examines a Busy Galactic Center
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:39:54 +0000
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the southern constellation Telescopium. Hubble beautifully captures its faint halo and swirling disk filled with stars and dust bands. The compact region at its core might be the most remarkable sight. It holds an active galactic […]
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From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:32:49 GMT

With most of the year’s awards-aiming films now premiered, potential nominees are starting to fall into place

Without a cinema-shuttering pandemic or a production-pausing strike in the way, this year’s fall festival season should have felt like a grand return to normal. There were Oscar winners in the mix – Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Adrien Brody, Ron Howard, Joaquin Phoenix – as well as a host of major biopics and adaptations, making for a robust, awards-friendly lineup on paper.

But with Venice, Telluride and Toronto now out of the way, the Oscar race is far less certain than it usually is at this stage, without a clear Oppenheimer or Everything Everywhere All at Once to bet on.

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Pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah were audacious and carefully planned
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:52:10 GMT

Israel is widely believed to be behind the operations – but who made the devices, and how did they explode?

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It may be years before the full story is told of how the coordinated explosions of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah were orchestrated. But, even without Israel publicly admitting responsibility, it is clear that the attack must have been carefully planned – however uncertain its consequences.

Experts generally believe a small mount of stable explosive was carefully implanted into each sabotaged device. Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, said: “There wouldn’t need to be much explosive, as proximity to a human body means it would cause injury even if it was a few grams.”

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Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers double up and dazzle
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:04:38 GMT

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Exuberant production sees spoken word and physically expressive BSL users mirroring each other as they audition to take the lead roles

Unusually for a Shakespeare, the printed programme lists the actors’ names but assigns no parts. You soon see why. Jenny Sealey’s brisk co-production by Graeae and Shakespeare North Playhouse in association with Theatre by the Lake starts not on the streets of Verona but in the queue for a modern-day audition.

Her actors are used to playing extras not leads; whether they are a wheelchair user, neurodivergent or deaf, they are rarely the centre of the story. But when a script of Romeo and Juliet magically drops from the heavens, they agree to give it a go – audition be damned.

At Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot, until 5 October. At Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, 12–26 October.

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The Guardian view on China’s ageing population: an economic and social conundrum | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:52:53 GMT

Raising the retirement age is never popular, particularly for a country that is getting old before it gets rich

No one should be surprised that China is raising its retirement ages. They are currently among the lowest in the world and haven’t shifted for decades, even as lifespans have lengthened dramatically. Women currently retire as early as 50 and men at 60, while life expectancy is around 78 – up from 44 in 1960. Now the male retirement age is to rise to 63, while women’s will rise to 55 (for blue-collar workers) and 58 (for white-collar employees). These changes will be phased in over the next 15 years. Employees will also have to make more contributions from 2030.

China is far from alone in facing the problem of too many old people and too few young workers to support them. But unlike western nations, it is getting old before it has got rich. The scale of the challenge and the speed at which it is arriving are extraordinary, thanks in large part to the decades of birth restrictions known as the one-child policy. It also means that fewer retirees are able to count on their kids supporting them.

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.

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Piling on privilege in higher education | Letters
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:44:14 GMT

Bernie Evans and Prof Colin Richards respond to a proposal for leading universities to limit their intake of pupils from private schools to 10%

Numerous letters have been sent to the Guardian in recent decades urging the government to force universities to limit their intake of privately educated UK undergraduates to about 6%, in line with the proportion of children attending private schools. So it is encouraging to see that two London School of Economics professors recommend something similar to boost social mobility (Leading universities urged to take no more than 10% of students from private schools, 12 September).

Opening up Oxbridge and Russell Group universities “to wider segments of society” would prove, as Prof Aaron Reeves says, that “we’re serious about trying to generate greater social mobility”. But unfortunately, the opposite has been the case. Many private schools for years, with government approval, ensured their students achieved top grades by using the little-regulated Pre-U examinations, usually set and marked by teachers in the independent sector, and avoided the highly regulated and recently reformed A-levels.

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As a vet, I thought I knew cows. Then they attacked | Letters
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:44:25 GMT

David Mackay on his experience of being trampled and almost killed by cattle, and Sara Davis, Danielle Stevenson and Wolfgang Wagner on staying safe in the countryside

I would like to add my voice to those urging greater caution when walking in fields with cattle (The hell and horror of cow attacks: ‘I told my husband to leave me to die’, 12 September). I had to be airlifted to Southampton hospital from the Isle of Wight earlier this year and spent 10 days in intensive care and the acute trauma ward being treated for chest injuries. As a retired vet, I thought I knew how to behave around cows and calves and followed good practice when walking through a local field with my dogs on leads. In the event, the speed of the attack and the determination of the cows to knock me down and trample me was astonishing.

We need to work with farmers to reduce risks and work with walkers to raise awareness. My final recommendation is to support your local air ambulance, which is run as a private charity, as without the Hampshire and Isle of Wight service I would not be here to write this letter today.
David Mackay
Niton, Isle of Wight

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Teresa Margolles’s fourth plinth review – haunting rack of faces memorialises transgender victims of violence
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:17:47 GMT

Trafalgar Square, London
The former forensic pathologist from Mexico has created a stirring artwork that mixes the mystery of an excavation with a call for compassion and empathy

Look up at the latest fourth plinth sculpture and you’ll see ranks of human faces floating in the sky. They are concave receptacles of shadows – and they look so fragile. These inside-out life masks cast in plaster seem destined to be ruined by rain, pollution and pigeon droppings. The artist wants it that way.

Teresa Margolles, from Mexico, is former forensic pathologist who often makes art using the physical traces of the deceased, especially victims of murder. Her sculpture for the fourth plinth takes its form from a gruesome Aztec masterpiece, a 15th-century tower of skulls known as the Huey Tzompantli that was excavated in Mexico City. More than 600 skulls have been found cemented into it, a spectacular reminder of Aztec power and ferocity.

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A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:46:41 +0000

Israel’s attack that turned pagers belonging to Hezbollah members into explosive devices is shocking — but not unprecedented.

The post A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up appeared first on The Intercept.

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There is a light that never goes out: is a Smiths reunion genuinely impossible?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:39:27 GMT

Relations between Morrissey and Johnny Marr seem at their lowest ebb following disagreements over trademarks and reissues. But fans will hold out hope nonetheless

One of pop’s longest, coldest wars flickered with heat again this month, as Morrissey fired off a series of messages on his personal blog.

First, he claimed that concert promoters AEG offered him and Johnny Marr “a lucrative offer” for a world tour, saying that he agreed to it but Marr ignored it. Then he claimed that Marr had blocked the release of a new Smiths best-of and reissue programme proposed by Warner Music, who had approached Morrissey and a sleeve designer “to assemble artwork for all four releases, all of which were rejected and halted out of hand by J Marr”. You can understand why Marr might have demurred, given the cover art featured the words Smiths Rule OK! in bright faux-painterly daubs above a photo of the band, and thus looked like a flyer for a soft play centre themed around 80s indie.

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Families of Americans ensnared in DRC coup plot assert their innocence
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:28:49 GMT

Young Americans face death penalty for ‘amateurish’ assault in Congo that was led by one of their fathers

The family of a Utah student sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for his alleged role in a failed coup d’etat in which his father was killed fears he and two other Americans could be executed within days without US government intervention.

Marcel Malanga, 22, was one of dozens convicted and sentenced at a military tribunal in Kinshasa last week, after the attempted overthrow of the Congolese government in May. The “amateurish” assault, which left six dead, was led by his father, Christian Malanga, a former DRC opposition leader, army captain and self-styled warlord.

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Global alliance buys half a million mpox vaccines for Africa
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:30:21 GMT

Gavi uses newly established First Response Fund to secure doses, but 10 million are needed to meet demand on the continent

A batch of 500,000 mpox vaccines has been bought by the vaccine alliance Gavi, for delivery this year to virus-affected countries in Africa, where until now doses have been scarce.

It is estimated that 10 million vaccines are needed to meet demand, but the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which accounts for most cases, only received 100,000 vaccines earlier this month despite having had more than 700 deaths this year and 22,000 cases of the new Clade 1b strain. Neighbouring countries Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya have each reported a handful of cases.

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NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson’s Scientific Mission aboard Space Station
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is returning home after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. While on orbit, Dyson conducted an array of experiments and technology demonstrations that contribute to advancements for humanity on Earth and the agency’s trajectory to the Moon and Mars.  Here is a look at some of the science […]
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London’s fourth plinth artwork aims to ‘unite trans community around the world’
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:27 GMT

Trafalgar Square piece by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles is made of masks depicting faces of transgender and non-binary people

A towering cuboid made of more than 300 masks depicting the faces of transgender and non-binary people, this year’s fourth plinth artwork, has been described as a piece designed to “unite the trans community around the world”.

The Mexican artist Teresa Margolles was flanked by members of her country’s trans community as Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant) was unwrapped in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday.

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A journey through Ukraine: living in a war zone – in pictures
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:00:01 GMT

Byron Smith spent six months travelling across the battle-torn nation, meeting injured civilians, amateur bomb-makers and daredevil swimmers

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Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah's pagers, say sources
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Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Protesters in the Same Place They Shot Aysenur Eygi
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:35:26 +0000

Since 2021, Israeli soldiers have met weekly protests in the West Bank village with deadly force.

The post Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Protesters in the Same Place They Shot Aysenur Eygi appeared first on The Intercept.

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Justin Trudeau under pressure as his party loses Montreal election
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:45:10 GMT

Victory by separatist Québécois candidate in once-safe Liberal seat raises questions over Canadian PM’s leadership

Canada’s ruling Liberal party has lost a once-safe seat in Montreal, a result that is likely to put more pressure on the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, to quit.

Elections Canada said that with 100% of the votes counted in the parliamentary constituency of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, the separatist Bloc Québécois candidate, Louis-Philippe Sauvé, had beaten the Liberal candidate, Laura Palestini, by a whisker: 28% to 27.2%. The New Democratic party (NDP) candidate received 26.1%.

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'It’s an astonishingly fragile time’: Robert Peston on inequality, identity politics and how to heal Britain
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:00:09 GMT

ITV’s political editor has helped explain our national crises, from the 2008 financial crash onwards. Could he also help solve them?

Two seconds earlier, it had been sheet rain and squally winds at the street festival in north London, but as Robert Peston took the stage with his band, Centrist Dad, the weather suddenly swerved back to sunshine, which gave the whole thing a surreal edge. What did these men (including Peston on vocals, John Wilson from Front Row on bass and Ed Balls from New Labour on drums) do, to get blessed by Zeus? What dense thicket of influences informs Peston’s performance, which is a little bit Bowie, a little bit Carly Rae Jepsen, a little bit Ross-from-Friends-in-a-school-musical? The broadcaster, author, journalist and fabulously idiosyncratic emphasiser of words is, of course, well connected (Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper are also here), but he doesn’t strut like a well-connected person. He struts like a guy who really likes being in a band.

I met Peston two days before, in a cafe in Kentish Town. He is 64 but reads as peculiarly ageless, natty in a sharp blue suit, carrying a Brompton bike, a bit like a guy from the BBC sitcom W1A. He has lived his entire life in what you might call the progressive aristocracy. “I never thought of it quite like that,” he says, “but that must be true.” His father, Maurice Peston, was an economist and adviser to various Labour governments from the 60s to the 90s, becoming a life peer in 1987. Robert Peston talks about a “cringe-making section” in his teenage diary – “13- or 14-year-old me saying, ‘Had a good chat with Roy [Hattersley], I don’t think he likes me.’”

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The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
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Is "net zero" better than "carbon neutral"? New rules related to climate risk disclosure are raising the stakes for executives trying to set meaningful decarbonization goals. Michael Toffel demystifies the terms and nuances of climate impact reporting.
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Fawn Weaver’s Entrepreneurial Journey as an Outsider in the Spirits Industry
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Relationship with father among psychological factors cited in Huw Edwards case
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:40:38 GMT

Social media and a perception of Oxbridge elitism at the BBC also featured in experts’ reports

Huw Edwards’s downfall was of his own making, the chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, concluded in his sentencing remarks, but that was not the entire picture painted by the BBC star in his interviews with forensic medical experts.

The consultant psychiatrist and neuropsychiatrist Michael Isaac wrote two reports in which the broadcaster’s father, the Welsh academic Hywel Teifi Edwards, who died in 2010, was pinpointed as the source of some of the mental anguish that led to the criminal behaviour of 2020 to 2021.

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Planned Shein IPO needs closer scrutiny, says former Labour minister
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:40:27 GMT

Trade committee head Liam Byrne wants checks on firm’s possible supply chain links to forced labour

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A former minister has called on the government to closely scrutinise Shein for possible links to forced working as the China-founded fast-fashion retailer prepares for a stock market listing in London.

Liam Byrne, the Labour MP who heads parliament’s business and trade committee, said the UK should introduce new legislation to increase scrutiny of supply chains that may include products made in the Xinjiang region of north-western China.

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This Brain Implant Lets People Control Amazon Alexa With Their Minds
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Neuralink rival Synchron is connecting its brain–computer interface with consumer technologies to allow people with paralysis more functionality.
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“Our Town” ’s Town
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and the rest of the Broadway-revival cast meet up in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where Thornton Wilder wrote the original play.
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Kanye West performs in China after rare approval by country’s censors
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:53:22 GMT

Flow of foreign artists to China has slowed to a trickle, but economic pressures could be forcing authorities to rethink

When Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, took to the stage in Haikou on Sunday, his Chinese fans could barely believe it. One of the biggest and most controversial foreign acts in the world had been allowed in by China’s notoriously censorious regime.

Ye’s only China show – all the more surprising for skipping big cities in lieu of the holiday island of Hainan – was announced just days earlier, and more than 42,000 tickets sold out within minutes. It was his first time back in the country for 16 years. In that time the Chinese government’s tolerance for western musicians has diminished, while Ye’s reputation for controversy has grown.

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Match ID: 76 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 20.00 eu

Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:27:55 +0000

In a total capitulation to a far-right narrative, even typical liberal shibboleths about our “nation of immigrants” were absent on Tuesday night.

The post Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 77 Score: 20.00 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 migrants, 7.14 germany, 5.71 eu

Vance’s media strategy takes a turn
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 15:58:06 EST
He was Trump’s policy whisperer to key voting blocs. Now, he’s fueling rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating cats and dogs.
Match ID: 78 Score: 17.86 source: www.politico.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 17.86 migrants

Afghan women meet in Albania in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban crackdown
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:28:26 GMT

Organisers of international summit hope to create pressure to reverse laws including a ban on women speaking in public

More than 130 Afghan women have gathered in Albania at an All Afghan Women summit, in an attempt to develop a united voice representing the women and girls of Afghanistan in the fight against the ongoing assault on human rights by the Taliban.

Some women who attempted to reach the summit from inside Afghanistan were prevented from travelling, pulled off flights in Pakistan or stopped at borders. Other women have travelled from countries including Iran, Canada, the UK and the US where they are living as refugees.

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Match ID: 79 Score: 15.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 10.00 europe, 5.71 eu

Progressives Were Pilloried for Wanting to End the Ukraine War in 2022. Things Have Only Gotten Worse.
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

With tens of thousands more killed and Ukraine’s leverage tanking, the quickly withdrawn House Democrats’ letter is proving prescient.

The post Progressives Were Pilloried for Wanting to End the Ukraine War in 2022. Things Have Only Gotten Worse. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 80 Score: 15.71 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 10.00 europe, 5.71 eu

Better Together: Is communal living the answer to modern malaise? – video
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:16:39 GMT

In the rolling hills of central Italy sits Honeydew, an eco-community created as a direct response to the isolation of the Covid pandemic, enabled by modern technology and aiming to address the profound changes the climate crisis looks set to bring. With stated aims to spread the project globally, the Guardian visited Honeydew to see how founder Benjamin Ramm's vision for the future is playing out, and to learn how sustainable such eco living projects really are.

You can read more about life at Honeydew here

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Match ID: 81 Score: 15.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 10.00 europe, 5.71 eu

Below the surface - ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200
Video: 00:04:29

Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission – Europe’s ambitious exploration journey to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.

This episode starts with Rosalind searching for traces of life below the martian surface using a ground penetrating radar and a set of cameras.

The rover will dig, collect, and investigate the chemical composition of material collected by a drill. Rosalind Franklin will be the first rover to reach a depth of up to two metres deep below the surface, acquiring samples that have been protected from surface radiation and extreme temperatures.

Rosalind Franklin uses the WISDOM radar to help scientists on Earth decide where to drill. Besides identifying the most promising targets for sampling, WISDOM will help the rover avoid potential hazards, such as the presence of buried rocks that could damage the drill.

The scientific eyes of the rover are set on the Panoramic Camera suite known as PanCam. The Close-UP Imager (CLUPI) sits on the side of the drill box, a camera designed to acquire high-resolution, colour, close-up images of outcrops, rocks and soils. PanCam and CLUPI will help scientists find the most promising spots to drill. These instruments can also investigate very fine outcrop details and image drill samples before they are sent into the rover’s laboratory.

After the rover retracts its drill, the sample is in a special chamber at the tip.  Under the reduced martian gravity (38% of Earth’s), the material drops onto a special “hand” that the rover can extend to the front to collect drill samples.

The mission will serve to demonstrate key technologies that Europe needs to master for future planetary exploration missions.

The ExoMars rover series show the rover and martian landscapes as true to reality as possible for a simulation.

Check ESA’s ExoMars website and our frequently asked questions for the latest updates.

 

Credits: ESA

Production: Mlabspace for ESA

3D animation: ESA/Mlabspace

Music composed by Valentin Joudrier

Watch all the videos from the ExoMars Rosalind Frankin mission series.

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Match ID: 82 Score: 15.71 source: www.esa.int age: 7 days
qualifiers: 10.00 europe, 5.71 eu

When France Takes Its Clothes Off
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The country has long been a haven for those who believe nudity is a virtue. A new exhibit explores the movement—and lets guests strip down themselves.
Match ID: 83 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal.

The post They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 84 Score: 11.43 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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Why the far-right AfD has been so successful in Germany – video explainer
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:04:53 GMT

The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is riding a populist wave across Europe’s largest economy.

According to polls conducted this month, the AfD has become the strongest party in Thuringia, a former state of the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR). In Saxony, another former GDR state, the party finished a very close second behind the CDU.

The Guardian's Berlin correspondent, Deborah Cole, explains how the AfD has risen from its eurosceptic origins to a party that is 'managing to set the agenda' in German politics

• Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart

• Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. Here’s why it won’t happen

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Match ID: 85 Score: 11.43 source: www.theguardian.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 3.57 germany, 2.86 eu

Europe’s economic growth is extremely fragile
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:05:09 +0000
Risk is concentrated in one country: Germany
Match ID: 86 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 34 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 3.57 germany, 2.86 eu

America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:48:15 +0000

Residents of Springfield, Ohio, worry that politicians are inciting violence against Haitian immigrants. It’s a long U.S. tradition.

The post America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 87 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 10.71 migrants

Can anything spark Europe’s economy back to life?
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:38:37 +0000
Mario Draghi, the continent’s unofficial chief technocrat, has a plan
Match ID: 88 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood Data
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Kaspersky’s US business sold, Nigerian sextortion scammers jailed, and Europe’s controversial encryption plans return.
Match ID: 89 Score: 7.86 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Mars rover trials
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0200
Video: 00:01:00

Rover trials in a quarry in the UK showing a four-wheeled rover, known as Codi, using its robotic arm and a powerful computer vision system to pick up sample tubes. 

The rover drives to the samples with an accuracy of 10cm, constantly mapping the terrain. Codi uses its arm and four cameras to locate the sample tube, retrieve it and safely store it on the rover – all of it without human intervention. At every stop, the rover uses stereo cameras to build up a 180-degree map of the surroundings and plan its next maneouvres. Once parked, the camera on top of the mast detects the tube and estimates its position with respect to the rover. The robotic arm initiates a complex choreography to move closer to the sample, fetch it and store it. 

The sample tubes are a replica of the hermetically sealed samples inside which NASA’s Perseverance rover is collecting precious martian soil inside. To most people on Earth, they resemble lightsabres.

The reddish terrain, although not fully representative of Mars in terms of soil composition, has plenty of slopes and rocks of different sizes, similar to what a rover might encounter on the martian surface. Quarry testing is an essential next step in the development process, providing a unique and dynamic landscape that cannot be replicated indoors. 

ESA continues to run further research using the rover to maintain and develop rover capabilities in Europe.

Read the full article: Rovers, lightsabres and a piglet.

Match ID: 90 Score: 7.86 source: www.esa.int age: 12 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

First metal part 3D printed in space
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200
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ESA’s Metal 3D Printer has produced the first metal part ever created in space. 

The technology demonstrator, built by Airbus and its partners, was launched to the International Space Station at the start of this year, where ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen installed the payload in the European Drawer Rack of ESA’s Columbus module. In August, the printer successfully printed the first 3D metal shape in space.  

This product, along with three others planned during the rest of the experiment, will return to Earth for quality analysis: two of the samples will go to ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands (ESTEC), another will go to ESA’s astronaut training centre in Cologne (EAC) for use in the LUNA facility, and the fourth will go to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). 

As exploration of the Moon and Mars will increase mission duration and distance from Earth, resupplying spacecraft will be more challenging.  Additive manufacturing in space will give autonomy for the mission and its crew, providing a solution to manufacture needed parts, to repair equipment or construct dedicated tools, on demand during the mission, rather than relying on resupplies and redundancies. 

ESA’s technology demonstrator is the first to successfully print a metal component in microgravity conditions. In the past, the International Space Station has hosted plastic 3D printers.

Match ID: 91 Score: 7.86 source: www.esa.int age: 12 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

European drill and mini lab secure ride to the Moon
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0200

ESA's Prospect package, including drill and a miniaturised laboratory, will fly to the Moon’s South Polar region in search of volatiles, including water ice, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.

Match ID: 92 Score: 7.86 source: www.esa.int age: 20 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Why investors are not buying Europe’s revival
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:03:15 +0000
Even though the continent’s stocks are in a “sweet spot”
Match ID: 93 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Europe delivers for Artemis III
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:02:00 +0200

The European Service Module that will power the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis III mission to the Moon is soon on its way to the United States.

Match ID: 94 Score: 7.86 source: www.esa.int age: 27 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

European stocks open lower after weak Wall Street finish, computer outages
Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:08:00 GMT

Match ID: 95 Score: 7.86 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 61 days
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ESA astronaut class of 2022: Astro Chat with Alexander Gerst
Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0200
Video: 00:38:42

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, an experienced spaceflyer, spacewalker, and former ISS commander, shares insights into his role as head of astronaut operations at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre. Tune in as he talks with us about guiding the next generation of astronauts through training and preparing them for their future in space exploration. 

This is Episode 8 of our ESA Explores podcast series, delving into everything you want to know about the ESA astronaut class of 2022. Recorded in April 2024.

Find out more about Alexander.

Access all ESA Explores podcasts.

Match ID: 96 Score: 7.86 source: www.esa.int age: 64 days
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Europe prepares for a mighty trade war
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:36:54 +0000
Will it be able to stick to its rule-abiding principles?
Match ID: 97 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Europe's Ariane-6 rocket blasts off on maiden flight
Tue, 09 Jul 2024 23:56:16 GMT
After a successful launch, the upper-stage of the rocket goes on to experience an anomaly.
Match ID: 98 Score: 7.86 source: www.bbc.com age: 71 days
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Europe’s Earth Return Orbiter reaches design maturity
Fri, 05 Jul 2024 08:39:00 +0200

ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter, the first spacecraft that will rendezvous and capture an object around another planet, passed a key milestone to bring the first Mars samples back to Earth.

Match ID: 99 Score: 7.86 source: www.esa.int age: 75 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Satellite captures first-of-a-kind cloud image
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:26:50 GMT
A joint European-Japanese mission captures a space view of the internal structure of a cloud.
Match ID: 100 Score: 7.86 source: www.bbc.com age: 83 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Hypersonic vehicles for Europe’s fast future into space
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:39:00 +0200

When hypersonic aeronautics and space exploration meet, European engineers dream of a future fast-track return-ticket to space.

Match ID: 101 Score: 7.86 source: www.esa.int age: 90 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:53:05 +0000
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
Match ID: 102 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Why house prices are surging once again
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:52:53 +0000
In America, Australia and parts of Europe, property markets have shrugged off higher interest rates
Match ID: 103 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 94 days
qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu

Most Americans Want to Stop Arming Israel. Politicians Don’t Care.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:13:10 +0000

The number of Americans opposed to sending arms to Israel has grown, month after month, as the brutal war on Gaza grinds on.

The post Most Americans Want to Stop Arming Israel. Politicians Don’t Care. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 104 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
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Harris v Trump: highlights of the presidential debate – video
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:54:48 GMT

After weeks of arguments over the format and rules, the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a key swing state. Both candidates went into the event virtually tied in the polls, in search of a campaign-altering moment

• ‘They’re eating the cats’: Trump rambles falsely about immigrants in debate

• Harris’s powerful abortion stance and Trump’s fact-checks: key takeaways from the debate

• Harris slams Trump for falsehoods on abortion and immigration in fiery debate

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Match ID: 105 Score: 3.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 8 days
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Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:38:38 +0000

The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma resulted in the largest restoration of Indigenous land in U.S. history. 

The post Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 106 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
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What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
2024-09-10T00:00:00Z
Can generative AI help entrepreneurs solve their business problems? Yes, but mostly when companies are already thriving, suggests research by Rembrand Koning that reveals the potential for AI-powered mentors to reach owners around the world.
Match ID: 107 Score: 2.86 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 9 days
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Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It.
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:22:57 +0000

A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.

The post Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 108 Score: 2.86 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
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Therapy Sessions Exposed by Mental Health Care Firm’s Unsecured Database
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:45:00 +0000
Video and audio of therapy sessions, transcripts, and other patient records were accidentally exposed in a publicly accessible database operated by the virtual medical company Confidant Health.
Match ID: 109 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 12 days
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NASA Tunnel Generates Decades of Icy Aircraft Safety Data
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:12:18 +0000
On Sept. 13, 1944, researchers subjected a Bell P-39L Airacobra to frigid temperatures and a freezing water spray in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s new Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) to study inflight ice buildup. Since that first run at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) in Cleveland, the facility […]
Match ID: 110 Score: 2.86 source: www.nasa.gov age: 13 days
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‘America is not a museum’: Why Democrats are going big on housing despite the risks
Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:00:00 EST
Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to flip the script and own an issue impacting large swaths of Americans.
Match ID: 111 Score: 2.86 source: www.politico.com age: 24 days
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Beyond the Textbook: DC-8 Aircraft Inspires Students in Retirement
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:29:22 +0000
In May 2024, Idaho State University’s class of 2025 received a new learning tool from NASA. The DC-8 aircraft served the world’s scientific community for decades as a platform under NASA’s Airborne Science Program before retiring to Idaho State University (ISU) to provide a hands-on learning experience for students in the university’s aircraft maintenance technology […]
Match ID: 112 Score: 2.86 source: www.nasa.gov age: 27 days
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America’s recession signals are flashing red. Don’t believe them
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:57:20 +0000
We assess a range of measures
Match ID: 113 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
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Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?
Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:54:23 +0000
Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech
Match ID: 114 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
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2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition
Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:28:22 +0000
The agriculture industry faces several challenges, including limited resources and growing demands to reduce agriculture’s environmental impact while increasing its climate resilience. NASA Aeronautics is dedicated to expanding its efforts to assist commercial, industry, and government partners in advancing aviation systems that could modernize capabilities in agriculture. In NASA’s 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition: […]
Match ID: 115 Score: 2.86 source: www.nasa.gov age: 29 days
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How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:37:53 +0000
The trend will dismay the country’s policymakers
Match ID: 116 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 41 days
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EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixed
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:17:17 +0000
New research highlights their failures
Match ID: 117 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 48 days
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/12/2024
Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:00:32 +0000
Northrup Grumman 20 (NG-20) Cygnus Departure: Today, Cygnus unberthed from the Node 1 Nadir Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) using the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), then maneuvered to the release position and released for departure at 6:03 AM CST. Cygnus, filled with waste/trash from the space station packed by the crew, will perform a …
Match ID: 118 Score: 2.86 source: blogs.nasa.gov age: 68 days
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The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:37:44 +0000
Pursuing domestic investment at the expense of returns is reckless
Match ID: 119 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
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Is America approaching peak tip?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:05:29 +0000
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
Match ID: 120 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
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To Keep Gen Z, Companies Need to Level Up
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The old playbook for power and control won’t work to retain Gen Z talent. Instead, employers need to take a cue from Roblox.
Match ID: 121 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 243 days
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A Key to Detecting Brain Disease Earlier Than Ever
Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Treatment of Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS, and other brain diseases depends on reliable detection—especially in those who don’t even know they’re at risk. An innovative scratch-and-sniff test can help.
Match ID: 122 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 247 days
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LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000

 

In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This platform not only stands out from the multitude of existing AI tools but also brings a fresh approach to content generation. LimeWire not only empowers users to create AI content but also provides creators with creative ways to share and monetize their creations.

As we explore LimeWire, our aim is to uncover its features, benefits for creators, and the exciting possibilities it offers for AI content generation. This platform presents an opportunity for users to harness the power of AI in image creation, all while enjoying the advantages of a free and accessible service.

Let's unravel the distinctive features that set LimeWire apart in the dynamic landscape of AI-powered tools, understanding how creators can leverage its capabilities to craft unique and engaging AI-generated images.

Introduction

This revamped LimeWire invites users to register and unleash their creativity by crafting original AI content, which can then be shared and showcased on the LimeWire Studio. Notably, even acclaimed artists and musicians, such as Deadmau5, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston, have embraced this platform to publish their content in the form of NFT music, videos, and images.

Beyond providing a space for content creation and sharing, LimeWire introduces monetization models to empower users to earn revenue from their creations. This includes avenues such as earning ad revenue and participating in the burgeoning market of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). As we delve further, we'll explore these monetization strategies in more detail to provide a comprehensive understanding of LimeWire's innovative approach to content creation and distribution.

LimeWire Studio welcomes content creators into its fold, providing a space to craft personalized AI-focused content for sharing with fans and followers. Within this creative hub, every piece of content generated becomes not just a creation but a unique asset—ownable and tradable. Fans have the opportunity to subscribe to creators' pages, immersing themselves in the creative journey and gaining ownership of digital collectibles that hold tradeable value within the LimeWire community. Notably, creators earn a 2.5% royalty each time their content is traded, adding a rewarding element to the creative process.

The platform's flexibility is evident in its content publication options. Creators can choose to share their work freely with the public or opt for a premium subscription model, granting exclusive access to specialized content for subscribers.

LimeWire AI Studio

As of the present moment, LimeWire focuses on AI Image Generation, offering a spectrum of creative possibilities to its user base. The platform, however, has ambitious plans on the horizon, aiming to broaden its offerings by introducing AI music and video generation tools in the near future. This strategic expansion promises creators even more avenues for expression and engagement with their audience, positioning LimeWire Studio as a dynamic and evolving platform within the realm of AI-powered content creation.

AI Image Generation Tools

The LimeWire AI image generation tool presents a versatile platform for both the creation and editing of images. Supporting advanced models such as Stable Diffusion 2.1, Stable Diffusion XL, and DALL-E 2, LimeWire offers a sophisticated toolkit for users to delve into the realm of generative AI art.

Much like other tools in the generative AI landscape, LimeWire provides a range of options catering to various levels of complexity in image creation. Users can initiate the creative process with prompts as simple as a few words or opt for more intricate instructions, tailoring the output to their artistic vision.

What sets LimeWire apart is its seamless integration of different AI models and design styles. Users have the flexibility to effortlessly switch between various AI models, exploring diverse design styles such as cinematic, digital art, pixel art, anime, analog film, and more. Each style imparts a distinctive visual identity to the generated AI art, enabling users to explore a broad spectrum of creative possibilities.

The platform also offers additional features, including samplers, allowing users to fine-tune the quality and detail levels of their creations. Customization options and prompt guidance further enhance the user experience, providing a user-friendly interface for both novice and experienced creators.

Excitingly, LimeWire is actively developing its proprietary AI model, signaling ongoing innovation and enhancements to its image generation capabilities. This upcoming addition holds the promise of further expanding the creative horizons for LimeWire users, making it an evolving and dynamic platform within the landscape of AI-driven art and image creation.

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

Upon completing your creative endeavor on LimeWire, the platform allows you the option to publish your content. An intriguing feature follows this step: LimeWire automates the process of minting your creation as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), utilizing either the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. This transformative step imbues your artwork with a unique digital signature, securing its authenticity and ownership in the decentralized realm.

Creators on LimeWire hold the power to decide the accessibility of their NFT creations. By opting for a public release, the content becomes discoverable by anyone, fostering a space for engagement and interaction. Furthermore, this choice opens the avenue for enthusiasts to trade the NFTs, adding a layer of community involvement to the artistic journey.

Alternatively, LimeWire acknowledges the importance of exclusivity. Creators can choose to share their posts exclusively with their premium subscribers. In doing so, the content remains a special offering solely for dedicated fans, creating an intimate and personalized experience within the LimeWire community. This flexibility in sharing options emphasizes LimeWire's commitment to empowering creators with choices in how they connect with their audience and distribute their digital creations.

After creating your content, you can choose to publish the content. It will automatically mint your creation as an NFT on the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. You can also choose whether to make it public or subscriber-only.

If you make it public, anyone can discover your content and even trade the NFTs. If you choose to share the post only with your premium subscribers, it will be exclusive only to your fans.

Earn Revenue From Your Content

Additionally, you can earn ad revenue from your content creations as well.

When you publish content on LimeWire, you will receive 70% of all ad revenue from other users who view your images, music, and videos on the platform.

This revenue model will be much more beneficial to designers. You can experiment with the AI image and content generation tools and share your creations while earning a small income on the side.

LMWR Tokens

The revenue you earn from your creations will come in the form of LMWR tokens, LimeWire’s own cryptocurrency.

Your earnings will be paid every month in LMWR, which you can then trade on many popular crypto exchange platforms like Kraken, ByBit, and UniSwap.

You can also use your LMWR tokens to pay for prompts when using LimeWire generative AI tools.

Pricing Plans

You can sign up to LimeWire to use its AI tools for free. You will receive 10 credits to use and generate up to 20 AI images per day. You will also receive 50% of the ad revenue share. However, you will get more benefits with premium plans.

• Basic plan: 

For $9.99 per month, you will get 1,000 credits per month, up to 2 ,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 50% ad revenue share

• Advanced plan: 

For $29 per month, you will get 3750 credits per month, up to 7500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 60% ad revenue share

• Pro plan: 

For $49 per month, you will get 5,000 credits per month, up to 10,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

• Pro Plus plan: 

For $99 per month, you will get 11,250 credits per month, up to 2 2,500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

With all premium plans, you will receive a Pro profile badge, full creation history, faster image generation, and no ads.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, LimeWire emerges as a democratizing force in the creative landscape, providing an inclusive platform where anyone can unleash their artistic potential and effortlessly share their work. With the integration of AI, LimeWire eliminates traditional barriers, empowering designers, musicians, and artists to publish their creations and earn revenue with just a few clicks.

The ongoing commitment of LimeWire to innovation is evident in its plans to enhance generative AI tools with new features and models. The upcoming expansion to include music and video generation tools holds the promise of unlocking even more possibilities for creators. It sparks anticipation about the diverse and innovative ways in which artists will leverage these tools to produce and publish their own unique creations.

For those eager to explore, LimeWire's AI tools are readily accessible for free, providing an opportunity to experiment and delve into the world of generative art. As LimeWire continues to evolve, creators are encouraged to stay tuned for the launch of its forthcoming AI music and video generation tools, promising a future brimming with creative potential and endless artistic exploration

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Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier
Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:52:00 +0000

 In this article, we explore the top 10 AI tools that are driving innovation and efficiency in various industries. These tools are designed to automate repetitive tasks, improve workflow, and increase productivity. The tools included in our list are some of the most advanced and widely used in the market, and are suitable for a variety of applications. Some of the tools focus on natural language processing, such as ChatGPT and Grammarly, while others focus on image and video generation, such as DALL-E and Lumen5. Other tools such as OpenAI Codex, Tabnine, Canva, Jasper AI,, and Surfer SEO are designed to help with specific tasks such as code understanding content writing and website optimization. This list is a great starting point for anyone looking to explore the possibilities of AI and how it can be applied to their business or project.

So let’s dive into

1. ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a large language model that generates human-like responses to a variety of prompts. It can be used for tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion. It can handle a wide range of topics and styles of writing, and generates coherent and fluent text, but should be used with care as it may generate text that is biased, offensive, or factually incorrect.

Pros:

• Generates human-like responses to a variety of prompts
• Can be fine-tuned for specific tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion
• Can handle a wide range of topics and styles of writing
• Can generate coherent and fluent text, even when completing a given text prompt.

Cons:

• May generate text that is biased or offensive
• Can generate text that is not accurate or factually correct
• May require large amounts of computational resources to run
• The model can sometimes generate text that is not coherent or fluent, depending on the prompt given.

Overall, ChatGPT is a powerful tool for natural language processing, but it should be used with care and with an understanding of its limitations.

2. DALL-E

DALL-E is a generative model developed by OpenAI that is capable of generating images from text prompts. It is based on the GPT-3 architecture, which is a transformer-based neural network language model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text. DALL-E can generate images that are similar to a training dataset and it can generate high-resolution images that are suitable for commercial use.

Pros:

• Generates high-resolution images
• Can generate images from text prompts
• It can be fine-tuned for specific tasks such as generating images of a certain style or category

Cons:

• May generate images that are not entirely original and could be influenced by the training data
• May require significant computational resources to run
• The quality of the generated images may vary depending on the specific prompt

Overall, DALL-E is a powerful AI-based tool for generating images, it can be used for a variety of applications such as creating images for commercial use, gaming, and other creative projects. It is important to note that the generated images should be reviewed and used with care, as they may not be entirely original and could be influenced by the training data.

3. Lumen5

Lumen5 is a content creation platform that uses AI to help users create videos, social media posts, and other types of content. It has several features that make it useful for content creation and marketing, including:

Pros:

• Automatically summarizes text from a blog post, article, or another source into a script for a video or social media post
• Offers a library of royalty-free videos, images, and music to use in content
• Has a drag-and-drop interface for easy content creation
• Can create videos in multiple languages
• Has a built-in analytics tool to track the performance of created content.

Cons:

• The quality of the generated content may vary depending on the source material
• The automatic summarization feature may not always capture the main points of the source material
• The library of videos, images, and music is limited.
• The analytics feature is basic

Overall, Lumen5 is a useful tool for creating content quickly and easily, it can help automate the process of creating videos, social media posts, and other types of content. However, the quality of the generated content may vary depending on the source material and it is important to review and edit the content before publishing it.

4. Grammarly

Grammarly is a writing-enhancement platform that uses AI to check for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors in the text. It also provides suggestions for improving the clarity, concision, and readability of the text. It has several features that make it useful for improving writing, including:

Pros:

• Checks for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors in the text
• Provides suggestions for improving clarity, concision, and readability
• Can be integrated with various apps and platforms such as Microsoft Office, Google Docs, and social media platforms
• Offers a browser extension and a desktop app
• Has a premium version with more advanced features such as plagiarism detection and more

Cons:

• The suggestions provided may not always be accurate or appropriate
• The grammar checker may not always recognize context-specific language use
• The free version has limited features
• Limited to English language only
• Overall, Grammarly is a useful tool for improving writing, it can help users identify and correct grammar and punctuation errors, and improve the clarity, concision, and readability of their text. However, it is important to review the suggestions provided by the tool and use them with caution, as they may not always be accurate or appropriate.

5.OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex is a system developed by OpenAI that can create code from natural language descriptions of software tasks. The system is based on the GPT-3 model and can generate code in multiple programming languages.

Pros:

• Can automate the process of writing code
• Can help developers to be more productive
• Can help non-technical people to create software
• Can generate code in multiple programming languages

Cons:

• The quality of the generated code may vary depending on the task description
• The generated code may not always be optimal or efficient
• The system may not be able to handle complex software tasks
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the code.

Overall, OpenAI Codex is a powerful tool that can help automate the process of writing code and make it more accessible to non-technical people. However, the quality of the generated code may vary depending on the task description and it is important to review and test the code before using it in a production environment. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the developer's knowledge.

6. Tabnine

Tabnine is a code completion tool that uses AI to predict and suggest code snippets. It is compatible with multiple programming languages and can be integrated with various code editors.

Pros:

• Can improve coding efficiency by suggesting code snippets based on context
• Can complete entire code blocks
• Can predict variables, functions, and other elements of code
• Can be integrated with various code editors

Cons:

• The suggestions may not always be accurate or appropriate
• The system may not always be able to understand the context of the code
• May not work with all code editors
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the code.

Overall, TabNine is a useful tool for developers that can help improve coding efficiency and reduce the time spent on writing code. However, it is important to review the suggestions provided by the tool and use them with caution, as they may not always be accurate or appropriate. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the developer's knowledge.

7. Jasper AI

Jasper is a content writing and content generation tool that uses artificial intelligence to identify the best words and sentences for your writing style and medium in the most efficient, quick, and accessible way.

Pros:

• User-friendly interface
• Generates a wide variety of content types
• Guarantees 100% unique and free-plagiarism content
• SEO friendly
•  Create articles of up to 10k words

Cons:

• Not the cheapest AI writer on the market

8. Surfer SEO

Surfer SEO is a software tool designed to help website owners and digital marketers improve their search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. The tool provides a variety of features that can be used to analyze a website's on-page SEO, including:

Features:

• A site audit tool that checks for technical SEO issues
• A content editor that suggests optimizations for individual pages
• A keyword research tool that suggests keywords to target
• A SERP analyzer that shows how a website's pages rank for specific keywords
• A backlink analysis tool that shows the backlinks pointing to a website.

Pros:

• Can help website owners and marketers identify technical SEO issues
• Can provide suggestions for optimizing individual pages
• Can help with keyword research
• Can show how a website's pages rank for specific keywords
• Can provide insight into a website's backlink profile

Cons:

• Some features may require a paid subscription
• The tool is not a guarantee of better ranking
• The tool can only analyze the data it has access to
• The tool's suggestions may not always be applicable or optimal

Overall, Surfer SEO can be a useful tool for website owners and digital marketers looking to improve their SEO efforts. However, it is important to remember that it is just a tool and should be used in conjunction with other SEO best practices. Additionally, the tool is not a guarantee of better ranking.

9. Zapier

Zapier is a web automation tool that allows users to automate repetitive tasks by connecting different web applications together. It does this by creating "Zaps" that automatically move data between apps, and can also be used to trigger certain actions in one app based on events in another app.

Features:

• Can connect over 3,000 web applications
• Can automate repetitive tasks
• Can create "Zaps" to move data between apps
• Can trigger certain actions in one app based on events in another app.

Pros:

• Can automate repetitive tasks
• Can save time
• Can improve workflow
• Can increase productivity
• Can be integrated with a wide range of web applications

Cons:

• Can be difficult to set up
• May require some technical skills
• May require a paid subscription for some features
• Some apps may not be compatible
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the apps

Overall, Zapier is a useful tool that can help users automate repetitive tasks and improve workflow. It can save time and increase productivity by connecting different web applications together. However, it may require some technical skills and some features may require a paid subscription. It is important to use the tool with caution and not to rely too much on it, to understand the apps better.

10. Compose AI

Compose AI is a company that specializes in developing natural language generation (NLG) software. Their software uses AI to automatically generate written or spoken text from structured data, such as spreadsheets, databases, or APIs.

Features:

• Automatically generates written or spoken text from structured data
• Can be integrated with a wide range of data sources
• Can be used for a variety of applications such as creating reports, summaries, and explanations
• Provides an API and a user-friendly interface

Pros:

• Can automate the process of creating written or spoken content
• Can help users create more accurate and consistent content
• Can help users save time by automating repetitive tasks
• Can be integrated with a wide range of data sources

Cons:

• The quality of the generated content may vary depending on the data source
• The generated content may not always be optimal or efficient
• The system may not be able to handle complex tasks
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the data

Overall, Compose AI's NLG software can be a useful tool for automating the process of creating written or spoken content from structured data. However, the quality of the generated content may vary depending on the data source, and it is essential to review the generated content before using it in a production environment. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the understanding of the data.

Conclusion

AI tools are becoming increasingly important in today's business and technology landscape. They are designed to automate repetitive tasks, improve workflow, and increase productivity. The top 10 AI tools included in this article are some of the most advanced and widely used in the market, and are suitable for various applications. Whether you're looking to improve your natural language processing, create high-resolution images, or optimize your website, there is an AI tool that can help. It's important to research and evaluate the different tools available to determine which one is the best fit for your specific needs. As AI technology continues to evolve, these tools will become even more powerful and versatile and will play an even greater role in shaping the future of business and technology.

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Top 10 AI Content Generator & Writer Tools in 2022
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:58:00 +0000

Are you looking for a way to create content that is both effective and efficient? If so, then you should consider using an AI content generator. AI content generators are a great way to create content that is both engaging and relevant to your audience. 

There are a number of different AI content generator tools available on the market, and it can be difficult to know which one is right for you. To help you make the best decision, we have compiled a list of the top 10 AI content generator tools that you should use in 2022.

So, without further ado, let’s get started!

1. Jasper Ai(Formerly known as Jarvis)

Features

•  It's trusted by 50,000+ marketers for creating engaging marketing campaigns, ad copy, blog posts, and articles within minutes which would traditionally take hours or days. Special Features:
• Blog posts have been optimized for search engines and rank high on Google and other search engines. This is a huge plus for online businesses that want to generate traffic to their website through content marketing.
• 99.9% Original Content and guarantees that all content it generates will be original, so businesses can focus on their online reputation rather than worrying about penalties from Google for duplicate content.
• Long-Form Article Writing – Jasper.ai is also useful for long-form writing, allowing users to create articles of up to 10,000 words without any difficulty. This is ideal for businesses that want to produce in-depth content that will capture their audience’s attention.

Pros

• User-friendly interface
• Generates a wide variety of content types
• Guarantees 100% unique and free-plagiarism content
• SEO friendly
•  Create articles of up to 10k words

Cons

• Not the cheapest AI writer on the market

Pricing

• Jasper.ai offers a free trial
• Starter Plan: $29/Month 

Features:

• 50 AI copywriting skills 
• Unlimited projects,  
• Up to 5 user logins

• The cheapest option covers up to 20,000 words generated each month.

Boss Mode:  $99/Month 

Features:

• Up to 100k words are generated each month and can go up to over 300k.

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2. Copy Ai

Copy.ai is a content writing tool that enables its users to create marketing copy, social media posts, Facebook Ads, and many more formats by using more than 90 templates such as Bullet Points to Blogs, General Ads, Hook Text, etc. 

The utility of this service can be used for short-term or format business purposes such as product descriptions, website copy, market copy, and sales reports.

Key Features:

• Provides a large set of templates where you can input the data and the AI will generate Templates with around 10 or more options to make it easy for the user to choose.
•  Smooth and efficient user experience with chrome extension where one can easily transfer information from Copy.ai to a content management forum, Google docs, etc without having to switch tabs.
• Generates content  in 25 languages where your input and output language may differ if you are not a native English speaker.

Pros

• The best option for short-length content generation such as market copy, sales reports, blogs, etc.
• Facebook community and email support for users to understand the AI better and to interact with other users.
• Beginner-friendly user experience with various templates to help the process of content generation.
• Free plan and no credit card required.

Cons

• The free plan from Copy AI is a welcome sight, however, it is just suitable for testing the software.

Pricing

Free Trial – 7 days with 24/7 email support and 100 runs per day.

Pro Plan:  $49 and yearly, it will cost you $420 i.e. $35 per month.

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3. Frase Ai

Just like Outranking, Frase is an AI that helps you research, create and optimize your content to make it high quality within seconds. Frase works on SEO optimization where the content is made to the liking of search engines by optimizing keywords and keywords.

Features:

• Generate full-length, optimized content briefs in  seconds and review the main keywords, headers, and concepts in your SEO competitors’ content in one intuitive research panel.
• Write high-converting, SEO-optimized copy and make writer’s block a thing of the past with automated outlines, blog introductions, product descriptions, FAQs, and more.
• An intuitive text editor that uses a topic model to score your content Optimization against your competitors.
• A dashboard that automatically identifies and categorizes your best content opportunities. Frase uses your Google Search Console data to serve up actionable insights about what you should work on next.

Pros

• Unlike Outranking, the interface to Frase is very user-friendly and accessible.
• Users who are content writers and have to research get a lot of time to write and ideate instead of juggling from one website to another as data can be easily accessed on Frase for research on a topic.
• Optimizing content with keyword analysis and SEO optimization has been made easier with Frase's Content Optimization.
• Reports on competitors' websites help in optimizing our own articles and websites.
• Content briefs make research very easy and efficient.

Cons

• The paid plans are a bit pricey because they include many tools for content optimization.

Pricing

Frase provides two plans for all users and a customizable plan for an enterprise or business.

Solo Plan: $14.99/Month and $12/Month if billed yearly with 4  Document Credits for 1 user seat.

Basic Plan: $44.99/month and $39.99/month if billed yearly with 30 Document Credits for 1 user seat.

Team Plan: $114.99/month and $99.99/month if billed yearly for unlimited document credits for 3 users.

*SEO Add-ons and other premium features for $35/month irrespective of the plan.

4. Article Forge — Popular Blog Writing Software for Efficiency and Affordability 

Article Forge is another content generator that operates quite differently from the others on this list. Unlike Jasper.ai, which requires you to provide a brief and some information on what you want it to write this tool only asks for a keyword. From there, it’ll generate a complete article for you.

Features

•  Article Forge integrates with several other software, including WordAi, RankerX, SEnuke TNG, and SEO Autopilot.
• The software takes information from high-ranking websites and then creates more credible articles to rank well in search engines.
•  If you want to generate content regularly, Article Forge can help. You can set it up to automatically generate articles based on your specific keyword or topic. Or, if you need a lot of content quickly, you can use the bulk content feature to get many articles in a short period.

Pros

• Excellent for engaging with readers on multiple CMS platforms
• No spinner content. Create multiple unique articles
• Extremely quick and efficient
• One of the cheapest options online

Cons

• You need to pay attention to the content since it’s not always on point
• Only ideal for decent-quality articles – if you’re lucky

Pricing

What’s excellent about Article Forge is they provide a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can choose between a monthly or yearly subscription. Unfortunately, they offer a free trial and no free plan:

Basic Plan:  $27/Month

Features:

 This plan allows users to produce up to 25k words each month. This is excellent for smaller blogs or those who are just starting.

Standard Plan: $57/month)

Features:

•  This plan allows users to produce up to 250k words each month. This is excellent for smaller blogs or those who are just starting.

Unlimited Plan: $117/month

Features:

• If you’re looking for an unlimited amount of content, this is the plan for you. You can create as many articles as you want, and there’s no word limit.

It’s important to note that Article Forge guarantees that all content generated through the platform passes Copyscape.

5. Rytr — Superb AI Content Writing Assistant

Rytr.me is a free AI content generator perfect for small businesses, bloggers, and students. The software is easy to use and can generate SEO-friendly blog posts, articles, and school papers in minutes.

Features

• Rytr can be used for various purposes, from writing blog posts to creating school papers. You can also generate captions for social media, product descriptions, and meta descriptions.
•  Rytr supports writing for over 30 languages, so you can easily create content in your native language.
• The AI helps you write content in over 30 tones to find the perfect tone for your brand or project.
• Rytr has a built-in plagiarism checker that ensures all your content is original and plagiarism free.

Pros

• Easy to use
• Creates unique content
• It supports over 30 languages
• Multi-tone writing capabilities

Cons

• It can be slow at times
• Grammar and flow could use improvement

Pricing

Rytr offers a free plan that comes with limited features. It covers up to 5,000 characters generated each month and has access to the built-in plagiarism checker. If you want to use all the features of the software, you can purchase one of the following plans:

Saver Plan: $9/month, $90/year 

Features:

• Generate 100k  characters per month
• Access 40+ use-cases
• Write in 30+ languages
• Access 20+ tones
• Built-in plagiarism checker
• Generate up to 20 images per month with AI
• Access to premium community
• Create your own custom use-case
• Unlimited Plan: $29/month, $290/year

Features:

• Generate UNLIMITED* characters per month
• Access 40+ use-cases
• Write in 30+ languages
• Access 20+ tones

• Built-in plagiarism checker
• Generate up to 100 images per month with AI
• Access to premium community
• Create your own custom use-case
• Dedicated account manager
• Priority email & chat support

6. Writesonic — Best AI Article Writing Software with a Grammar and Plagiarism Checker

Writesonic is a free, easy-to-use AI content generator. The software is designed to help you create copy for marketing content, websites, and blogs. It's also helpful for small businesses or solopreneurs who need to produce content on a budget.

Features

• The tone checker, is a great feature that helps you ensure that your content is consistent with your brand’s voice. This is excellent for crafting cohesive and on-brand content.
• The grammar checker is another valuable tool that helps you produce error-free content.
• The plagiarism checker is a great way to ensure that your content is original.

Pricing

Writesonic is free with limited features. The free plan is more like a free trial, providing ten credits. After that, you’d need to upgrade to a paid plan. Here are your options:

Short-form: $15/month 

Features:

• Access to all the short-form content templates like Facebook ads, product descriptions, paragraphs, and more.

Long-Form: $19/month

Features:

• Awesome tools to help you write short and long-form content like blog posts, ebooks, and more.

7. CopySmith — Produces Quality Content in Seconds 

CopySmith is an AI content generator that can be used to create personal and professional documents, blogs, and presentations. It offers a wide range of features including the ability to easily create documents and presentations.

 CopySmith also has several templates that you can use to get started quickly.

 Features

• This software allows you to create product descriptions, landing pages, and more in minutes.
•  Offers rewritten content that is both unique and plagiarism free.
•  This feature helps you create product descriptions for your Shopify store that are SEO-friendly and attractive to customers.
• This is an excellent tool for new content ideas.

Pros

• Excellent for generating eCommerce-ready content
• No credit card is required for the free trial
• SEO-ready content

Cons

• The blog content isn’t the best
• Better suited for short copy

Pricing

CopySmith offers a free trial with no credit card required. After the free trial, the paid plans are as follows:

Starter Plan: $19/month

Features:

• Get 50 credits monthly with up to 20 plagiarism checks.
• Professional Plan: $59/month 

Features:

• Upgrade to 400 credits per month with up to 100 plagiarism checks.  

Enterprise – Create a custom-tailored plan by contacting the sales team.

8. Hypotenuse.ai — Best AI Writing Software for E-Commerce and Product Descriptions

Hypotenuse.ai is a free online tool that can help you create AI content. It's great for beginners because it allows you to create videos, articles, and infographics with ease. The software has a simple and easy-to-use interface that makes it perfect for new people looking for AI content generation.

Special Features

• You can create custom-tailored copy specific to your audience’s needs. This is impressive since most free AI content generators do not offer this feature.
• Hypotenuse takes data from social media sites, websites, and more sources to provide accurate information for your content.
• If you’re selling a product online, you can use Hypotenuse to create automated product descriptions that are of high quality and will help you sell more products.

Pros

• Excellent research capabilities
• Custom-tailored copy
• Automated product descriptions

Cons

• No free plan

Pricing

Hypotenuse doesn’t offer a free plan. Instead, it offers a free trial period where you can take the software for a run before deciding whether it’s the right choice for you or not. Other than that, here are its paid options:

Starter Plan: $29/month

Features:

•  This plan comes with 100 credits/month with 25k Words with one user seat. It’s an excellent option for individuals or small businesses.

Growth Plan: $59/month

Features:

•  This plan comes with 350 credits/month with 87.5k words and 1 user seat. It’s perfect for larger businesses or agencies.

Enterprise – pricing is custom, so don’t hesitate to contact the company for more information.

9. Kafkai — Leading AI Writing Tool for SEOs and Marketers

 Features

• Kafkai offers a host of features that make it SEO-ready, including the ability to add keywords and tags to your content.
• Kafkai is designed explicitly for creating niche-specific content, which can be a significant advantage for businesses or bloggers looking to target a specific audience.
•  Kafkai produces high-quality content, a significant advantage for businesses or bloggers looking to set themselves apart from the competition.
• Kafkai offers a unique feature that allows you to seed content from other sources, which can be a significant time-saver when creating content.

Pros

• Quick results with high efficiency
• You can add seed content and phrases
• It can be used to craft complete articles

Cons

• Its long-form-content generator isn’t very high quality

Pricing

Kafkai comes with a free trial to help you understand whether it’s the right choice for you or not. Additionally, you can also take a look at its paid plans:

Writer Plan: $29/month Create 100 articles per month.  $0.29/article

Newsroom Plan $49/month – Generate 250 articles a month at $0.20 per article.

Printing Press Plan: $129 /month   Create up to 1000 articles a month at roughly $0.13/article.

Industrial Printer Plan: ($199 a month) – Generate 2500 articles each month for $0.08/article.

10. Peppertype.ai — Best AI Content Writing Software for Blogging

Peppertype.ai is an online AI content generator that’s easy to use and best for small business owners looking for a powerful copy and content writing tool to help them craft and generate various content for many purposes.

Features

• You can choose from various pre-trained templates to create your content. This can save you a lot of time since you don’t have to spend time designing your templates or starting entirely from scratch.
• Peppertype offers various copywriting frameworks to help you write better content.
• Peppertype is lightweight and easy to use. This makes it perfect for beginners who want to get started with AI content generation.
• Peppertype’s autocorrect feature automatically corrects your grammar and spelling mistakes as you type. This ensures that your content is free of errors.
• Peppertype tracks user engagement data to help you create content that resonates with your audience.

Pros

• It doesn’t have a steep learning curve
• It helps users to create entirely original content
• The basic plan comes with access to all of their frameworks and templates
• Built-in style editor

Cons

• More hits than misses on content generated
• Tons of typos and grammatical errors

Pricing

Unfortunately, Peppertype.ai isn’t free. However, it does have a free trial to try out the software before deciding whether it’s the right choice for you. Here are its paid plans:

personal Plan:$35/Month

Features:

• 50,000 words included
• 40+ content types
• Notes and Text Editor
• Access to templates
• Unlimited projects
• Active customer support

Team Plan: $199/month

Features:

• Everything included in the Personal
• Collaborate & share results
• Access control
• Export results
• Request custom content types

Enterprise – pricing is custom, so please contact the company for more information.

Final thoughts:

It is no longer a secret that humans are getting overwhelmed with the daily task of creating content. Our lives are busy, and the process of writing blog posts, video scripts, or other types of content is not our day job. In comparison, AI writers are not only cheaper to hire, but also perform tasks at a high level of excellence. This article explores 10 writing tools that used AI to create better content choose the one which meets your requirements and budget but in my opinion Jasper ai is one of the best tools to use to make high-quality content. 

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Beginner Guide to CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction) in 2022
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:57:00 +0000

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What is CJ Affiliate?

For Advertiser:

For Publishers: 

Requirements 

How Does CJ Affiliate Work?

How to Start Making Money Online Using CJ Affiliate

Best CJ Affiliate Programs in 2022

A Quick CJ Affiliate Review: Is It Good Enough?

Top Alternatives and Competitors

Frequently Asked Questions About Cj Affiliate Marketplace 

Final Saying 

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TOP 11 AI MARKETING TOOLS YOU SHOULD USE (Updated 2022)
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:25:00 +0000

  

 The marketing industry is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to save time and execute smarter, more personalized campaigns. 61% of marketers say AI software is the most important aspect of their data strategy.

  If you’re late to the AI party, don’t worry. It’s easier than you think to start leveraging artificial intelligence tools in your marketing strategy. Here are 11 AI marketing tools every marketer should start using today.

1. Jasper Ai(Formerly known as Jarvis)

2. Personalize

 Personalize is an AI-powered technology that helps you identify and produce highly targeted sales and marketing campaigns by tracking the products and services your contacts are most interested in at any given time. The platform uses an algorithm to identify each contact’s top three interests, which are updated in real-time based on recent site activity.

Key Features

• Identifies  top three interests based on metrics like time on page, recency, and frequency of each contact
• Works with every ESP and CRM
• Easy to get up and running in days
• Enterprise-grade technology at a low cost for SMBs

3. Seventh Sense

  Seventh Sense provides behavioral analytics that helps you win attention in your customers’ overcrowded email inboxes. Choosing the best day and time to send an email is always a gamble. And while some days of the week generally get higher open rates than others, you’ll never be able to nail down a time that’s best for every customer. Seventh Sense eases your stress of having to figure out the perfect send-time and day for your email campaigns. The AI-based platform figures out the best timing and email frequency for each contact based on when they’re opening emails. The tool is primarily geared toward HubSpot and Marketo customers 

Key Features 

4. Phrasee

  Phrasee uses artificial intelligence to help you write more effective subject lines. With its AI-based Natural Language Generation system, Phrasee uses data-driven insights to generate millions of natural-sounding copy variants that match your brand voice. The model is end-to-end, meaning when you feed the results back to Phrasee, the prediction model rebuilds so it can continuously learn from your audience.

Key Features 

• Instantly generates millions of human-sounding, brand-compliant copy variants
• Creates tailored language models for every customer
• Learns what your audience responds to and rebuilds the prediction model every time

5. Hubspot Seo

  HubSpot Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an integral tool for the Human Content team. It uses machine learning to determine how search engines understand and categorize your content. HubSpot SEO helps you improve your search engine rankings and outrank your competitors. Search engines reward websites that organize their content around core subjects, or topic clusters. HubSpot SEO helps you discover and rank for the topics that matter to your business and customers.

Key Features 

• Helps you discover and rank topics that people are searching for
• Provides suggestions for your topic clusters and related subjects
• Integrates with all other HubSpot content tools to help you create a well-rounded content strategy

 6. Evolve AI

  When you’re limited to testing two variables against each other at a time, it can take months to get the results you’re looking for. Evolv AI lets you test all your ideas at once. It uses advanced algorithms to identify the top-performing concepts, combine them with each other, and repeat the process to achieve the best site experience.

Key Features 

• Figures out which content provides the best performance
• Lets you test multiple ideas in a single experiment instead of having to perform many individual tests over a long period
• Lets you try all your ideas across multiple pages for full-funnel optimization
• Offers visual and code editors

7. Acrolinx

  Acrolinx is a content alignment platform that helps brands scale and improves the quality of their content. It’s geared toward enterprises – its major customers include big brands like Google, Adobe, and Amazon - to help them scale their writing efforts. Instead of spending time chasing down and fixing typos in multiple places throughout an article or blog post, you can use Acrolinx to do it all right there in one place. You start by setting your preferences for style, grammar, tone of voice, and company-specific word usage. Then, Acrolinx checks and scores your existing content to find what’s working and suggest areas for improvement. The platform provides real-time guidance and suggestions to make writing better and strengthen weak pages.

Key features

• Reviews and scores existing content to ensure it meets your brand guidelines
• Finds opportunities to improve your content and use automation to shorten your editorial process.
• Integrates with more than 50 tools and platforms, including Google Docs, Microsoft Word, WordPress, and most web browsers.

8. MarketMuse 

MarketMuse uses an algorithm to help marketers build content strategies. The tool shows you where to target keywords to rank in specific topic categories, and recommends keywords you should go after if you want to own particular topics. It also identifies gaps and opportunities for new content and prioritizes them by their probable impact on your rankings. The algorithm compares your content with thousands of articles related to the same topic to uncover what’s missing from your site.

Key features:

• The built-in editor shows how in-depth your topic is covered and what needs improvement
• Finds gaps and opportunities for new content creation, prioritized by their probable impact and your chance of ranking

9. Copilot

Copilot is a suite of tools that help eCommerce businesses maintain real-time communication with customers around the clock at every stage of the funnel. Promote products, recover shopping carts and send updates or reminders directly through Messenger.

Key features: 

• Integrate Facebook Messenger directly with your website, including chat history and recent interactions for a fluid customer service experience 
• Run drip messenger campaigns to keep customers engaged with your brand
• Send abandoned carts, out-of-stock, restock, preorder, order status, and shipment notifications to contacts 
• Send branded images, promotional content, or coupon codes to those who opt in
• Collect post-purchase feedback, reviews, and customer insight
• Demonstrate social proof on your website with a widget, or push automatic Facebook posts sharing recent purchases
• Display a promotional banner on your website to capture contacts instantly

10. Yotpo

Yotpo’s deep learning technology evaluates your customers’ product reviews to help you make better business decisions. It identifies key topics that customers mention related to your products—and their feelings toward them. The AI engine extracts relevant reviews from past buyers and presents them in smart displays to convert new shoppers. Yotpo also saves you time moderating reviews. The AI-powered moderation tool automatically assigns a score to each review and flags reviews with negative sentiment so you can focus on quality control instead of manually reviewing every post.

Key features:

• Makes it easy for shoppers to filter reviews and find the exact information they’re looking for
• Analyzes customer feedback and sentiments to help you improve your products
• Integrates with most leading eCommerce platforms, including BigCommerce, Magento, and Shopify.

11. Albert AI

  Albert is a self-learning software that automates the creation of marketing campaigns for your brand. It analyzes vast amounts of data to run optimized campaigns autonomously, allowing you to feed in your own creative content and target markets, and then use data from its database to determine key characteristics of a serious buyer. Albert identifies potential customers that match those traits, and runs trial campaigns on a small group of customers—with results refined by Albert himself—before launching it on a larger scale.

  Albert plugs into your existing marketing technology stack, so you still have access to your accounts, ads, search, social media, and more. Albert maps tracking and attribution to your source of truth so you can determine which channels are driving your business.

Key features:

• Breaks down large amounts of data to help you customize campaigns
• Plugs into your marketing technology stack and can be used across diverse media outlets, including email, content, paid media, and mobile

Final Saying

There are many tools and companies out there that offer AI tools, but this is a small list of resources that we have found to be helpful. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to share them in the comments below this article. As marketing evolves at such a rapid pace, new marketing strategies will be invented that we haven't even dreamed of yet. But for now, this list should give you a good starting point on your way to implementing AI into your marketing mix.

Note: This article contains affiliate links, meaning we make a small commission if you buy any premium plan from our link.

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Most Frequently Asked Questions About Affiliate Marketing
Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:03:00 +0000

There are lots of questions floating around about how affiliate marketing works, what to do and what not to do when it comes to setting up a business. With so much uncertainty surrounding both personal and business aspects of affiliate marketing. In this post, we will answer the most frequently asked question about affiliate marketing

1. What is affiliate marketing?

 Affiliate marketing is a way to make money by promoting the products and services of other people and companies. You don't need to create your product or service, just promote existing ones. That's why it's so easy to get started with affiliate marketing. You can even get started with no budget at all!

2. What is an affiliate program?

 An affiliate program is a package of information you create for your product, which is then made available to potential publishers. The program will typically include details about the product and its retail value, commission levels, and promotional materials. Many affiliate programs are managed via an affiliate network like ShareASale, which acts as a platform to connect publishers and advertisers, but it is also possible to offer your program directly.

3. What is an affiliate network and how do affiliate networks make money? 

 Affiliate networks connect publishers to advertisers.  Affiliate networks make money by charging fees to the merchants who advertise with them; these merchants are known as advertisers. The percentage of each sale that the advertiser pays is negotiated between the merchant and the affiliate network.

4. What's the difference between affiliate marketing and dropshipping?

 Dropshipping is a method of selling that allows you to run an online store without having to stock products. You advertise the products as if you owned them, but when someone makes an order, you create a duplicate order with the distributor at a reduced price. The distributor takes care of the post and packaging on your behalf. As affiliate marketing is based on referrals and this type of drop shipping requires no investment in inventory when a customer buys through the affiliate link, no money exchanges hands.

 5. Can affiliate marketing and performance marketing be considered the same thing?

 Performance marketing is a method of marketing that pays for performance, like when a sale is made or an ad is clicked This can include methods like PPC (pay-per-click) or display advertising. Affiliate marketing is one form of performance marketing where commissions are paid out to affiliates on a performance basis when they click on their affiliate link and make a purchase or action.

 6. Is it possible to promote affiliate offers on mobile devices?

 Smartphones are essentially miniature computers, so publishers can display the same websites and offers that are available on a PC. But mobiles also offer specific tools not available on computers, and these can be used to good effect for publishers. Publishers can optimize their ads for mobile users by making them easy to access by this audience. Publishers can also make good use of text and instant messaging to promote their offers. As the mobile market is predicted to make up 80% of traffic in the future, publishers who do not promote on mobile devices are missing out on a big opportunity.

7. Where do I find qualified publishers?

 The best way to find affiliate publishers is on reputable networks like ShareASale Cj(Commission Junction), Awin, and Impact radius. These networks have a strict application process and compliance checks, which means that all affiliates are trustworthy.

8. What is an affiliate disclosure statement?

 An affiliate disclosure statement discloses to the reader that there may be affiliate links on a website, for which a commission may be paid to the publisher if visitors follow these links and make purchases.

 9. Does social media activity play a significant role in affiliate marketing?

 Publishers promote their programs through a variety of means, including blogs, websites, email marketing, and pay-per-click ads. Social media has a huge interactive audience, making this platform a good source of potential traffic.

10. What is a super affiliate?

 A super affiliate is an affiliate partner who consistently drives a large majority of sales from any program they promote, compared to other affiliate partners involved in that program.  Affiliates make a lot of money from affiliate marketing Pat Flynn earned more than $50000 in 2013 from affiliate marketing.

11. How do we track publisher sales activity?

 Publishers can be identified by their publisher ID, which is used in tracking cookies to determine which publishers generate sales. The activity is then viewed within a network's dashboard.

 12. Could we set up an affiliate program in multiple countries?

 Because the Internet is so widespread, affiliate programs can be promoted in any country. Affiliate strategies that are set internationally need to be tailored to the language of the targeted country.

13. How can affiliate marketing help my business?

Affiliate marketing can help you grow your business in the following ways:

•  It allows you to save time and money on marketing, which frees you up to focus on other aspects of your business.
•  You get access to friendly marketers who are eager to help you succeed. 
• It also helps you to promote your products by sharing links and banners with a new audience.
•  It offers high ROI(Return on investment) and is cost-effective.

 14. How do I find quality publishers?

 One of the best ways to work with qualified affiliates is to hire an affiliate marketing agency that works with all the networks. Affiliates are carefully selected and go through a rigorous application process to be included in the network.

15. How Can we Promote Affiliate Links?

 Affiliate marketing is generally associated with websites, but there are other ways to promote your affiliate links, including:

• A website or blog
• Through email marketing and newsletter
• Social media, like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
•  Leave a comment on blogs or forums.
• Write an e-book or other digital product.
• Youtube

 16. Do you have to pay to sign up for an affiliate program?

 To build your affiliate marketing business, you don't have to invest money in the beginning. You can sign up for free with any affiliate network and start promoting their brands right away.

17. What is a commission rate?

 Commission rates are typically based on a percentage of the total sale and in some cases can also be a flat fee for each transaction. The rates are set by the merchant.

Who manages your affiliate program?

 Some merchants run their affiliate programs internally, while others choose to contract out management to a network or an external agency.

18. What is a cookie?

 Cookies are small pieces of data that work with web browsers to store information such as user preferences, login or registration data, and shopping cart contents. When someone clicks on your affiliate link, a cookie is placed on the user's computer or mobile device. That cookie is used to remember the link or ad that the visitor clicked on. Even if the user leaves your site and comes back a week later to make a purchase, you will still get credit for the sale and receive a commission it depends on the site cookies duration

19. How long do cookies last?

 The merchant determines the duration of a cookie, also known as its “cookie life.” The most common length for an affiliate program is 30 days. If someone clicks on your affiliate link, you’ll be paid a commission if they purchase within 30 days of the click.

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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:49:00 +0000

If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don't have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become old.

Imagine a world in which you can do transactions and many other things without having to give your personal information. A world in which you don’t need to rely on banks or governments anymore. Sounds amazing, right? That’s exactly what blockchain technology allows us to do.

It’s like your computer’s hard drive. blockchain is a technology that lets you store data in digital blocks, which are connected together like links in a chain. 

Blockchain technology was originally invented in 1991 by two mathematicians, Stuart Haber and W. Scot Stornetta. They first proposed the system to ensure that timestamps could not be tampered with.

A few years later, in 1998, software developer Nick Szabo proposed using a similar kind of technology to secure a digital payments system he called “Bit Gold.” However, this innovation was not adopted until Satoshi Nakamoto claimed to have invented the first Blockchain and Bitcoin.

So, What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed database shared between the nodes of a computer network. It saves information in digital format. Many people first heard of blockchain technology when they started to look up information about bitcoin.

Blockchain is used in cryptocurrency systems to ensure secure, decentralized records of transactions.

Blockchain allowed people to guarantee the fidelity and security of a record of data without the need for a third party to ensure accuracy.

To understand how a blockchain works, Consider these basic steps:

• Blockchain collects information in “blocks”.
• A block has a storage capacity, and once it's used up, it can be closed and linked to a previously served block.
• Blocks form chains, which are called “Blockchains.”
• More information will be added to the block with the most content until its capacity is full. The process repeats itself.
• Each block in the chain has an exact timestamp and can't be changed.

Let’s get to know more about the blockchain.

How does blockchain work?

Blockchain records digital information and distributes it across the network without changing it. The information is distributed among many users and stored in an immutable, permanent ledger that can't be changed or destroyed. That's why blockchain is also called "Distributed Ledger Technology" or DLT.

Here’s how it works:

• Someone or a computer will transacts
• The transaction is transmitted throughout the network.
• A network of computers can confirm the transaction.
• When it is confirmed a transaction is added to a block
• The blocks are linked together to create a history.

And that’s the beauty of it! The process may seem complicated, but it’s done in minutes with modern technology. And because technology is advancing rapidly, I expect things to move even more quickly than ever.

• A new transaction is added to the system. It is then relayed to a network of computers located around the world. The computers then solve equations to ensure the authenticity of the transaction.
• Once a transaction is confirmed, it is placed in a block after the confirmation. All of the blocks are chained together to create a permanent history of every transaction.

How are Blockchains used?

Even though blockchain is integral to cryptocurrency, it has other applications. For example, blockchain can be used for storing reliable data about transactions. Many people confuse blockchain with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.

Blockchain already being adopted by some big-name companies, such as Walmart, AIG, Siemens, Pfizer, and Unilever. For example, IBM's Food Trust uses blockchain to track food's journey before reaching its final destination.

Although some of you may consider this practice excessive, food suppliers and manufacturers adhere to the policy of tracing their products because bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella have been found in packaged foods. In addition, there have been isolated cases where dangerous allergens such as peanuts have accidentally been introduced into certain products.

Tracing and identifying the sources of an outbreak is a challenging task that can take months or years. Thanks to the Blockchain, however, companies now know exactly where their food has been—so they can trace its location and prevent future outbreaks.

Blockchain technology allows systems to react much faster in the event of a hazard. It also has many other uses in the modern world.

What is Blockchain Decentralization?

Blockchain technology is safe, even if it’s public. People can access the technology using an internet connection.

Have you ever been in a situation where you had all your data stored at one place and that one secure place got compromised? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to prevent your data from leaking out even when the security of your storage systems is compromised?

Blockchain technology provides a way of avoiding this situation by using multiple computers at different locations to store information about transactions. If one computer experiences problems with a transaction, it will not affect the other nodes.

Instead, other nodes will use the correct information to cross-reference your incorrect node. This is called “Decentralization,” meaning all the information is stored in multiple places.

Blockchain guarantees your data's authenticity—not just its accuracy, but also its irreversibility. It can also be used to store data that are difficult to register, like legal contracts, state identifications, or a company's product inventory.

Pros and Cons of Blockchain

Blockchain has many advantages and disadvantages. 

Pros

• Accuracy is increased because there is no human involvement in the verification process.
• One of the great things about decentralization is that it makes information harder to tamper with.
• Safe, private, and easy transactions
• Provides a banking alternative and safe storage of personal information

Cons

• Data storage has limits.
• The regulations are always changing, as they differ from place to place.
• It has a risk of being used for illicit activities 

Frequently Asked Questions About Blockchain

I’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about blockchain in this section.

Is Blockchain a cryptocurrency?

Blockchain is not a cryptocurrency but a technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. It's a digital ledger that records every transaction seamlessly.

Is it possible for Blockchain to be hacked?

Yes, blockchain can be theoretically hacked, but it is a complicated task to be achieved. A network of users constantly reviews it, which makes hacking the blockchain difficult.

What is the most prominent blockchain company?

Coinbase Global is currently the biggest blockchain company in the world. The company runs a commendable infrastructure, services, and technology for the digital currency economy.

Who owns Blockchain?

Blockchain is a decentralized technology. It’s a chain of distributed ledgers connected with nodes. Each node can be any electronic device. Thus, one owns blockhain.

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain technology?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is powered by Blockchain technology while Blockchain is a distributed ledger of cryptocurrency 

What is the difference between Blockchain and a Database?

Generally a database is a collection of data which can be stored and organized using a database management system. The people who have access to the database can view or edit the information stored there. The client-server network architecture is used to implement databases. whereas a blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, stored in a distributed system. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, timestamp and transaction information. Modification of data is not allowed due to the design of the blockchain. The technology allows decentralized control and eliminates risks of data modification by other parties.

Final Saying

Blockchain has a wide spectrum of applications and, over the next 5-10 years, we will likely see it being integrated into all sorts of industries. From finance to healthcare, blockchain could revolutionize the way we store and share data. Although there is some hesitation to adopt blockchain systems right now, that won't be the case in 2022-2023 (and even less so in 2026). Once people become more comfortable with the technology and understand how it can work for them, owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs alike will be quick to leverage blockchain technology for their own gain. Hope you like this article if you have any question let me know in the comments section

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ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:04:00 +0000

What is Grammarly?

Grammarly is a tool that checks for grammatical errors, spelling, and punctuation.it gives you comprehensive feedback on your writing. You can use this tool to proofread and edit articles, blog posts, emails, etc.

Grammarly also detects all types of mistakes, including sentence structure issues and misused words. It also gives you suggestions on style changes, punctuation, spelling, and grammar all are in real-time. The free version covers the basics like identifying grammar and spelling mistakes

whereas the Premium version offers a lot more functionality, it detects plagiarism in your content, suggests word choice, or adds fluency to it.

Features of Grammarly

• Spelling and Word Suggestion: Grammarly detects basic to advance grammatical errors and also help you why this is an error and suggest to you how you can improve it
• Create a Personal Dictionary: The Grammarly app allows you to add words to your personal dictionary so that the same mistake isn't highlighted every time you run Grammarly.
• Different English Style: Check to spell for American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.
• Plagiarism: This feature helps you detect if a text has been plagiarized by comparing it with over eight billion web pages.
• Wordiness: This tool will help you check your writing for long and hard-to-read sentences. It also shows you how to shorten sentences so that they are more concise.
• Passive Voice: The program also notifies users when passive voice is used too frequently in a document.
• Punctuations: This feature flags all incorrect and missing punctuation.
• Repetition: The tool provides recommendations for replacing the repeated word.
• Proposition: Grammarly identifies misplaced and confused prepositions.
  
• Plugins: It offers Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Chrome plugins.

What is ProWritingAid?

ProWritingAid is a style and grammar checker for content creators and writers. It helps to optimize word choice, punctuation errors, and common grammar mistakes, providing detailed reports to help you improve your writing. 

ProWritingAid can be used as an add-on to WordPress, Gmail, and Google Docs. The software also offers helpful articles, videos, quizzes, and explanations to help improve your writing.

Features of ProWriting Aid

Here are some key features of ProWriting Aid:

• Grammar checker and spell checker: This tool helps you to find all grammatical and spelling errors.
• Find repeated words:  The tool also allows you to search for repeated words and phrases in your content.
• Context-sensitive style suggestions:  You can find the exact style of writing you intend and suggest if it flows well in your writing.
• Check the readability of your content: Pro Writing Aid helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your article by pointing out difficult sentences and paragraphs.
• Sentence Length: It also indicates the length of your sentences.
• Check Grammatical error: It also checks your work for any grammatical errors or typos, as well.
• Overused words: As a writer, you might find yourself using the same word repeatedly. ProWritingAid's overused words checker helps you avoid this lazy writing mistake.
• Consistency: Check your work for inconsistent usage of open and closed quotation marks.
• Echoes: Check your writing for uniformly repetitive words and phrases.

Difference between Grammarly and Pro-Writing Aid

Grammarly and ProWritingAid are well-known grammar-checking software. However, if you're like most people who can't decide which to use, here are some different points that may be helpful in your decision.

Grammarly vs ProWritingAid

• Grammarly is a writing enhancement tool that offers suggestions for grammar, vocabulary, and syntax whereas ProWritingAid offers world-class grammar and style checking, as well as advanced reports to help you strengthen your writing.
• Grammarly provides Android and IOS apps whereas ProWritingAid doesn't have a mobile or IOS app.
• Grammarly offers important suggestions about mistakes you've made whereas ProWritingAid  shows more suggestions than Grammarly but all recommendations are not accurate
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX whereas the ProWritingAid interface is not friendly as Grammarly.
• Grammarly is an accurate grammar checker for non-fiction writing whereas ProWritingAid is an accurate grammar checker for fiction writers.
• Grammarly finds grammar and punctuation mistakes, whereas ProWritingAid identifies run-on sentences and fragments.
• Grammarly provides 24/7 support via submitting a ticket and sending emails. ProWritingAid’s support team is available via email, though the response time is approximately 48 hours.
• Grammarly offers many features in its free plan, whereas ProWritingAid offers some basic features in the free plan.
• Grammarly does not offer much feedback on big picture writing; ProWritingAid offers complete feedback on big picture writing.
• Grammarly is a better option for accuracy, whereas ProWritingAid is better for handling fragmented sentences and dialogue. It can be quite useful for fiction writers.

ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Pricing Difference

• ProWritingAid comes with three pricing structures. The full-year cost of ProWritingAid is $79, while its lifetime plans cost $339. You also can opt for a monthly plan of $20.
• Grammarly offers a Premium subscription for $30/month for a monthly plan  $20/month for quarterly and $12/month for an annual subscription.
• The Business plan costs $12.50 per month for each member of your company.

ProWritingAid vs Grammarly – Pros and Cons

Grammarly Pros

• It allows you to fix common mistakes like grammar and spelling.
• Offers most features in the free plan
• Allows you to edit a document without affecting the formatting.
• Active and passive voice checker
• Personal dictionary 
• Plagiarism checker (paid version)
• Proofread your writing and correct all punctuation, grammar, and spelling errors.
• Allows you to make changes to a document without altering its formatting.
• Helps users improve vocabulary
• User-friendly interface
• Browser extensions and MS word add-ons
• Available on all major devices and platforms
• Grammarly will also offer suggestions to improve your style.
• Enhance the readability of your sentence
• Free mobile apps 
• Offers  free version

Grammarly Cons

• Supports only English 
• Customer support only via email
• Limits to 150,000 words
• Subscription plans can be a bit pricey 
• Plagiarism checker is only available in a premium plan
• Doesn’t offer a free trial
• No refund policy
• The free version is ideal for basic spelling and grammatical mistakes, but it does not correct advanced writing issues.
• Some features are not available for Mac.

ProwritingAid Pros

• It offers more than 20 different reports to help you improve your writing.
• Less expensive than other grammar checkers.
• This tool helps you strengthen your writing style as it offers big-picture feedback.
• ProWritingAid has a life plan with no further payments required.
• Compatible with Google Docs!
• Prowritingaid works on both Windows and Mac.
• They offer more integrations than most tools.

ProWritingAid Cons

• Editing can be a little more time-consuming when you add larger passages of text.
• ProWritingAid currently offers no mobile app for Android or iOS devices.
• Plagiarism checker is only available in premium plans.
• All recommendations are not accurate

Summarizing the Ginger VS Grammarly: My Recommendation

As both writing assistants are great in their own way, you need to choose the one that suits you best.

• For example, go for Grammarly  if you are a non-fiction writer
• Go for ProWritingAid if you are a fiction writer.
• ProWritingAid is better at catching errors found in long-form content. However, Grammarly is more suited to short blog posts and other similar tasks.
• ProWritingAid helps you clean up your writing by checking for style, structure, and content while Grammarly focuses on grammar and punctuation.
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX whereas; ProWritingAid offers complete feedback on big picture writing.

Both ProWritingAid and Grammarly are awesome writing tools, without a doubt. but as per my experience, Grammarly is a winner here because Grammarly helps you to review and edit your content. Grammarly highlights all the mistakes in your writing within seconds of copying and pasting the content into Grammarly’s editor or using the software’s native feature in other text editors.

Not only does it identify tiny grammatical and spelling errors, it tells you when you overlook punctuations where they are needed. And, beyond its plagiarism-checking capabilities, Grammarly helps you proofread your content. Even better, the software offers a free plan that gives you access to some of its features.

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Sellfy Review 2022: How Good Is This Ecommerce Platform?
Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:54:00 +0000

 

Are you searching for an ecomerce platform to help you build an online store and sell products?

In this Sellfy review, we'll talk about how this eCommerce platform can let you sell digital products while keeping full control of your marketing.

And the best part? Starting your business can be done in just five minutes.

Let us then talk about the Sellfy platform and all the benefits it can bring to your business.

What is Sellfy?

Sellfy is an eCommerce solution that allows digital content creators, including writers, illustrators, designers, musicians, and filmmakers, to sell their products online. Sellfy provides a customizable storefront where users can display their digital products and embed "Buy Now" buttons on their website or blog. Sellfy product pages enable users to showcase their products from different angles with multiple images and previews from Soundcloud, Vimeo, and YouTube. Files of up to 2GB can be uploaded to Sellfy, and the company offers unlimited bandwidth and secure file storage. Users can also embed their entire store or individual project widgets in their site, with the ability to preview how widgets will appear before they are displayed.

Features

Sellfy includes:

Online Store

Sellfy is a powerful e-commerce platform that helps you personalize your online storefront. You can add your logo, change colors, revise navigation, and edit the layout of your store. Sellfy also allows you to create a full shopping cart so customers can purchase multiple items. And Sellfy gives you the ability to set your language or let customers see a translated version of your store based on their location.

Sellfy gives you the option to host your store directly on its platform, add a custom domain to your store, and use it as an embedded storefront on your website. Sellfy also optimizes its store offerings for mobile devices, allowing for a seamless checkout experience.

Product hosting

Sellfy allows creators to host all their products and sell all of their digital products on one platform. Sellfy also does not place storage limits on your store but recommends that files be no larger than 5GB. Creators can sell both standard and subscription-based products in any file format that is supported by the online marketplace. Customers can purchase products instantly after making a purchase – there is no waiting period.

You can organize your store by creating your product categories, sorting by any characteristic you choose. Your title, description, and the image will be included on each product page. In this way, customers can immediately evaluate all of your products. You can offer different pricing options for all of your products, including "pay what you want," in which the price is entirely up to the customer. This option allows you to give customers control over the cost of individual items (without a minimum price) or to set pricing minimums—a good option if you're in a competitive market or when you have higher-end products. You can also offer set prices per product as well as free products to help build your store's popularity.

Sellfy is ideal for selling digital content, such as ebooks. But it does not allow you to copyrighted material (that you don't have rights to distribute).

Embed options

Sellfy offers several ways to share your store, enabling you to promote your business on different platforms. Sellfy lets you integrate it with your existing website using "buy now" buttons, embed your entire storefront, or embed certain products so you can reach more people. Sellfy also enables you to connect with your Facebook page and YouTube channel, maximizing your visibility.

Payments and security

Sellfy is a simple online platform that allows customers to buy your products directly through your store. Sellfy has two payment processing options: PayPal and Stripe. You will receive instant payments with both of these processors, and your customer data is protected by Sellfy's secure (PCI-compliant) payment security measures. In addition to payment security, Sellfy provides anti-fraud tools to help protect your products including PDF stamping, unique download links, and limited download attempts.

Marketing and analytics tools

The Sellfy platform includes marketing and analytics tools to help you manage your online store. You can send email product updates and collect newsletter subscribers through the platform. With Sellfy, you can also offer discount codes and product upsells, as well as create and track Facebook and Twitter ads for your store. The software's analytics dashboard will help you track your best-performing products, generated revenue, traffic channels, top locations, and overall store performance.

Integrations

To expand functionality and make your e-commerce store run more efficiently, Sellfy offers several integrations. Google Analytics and Webhooks, as well as integrations with Patreon and Facebook Live Chat, are just a few of the options available. Sellfy allows you to connect to Zapier, which gives you access to hundreds of third-party apps, including tools like Mailchimp, Trello, Salesforce, and more.

Pricing and Premium Plan Features

Free Plan

• Price: $0

The free plan comes with:

• Up to 10 products
• Print-on-demand products
• Physical products

Starter Plan

• Price: $19/month

Starter plan comes with:

• Everything is Free, plus:
• Unlimited products
• Digital products
• Subscription products
• Connect your domain
• 2,000 email credits

Business Plan

• Price: $49/month

The business plan comes with:

• Everything in Starter, plus:
• Remove "Sellfy" branding
• Store design migration
• Cart abandonment
• Product upselling
• 10,000 email credits

Premium Plan

• Price: $99/month

The premium plan comes with:

• Everything in Business, plus:
• Product migration
• Priority support
• 50,000 email credits

Sellfy Review: Pros and Cons

Sellfy has its benefits and downsides, but fortunately, the pros outweigh the cons.

Pros

• It takes only a few minutes to set up an online store and begin selling products.
• You can sell your products on a single storefront, even if you are selling multiple product types.
• Sellfy supports selling a variety of product types, including physical items, digital goods, subscriptions, and print-on-demand products.
  
  
• Sellfy offers a free plan for those who want to test out the features before committing to a paid plan.
• You get paid the same day you make a sale. Sellfy doesn't delay your funds as some other payment processors do. 
• Print-on-demand services are available directly from your store, so you can sell merchandise to fans without setting up an integration. 
• You can conduct all store-related activities via the mobile app and all online stores have mobile responsive designs.
• Everything you need to make your website is included, including a custom domain name hosting, security for your files, and the ability to customize your store
• The file security features can help you protect your digital property by allowing you to put PDF stamps, set download limits, and SSL encryption.
• Sellfy provides unlimited support.
• Sellfy provides simple and intuitive tax and VAT configuration settings.
• Marketing strategies include coupons, email marketing, upselling, tracking pixels, and cart abandonment.

Cons

• Although the free plan is helpful, but it limits you to only 10 products.
• Payment plans often require an upgrade if you exceed a certain sales amount per year.
• The storefront designs are clean, but they're not unique templates for creating a completely different brand image.
• Sellfy's branding is removed from your hosted product when you upgrade to the $49 per month Business plan.
• The free plan does not allow for selling digital or subscription products.

Conclusion

In this article, we have taken a look at some of the biggest benefits associated with using sellfy for eCommerce. Once you compare these benefits to what you get with other platforms such as Shopify, you should find that it is worth your time to consider sellfy for your business. After reading this article all of your questions will be solved but if you have still some questions let me know in the comment section below, I will be happy to answer your questions.

Note: This article contains affiliate links which means we make a small commission if you buy sellfy premium plan from our link.

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Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

SEMrush and Ahrefs are among the most popular tools in the SEO industry. Both companies have been in business for years and have thousands of customers per month.

If you're a professional SEO or trying to do digital marketing on your own, at some point you'll likely consider using a tool to help with your efforts. Ahrefs and SEMrush are two names that will likely appear on your shortlist.

In this guide, I'm going to help you learn more about these SEO tools and how to choose the one that's best for your purposes.

What is SEMrush?

SEMrush is a popular SEO tool with a wide range of features—it's the leading competitor research service for online marketers. SEMrush's SEO Keyword Magic tool offers over 20 billion Google-approved keywords, which are constantly updated and it's the largest keyword database.

The program was developed in 2007 as SeoQuake is a small Firefox extension

Features

• Most accurate keyword data: Accurate keyword search volume data is crucial for SEO and PPC campaigns by allowing you to identify what keywords are most likely to bring in big sales from ad clicks. SEMrush constantly updates its databases and provides the most accurate data.
• Largest Keyword database: SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool now features 20-billion keywords, providing marketers and SEO professionals the largest database of keywords.


• All SEMrush users receive daily ranking data, mobile volume information, and the option to buy additional keywords by default with no additional payment or add-ons needed
• Most accurate position tracking tool: This tool provides all subscribers with basic tracking capabilities, making it suitable for SEO professionals. Plus, the Position Tracking tool provides local-level data to everyone who uses the tool.
• SEO Data Management: SEMrush makes managing your online data easy by allowing you to create visually appealing custom PDF reports, including Branded and White Label reports, report scheduling, and integration with GA, GMB, and GSC.
• Toxic link monitoring and penalty recovery: With SEMrush, you can make a detailed analysis of toxic backlinks, toxic scores, toxic markers, and outreach to those sites.
• Content Optimization and Creation Tools: SEMrush offers content optimization and creation tools that let you create SEO-friendly content. Some features include the SEO Writing Assistant, On-Page SEO Check, er/SEO Content Template, Content Audit, Post Tracking, Brand Monitoring.

Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading SEO platform that offers a set of tools to grow your search traffic, research your competitors, and monitor your niche. The company was founded in 2010, and it has become a popular choice among SEO tools. Ahrefs has a keyword index of over 10.3 billion keywords and offers accurate and extensive backlink data updated every 15-30 minutes and it is the world's most extensive backlink index database.

Features

• Backlink alerts data and new keywords: Get an alert when your site is linked to or discussed in blogs, forums, comments, or when new keywords are added to a blog posting about you.
• Intuitive interface: The intuitive design of the widget helps you see the overall health of your website and search engine ranking at a glance.
• Site Explorer: The Site Explorer will give you an in-depth look at your site's search traffic.
• Domain Comparison
• Reports with charts and graphs
• JavaScript rendering and a site audit can identify SEO issues.
• A question explorer that provides well-crafted topic suggestions

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

Now that you know a little more about each tool, let's take a look at how they compare. I'll analyze each tool to see how they differ in interfaces, keyword research resources, rank tracking, and competitor analysis.

User Interface

Ahrefs and SEMrush both offer comprehensive information and quick metrics regarding your website's SEO performance. However, Ahrefs takes a bit more of a hands-on approach to getting your account fully set up, whereas SEMrush's simpler dashboard can give you access to the data you need quickly.

In this section, we provide a brief overview of the elements found on each dashboard and highlight the ease with which you can complete tasks.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs dashboard is less cluttered than that of SEMrush, and its primary menu is at the very top of the page, with a search bar designed only for entering URLs.

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

• You can see analytics from the dashboard, including search engine rankings to domain ratings, referring domains, and backlink
• Jumping from one tool to another is easy. You can use the Keyword Explorer to find a keyword to target and then directly track your ranking with one click.
• The website offers a tooltip helper tool that allows you to hover your mouse over something that isn't clear and get an in-depth explanation.

SEMRUSH

When you log into the SEMrush Tool, you will find four main modules. These include information about your domains, organic keyword analysis, ad keyword, and site traffic.

You'll also find some other options like

• A search bar allows you to enter a domain, keyword, or anything else you wish to explore.
• A menu on the left side of the page provides quick links to relevant information, including marketing insights, projects, keyword analytics, and more.
• The customer support resources located directly within the dashboard can be used to communicate with the support team or to learn about other resources such as webinars and blogs.
• Detailed descriptions of every resource offered. This detail is beneficial for new marketers, who are just starting.

WHO WINS?

Both Ahrefs and SEMrush have user-friendly dashboards, but Ahrefs is less cluttered and easier to navigate. On the other hand, SEMrush offers dozens of extra tools, including access to customer support resources.

When deciding on which dashboard to use, consider what you value in the user interface, and test out both.

Rank Tracking

If you're looking to track your website's search engine ranking, rank tracking features can help. You can also use them to monitor your competitors.

Let's take a look at Ahrefs vs. SEMrush to see which tool does a better job.

Ahrefs

The Ahrefs Rank Tracker is simpler to use. Just type in the domain name and keywords you want to analyze, and it spits out a report showing you the search engine results page (SERP) ranking for each keyword you enter.

Rank Tracker looks at the ranking performance of keywords and compares them with the top rankings for those keywords. Ahrefs also offers:

You'll see metrics that help you understand your visibility, traffic, average position, and keyword difficulty.

It gives you an idea of whether a keyword would be profitable to target or not.

SEMRUSH

SEMRush offers a tool called Position Tracking. This tool is a project tool—you must set it up as a new project. Below are a few of the most popular features of the SEMrush Position Tracking tool:

All subscribers are given regular data updates and mobile search rankings upon subscribing

The platform provides opportunities to track several SERP features, including Local tracking.

Intuitive reports allow you to track statistics for the pages on your website, as well as the keywords used in those pages.

Identify pages that may be competing with each other using the Cannibalization report.

WHO WINS?

Ahrefs is a more user-friendly option. It takes seconds to enter a domain name and keywords. From there, you can quickly decide whether to proceed with that keyword or figure out how to rank better for other keywords.

SEMrush allows you to check your mobile rankings and ranking updates daily, which is something Ahrefs does not offer. SEMrush also offers social media rankings, a tool you won't find within the Ahrefs platform. Both are good which one do you like let me know in the comment.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is closely related to rank tracking, but it's used for deciding which keywords you plan on using for future content rather than those you use now.

When it comes to SEO, keyword research is the most important thing to consider when comparing the two platforms.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs Keyword Explorer provides you with thousands of keyword ideas and filters search results based on the chosen search engine.

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

• It can search multiple keywords in a single search and analyze them together. At SEMrush, you also have this feature in Keyword Overview.
• Ahrefs has a variety of keywords for different search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and other search engines.
• When you click on a keyword, you can see its search volume and keyword difficulty, but also other keywords related to it, which you didn't use.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool has over 20 billion keywords for Google. You can type in any keyword you want, and a list of suggested keywords will appear.

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

• Show performance metrics by keyword
• Search results are based on both broad and exact keyword matches.
• Show data like search volume, trends, keyword difficulty, and CPC.
• Show the first 100 Google search results for any keyword.
• Identify SERP Features and Questions related to each keyword
• SEMrush has released a new Keyword Gap Tool that uncovers potentially useful keyword opportunities for you, including both paid and organic keywords.

WHO WINS?

Both of these tools offer keyword research features and allow users to break down complicated tasks into something that can be understood by beginners and advanced users alike.

If you're interested in keyword suggestions, SEMrush appears to have more keyword suggestions than Ahrefs does. It also continues to add new features, like the Keyword Gap tool and SERP Questions recommendations.

Competitor Analysis

Both platforms offer competitor analysis tools, eliminating the need to come up with keywords off the top of your head. Each tool is useful for finding keywords that will be useful for your competition so you know they will be valuable to you.

AHREFS

Ahrefs' domain comparison tool lets you compare up to five websites (your website and four competitors) side-by-side.it also shows you how your site is ranked against others with metrics such as backlinks, domain ratings, and more.

Use the Competing Domains section to see a list of your most direct competitors, and explore how many keywords matches your competitors have.

To find more information about your competitor, you can look at the Site Explorer and Content Explorer tools and type in their URL instead of yours.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush provides a variety of insights into your competitors' marketing tactics. The platform enables you to research your competitors effectively. It also offers several resources for competitor analysis including:

Traffic Analytics helps you identify where your audience comes from, how they engage with your site, what devices visitors use to view your site, and how your audiences overlap with other websites.

SEMrush's Organic Research examines your website's major competitors and shows their organic search rankings, keywords they are ranking for, and even if they are ranking for any (SERP) features and more.

The Market Explorer search field allows you to type in a domain and lists websites or articles similar to what you entered. Market Explorer also allows users to perform in-depth data analytics on These companies and markets.

WHO WINS?

SEMrush wins here because it has more tools dedicated to competitor analysis than Ahrefs. However, Ahrefs offers a lot of functionality in this area, too. It takes a combination of both tools to gain an advantage over your competition.

Pricing

Ahrefs

• Lite Monthly: $99/month
• Standard Monthly: $179/month
• Annually Lite: $990/year
• Annually Standard: $1790/year

SEMRUSH

• Pro Plan: $119.95/month
• Guru Plan:$229.95/month
• Business Plan: $449.95/month

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

When it comes to keyword data research, you will become confused about which one to choose.

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

• Like friendly and clean interface
• Searching for simple keyword suggestions

• Want to get more keywords for different search engines like Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, and more

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

• Want more marketing and SEO features
• Need competitor analysis tool
• Need to keep your backlinks profile clean
• Looking for more keyword suggestions for Google

Both tools are great. Choose the one which meets your requirements and if you have any experience using either Ahrefs or SEMrush let me know in the comment section which works well for you.

 

 

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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

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Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000

Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Would you like to read a detailed review of Canva? As it's one of the tools I love using. I am also writing my first ebook using canva and publish it soon on my site you can download it is free.  Let's start the review.

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload your own photos from your computer or from Google Drive, and add them to Canva's templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that doesn't require Graphic designing knowledge to use. It’s best for nongraphic designers.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.

To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. To use it, you’ll need to learn its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and it’s best to have a good background in design, too.

Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.

So here  Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easier to use and free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12.95 per month.

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99/month per user or  $119.99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).

Free plan Features

• 250,000+ free templates
• 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
• Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
• Invite members to your team
• Collaborate and comment in real-time
• 5GB of cloud storage
• Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days

Pro Plan Features 

• Everything Free, has plus:
• 100+ million premium and  stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
• 610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
• Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
•  Create a library of your brand or campaign's colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
• Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
• Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
• Save designs as templates for your team to use
• 100GB of cloud storage
• Schedule social media content to 8 platforms

Enterprise Plan Features

• Everything Pro has plus:
• Establish your brand's visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
• Control your team's access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
• Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
• Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
• Unlimited Storage
• Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.

How to Use Canva?

To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between student, teacher, small business, large company, non-profit, or personal. Based on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.

You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.

Canva Sign Up

Designing with Canva

When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Based on the type of account you set up  you'll be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: social media posts, documents, presentations, marketing, events, ads, launch your business, build your online brand, etc.

 Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.

Templates

Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of templates that are ready to go, with customizable photos, text, and other elements.

You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.

 Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose from

Elements

Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.

To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:

Photos

The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.

You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suited to your industry.

You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.

When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop, or animate it.

 When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any stock photo in  library or any image you upload.

Text

The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.

When you click on  text, you'll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows). 

Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content remains on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.

Audio

Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.

If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.

Video

Want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock video clips. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes

You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab. 

Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.

Backgrounds

On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. Change out the background on a template to give it a more personal touch.

Styles

The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your brand’s custom colors and fonts to ensure designs stay on brand.

Logos

If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use throughout your designs.

With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo with stock content in it.

Publishing with Canva

With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.

Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. For example, you can start by designing an Instagram post, and Canva's Magic Resizer can resize it for other networks, Stories, Reels, and other formats.

Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.

Canva Team

Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created inside Canva, and then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can make comments, edits, revisions, and keep track via the version history.

Canva Print

When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With an extensive selection of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall art to mugs and t-shirts. 

Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs people will want to wear, keep, and share. Hand out custom business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers' minds.

Canva Apps

The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.

In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

• A user-friendly interface
• Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
• Hundreds of templates, so you'll never have to start from scratch.
• Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
• Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
• Creating visual content on the go
• You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.

Cons:

• Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
• Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
• Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
• Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
• If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva's features limited.
• Prefers to work with vectors. Especially logos.
• Expensive enterprise pricing

Conclusion

In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. If you are a graphic designer with experience, you will find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features – particularly vectors. But if you have little design experience, you will find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.

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Top 7 Best Wordpress Plugin Of All Time
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0000

 

If you are looking for the best wordpress plugins, then you are at the right place. Here is the list of best wordpress plugins that you should use in your blog to boost SEO, strong your security and know every aspects of your blog . Although creating a good content is one factor but there are many wordpress plugins that perform different actions and add on to your success. So let's  start

1.Yoast SEO

Those users who are serious about SEO, Yoast SEO will do the work for them to reach their goals. All they need to do is select a keyword, and the plugin will then optimize your page according to the specified keyword

Yoast offers many popular SEO WordPress plugin functions. It gives you real-time page analysis to optimize your content, images, meta descriptions, titles, and kewords. Yoast also checks the length of your sentences and paragraphs, whether you’re using enough transition words or subheadings, how often you use passive voice, and so on. Yoast tells Google whether or not to index a page or a set of pages too.

Let me summarize these points in bullets:

• Enhance the readability of your article to reduce bounce rate
• Optimize your articles with targetted keywords
• Let Google know who you are and what your site is about
• Improve your on-page SEO with advanced, real-time guidance and advice on keyword usage, linking, and external linking.
• Keep your focus keywords consistent to help rank better on  Google.
• Preview how your page would appear in the search engine results page (SERP)
• Crawl your site daily to ensure Google indexes it as quickly as possible.
• Rate your article informing you of any mistakes you might have made so that you can fix them before publishing.
• Stay up-to-date with Google’s latest algorithm changes and adapt your on-page SEO as needed with smartsuggestionss from the Yoast SEO plugin. This plugin is always up-to-date.
• Free Version is available 

Pricing

• Premium version=$89/year that comes with extra functions, allowing you to optimize your content up to five keywords, among other benefits.

2. WP Rocket

A website running WordPress can put a lot of strain on a server, which increases the chances that the website will crash and harm your business. To avoid such an unfortunate situation and ensure that all your pages load quickly, you need a caching plugin like WP Rocket.

WP Rocket plugin designed to increases your website speed. Instead of waiting for pages to be saved to cache, WP Rocket turns on desired caching settings, like page cache and gzip compression. The plugin also activates other features, such as CDN support and llazy image loadding, to enhance your site speed.

Features in bullets:

• Browser Catching
• Preloading the cache of pages
• Reducing the number of HTTP requests allows websites to load more quickly.
• Decreasing bandwidth usage with GZIP compression
• Apply optimal browser caching headers (expires)
• Minifying and combining JavaScript and CSS files
• Remove Unused CSS
• Deferred loading of images (LazyLoad)
• WebP compatibility
• Deferred loading of JavaScript files
• Delay JavaScript Execution
• Critical Path CSS generation and deferred loading of CSS files
• Database optimization
• WordPress Heartbeat API control
• DNS prefetch
• CDN integration
• Cloudflare integration
• Sucuri integration
• Easy import/export of settings
• Easy roll back to a previous version

Pricing

• Single License =$49/year for one website
• Plus License =$99/year for 3 websites
• Infinite License =$249/year for unlimited websites

3.Wordfence Security

Wordfence Security is a WordPress firewall and security scanner that keeps your site safe from malicious hackers, spam, and other online threats. This Plugin comes with a web application firewall (WAF) called tthread Defence  Feed  that helps to prevents brute force attacks by ensuring you set stronger passwords and limiting login attempts. It searches for malware and compares code, theme, and plugin files with the records in the WordPress.org repository to verify their integrity and reports changes to you.

Wordfence security scanner provides you with actionable insights into your website's security status and will alert you to any potential threats, keeping it safe and secure. It also includes login security features that let you activate reCAPTCHA and two-factor authentication for your website.

Features in Bullets.

• Scans your site for vulnerabilities.
• Alerts you by email when new threats are detected.
• Supports advanced login security measures.
• IP addresses may be blocked automatically if suspicious activity is detected.

Pricing

• Premium Plan= $99/Year that comes with extra security features like the real time IP backlist and country blocking option and also support from highly qualified experts.

4. Akismet

Akismet can help prevent spam from appearing on your site. Every day, it automatically checks every comment against a global database of spam to block malicious content. With Akismet, you also won’t have to worry about innocent comments being caught by the filter or false positives. You can simply tell Akismet about those and it will get better over time. It also checks your contact form submissions against its global spam database and weed out unnecessary fake information.

Features in Bullets:

• The program automatically checks comments and filters out spam.
• Hidden or misleading links are often revealed in the comment body. 
• Akismet tracks the status of each comment, allowing you to see which ones were caught by Akismet and which ones were cleared by a moderator.
• A spam-blocking feature that saves disk space and makes your site run faster.
• Moderators can view a list of comments approved by each user.

Pricing

• Free to use for personal blog 

5. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is a plug-in that allows you to create contact forms that make it easy for your users to send messages to your site. The plug-in was developed by Takayuki Miyoshi and lets you create multiple contact forms on the same site; it also integrates Akismet spam filtering and lets you customize the styling and fields that you want to use in the form. The plug-in provides CAPTCHA and Ajax submitting.

Features in bullets:

• Create and manage multiple contact forms
• Easily customize form fields
• Use simple markup to alter mail content
• Add Lots of third-party extensions for additional functionality
• Shortcode offers a way to insert content into pages or posts.
• Akismet spam filtering, Ajax-powered submitting, and CAPTCHA are all features of this plugin.

Pricing

• Free to use

6. Monster Insights

When you’re looking for an easy way to manage your Google Analytics-related web tracking services, Monster Insights can help. You can add, customize, and integrate Google Analytics data with ease so you’ll be able to see how every webpage performs, which online campaigns bring in the most traffic, and which content readers engage with the most. It’s same as Google Analytics

It is a powerful tool to keep track of your traffic stats. With it, you can view stats for your active sessions, conversions, and bounce rates. You’ll also be able to see your total revenue, the products you sell, and how your site is performing when it comes to referrals.

MonsterInsights offers a free plan that includes basic Google Analytics integration, data insights, and user activity metrics.

Features in bullets:

• Demographics and interest reports:
• Anonymize the  IPs of visitor
• See the results of how far visitors Scroll down
• Show the insights of multiple links to the same page and show you which links get more clicks
• See sessions of two related sites as a single session
• Google AdSense tracking
• Send you weekly analytics report of your blog you can download it as pdf

Pricing

• Premium plan= $99.50/year that comes with extra features like page and post tracking, Adsense tracking,  custom tracking and reports.

7. Pretty Links

Pretty Links is a powerful WordPress plugin that enables you to easily cloak affiliate links on your websiteIt even allows you to easily redirect visitors based on a specific request, including permanent 301 and temporary 302/307 redirects.

Pretty links also helps you to automatically shorten your url for your post and pages.

You can also enable auto-linking feature to automatically add affiliate links for certain keywords

Features

•  Create clean, easy-to-remember URLs on your website (301, 302, and 307 redirects only)
• Random-generator or custom URL slugs
• Track the number of clicks
• Easy to understand reports
• View click details including ip address, remote host, browser, operating system, and referring site
• You can pass custom parameters to your scripts when using pretty permalinks, and still have full tracking capability.
• Exclude IP Addresses from Stats
• Cookie-based system to track your activity across clicks
• Create nofollow/noindex links
• Toggle tracking on / off on each link.
• Pretty Link Bookmarklet
•  Update redirected links easily to new URLs!

Pricing

• Beginner Plan=$79/year that can be used on 1 site
• Marketer Plan: $99/year – that can be used on upto 2 sites
• Super Affiliate Plan: $149/year – that can be use on upto 5 sites

We hope you’ve found this article useful. We appreciate you reading and welcome your feedback if you have it.

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Ginger VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:28:00 +0000

Ginger VS Grammarly: When it comes to grammar checkers, Ginger and Grammarly are two of the most popular choices on the market. This article aims to highlight the specifics of each one so that you can make a more informed decision about the one you'll use.

What is Grammarly?

If you are a writer, you must have heard of  Grammarly before. Grammarly has over 10M users across the globe, it's probably the most popular AI writing enhancement tool, without a doubt. That's why there's a high chance that you already know about Grammarly.

But today we are going to do a comparison between Ginger and Grammarly, So let's define Grammarly here. Like Ginger, Grammarly is an AI writing assistant that checks for grammatical errors, spellings, and punctuation. The free version covers the basics like identifying grammar and spelling mistakes

While the Premium version offers a lot more functionality, it detects plagiarism in your content, suggests word choice, or adds fluency to it.

Features of Grammarly

• Grammarly detects basic to advance grammatical errors and also help you why this is an error and suggest to you how you can improve it
• Create a personal dictionary 
• Check to spell for American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.
• Understand inconsistencies. 
• Detect unclear structure. 
• Detect Plagiarism.
• Explore overuse of words and wordiness. 
• Get to know about the improper tones. 
• Discover the insensitive language aligns with your intent, audience, style, emotion, and more.

What is Ginger

 Ginger is a writing enhancement tool that not only catches typos and grammatical mistakes but also suggests content improvements. As you type, it picks up on errors then shows you what’s wrong, and suggests a fix. It also provides you with synonyms and definitions of words and allows you to translate your text into dozens of languages.

Ginger Software: Features & Benefits

• Ginger's software helps you identify and correct common grammatical mistakes, such as consecutive nouns, or contextual spelling correction.
• The sentence rephrasing feature can help you convey your meaning perfectly.
• Ginger acts like a personal coach that helps you practice certain exercises based on your mistakes.
• The dictionary feature helps users understand the meanings of words.

In addition, the program provides a text reader, so you can gauge your writing’s conversational tone.

Ginger vs Grammarly

Grammarly and Ginger are two popular grammar checker software brands that help you to become a better writer. But if you’re undecided about which software to use, consider these differences:

• Grammarly only supports the English language while Ginger supports 40+ languages.
• Grammarly offers a wordiness feature while Ginger lacks a Wordiness feature.
• Grammarly shows an accuracy score while Ginger lacks an accuracy score feature.
• Grammarly has a plagiarism checker while ginger doesn't have such a feature.
• Grammarly can recognize an incorrect use of numbers while Ginger can’t recognize an incorrect use of numbers.
• Grammarly and Ginger both have mobile apps.
• Ginger and Grammarly offer monthly, quarterly, and annual plans.
• Grammarly allows you to check uploaded documents. while Ginger doesn't check uploaded documents.
• Grammarly Offers a tone suggestion feature while Ginger doesn't offer a tone suggestion feature.
• Ginger helps to translate documents into 40+ languages while Grammarly doesn't have a translation feature.
• Ginger Offers text to speech features while Grammarly doesn't have such features.

Grammarly Score: 7/10

Ginger:4/10

So Grammarly  wins here.

Ginger VS Grammarly: Pricing Difference

• Ginger offers a Premium subscription for 13.99$/month. it comes at $11.19/month for quarterly and $7.49/month for an annual subscription with 40$ off.
• On the other hand,  Grammarly offers a Premium subscription for $30/month for a monthly plan  $20/month for quarterly, and $12/month for an annual subscription.

For companies with three or more employees, the Business plan costs $12.50/month for each member of your team. 

Ginger Wins Here

Ginger vs Grammarly – Pros and Cons

Grammarly Pros

• Offers  free version
• All-in-one tool (grammar checker + spell checker + punctuation checker)
• Allows you to edit a document without affecting the formatting.
• Style checker (paid version)


• Active and passive voice checker
• Personal dictionary 
• Plagiarism checker (paid version)
• Available on all major devices and platforms
• Free mobile apps 
• User-friendly interface
• Browser extensions and MS word add-ons
• Can upload and download documents

Grammarly Cons

• Supports only English 
• Customer support only via email
• Limits to 150,000 words
• Subscription plans can be a bit pricey 
• Doesn’t offer a free trial
• No refund policy

Ginger Pros

• Offers free version
• All-in-one tool (grammar checker + spell checker + punctuation checker)
• Affordable Subscription plans (Additionals discounts are available)
• Active and passive voice changer
• Translates documents in 40+ languages 
• Personal dictionary
• Browser extension available 
•  Personal trainers help clients develop their knowledge of grammar.
• Text-to-speech feature reads work out loud
• Get a full refund within 7 days

Ginger Cons

• Mobile apps aren't free
• Limited monthly corrections for free users
• No style checker
• No plagiarism checker
• Not as user-friendly as Grammarly
• You are unable to upload or download documents; however, you may copy and paste files as needed.
• Doesn't offer a free trial

Summarizing the Ginger VS Grammarly: My Recommendation

While both writing assistants are fantastic in their ways, you need to choose the one you want. 

For example, go for Grammarly if you want a plagiarism tool included. 

Choose Ginger if you want to write in languages other than English. I will to the differences for you in order to make the distinctions clearer.

• Grammarly offers a plagiarism checking tool
• Ginger provides text to speech tool
• Grammarly helps you check uploaded documents
• Ginger supports over 40 languages
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX

Which one you like let me know in the comments section also give your opinions in the comments section below.

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Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most popular digital assets today, capturing the attention of cryptocurrency investors, whales and people from around the world. People find it amazing that some users spend thousands or millions of dollars on a single NFT-based image of a monkey or other token, but you can simply take a screenshot for free. So here we share some freuently asked question about NFTs.

1) What is an NFT?

NFT stands for non-fungible  token, which is a cryptographic token on a blockchain with unique identification codes that distinguish it from other tokens. NFTs are unique and not interchangeable, which means no two NFTs are the same. NFTs can be a unique artwork, GIF, Images, videos, Audio album. in-game items, collectibles etc.

2) What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger that allows for the secure storage of data. By recording any kind of information—such as bank account transactions, the ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), or Decentralized Finance (DeFi) smart contracts—in one place, and distributing it to many different computers, blockchains ensure that data can’t be manipulated without everyone in the system being aware.

3) What makes an NFT valuable?

The value of an NFT comes from its ability to be traded freely and securely on the blockchain, which is not possible with other current digital ownership solutionsThe NFT points to its location on the blockchain, but doesn’t necessarily contain the digital property. For example, if you replace one bitcoin with another, you will still have the same thing. If you buy a non-fungible item, such as a movie ticket, it is impossible to replace it with any other movie ticket because each ticket is unique to a specific time and place.

4) How do NFTs work?

One of the unique characteristics of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is that they can be tokenised to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought, sold and traded on the blockchain. 

As with crypto-currency, records of who owns what are stored on a ledger that is maintained by thousands of computers around the world. These records can’t be forged because the whole system operates on an open-source network. 

NFTs also contain smart contracts—small computer programs that run on the blockchain—that give the artist, for example, a cut of any future sale of the token.

5) What’s the connection between NFTs and cryptocurrency?

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren't cryptocurrencies, but they do use blockchain technology. Many NFTs are based on Ethereum, where the blockchain serves as a ledger for all the transactions related to said NFT and the properties it represents.5) How to make an NFT?

Anyone can create an NFT. All you need is a digital wallet, some ethereum tokens and a connection to an NFT marketplace where you’ll be able to upload and sell your creations

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

When you purchase a stock in NFT, that purchase is recorded on the blockchain—the bitcoin ledger of transactions—and that entry acts as your proof of ownership.

7) How is an NFT valued? What are the most expensive NFTs?

The value of an NFT varies a lot based on the digital asset up for grabs. People use NFTs to trade and sell digital art, so when creating an NFT, you should consider the popularity of your digital artwork along with historical statistics.

In the year 2021, a digital artist called Pak created an artwork called The Merge. It was sold on the Nifty Gateway NFT market for $91.8 million.

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

Non-fungible tokens can be used in investment opportunities. One can purchase an NFT and resell it at a profit. Certain NFT marketplaces let sellers of NFTs keep a percentage of the profits from sales of the assets they create.

9) Will NFTs be the future of art and collectibles?

Many people want to buy NFTs because it lets them support the arts and own something cool from their favorite musicians, brands, and celebrities. NFTs also give artists an opportunity to program in continual royalties if someone buys their work. Galleries see this as a way to reach new buyers interested in art.

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

There are many places to buy digital assets, like opensea and their policies vary. On top shot, for instance, you sign up for a waitlist that can be thousands of people long. When a digital asset goes on sale, you are occasionally chosen to purchase it.

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

To mint an NFT token, you must pay some amount of gas fee to process the transaction on the Etherum blockchain, but you can mint your NFT on a different blockchain called Polygon to avoid paying gas fees. This option is available on OpenSea and this simply denotes that your NFT will only be able to trade using Polygon's blockchain and not Etherum's blockchain. Mintable allows you to mint NFTs for free without paying any gas fees.

12) Do i own an NFT if i screenshot it?

The answer is no. Non-Fungible Tokens are minted on the blockchain using cryptocurrencies such as Etherum, Solana, Polygon, and so on. Once a Non-Fungible Token is minted, the transaction is recorded on the blockchain and the contract or license is awarded to whoever has that Non-Fungible Token in their wallet.

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?

 Non-fungible tokens have gained the hearts of people around the world, and they have given digital creators the recognition they deserve. One of the remarkable things about non-fungible tokens is that you can take a screenshot of one, but you don’t own it. This is because when a non-fungible token is created, then the transaction is stored on the blockchain, and the license or contract to hold such a token is awarded to the person owning the token in their digital wallet.

You can sell your work and creations by attaching a license to it on the blockchain, where its ownership can be transferred. This lets you get exposure without losing full ownership of your work. Some of the most successful projects include Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yatch Club NFTs, SandBox, World of Women and so on. These NFT projects have gained popularity globally and are owned by celebrities and other successful entrepreneurs. Owning one of these NFTs gives you an automatic ticket to exclusive business meetings and life-changing connections.

Final Saying

That’s a wrap. Hope you guys found this article enlightening. I just answer some question with my limited knowledge about NFTs. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comment section below. Also I have a question for you, Is bitcoin an NFTs? let me know in The comment section below

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10 Best Chrome Extensions That Are Perfect for Everyone
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:56:00 +0000

Are you a great Chrome user? That’s nice to hear. But first, consider whether or not there are any essential Chrome extensions you are currently missing from your browsing life, so here we're going to share with you 10 Best Chrome Extensions That Are Perfect for Everyone. So Let's Start.

1. LastPass

When you have too several passwords to remember, LastPass remembers them for you.

This chrome extension is an easy way to save you time and increase security. It’s a single password manager that will log you into all of your accounts. you simply ought to bear in mind one word: your LastPass password to log in to all or any your accounts.

Features

• Save usernames and passwords and LastPasswill  log you  in  automatically.
• Fill the forms quickly to save your addresses, credit card numbers and more.

2. MozBar

MozBar is an SEO toolbar extension that makes it easy for you to analyze your web pages' SEO while you surf. You can customize your search so that you see data for a particular region or for all regions. You get data such as website and domain authority and link profile. The status column tells you whether there are any no-followed links to the page.You can also compare link metrics. There is a pro version of MozBar, too.

3. Grammerly

Grammarly is a real-time grammar checking and spelling  tool for online writing. It checks spelling, grammar, and punctuation as you type, and has a dictionary feature that suggests related words. if you use mobile phones for writing than  Grammerly also have a mobile keyboard app.

4. VidlQ

VidIQ is a SaaS product and Chrome Extension that makes it easier to manage and optimize your YouTube channels. It keeps you informed about your channel's performance with real-time analytics and powerful insights.

Features

• Learn more about insights and statistics beyond YouTube Analytics
• Find great videos with the Trending tab.
• You can check out any video’s YouTube rankings and see how your own video is doing on the charts.
• Keep track  the  history of the keyword to determine when a keyword is rising or down  in popularity over time.
• Quickly find out which videos are performing the best on YouTube right now.
• Let this tool suggest keywords for you to use in your title, description and tags.

5. ColorZilla

ColorZilla is a browser extension that allows you to find out the exact color of any object in your web browser. This is especially useful when you want to match elements on your page to the color of an image.

Features 

•  Advanced Color Picker (similar to Photoshop's)
• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
• The "Webpage Color Analyzer" site helps you determine the palette of colors used in a particular website.
• Palette Viewer with 7 pre-installed palettes
• Eyedropper - sample the color of any pixel on the page
• Color History of recently picked colors
• Displays some info about the element, including the tag name, class, id and size.
• Auto copy picked colors to clipboard
• Get colors of dynamic hover elements 
• Pick colors from Flash objects
• Pick colors at any zoom level

6. Honey

Honey is a chrome extension with which you  save each product from the website and notify it when it is available at  low price it's one among the highest extensions for Chrome that finds coupon codes whenever you look online.

Features

• Best for finding exclusive prices on Amazon.
• A free reward program called Honey Gold.
• Searches and filters the simplest value fitting your demand.
• Instant notifications.

7. GMass: Powerful Chrome Extension for Gmail Marketers

GMass (or Gmail Mass) permits users to compose and send mass emails using Gmail. it is a great tool as a result of you'll use it as a replacement for a third-party email sending platform. you will love GMass to spice up your emailing functionality on the platform.

8. Notion Web Clipper: Chrome Extension for Geeks

It's a Chrome extension for geeks that enables you to highlight and save what you see on the web.

It's been designed by Notion, that could be a Google space different that helps groups craft higher ideas and collaborate effectively.

Features

• Save anything online with just one click  
• Use it on any device
• Organize your saved clips quickly
• Tag, share and comment on the clips

If you are someone who works online, you need to surf the internet to get your business done. And often there is no time to read or analyze something. But it's important that you  do it. Notion Web Clipper will help you with that.

9. WhatFont: Chrome Extension for identifying Any Site Fonts

WhatFont is a Chrome extension that allows web designers to easily identify and compare different fonts on a page. The first time you use it on any page, WhatFont will copy the selected page.It  Uses this page to find out what fonts are present and generate an image that shows all those fonts in different sizes. Besides the apparent websites like Google or Amazon,  you'll conjointly use it on sites wherever embedded fonts ar used. 

10. SimilarWeb: Traffic Rank & Website Analysis Extension

Similar Web is an SEO add on for both Chrome and Firefox.It allows you  to check web site traffic and key metrics for any web site, as well as engagement rate, traffic ranking, keyword ranking, and traffic source. this is often a good tool if you are looking to seek out new and effective SEO ways similarly as analyze trends across the web.

Features

• Discover keyword trends
• Know fresh keywords
• Get benefit from the real traffic insights
• Analyze engagement metrics
• Explore unique visitors data
• Analyze your industry's category
• Use month to date data

How to Install chrome Extension in Android

I know everyone knows how to install extension in pc but most of people don't know how to install it in android phone so i will show you how to install it in android

1. Download Kiwi browser from Play Store and then Open it.

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 2. Tap the three dots at the top right corner and select Extension. 

3. Click on (+From Store) to access chrome web store or simple search chrome web store and access it.

4. Once you found an extension click on add to chrome a message will pop-up  asking if you wish to confirm your choice. Hit OK to install the extension in the Kiwi browser.

5. To manage  extensions on the browser, tap the three dots in the upper right corner. Then select Extensions to access a catalog of installed extensions that you can disable, update or remove with just a few clicks.

Your Chrome extensions should install on Android, but there’s no guarantee all of them will work. Because Google Chrome Extensions are not optimized for Android devices.

Final Saying

We hope this list of 10 best chrome extensions that is perfect for everyone will help you in picking the right Chrome Extensions. We have selected the extensions after matching their features to the needs of different categories of people. Also which extension you like the most let me know in the comment section

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Most Frequently Asked Questions About Email Marketing
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 12:45:00 +0000

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7 Free Websites Every Content Creator Needs to Know
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:19:00 +0000
Do you have the desire to become a content creator, but not have the money to start? Here are 7 free websites every content creator needs to know.

1.Exploding Topics (Trending Topics)

Some examples can be:

• Use the most popular hashtags and keywords to get inspiration for ideas.
•  Find out what people are talking about in real-time.
•  Find new audiences you may not have known were interested in your topic.

There’s no excuse not to try this website — it’s free and easy to use!

Visit Exploding Topics From Here

2. Headline Studio (Headline Grader)

Headline Studio allows you to create catchy headlines for your content. After writing a title there is data on how often people view articles with similar titles and why they are involved with them.

This is a valuable tool when creating new blog posts because it generates catchy headlines for your blog post to catch a reader’s attention.

Visit Headline Studio From Here

3. Answer the public

Answer The public is an excellent tool for content creators. It gives you insight into what people are asking on social media sites and communities and lets you guess about topics that matter to your audience. Answer the public allows you to enter a keyword or topic related to your niche and it will show results with popular questions and keywords related to your topic. It's an amazing way to get insights into what people are searching online and allows you to identify topics driven by new blog posts or social media content on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter as well as the types of questions they ask and  also want answers.

Visit Answer The Public From Here

4. Surfer Seo (SEO Ranking)

With this tool, content creators can quickly and easily check the ranking of their websites and those of other competitors. This tool allows you to see how your website compares to others in different categories, including: 

• Rank Potential
• Organic Search Ranking

Surfer Seo is free and the interface is very friendly. It's a great tool for anyone who wants to do quick competitor research or check their site's rankings at any time.

Visit SurferSeo From Here

5. Canva (Templates/Graphics)

Canva is a free graphic design platform that makes it easy to create invitations, business cards, mobile videos, Instagram posts, Instagram stories, flyers, and more with professionally designed templates. You can even upload your photos and drag and drop them into Canva templates. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop. You can also remove background from images with one click.

Canva offers thousands of free, professionally designed templates that can be customized with just a few clicks. Simply upload your photos to Canva, drag them into the template of your choice, and save the file to your computer.

It is free to use for basic use but if you want access to different fonts or more features, then you need to buy a premium plan.

Visit Canva From Here

6. Facebook Audience Insights (Audience Research)

Facebook Audience Insights is a powerful tool for content creators when researching their target market. This can help you understand the demographics, interests, and behaviors of your target audience. This information helps determine the direction of your content so that it resonates with them. The most important tools to consider in Facebook Audience Insights are Demographics and Behavior. These two sections provide you with valuable information about your target market, such as their age and from where they belong, how much time they spend on social media per day, what devices they use to access it, etc.

There is another section of Facebook Audits that is very helpful. This will let you know the interests, hobbies, and activities that people in your target market are most interested in. You can use this information to create content for them about things they will be about as opposed to topics they may not be so keen on.

Visit Facebook Audience Insights From Here

7. Pexels (Images)

Pexels is a warehouse for any content creator with millions of free royalty images who wants to find high-quality images that can be used freely without having to worry about permissions or licensing so you are free to use the photos in your content and also there is no watermark on photos

The only cons are that some photos contain people, and Pexels doesn't allow you to remove people from photos. Search your keyword and download as many as you want!

Visit Pexel From Here

So there you have it. We hope that these specially curated websites will come in handy for content creators and small businesses alike. If you've got a site that should be on this list, let us know! And if you're looking for more content creator resources, then let us know in the comments section below

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Top 9 Free AI Tools That Make Your Life Easier
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:07:00 +0000

• Copy.ai

Photo:- Copy.ai

First one on the list is copy.ai. It is an AI based copy writer tool. Basically  what a copywriter tool does is, it gives you content that you can post on your blog or video  when you give it a few descriptions about the topic you want content on.So copy ai can help you write instagram captions gives you blog idea, product descriptions,  facebook content, startup ideas, viral ideas, a lot of things it can do, you just make an account  in this website, then select a tool and fill in the necessary description and the AI will generate  content on what you ask for.

For tutorials go to their official Youtube  channel .An awesome tool that is going to be really handy in the future.

• Hotpot.ai

Hotpot.ai offers a collection of  AI tools for designers, as well as for anyone, it has an “AI picture restorer” which removes  scratches ,and basically restores your old photo into amazing pictures and makes it look brand new. 

 Ai picture colorizer , turns your black and white photo into color. And there is a background  remover tool, picture enlarger and a lot more for designers, check it out,and explore all the tools.

• Deep-nostalgia

Deep-nostalgia became  very popular on the internet when people started 

making reaction videos of their parents reacting  to animated pictures of their grandparents. So deep - nostalgia is a very cool app, that will  animate any photo of a person.

 So what makes it really cool is that fact that you can upload an  old photo of your family and see them animate and living. Which is pretty cool and creepy at  the same time if they are dead already.. Really amazing service from myheritage, I created a  lot of cool animations with my old photos as well as with the photos of my grandparents.

• Pfpmaker.com

Having a nice  looking profile picture is really important if you want that professional feel in your socials.  Whether in linkedin or twitter having a 

distinct and catchy profile picture can make  all the difference. So that's where pfpmaker comes in. it a free online tool to create amazing professional profile pictures that fits you. It generates a lot of profile pictures  and you can also make small changes to already created profile pictures if you want to,as well.

• Brandmark.io

Speaking of brands, getting a  good logo for your brand is the most frustrating 

thing ever, so brandmark.io makes it super easy.  It will create a logo for your brand within 2 clicks. So you goto this website. Type in your brand name and slogan if you have any, and give BRAND KEYWORDS that relate to your brand,  then pick a color style and done, the ai will 

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• Lumen5

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What will a Federal Reserve interest rate cut mean for you?
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:11:59 GMT

The Fed has announced an interest-rate cut for the first time in four years – what effect will it have on consumers?

• Federal Reserve cuts US interest rates for the first time in four years

The Federal Reserve announced a half-percentage point interest-rate cut on Wednesday, the first decrease in four years. It’s a moment that many economists see as the end of an era, and the beginning of the end of the central bank’s fight against inflation.

The Fed’s prime rate – used to set the rates on everything from mortgages to car loans – has sat at a 20-year high for the last year, making it more expensive to borrow money.

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NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing Hybrid-Electric Airliners with HyTEC
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, part-gas-powered engine may find its way into the skies propelling a future jet airliner. NASA is working in tandem with industry partner GE Aerospace on designing and building just such an engine, one that burns […]
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Planned Shein IPO needs closer scrutiny, says former Labour minister
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:40:27 GMT

Trade committee head Liam Byrne wants checks on firm’s possible supply chain links to forced labour

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A former minister has called on the government to closely scrutinise Shein for possible links to forced working as the China-founded fast-fashion retailer prepares for a stock market listing in London.

Liam Byrne, the Labour MP who heads parliament’s business and trade committee, said the UK should introduce new legislation to increase scrutiny of supply chains that may include products made in the Xinjiang region of north-western China.

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qualifiers: 25.00 stock-market, 20.00 economy, 20.00 business

US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:01:05 GMT

Despite Americans paying nearly double that of other nations, the US fares poorly in list of 10 countries

The United States health system ranked dead last in an international comparison of 10 peer nations, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund.

In spite of Americans paying nearly double that of other countries, the system performed poorly on health equity, access to care and outcomes.

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qualifiers: 20.00 economy, 20.00 business, 10.00 wealth

Stuart Rose gets hands-on at Asda. This can’t have been plan A | Nils Pratley
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:34:47 GMT

Awkward interregnum in which former M&S boss is taking charge sums up chaotic progress since purchase from Walmart

“We need a full-time fully experienced retail executive to come in,” said Stuart Rose, the chair of Asda, a month ago as he confessed to being “embarrassed” about the supermarket chain’s loss of market share. Now he has found someone who fits the bill temporarily: one Lord Rose of Monewden. He will “assume” day-to-day executive responsibilities from Mohsin Issa, one of the co-owners and leaders of the £6.8bn leveraged buyout of Asda in 2021.

Rose definitely counts as fully experienced since he’s led Burton, Argos, Arcadia, Marks & Spencer and more in his time. But a return to executive duties at the youthful age of 75 probably wasn’t what he envisaged when he hopped onboard the Issa brothers/TDR Capital buyout vehicle. Offerings of sage advice from the back-seat was surely the gist of the original script.

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qualifiers: 30.00 finance, 20.00 business

The Trumps Have Gone Full Crypto With World Liberty Financial
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:22:10 +0000
After coming out in favor of crypto, the Trump family is launching a venture of its own. You’ll just have to wait for the details.
Match ID: 5 Score: 50.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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The great divide: are office workers more productive than those at home?
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:08 GMT

Amazon has told staff they must return five days a week – but experts don’t all agree that flexible working cuts output

Four years ago when the world of work was upended by the Covid pandemic, confident predictions were made that a permanent shift in remote working would follow the removal of lockdown restrictions.

Much has clearly changed since. Some of the earliest preachers of the brave new teleworking world – including the US tech companies Google and Microsoft – are among the most vocal to repent.

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The Marshall Star for September 18, 2024
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:21:13 +0000
Marshall Welcomes NASA Chief Scientist for Climate, Science Town Hall NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Kate Calvin, center left, joins team members at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center for a Climate and Science Town Hall on Sept. 17 in Activities Building 4316. Calvin took part in a question-and-answer session during her visit […]
Match ID: 7 Score: 45.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Small-cap stocks’ bullish ‘Fed day’ performance reflects investors’ confidence in the economy
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:01:00 GMT
Stocks reacted erratically to the Federal Reserve’s bulky 50-basis-point interest-rate cut on Wednesday. But by the time the dust had settled, two clear winners had emerged.
Match ID: 8 Score: 45.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 stocks, 20.00 economy

There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:31:13 +0000

A police shooting that injured three people and one officer is the result of New York Mayor Eric Adams’s enforcement-first mentality.

The post There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other appeared first on The Intercept.

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qualifiers: 25.00 money, 20.00 economy

Politics live: Australia’s population grows by more than 600,000 people to 27.1 million; Lidia Thorpe wins vote for regular reports on deaths in custody
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:40:16 GMT

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Australia “abstained with great disappointment” on the Palestinian-drafted resolution at the United Nations general assembly in New York early this morning, the Australian ambassador to the UN has said.

The resolution – which sought to act on a recent advisory opinion of the international court of justice – was passed with 124 votes in favour and 14 against. Australia was one of 43 countries to abstain, including the UK, Canada and Germany.

That is why we abstained with great disappointment.

We wanted to vote for a resolution that directly reflected the ICJ Advisory Opinion.

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Australia’s unemployment rate unchanged at 4.2%, dampening hope of RBA interest rate cut
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:47:30 GMT

ABS figures show employers added 47,500 positions last month, above forecasts

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Australia’s economy added more jobs than expected in August as the unemployment rate remained steady, making a Reserve Bank interest rate cut less likely in the short term.

The jobless rate in August was 4.2%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday. Economists had it expected it to remain in line with the 4.2% in July.

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California Teamsters endorse Harris after national union declines to back any candidate – as it happened
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:55:43 GMT

This blog is closed. You can find the latest election coverage here.

The US is still not prepared for inevitable Russian attacks on its elections, the former special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated Russian interference in 2016 and links between Donald Trump and Moscow, warns in a new book.

“It is … evident that Americans have not learned the lessons of Russia’s attack on our democracy in 2016,” Mueller writes in a preface to Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia and the Mueller Investigation by Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein, prosecutors who worked for Mueller from 2017 to 2019.

As we detailed in our report, the evidence was clear that the Russian government engaged in multiple, systematic attacks designed to undermine our democracy and favor one candidate over the other.”

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Poor NHS maternity care in danger of becoming normalised, regulator warns
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:01:09 GMT

CQC issues damning report on maternity services in England as minister admits anxiety over ‘risk of disaster’

Maternity services in England are so inadequate that cases of women receiving poor care and being harmed in childbirth are in danger of becoming “normalised”, the NHS regulator has said.

A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report based on inspections of 131 maternity units sets out an array of problems, adding to the sense of crisis that has enveloped an NHS service that cares for the 600,000 women a year who give birth and their babies.

Some women, frustrated at facing such long delays in being assessed at triage, discharge themselves before they are seen.

65% of units are not safe for women to give birth in, 47% of trusts are rated as requiring improvement on safety and another 18% are rated as inadequate.

Some hospitals do not record incidents that have resulted in serious harm.

There is a widespread lack of staff and in some places a lack of potentially life-saving equipment.

Hospitals do not always consider women’s suffering after receiving poor care.

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Federal Reserve cuts US interest rates for the first time in four years
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:33:50 GMT

Central bank makes cuts after holding rates at two-decade high in aggressive bid to cool inflation

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The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday for the first time in four years, stepping back from its aggressive bid to cool the world’s largest economy and reduce inflation.

America’s central bank, which lifted rates to a two-decade high after price growth surged to its highest level in a generation, announced a cut of 50 basis points.

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NASA Shares Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Remarks
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:48:38 +0000
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as prepared for Wednesday’s Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards recognized the women who contributed to the space race, including the NASA mathematicians who helped land the first astronauts on the Moon under the agency’s Apollo Program. “Good afternoon. “The remarkable things that NASA […]
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Taiwanese firm Gold Apollo and Hungary deny links to exploded Hezbollah pagers
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:38:15 +0000
The pagers, deemed by Hezbollah to be safer than cellphones, were probably rigged with explosives before they were delivered to Lebanon, experts said.
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Walkie-talkie blasts: attacks on Hezbollah kill 20 as Israel says military focus shifting north
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:16:51 GMT

Twenty killed and at least 450 injured in cities across Lebanon a day after exploding pagers killed 12

• Analysis: Pager and walkie-talkie attacks were audacious and carefully planned

A new series of extraordinary explosions aimed at Hezbollah – this time targeting walkie-talkies – has killed at least 20 and wounded more than 450 in cities across Lebanon, as international observers warned that the simultaneous detonation of thousands of booby-trapped communications devices may constitute a war crime.

The targeted detonations of the walkie-talkies came one day after more than 2,800 were injured and 12 killed by exploding pagers in an attack blamed on Israel that world leaders and diplomats have warned could lead to an all-out conflict between Israel and the powerful militant group despite efforts by the US and UN to avert an escalation with Hezbollah.

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IMF postpones Russia visit after heavy criticism across Europe
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:38:13 GMT

Trip to Moscow to review economy delayed indefinitely after protests it would ‘normalise relations with aggressor’

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indefinitely postponed a staff mission to Moscow this week to review the Russian economy for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine, after the move came under heavy criticism from several of Kyiv’s European allies.

After revelations in the Guardian of widespread condemnation, the IMF said it would spend more time gathering information for a “rigorous analysis”.

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qualifiers: 20.00 economy, 20.00 business

‘I placed the goldfish bowl over my head and hit the self-timer’: Benji Reid’s best photograph
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:29:39 GMT

‘Using rocks from my garden, I built myself a plinth, scattered flour over the floor and turned the place into a desolate hinterland, like the surface of the moon. The result felt like a direct reflection of my emotions’

Even before the pandemic, I struggled with feelings of isolation. I go through bouts of depression and needed to make something that reflected that. So, using rocks from my rock garden, I built a plinth in the middle of my makeshift home studio. I scattered flour over the floor and it turned the space into a desolate hinterland – like the surface of the moon, another world for the viewer to step into. I set up the camera, took my position, placed the goldfish bowl over my head like a space helmet, and hit the self-timer.

When I saw the image, it felt like a direct reflection of my emotions. It looked like a marriage of two passions of mine: Afrofuturism, a cultural movement blending science-fiction, fantasy and history to explore the Black experience, and butoh, a Japanese avant-garde dance of the dead in which performers often wear thick white face and body paint. The contrasting materials – the coldness of glass, the ashen quality of the flour, the warmth of human skin – made the image texturally rich, giving it a depth that felt like another universe.

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Pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a company in Budapest, Gold Apollo says
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‘This is very embarrassing’: Middle East crisis takes a detour to an office park in Taiwan
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:00:30 GMT

Media spotlight shifted to Taiwan tech company Gold Apollo which has denied supplying the pagers that exploded across the Hezbollah network in Lebanon

• Pagers in deadly attack on Hezbollah ‘made in Europe’, as Middle East braces for reprisals
• Middle East crisis - live updates

It was an unusual and alarming day at work for the staff and neighbours of Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese tech company in an office park in a leafy district half an hour outside Taipei.

On the third floor of building “B”, dozens of media crowded the corridor outside Gold Apollo’s glass entrance, which was still festooned with leftover Lunar New Year decorations wishing for prosperity.

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Relationship with father among psychological factors cited in Huw Edwards case
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:40:38 GMT

Social media and a perception of Oxbridge elitism at the BBC also featured in experts’ reports

Huw Edwards’s downfall was of his own making, the chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, concluded in his sentencing remarks, but that was not the entire picture painted by the BBC star in his interviews with forensic medical experts.

The consultant psychiatrist and neuropsychiatrist Michael Isaac wrote two reports in which the broadcaster’s father, the Welsh academic Hywel Teifi Edwards, who died in 2010, was pinpointed as the source of some of the mental anguish that led to the criminal behaviour of 2020 to 2021.

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Match ID: 22 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Lotus Theory 1 2024: Price, Specs, Availability
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:00:00 +0000
Physical buttons that appear from nowhere, audiophile tech mounted in 3D-printed lattices, weight-saving wizardry, and an extraterrestrial race car design. Lotus’ future isn’t just lifestyle SUVs.
Match ID: 23 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 saving

Let’s Have a Long Talk About Our Relationship Just Before Bed!
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
I think we need to litigate a text you sent in October, 2018, that’s always bothered me and which I’ve been saving for the perfect moment.
Match ID: 24 Score: 40.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 saving

401(k) auto-enrollment and auto-escalation were supposed to help people save for retirement. Here’s what happened instead.
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:48:00 GMT
Behavioral finance ‘nudges’ and other helpful features ran into a surprising obstacle
Match ID: 25 Score: 30.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 30.00 finance

Why the Federal Reserve has gambled on a big interest-rate cut
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:07:47 +0000
The bold move carries economic and political risks
Match ID: 26 Score: 30.00 source: www.economist.com age: 0 days
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The Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts may disappoint investors
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:32:47 +0000
Jerome Powell could still surprise on the hawkish side
Match ID: 27 Score: 30.00 source: www.economist.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 finance

How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:33:09 +0000
Even though they are not very good at it
Match ID: 28 Score: 25.71 source: www.economist.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 25.71 finance

It's Good Trump Won't Be Sentenced Until After the Election
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:16:15 +0000

Trump always wants to cast himself as a victim. Delaying his sentencing until after the election makes that harder.

The post It’s Good Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Until After the Election appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 29 Score: 25.71 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 14.29 money, 11.43 business

Campaigners call for unlimited ‘climate card’ UK rail pass
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:09 GMT

Research says flat-fee train travel would bring economic and health benefits as well as simplifying ticket fares

Renationalising the railways does not go far enough – Labour should spur a rail renaissance by allowing people around the UK unlimited train travel for a flat fee, campaigners have said.

Under a “climate card” system, passengers could pay a simple subscription to gain access to train travel across all services. This could be effective if set at £49 a month, according to research published on Thursday, though travellers on fast long-distance trains and those on routes in and through London would need to pay a top-up to reflect the greater demand on those services.

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How low could mortgage rates go now that the Fed has finally started cutting? Economists weigh in.
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:03:00 GMT
Here’s what the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cut means for mortgage rates.
Match ID: 31 Score: 25.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
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The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:07 GMT

Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in the desert and colluding with smugglers

When she saw them, lined up at the road checkpoint, Marie sensed the situation might turn ugly. Four officers, each wearing the combat green of Tunisia’s national guard. They asked to look inside her bag.

“There was nothing, just some clothes.” For weeks Marie had traversed the Sahara, travelling 3,000 miles from home. Now, minutes from her destination – the north coast of Africa – she feared she might not make it.

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Match ID: 32 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Social Security will run out of money in 8 years. Is anyone paying attention?
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:45:00 GMT
The most important issue that nearly everyone is ignoring
Match ID: 33 Score: 25.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 money

Teachers in England offered lie-ins to make job more appealing
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:01:10 GMT

Other perks including nine-day fortnight and more planning time at home offered to attract recruits

• ‘A brave new world for educators’: teachers respond to nine-day-fortnight proposals

Teachers in England are being offered a range of incentives to make the job more appealing, including two free periods a week to give them a lie-in, a nine-day fortnight and more planning time at home to help with work-life balance.

An escalating crisis in teacher recruitment and retention is forcing schools and academy trusts to come up with novel ways to attract new recruits into the profession and keep experienced staff in front of classes.

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Bond market gets a Fed wake-up call after pricing in a recession
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:10:00 GMT
Long-term yields rose even though the Federal Reserve took a big bite out of interest rates on Wednesday. Here’s why.
Match ID: 35 Score: 25.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
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Met police budget ‘heading off a cliff’, commissioner warns in funding plea
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:00:03 GMT

Sir Mark Rowley says force could have to shut half its ageing buildings in next decade and faces big deficit next year

Scotland Yard needs hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding to drag itself out of crisis as its budget is “heading off a cliff”, its commissioner has said.

Sir Mark Rowley said half of the Metropolitan police’s premises were so dilapidated that they faced closure within a decade, and sky-high demand on policing had not been met by an increase in money.

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Whistleblower testifies Titan sub tragedy was 'inevitable'
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:24:41 GMT
Former employee David Lochridge tells a public hearing the whole idea of OceanGate was to "make money".
Match ID: 37 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 1 day
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Other People’s Money Can Drive You Mad
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
In Rumaan Alam’s novel “Entitlement,” a woman goes to work for a rich man’s foundation—and finds herself spinning between worlds.
Match ID: 38 Score: 25.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 25.00 money

Can bonds keep beating stocks?
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:03:45 +0000
After a terrible couple of months for shareholders, lenders are feeling smug
Match ID: 39 Score: 23.57 source: www.economist.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 finance, 10.71 stocks

Norway’s weak currency presents a mystery
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:05:22 +0000
The country’s economy is thriving yet the krone is becoming less and less valuable. What’s going on?
Match ID: 40 Score: 21.43 source: www.economist.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 finance, 8.57 economy

The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0000
A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI.
Match ID: 41 Score: 20.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 business

Global AI fund needed to help developing nations tap tech benefits, UN says
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:06 GMT

Governments and private firms should contribute to help states unable to invest and benefit from advances

Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund that will allow developing nations to benefit from advances in the technology, according to a UN report.

The fund would help provide models, computing power and AI-related training programmes, according to recommendations from the UN secretary general’s high-level AI advisory body.

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Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:01:00 +0000
The founder of Oculus VR is returning to headsets—this time for the battlefield.
Match ID: 43 Score: 20.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 business

Teamsters will not endorse for president, a blow to Democrats
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:28:53 +0000
The Teamsters’ much-anticipated non-endorsement came after a vote of its executive board in Washington.
Match ID: 44 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 business

Rachel Reeves to replace No 11 paintings with art of or by women
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:30:04 GMT

State room artworks will be ‘of or by women’ as Reeves celebrates becoming first female chancellor

Rachel Reeves has announced plans to replace every painting in the lavish state room at No 11 Downing Street with artworks of or by women.

Speaking at a reception for female business leaders on Wednesday evening, the chancellor said she wanted to mark the lives of the “amazing women who have gone before us”.

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Match ID: 45 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Top UK food firms urged to do more to cut ‘staggering’ emissions
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:20:09 GMT

Food campaign Bite Back says 10 firms account for more carbon emissions globally than aviation industry

Britain’s biggest food and drink firms are doing too little to tackle the climate emergency and are producing “staggering” amounts of greenhouse gases, campaigners claim.

The 10 companies that manufacture more of the UK’s food than anyone else produce more carbon emissions between them than even the aviation industry, a report says.

Three of the firms increased their annual emissions in 2022 – Ferrero, Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo.

Seven are on course to miss meeting emissions targets they have set themselves to achieve by 2050.

Only four have a verifiable commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050 – Danone, Mars, Mondelēz and Nestlé.

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Match ID: 46 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 business

I Stared Into the AI Void With the SocialAI App
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:57:51 +0000
SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse.
Match ID: 47 Score: 20.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 business

ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:32:22 +0000
ISPs say Sony's win over Cox would force them to do "mass Internet evictions."
Match ID: 48 Score: 20.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 business

Backlash over Amazon’s return to office comes as workers demand higher wages
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:20:46 +0000
Pressure increases for Amazon to raise wages amid return-to-office turmoil.
Match ID: 49 Score: 20.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 business

UK must stop being naive over resetting relations with EU, thinktank says
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:09:47 GMT

European Centre for International Political Economy outlines a plan to bring the two sides closer

The UK must stop being “naive” about negotiations to reset relations with the EU and show more flexibility in its approach to Brussels, a trade policy thinktank has said.

As EU leaders question how much has changed in the UK despite the new government, the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) has outlined a plan to bring the two sides closer after a series of reports that the EU doubted Keir Starmer’s commitment to a reset.

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Match ID: 50 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 economy

Fed moves to protect weakening job market with bold rate cut
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:06:50 EST
The move signals that the central bank is growing nervous about the declining labor market.
Match ID: 51 Score: 20.00 source: www.politico.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 economy

The Guardian view on China’s ageing population: an economic and social conundrum | Editorial
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:52:53 GMT

Raising the retirement age is never popular, particularly for a country that is getting old before it gets rich

No one should be surprised that China is raising its retirement ages. They are currently among the lowest in the world and haven’t shifted for decades, even as lifespans have lengthened dramatically. Women currently retire as early as 50 and men at 60, while life expectancy is around 78 – up from 44 in 1960. Now the male retirement age is to rise to 63, while women’s will rise to 55 (for blue-collar workers) and 58 (for white-collar employees). These changes will be phased in over the next 15 years. Employees will also have to make more contributions from 2030.

China is far from alone in facing the problem of too many old people and too few young workers to support them. But unlike western nations, it is getting old before it has got rich. The scale of the challenge and the speed at which it is arriving are extraordinary, thanks in large part to the decades of birth restrictions known as the one-child policy. It also means that fewer retirees are able to count on their kids supporting them.

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Lionsgate partners with AI firm to train generative model on film and TV library
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:40:49 GMT

Major entertainment company gives Runway access to vast portfolio to help film-makers ‘augment their work’

Lionsgate has signed a deal with the artificial intelligence research firm Runway, allowing it access to the company’s large film and TV library to train a new generative model.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the model will be “customized to Lionsgate’s proprietary portfolio” which includes hit franchises such as John Wick, Saw and The Hunger Games. The aim is to help film-makers and other creatives “augment their work” through the use of AI.

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An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:30:00 +0000
Google plans to add an AI feature next year inside of the YouTube app for creators to generate 6-second clips using the company’s Veo model.
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Rob Gutro: Clear Science in the Forecast
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:09 +0000
Rob Gutro has never been one to stay idle. From his start working at a paper factory as a teenager, Rob navigated his way to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where he serves as the deputy news chief in the Office of Communications until he retires in October 2024. In this role, Rob manages all […]
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Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don’t Know
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000
A news survey shows that AI use among high schoolers has exploded in recent months, as educators and parents struggle to keep up.
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China’s divorce rate soars. Cue the high-powered wedding photo shredder.
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000
As China’s divorce rate has skyrocketed, many are left with expensive, and unwanted, wedding photos. Enter the industrial-strength shredding businesses.
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OpenAI Threatens to Ban Users Who Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:00:00 +0000
If you try to figure out how OpenAI’s o1 models solve problems, you might get a nastygram.
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'It’s an astonishingly fragile time’: Robert Peston on inequality, identity politics and how to heal Britain
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:00:09 GMT

ITV’s political editor has helped explain our national crises, from the 2008 financial crash onwards. Could he also help solve them?

Two seconds earlier, it had been sheet rain and squally winds at the street festival in north London, but as Robert Peston took the stage with his band, Centrist Dad, the weather suddenly swerved back to sunshine, which gave the whole thing a surreal edge. What did these men (including Peston on vocals, John Wilson from Front Row on bass and Ed Balls from New Labour on drums) do, to get blessed by Zeus? What dense thicket of influences informs Peston’s performance, which is a little bit Bowie, a little bit Carly Rae Jepsen, a little bit Ross-from-Friends-in-a-school-musical? The broadcaster, author, journalist and fabulously idiosyncratic emphasiser of words is, of course, well connected (Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper are also here), but he doesn’t strut like a well-connected person. He struts like a guy who really likes being in a band.

I met Peston two days before, in a cafe in Kentish Town. He is 64 but reads as peculiarly ageless, natty in a sharp blue suit, carrying a Brompton bike, a bit like a guy from the BBC sitcom W1A. He has lived his entire life in what you might call the progressive aristocracy. “I never thought of it quite like that,” he says, “but that must be true.” His father, Maurice Peston, was an economist and adviser to various Labour governments from the 60s to the 90s, becoming a life peer in 1987. Robert Peston talks about a “cringe-making section” in his teenage diary – “13- or 14-year-old me saying, ‘Had a good chat with Roy [Hattersley], I don’t think he likes me.’”

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OpenAI Messed With the Wrong Mega-Popular Parenting Forum
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Mumsnet CEO Justine Roberts spoke to WIRED about why licensing talks with OpenAI broke down and why her company is planning legal action.
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How Inflation Fooled Almost Everybody
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
With the Fed poised to cut rates for the first time in years, what have we learned about the economic disruptions of the pandemic era?
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Joe Biden preps to sell the economy — to boost his legacy and help Harris
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:00:00 EST
Biden is determined to convince a skeptical public that he strengthened the economy.
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An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:04:28 +0000
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
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Vance’s media strategy takes a turn
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 15:58:06 EST
He was Trump’s policy whisperer to key voting blocs. Now, he’s fueling rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating cats and dogs.
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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:49:00 +0000

If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don't have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become old.

Imagine a world in which you can do transactions and many other things without having to give your personal information. A world in which you don’t need to rely on banks or governments anymore. Sounds amazing, right? That’s exactly what blockchain technology allows us to do.

It’s like your computer’s hard drive. blockchain is a technology that lets you store data in digital blocks, which are connected together like links in a chain. 

Blockchain technology was originally invented in 1991 by two mathematicians, Stuart Haber and W. Scot Stornetta. They first proposed the system to ensure that timestamps could not be tampered with.

A few years later, in 1998, software developer Nick Szabo proposed using a similar kind of technology to secure a digital payments system he called “Bit Gold.” However, this innovation was not adopted until Satoshi Nakamoto claimed to have invented the first Blockchain and Bitcoin.

So, What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed database shared between the nodes of a computer network. It saves information in digital format. Many people first heard of blockchain technology when they started to look up information about bitcoin.

Blockchain is used in cryptocurrency systems to ensure secure, decentralized records of transactions.

Blockchain allowed people to guarantee the fidelity and security of a record of data without the need for a third party to ensure accuracy.

To understand how a blockchain works, Consider these basic steps:

• Blockchain collects information in “blocks”.
• A block has a storage capacity, and once it's used up, it can be closed and linked to a previously served block.
• Blocks form chains, which are called “Blockchains.”
• More information will be added to the block with the most content until its capacity is full. The process repeats itself.
• Each block in the chain has an exact timestamp and can't be changed.

Let’s get to know more about the blockchain.

How does blockchain work?

Blockchain records digital information and distributes it across the network without changing it. The information is distributed among many users and stored in an immutable, permanent ledger that can't be changed or destroyed. That's why blockchain is also called "Distributed Ledger Technology" or DLT.

Here’s how it works:

• Someone or a computer will transacts
• The transaction is transmitted throughout the network.
• A network of computers can confirm the transaction.
• When it is confirmed a transaction is added to a block
• The blocks are linked together to create a history.

And that’s the beauty of it! The process may seem complicated, but it’s done in minutes with modern technology. And because technology is advancing rapidly, I expect things to move even more quickly than ever.

• A new transaction is added to the system. It is then relayed to a network of computers located around the world. The computers then solve equations to ensure the authenticity of the transaction.
• Once a transaction is confirmed, it is placed in a block after the confirmation. All of the blocks are chained together to create a permanent history of every transaction.

How are Blockchains used?

Even though blockchain is integral to cryptocurrency, it has other applications. For example, blockchain can be used for storing reliable data about transactions. Many people confuse blockchain with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.

Blockchain already being adopted by some big-name companies, such as Walmart, AIG, Siemens, Pfizer, and Unilever. For example, IBM's Food Trust uses blockchain to track food's journey before reaching its final destination.

Although some of you may consider this practice excessive, food suppliers and manufacturers adhere to the policy of tracing their products because bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella have been found in packaged foods. In addition, there have been isolated cases where dangerous allergens such as peanuts have accidentally been introduced into certain products.

Tracing and identifying the sources of an outbreak is a challenging task that can take months or years. Thanks to the Blockchain, however, companies now know exactly where their food has been—so they can trace its location and prevent future outbreaks.

Blockchain technology allows systems to react much faster in the event of a hazard. It also has many other uses in the modern world.

What is Blockchain Decentralization?

Blockchain technology is safe, even if it’s public. People can access the technology using an internet connection.

Have you ever been in a situation where you had all your data stored at one place and that one secure place got compromised? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to prevent your data from leaking out even when the security of your storage systems is compromised?

Blockchain technology provides a way of avoiding this situation by using multiple computers at different locations to store information about transactions. If one computer experiences problems with a transaction, it will not affect the other nodes.

Instead, other nodes will use the correct information to cross-reference your incorrect node. This is called “Decentralization,” meaning all the information is stored in multiple places.

Blockchain guarantees your data's authenticity—not just its accuracy, but also its irreversibility. It can also be used to store data that are difficult to register, like legal contracts, state identifications, or a company's product inventory.

Pros and Cons of Blockchain

Blockchain has many advantages and disadvantages. 

Pros

• Accuracy is increased because there is no human involvement in the verification process.
• One of the great things about decentralization is that it makes information harder to tamper with.
• Safe, private, and easy transactions
• Provides a banking alternative and safe storage of personal information

Cons

• Data storage has limits.
• The regulations are always changing, as they differ from place to place.
• It has a risk of being used for illicit activities 

Frequently Asked Questions About Blockchain

I’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about blockchain in this section.

Is Blockchain a cryptocurrency?

Blockchain is not a cryptocurrency but a technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. It's a digital ledger that records every transaction seamlessly.

Is it possible for Blockchain to be hacked?

Yes, blockchain can be theoretically hacked, but it is a complicated task to be achieved. A network of users constantly reviews it, which makes hacking the blockchain difficult.

What is the most prominent blockchain company?

Coinbase Global is currently the biggest blockchain company in the world. The company runs a commendable infrastructure, services, and technology for the digital currency economy.

Who owns Blockchain?

Blockchain is a decentralized technology. It’s a chain of distributed ledgers connected with nodes. Each node can be any electronic device. Thus, one owns blockhain.

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain technology?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is powered by Blockchain technology while Blockchain is a distributed ledger of cryptocurrency 

What is the difference between Blockchain and a Database?

Generally a database is a collection of data which can be stored and organized using a database management system. The people who have access to the database can view or edit the information stored there. The client-server network architecture is used to implement databases. whereas a blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, stored in a distributed system. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, timestamp and transaction information. Modification of data is not allowed due to the design of the blockchain. The technology allows decentralized control and eliminates risks of data modification by other parties.

Final Saying

Blockchain has a wide spectrum of applications and, over the next 5-10 years, we will likely see it being integrated into all sorts of industries. From finance to healthcare, blockchain could revolutionize the way we store and share data. Although there is some hesitation to adopt blockchain systems right now, that won't be the case in 2022-2023 (and even less so in 2026). Once people become more comfortable with the technology and understand how it can work for them, owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs alike will be quick to leverage blockchain technology for their own gain. Hope you like this article if you have any question let me know in the comments section

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Why orange juice has never been more expensive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:03:00 +0000
Pity those who rely on the breakfast staple
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The IMF has a protest problem
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:01:56 +0000
Does it give up—or insist on painful reforms?
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China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0000
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
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U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:00:12 +0000

In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.

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Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games - What do we know so far?
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:34:38 GMT
Full details are expected to be released soon when the proposals are confirmed by the Commonwealth Games Federation
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NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however […]
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Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:41:12 +0000
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
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Is coal the new gold?
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:56:04 +0000
The world’s dirtiest fuel is a disturbingly safe investment
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Has private credit’s golden age already ended?
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:31:59 +0000
A more competitive market is a less profitable one
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Research Plane Dons New Colors for NASA Hybrid Electric Flight Tests
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Parked under the lights inside a hangar in Seattle, a hybrid electric research aircraft from electric motor manufacturer magniX showed off a new look symbolizing its journey toward helping NASA make sustainable aviation a reality.   During a special unveiling ceremony hosted by magniX on Aug. 22, leaders from the company and NASA revealed the aircraft, […]
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European stocks open lower after weak Wall Street finish, computer outages
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America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:48:15 +0000

Residents of Springfield, Ohio, worry that politicians are inciting violence against Haitian immigrants. It’s a long U.S. tradition.

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Microsoft to lay off 650 people from videogame business: WSJ
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:47:00 GMT

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Strangely, America’s companies will soon face higher interest rates
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:43:00 +0000
Even though the Federal Reserve is about to loosen monetary policy
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Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:27:55 +0000

In a total capitulation to a far-right narrative, even typical liberal shibboleths about our “nation of immigrants” were absent on Tuesday night.

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Vance warns of China’s influence during Michigan rally
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:16:42 EST
Vance’s rally Tuesday was the first of a series of events in Rust Belt swing states that he and Trump are visiting this week.
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10 Best Chrome Extensions That Are Perfect for Everyone
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:56:00 +0000

Are you a great Chrome user? That’s nice to hear. But first, consider whether or not there are any essential Chrome extensions you are currently missing from your browsing life, so here we're going to share with you 10 Best Chrome Extensions That Are Perfect for Everyone. So Let's Start.

1. LastPass

When you have too several passwords to remember, LastPass remembers them for you.

This chrome extension is an easy way to save you time and increase security. It’s a single password manager that will log you into all of your accounts. you simply ought to bear in mind one word: your LastPass password to log in to all or any your accounts.

Features

• Save usernames and passwords and LastPasswill  log you  in  automatically.
• Fill the forms quickly to save your addresses, credit card numbers and more.

2. MozBar

MozBar is an SEO toolbar extension that makes it easy for you to analyze your web pages' SEO while you surf. You can customize your search so that you see data for a particular region or for all regions. You get data such as website and domain authority and link profile. The status column tells you whether there are any no-followed links to the page.You can also compare link metrics. There is a pro version of MozBar, too.

3. Grammerly

Grammarly is a real-time grammar checking and spelling  tool for online writing. It checks spelling, grammar, and punctuation as you type, and has a dictionary feature that suggests related words. if you use mobile phones for writing than  Grammerly also have a mobile keyboard app.

4. VidlQ

VidIQ is a SaaS product and Chrome Extension that makes it easier to manage and optimize your YouTube channels. It keeps you informed about your channel's performance with real-time analytics and powerful insights.

Features

• Learn more about insights and statistics beyond YouTube Analytics
• Find great videos with the Trending tab.
• You can check out any video’s YouTube rankings and see how your own video is doing on the charts.
• Keep track  the  history of the keyword to determine when a keyword is rising or down  in popularity over time.
• Quickly find out which videos are performing the best on YouTube right now.
• Let this tool suggest keywords for you to use in your title, description and tags.

5. ColorZilla

ColorZilla is a browser extension that allows you to find out the exact color of any object in your web browser. This is especially useful when you want to match elements on your page to the color of an image.

Features 

•  Advanced Color Picker (similar to Photoshop's)
• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
• The "Webpage Color Analyzer" site helps you determine the palette of colors used in a particular website.
• Palette Viewer with 7 pre-installed palettes
• Eyedropper - sample the color of any pixel on the page
• Color History of recently picked colors
• Displays some info about the element, including the tag name, class, id and size.
• Auto copy picked colors to clipboard
• Get colors of dynamic hover elements 
• Pick colors from Flash objects
• Pick colors at any zoom level

6. Honey

Honey is a chrome extension with which you  save each product from the website and notify it when it is available at  low price it's one among the highest extensions for Chrome that finds coupon codes whenever you look online.

Features

• Best for finding exclusive prices on Amazon.
• A free reward program called Honey Gold.
• Searches and filters the simplest value fitting your demand.
• Instant notifications.

7. GMass: Powerful Chrome Extension for Gmail Marketers

GMass (or Gmail Mass) permits users to compose and send mass emails using Gmail. it is a great tool as a result of you'll use it as a replacement for a third-party email sending platform. you will love GMass to spice up your emailing functionality on the platform.

8. Notion Web Clipper: Chrome Extension for Geeks

It's a Chrome extension for geeks that enables you to highlight and save what you see on the web.

It's been designed by Notion, that could be a Google space different that helps groups craft higher ideas and collaborate effectively.

Features

• Save anything online with just one click  
• Use it on any device
• Organize your saved clips quickly
• Tag, share and comment on the clips

If you are someone who works online, you need to surf the internet to get your business done. And often there is no time to read or analyze something. But it's important that you  do it. Notion Web Clipper will help you with that.

9. WhatFont: Chrome Extension for identifying Any Site Fonts

WhatFont is a Chrome extension that allows web designers to easily identify and compare different fonts on a page. The first time you use it on any page, WhatFont will copy the selected page.It  Uses this page to find out what fonts are present and generate an image that shows all those fonts in different sizes. Besides the apparent websites like Google or Amazon,  you'll conjointly use it on sites wherever embedded fonts ar used. 

10. SimilarWeb: Traffic Rank & Website Analysis Extension

Similar Web is an SEO add on for both Chrome and Firefox.It allows you  to check web site traffic and key metrics for any web site, as well as engagement rate, traffic ranking, keyword ranking, and traffic source. this is often a good tool if you are looking to seek out new and effective SEO ways similarly as analyze trends across the web.

Features

• Discover keyword trends
• Know fresh keywords
• Get benefit from the real traffic insights
• Analyze engagement metrics
• Explore unique visitors data
• Analyze your industry's category
• Use month to date data

How to Install chrome Extension in Android

I know everyone knows how to install extension in pc but most of people don't know how to install it in android phone so i will show you how to install it in android

1. Download Kiwi browser from Play Store and then Open it.

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 2. Tap the three dots at the top right corner and select Extension. 

3. Click on (+From Store) to access chrome web store or simple search chrome web store and access it.

4. Once you found an extension click on add to chrome a message will pop-up  asking if you wish to confirm your choice. Hit OK to install the extension in the Kiwi browser.

5. To manage  extensions on the browser, tap the three dots in the upper right corner. Then select Extensions to access a catalog of installed extensions that you can disable, update or remove with just a few clicks.

Your Chrome extensions should install on Android, but there’s no guarantee all of them will work. Because Google Chrome Extensions are not optimized for Android devices.

Final Saying

We hope this list of 10 best chrome extensions that is perfect for everyone will help you in picking the right Chrome Extensions. We have selected the extensions after matching their features to the needs of different categories of people. Also which extension you like the most let me know in the comment section

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Has social media broken the stockmarket?
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:13:28 +0000
That is the contention of Cliff Asness, one of the great quant investors
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Why investors are not buying Europe’s revival
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:03:15 +0000
Even though the continent’s stocks are in a “sweet spot”
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The stockmarket rout may not be over
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Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
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Volatility in global markets continues
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Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurk
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American stocks are consuming global markets
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That does not necessarily spell trouble
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Can anything spark Europe’s economy back to life?
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:38:37 +0000
Mario Draghi, the continent’s unofficial chief technocrat, has a plan
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China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
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Can anything perk up its economy?
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:58:18 +0000
How long can the party last?
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Wanted: new business, finance and economics interns
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The Economist invites applications for the 2024-25 Marjorie Deane internship
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The cracks in America’s ultra-strong labour market
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With a big discrepancy in jobs data, the economy may be weaker than it seems
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
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Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
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Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most popular digital assets today, capturing the attention of cryptocurrency investors, whales and people from around the world. People find it amazing that some users spend thousands or millions of dollars on a single NFT-based image of a monkey or other token, but you can simply take a screenshot for free. So here we share some freuently asked question about NFTs.

1) What is an NFT?

NFT stands for non-fungible  token, which is a cryptographic token on a blockchain with unique identification codes that distinguish it from other tokens. NFTs are unique and not interchangeable, which means no two NFTs are the same. NFTs can be a unique artwork, GIF, Images, videos, Audio album. in-game items, collectibles etc.

2) What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger that allows for the secure storage of data. By recording any kind of information—such as bank account transactions, the ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), or Decentralized Finance (DeFi) smart contracts—in one place, and distributing it to many different computers, blockchains ensure that data can’t be manipulated without everyone in the system being aware.

3) What makes an NFT valuable?

The value of an NFT comes from its ability to be traded freely and securely on the blockchain, which is not possible with other current digital ownership solutionsThe NFT points to its location on the blockchain, but doesn’t necessarily contain the digital property. For example, if you replace one bitcoin with another, you will still have the same thing. If you buy a non-fungible item, such as a movie ticket, it is impossible to replace it with any other movie ticket because each ticket is unique to a specific time and place.

4) How do NFTs work?

One of the unique characteristics of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is that they can be tokenised to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought, sold and traded on the blockchain. 

As with crypto-currency, records of who owns what are stored on a ledger that is maintained by thousands of computers around the world. These records can’t be forged because the whole system operates on an open-source network. 

NFTs also contain smart contracts—small computer programs that run on the blockchain—that give the artist, for example, a cut of any future sale of the token.

5) What’s the connection between NFTs and cryptocurrency?

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren't cryptocurrencies, but they do use blockchain technology. Many NFTs are based on Ethereum, where the blockchain serves as a ledger for all the transactions related to said NFT and the properties it represents.5) How to make an NFT?

Anyone can create an NFT. All you need is a digital wallet, some ethereum tokens and a connection to an NFT marketplace where you’ll be able to upload and sell your creations

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

When you purchase a stock in NFT, that purchase is recorded on the blockchain—the bitcoin ledger of transactions—and that entry acts as your proof of ownership.

7) How is an NFT valued? What are the most expensive NFTs?

The value of an NFT varies a lot based on the digital asset up for grabs. People use NFTs to trade and sell digital art, so when creating an NFT, you should consider the popularity of your digital artwork along with historical statistics.

In the year 2021, a digital artist called Pak created an artwork called The Merge. It was sold on the Nifty Gateway NFT market for $91.8 million.

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

Non-fungible tokens can be used in investment opportunities. One can purchase an NFT and resell it at a profit. Certain NFT marketplaces let sellers of NFTs keep a percentage of the profits from sales of the assets they create.

9) Will NFTs be the future of art and collectibles?

Many people want to buy NFTs because it lets them support the arts and own something cool from their favorite musicians, brands, and celebrities. NFTs also give artists an opportunity to program in continual royalties if someone buys their work. Galleries see this as a way to reach new buyers interested in art.

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

There are many places to buy digital assets, like opensea and their policies vary. On top shot, for instance, you sign up for a waitlist that can be thousands of people long. When a digital asset goes on sale, you are occasionally chosen to purchase it.

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

To mint an NFT token, you must pay some amount of gas fee to process the transaction on the Etherum blockchain, but you can mint your NFT on a different blockchain called Polygon to avoid paying gas fees. This option is available on OpenSea and this simply denotes that your NFT will only be able to trade using Polygon's blockchain and not Etherum's blockchain. Mintable allows you to mint NFTs for free without paying any gas fees.

12) Do i own an NFT if i screenshot it?

The answer is no. Non-Fungible Tokens are minted on the blockchain using cryptocurrencies such as Etherum, Solana, Polygon, and so on. Once a Non-Fungible Token is minted, the transaction is recorded on the blockchain and the contract or license is awarded to whoever has that Non-Fungible Token in their wallet.

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?

 Non-fungible tokens have gained the hearts of people around the world, and they have given digital creators the recognition they deserve. One of the remarkable things about non-fungible tokens is that you can take a screenshot of one, but you don’t own it. This is because when a non-fungible token is created, then the transaction is stored on the blockchain, and the license or contract to hold such a token is awarded to the person owning the token in their digital wallet.

You can sell your work and creations by attaching a license to it on the blockchain, where its ownership can be transferred. This lets you get exposure without losing full ownership of your work. Some of the most successful projects include Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yatch Club NFTs, SandBox, World of Women and so on. These NFT projects have gained popularity globally and are owned by celebrities and other successful entrepreneurs. Owning one of these NFTs gives you an automatic ticket to exclusive business meetings and life-changing connections.

Final Saying

That’s a wrap. Hope you guys found this article enlightening. I just answer some question with my limited knowledge about NFTs. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comment section below. Also I have a question for you, Is bitcoin an NFTs? let me know in The comment section below

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Top 10 AI Content Generator & Writer Tools in 2022
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:58:00 +0000

Are you looking for a way to create content that is both effective and efficient? If so, then you should consider using an AI content generator. AI content generators are a great way to create content that is both engaging and relevant to your audience. 

There are a number of different AI content generator tools available on the market, and it can be difficult to know which one is right for you. To help you make the best decision, we have compiled a list of the top 10 AI content generator tools that you should use in 2022.

So, without further ado, let’s get started!

1. Jasper Ai(Formerly known as Jarvis)

Features

•  It's trusted by 50,000+ marketers for creating engaging marketing campaigns, ad copy, blog posts, and articles within minutes which would traditionally take hours or days. Special Features:
• Blog posts have been optimized for search engines and rank high on Google and other search engines. This is a huge plus for online businesses that want to generate traffic to their website through content marketing.
• 99.9% Original Content and guarantees that all content it generates will be original, so businesses can focus on their online reputation rather than worrying about penalties from Google for duplicate content.
• Long-Form Article Writing – Jasper.ai is also useful for long-form writing, allowing users to create articles of up to 10,000 words without any difficulty. This is ideal for businesses that want to produce in-depth content that will capture their audience’s attention.

Pros

• User-friendly interface
• Generates a wide variety of content types
• Guarantees 100% unique and free-plagiarism content
• SEO friendly
•  Create articles of up to 10k words

Cons

• Not the cheapest AI writer on the market

Pricing

• Jasper.ai offers a free trial
• Starter Plan: $29/Month 

Features:

• 50 AI copywriting skills 
• Unlimited projects,  
• Up to 5 user logins

• The cheapest option covers up to 20,000 words generated each month.

Boss Mode:  $99/Month 

Features:

• Up to 100k words are generated each month and can go up to over 300k.

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2. Copy Ai

Copy.ai is a content writing tool that enables its users to create marketing copy, social media posts, Facebook Ads, and many more formats by using more than 90 templates such as Bullet Points to Blogs, General Ads, Hook Text, etc. 

The utility of this service can be used for short-term or format business purposes such as product descriptions, website copy, market copy, and sales reports.

Key Features:

• Provides a large set of templates where you can input the data and the AI will generate Templates with around 10 or more options to make it easy for the user to choose.
•  Smooth and efficient user experience with chrome extension where one can easily transfer information from Copy.ai to a content management forum, Google docs, etc without having to switch tabs.
• Generates content  in 25 languages where your input and output language may differ if you are not a native English speaker.

Pros

• The best option for short-length content generation such as market copy, sales reports, blogs, etc.
• Facebook community and email support for users to understand the AI better and to interact with other users.
• Beginner-friendly user experience with various templates to help the process of content generation.
• Free plan and no credit card required.

Cons

• The free plan from Copy AI is a welcome sight, however, it is just suitable for testing the software.

Pricing

Free Trial – 7 days with 24/7 email support and 100 runs per day.

Pro Plan:  $49 and yearly, it will cost you $420 i.e. $35 per month.

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3. Frase Ai

Just like Outranking, Frase is an AI that helps you research, create and optimize your content to make it high quality within seconds. Frase works on SEO optimization where the content is made to the liking of search engines by optimizing keywords and keywords.

Features:

• Generate full-length, optimized content briefs in  seconds and review the main keywords, headers, and concepts in your SEO competitors’ content in one intuitive research panel.
• Write high-converting, SEO-optimized copy and make writer’s block a thing of the past with automated outlines, blog introductions, product descriptions, FAQs, and more.
• An intuitive text editor that uses a topic model to score your content Optimization against your competitors.
• A dashboard that automatically identifies and categorizes your best content opportunities. Frase uses your Google Search Console data to serve up actionable insights about what you should work on next.

Pros

• Unlike Outranking, the interface to Frase is very user-friendly and accessible.
• Users who are content writers and have to research get a lot of time to write and ideate instead of juggling from one website to another as data can be easily accessed on Frase for research on a topic.
• Optimizing content with keyword analysis and SEO optimization has been made easier with Frase's Content Optimization.
• Reports on competitors' websites help in optimizing our own articles and websites.
• Content briefs make research very easy and efficient.

Cons

• The paid plans are a bit pricey because they include many tools for content optimization.

Pricing

Frase provides two plans for all users and a customizable plan for an enterprise or business.

Solo Plan: $14.99/Month and $12/Month if billed yearly with 4  Document Credits for 1 user seat.

Basic Plan: $44.99/month and $39.99/month if billed yearly with 30 Document Credits for 1 user seat.

Team Plan: $114.99/month and $99.99/month if billed yearly for unlimited document credits for 3 users.

*SEO Add-ons and other premium features for $35/month irrespective of the plan.

4. Article Forge — Popular Blog Writing Software for Efficiency and Affordability 

Article Forge is another content generator that operates quite differently from the others on this list. Unlike Jasper.ai, which requires you to provide a brief and some information on what you want it to write this tool only asks for a keyword. From there, it’ll generate a complete article for you.

Features

•  Article Forge integrates with several other software, including WordAi, RankerX, SEnuke TNG, and SEO Autopilot.
• The software takes information from high-ranking websites and then creates more credible articles to rank well in search engines.
•  If you want to generate content regularly, Article Forge can help. You can set it up to automatically generate articles based on your specific keyword or topic. Or, if you need a lot of content quickly, you can use the bulk content feature to get many articles in a short period.

Pros

• Excellent for engaging with readers on multiple CMS platforms
• No spinner content. Create multiple unique articles
• Extremely quick and efficient
• One of the cheapest options online

Cons

• You need to pay attention to the content since it’s not always on point
• Only ideal for decent-quality articles – if you’re lucky

Pricing

What’s excellent about Article Forge is they provide a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can choose between a monthly or yearly subscription. Unfortunately, they offer a free trial and no free plan:

Basic Plan:  $27/Month

Features:

 This plan allows users to produce up to 25k words each month. This is excellent for smaller blogs or those who are just starting.

Standard Plan: $57/month)

Features:

•  This plan allows users to produce up to 250k words each month. This is excellent for smaller blogs or those who are just starting.

Unlimited Plan: $117/month

Features:

• If you’re looking for an unlimited amount of content, this is the plan for you. You can create as many articles as you want, and there’s no word limit.

It’s important to note that Article Forge guarantees that all content generated through the platform passes Copyscape.

5. Rytr — Superb AI Content Writing Assistant

Rytr.me is a free AI content generator perfect for small businesses, bloggers, and students. The software is easy to use and can generate SEO-friendly blog posts, articles, and school papers in minutes.

Features

• Rytr can be used for various purposes, from writing blog posts to creating school papers. You can also generate captions for social media, product descriptions, and meta descriptions.
•  Rytr supports writing for over 30 languages, so you can easily create content in your native language.
• The AI helps you write content in over 30 tones to find the perfect tone for your brand or project.
• Rytr has a built-in plagiarism checker that ensures all your content is original and plagiarism free.

Pros

• Easy to use
• Creates unique content
• It supports over 30 languages
• Multi-tone writing capabilities

Cons

• It can be slow at times
• Grammar and flow could use improvement

Pricing

Rytr offers a free plan that comes with limited features. It covers up to 5,000 characters generated each month and has access to the built-in plagiarism checker. If you want to use all the features of the software, you can purchase one of the following plans:

Saver Plan: $9/month, $90/year 

Features:

• Generate 100k  characters per month
• Access 40+ use-cases
• Write in 30+ languages
• Access 20+ tones
• Built-in plagiarism checker
• Generate up to 20 images per month with AI
• Access to premium community
• Create your own custom use-case
• Unlimited Plan: $29/month, $290/year

Features:

• Generate UNLIMITED* characters per month
• Access 40+ use-cases
• Write in 30+ languages
• Access 20+ tones

• Built-in plagiarism checker
• Generate up to 100 images per month with AI
• Access to premium community
• Create your own custom use-case
• Dedicated account manager
• Priority email & chat support

6. Writesonic — Best AI Article Writing Software with a Grammar and Plagiarism Checker

Writesonic is a free, easy-to-use AI content generator. The software is designed to help you create copy for marketing content, websites, and blogs. It's also helpful for small businesses or solopreneurs who need to produce content on a budget.

Features

• The tone checker, is a great feature that helps you ensure that your content is consistent with your brand’s voice. This is excellent for crafting cohesive and on-brand content.
• The grammar checker is another valuable tool that helps you produce error-free content.
• The plagiarism checker is a great way to ensure that your content is original.

Pricing

Writesonic is free with limited features. The free plan is more like a free trial, providing ten credits. After that, you’d need to upgrade to a paid plan. Here are your options:

Short-form: $15/month 

Features:

• Access to all the short-form content templates like Facebook ads, product descriptions, paragraphs, and more.

Long-Form: $19/month

Features:

• Awesome tools to help you write short and long-form content like blog posts, ebooks, and more.

7. CopySmith — Produces Quality Content in Seconds 

CopySmith is an AI content generator that can be used to create personal and professional documents, blogs, and presentations. It offers a wide range of features including the ability to easily create documents and presentations.

 CopySmith also has several templates that you can use to get started quickly.

 Features

• This software allows you to create product descriptions, landing pages, and more in minutes.
•  Offers rewritten content that is both unique and plagiarism free.
•  This feature helps you create product descriptions for your Shopify store that are SEO-friendly and attractive to customers.
• This is an excellent tool for new content ideas.

Pros

• Excellent for generating eCommerce-ready content
• No credit card is required for the free trial
• SEO-ready content

Cons

• The blog content isn’t the best
• Better suited for short copy

Pricing

CopySmith offers a free trial with no credit card required. After the free trial, the paid plans are as follows:

Starter Plan: $19/month

Features:

• Get 50 credits monthly with up to 20 plagiarism checks.
• Professional Plan: $59/month 

Features:

• Upgrade to 400 credits per month with up to 100 plagiarism checks.  

Enterprise – Create a custom-tailored plan by contacting the sales team.

8. Hypotenuse.ai — Best AI Writing Software for E-Commerce and Product Descriptions

Hypotenuse.ai is a free online tool that can help you create AI content. It's great for beginners because it allows you to create videos, articles, and infographics with ease. The software has a simple and easy-to-use interface that makes it perfect for new people looking for AI content generation.

Special Features

• You can create custom-tailored copy specific to your audience’s needs. This is impressive since most free AI content generators do not offer this feature.
• Hypotenuse takes data from social media sites, websites, and more sources to provide accurate information for your content.
• If you’re selling a product online, you can use Hypotenuse to create automated product descriptions that are of high quality and will help you sell more products.

Pros

• Excellent research capabilities
• Custom-tailored copy
• Automated product descriptions

Cons

• No free plan

Pricing

Hypotenuse doesn’t offer a free plan. Instead, it offers a free trial period where you can take the software for a run before deciding whether it’s the right choice for you or not. Other than that, here are its paid options:

Starter Plan: $29/month

Features:

•  This plan comes with 100 credits/month with 25k Words with one user seat. It’s an excellent option for individuals or small businesses.

Growth Plan: $59/month

Features:

•  This plan comes with 350 credits/month with 87.5k words and 1 user seat. It’s perfect for larger businesses or agencies.

Enterprise – pricing is custom, so don’t hesitate to contact the company for more information.

9. Kafkai — Leading AI Writing Tool for SEOs and Marketers

 Features

• Kafkai offers a host of features that make it SEO-ready, including the ability to add keywords and tags to your content.
• Kafkai is designed explicitly for creating niche-specific content, which can be a significant advantage for businesses or bloggers looking to target a specific audience.
•  Kafkai produces high-quality content, a significant advantage for businesses or bloggers looking to set themselves apart from the competition.
• Kafkai offers a unique feature that allows you to seed content from other sources, which can be a significant time-saver when creating content.

Pros

• Quick results with high efficiency
• You can add seed content and phrases
• It can be used to craft complete articles

Cons

• Its long-form-content generator isn’t very high quality

Pricing

Kafkai comes with a free trial to help you understand whether it’s the right choice for you or not. Additionally, you can also take a look at its paid plans:

Writer Plan: $29/month Create 100 articles per month.  $0.29/article

Newsroom Plan $49/month – Generate 250 articles a month at $0.20 per article.

Printing Press Plan: $129 /month   Create up to 1000 articles a month at roughly $0.13/article.

Industrial Printer Plan: ($199 a month) – Generate 2500 articles each month for $0.08/article.

10. Peppertype.ai — Best AI Content Writing Software for Blogging

Peppertype.ai is an online AI content generator that’s easy to use and best for small business owners looking for a powerful copy and content writing tool to help them craft and generate various content for many purposes.

Features

• You can choose from various pre-trained templates to create your content. This can save you a lot of time since you don’t have to spend time designing your templates or starting entirely from scratch.
• Peppertype offers various copywriting frameworks to help you write better content.
• Peppertype is lightweight and easy to use. This makes it perfect for beginners who want to get started with AI content generation.
• Peppertype’s autocorrect feature automatically corrects your grammar and spelling mistakes as you type. This ensures that your content is free of errors.
• Peppertype tracks user engagement data to help you create content that resonates with your audience.

Pros

• It doesn’t have a steep learning curve
• It helps users to create entirely original content
• The basic plan comes with access to all of their frameworks and templates
• Built-in style editor

Cons

• More hits than misses on content generated
• Tons of typos and grammatical errors

Pricing

Unfortunately, Peppertype.ai isn’t free. However, it does have a free trial to try out the software before deciding whether it’s the right choice for you. Here are its paid plans:

personal Plan:$35/Month

Features:

• 50,000 words included
• 40+ content types
• Notes and Text Editor
• Access to templates
• Unlimited projects
• Active customer support

Team Plan: $199/month

Features:

• Everything included in the Personal
• Collaborate & share results
• Access control
• Export results
• Request custom content types

Enterprise – pricing is custom, so please contact the company for more information.

Final thoughts:

It is no longer a secret that humans are getting overwhelmed with the daily task of creating content. Our lives are busy, and the process of writing blog posts, video scripts, or other types of content is not our day job. In comparison, AI writers are not only cheaper to hire, but also perform tasks at a high level of excellence. This article explores 10 writing tools that used AI to create better content choose the one which meets your requirements and budget but in my opinion Jasper ai is one of the best tools to use to make high-quality content. 

If you have any questions ask in the comments section

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Beginner Guide to CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction) in 2022
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:57:00 +0000

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What is CJ Affiliate?

For Advertiser:

For Publishers: 

Requirements 

How Does CJ Affiliate Work?

How to Start Making Money Online Using CJ Affiliate

Best CJ Affiliate Programs in 2022

A Quick CJ Affiliate Review: Is It Good Enough?

Top Alternatives and Competitors

Frequently Asked Questions About Cj Affiliate Marketplace 

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Most Frequently Asked Questions About Affiliate Marketing
Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:03:00 +0000

There are lots of questions floating around about how affiliate marketing works, what to do and what not to do when it comes to setting up a business. With so much uncertainty surrounding both personal and business aspects of affiliate marketing. In this post, we will answer the most frequently asked question about affiliate marketing

1. What is affiliate marketing?

 Affiliate marketing is a way to make money by promoting the products and services of other people and companies. You don't need to create your product or service, just promote existing ones. That's why it's so easy to get started with affiliate marketing. You can even get started with no budget at all!

2. What is an affiliate program?

 An affiliate program is a package of information you create for your product, which is then made available to potential publishers. The program will typically include details about the product and its retail value, commission levels, and promotional materials. Many affiliate programs are managed via an affiliate network like ShareASale, which acts as a platform to connect publishers and advertisers, but it is also possible to offer your program directly.

3. What is an affiliate network and how do affiliate networks make money? 

 Affiliate networks connect publishers to advertisers.  Affiliate networks make money by charging fees to the merchants who advertise with them; these merchants are known as advertisers. The percentage of each sale that the advertiser pays is negotiated between the merchant and the affiliate network.

4. What's the difference between affiliate marketing and dropshipping?

 Dropshipping is a method of selling that allows you to run an online store without having to stock products. You advertise the products as if you owned them, but when someone makes an order, you create a duplicate order with the distributor at a reduced price. The distributor takes care of the post and packaging on your behalf. As affiliate marketing is based on referrals and this type of drop shipping requires no investment in inventory when a customer buys through the affiliate link, no money exchanges hands.

 5. Can affiliate marketing and performance marketing be considered the same thing?

 Performance marketing is a method of marketing that pays for performance, like when a sale is made or an ad is clicked This can include methods like PPC (pay-per-click) or display advertising. Affiliate marketing is one form of performance marketing where commissions are paid out to affiliates on a performance basis when they click on their affiliate link and make a purchase or action.

 6. Is it possible to promote affiliate offers on mobile devices?

 Smartphones are essentially miniature computers, so publishers can display the same websites and offers that are available on a PC. But mobiles also offer specific tools not available on computers, and these can be used to good effect for publishers. Publishers can optimize their ads for mobile users by making them easy to access by this audience. Publishers can also make good use of text and instant messaging to promote their offers. As the mobile market is predicted to make up 80% of traffic in the future, publishers who do not promote on mobile devices are missing out on a big opportunity.

7. Where do I find qualified publishers?

 The best way to find affiliate publishers is on reputable networks like ShareASale Cj(Commission Junction), Awin, and Impact radius. These networks have a strict application process and compliance checks, which means that all affiliates are trustworthy.

8. What is an affiliate disclosure statement?

 An affiliate disclosure statement discloses to the reader that there may be affiliate links on a website, for which a commission may be paid to the publisher if visitors follow these links and make purchases.

 9. Does social media activity play a significant role in affiliate marketing?

 Publishers promote their programs through a variety of means, including blogs, websites, email marketing, and pay-per-click ads. Social media has a huge interactive audience, making this platform a good source of potential traffic.

10. What is a super affiliate?

 A super affiliate is an affiliate partner who consistently drives a large majority of sales from any program they promote, compared to other affiliate partners involved in that program.  Affiliates make a lot of money from affiliate marketing Pat Flynn earned more than $50000 in 2013 from affiliate marketing.

11. How do we track publisher sales activity?

 Publishers can be identified by their publisher ID, which is used in tracking cookies to determine which publishers generate sales. The activity is then viewed within a network's dashboard.

 12. Could we set up an affiliate program in multiple countries?

 Because the Internet is so widespread, affiliate programs can be promoted in any country. Affiliate strategies that are set internationally need to be tailored to the language of the targeted country.

13. How can affiliate marketing help my business?

Affiliate marketing can help you grow your business in the following ways:

•  It allows you to save time and money on marketing, which frees you up to focus on other aspects of your business.
•  You get access to friendly marketers who are eager to help you succeed. 
• It also helps you to promote your products by sharing links and banners with a new audience.
•  It offers high ROI(Return on investment) and is cost-effective.

 14. How do I find quality publishers?

 One of the best ways to work with qualified affiliates is to hire an affiliate marketing agency that works with all the networks. Affiliates are carefully selected and go through a rigorous application process to be included in the network.

15. How Can we Promote Affiliate Links?

 Affiliate marketing is generally associated with websites, but there are other ways to promote your affiliate links, including:

• A website or blog
• Through email marketing and newsletter
• Social media, like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
•  Leave a comment on blogs or forums.
• Write an e-book or other digital product.
• Youtube

 16. Do you have to pay to sign up for an affiliate program?

 To build your affiliate marketing business, you don't have to invest money in the beginning. You can sign up for free with any affiliate network and start promoting their brands right away.

17. What is a commission rate?

 Commission rates are typically based on a percentage of the total sale and in some cases can also be a flat fee for each transaction. The rates are set by the merchant.

Who manages your affiliate program?

 Some merchants run their affiliate programs internally, while others choose to contract out management to a network or an external agency.

18. What is a cookie?

 Cookies are small pieces of data that work with web browsers to store information such as user preferences, login or registration data, and shopping cart contents. When someone clicks on your affiliate link, a cookie is placed on the user's computer or mobile device. That cookie is used to remember the link or ad that the visitor clicked on. Even if the user leaves your site and comes back a week later to make a purchase, you will still get credit for the sale and receive a commission it depends on the site cookies duration

19. How long do cookies last?

 The merchant determines the duration of a cookie, also known as its “cookie life.” The most common length for an affiliate program is 30 days. If someone clicks on your affiliate link, you’ll be paid a commission if they purchase within 30 days of the click.

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Most Frequently Asked Questions About Email Marketing
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 12:45:00 +0000

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7 Free Websites Every Content Creator Needs to Know
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:19:00 +0000
Do you have the desire to become a content creator, but not have the money to start? Here are 7 free websites every content creator needs to know.

1.Exploding Topics (Trending Topics)

Some examples can be:

• Use the most popular hashtags and keywords to get inspiration for ideas.
•  Find out what people are talking about in real-time.
•  Find new audiences you may not have known were interested in your topic.

There’s no excuse not to try this website — it’s free and easy to use!

Visit Exploding Topics From Here

2. Headline Studio (Headline Grader)

Headline Studio allows you to create catchy headlines for your content. After writing a title there is data on how often people view articles with similar titles and why they are involved with them.

This is a valuable tool when creating new blog posts because it generates catchy headlines for your blog post to catch a reader’s attention.

Visit Headline Studio From Here

3. Answer the public

Answer The public is an excellent tool for content creators. It gives you insight into what people are asking on social media sites and communities and lets you guess about topics that matter to your audience. Answer the public allows you to enter a keyword or topic related to your niche and it will show results with popular questions and keywords related to your topic. It's an amazing way to get insights into what people are searching online and allows you to identify topics driven by new blog posts or social media content on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter as well as the types of questions they ask and  also want answers.

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4. Surfer Seo (SEO Ranking)

With this tool, content creators can quickly and easily check the ranking of their websites and those of other competitors. This tool allows you to see how your website compares to others in different categories, including: 

• Rank Potential
• Organic Search Ranking

Surfer Seo is free and the interface is very friendly. It's a great tool for anyone who wants to do quick competitor research or check their site's rankings at any time.

Visit SurferSeo From Here

5. Canva (Templates/Graphics)

Canva is a free graphic design platform that makes it easy to create invitations, business cards, mobile videos, Instagram posts, Instagram stories, flyers, and more with professionally designed templates. You can even upload your photos and drag and drop them into Canva templates. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop. You can also remove background from images with one click.

Canva offers thousands of free, professionally designed templates that can be customized with just a few clicks. Simply upload your photos to Canva, drag them into the template of your choice, and save the file to your computer.

It is free to use for basic use but if you want access to different fonts or more features, then you need to buy a premium plan.

Visit Canva From Here

6. Facebook Audience Insights (Audience Research)

Facebook Audience Insights is a powerful tool for content creators when researching their target market. This can help you understand the demographics, interests, and behaviors of your target audience. This information helps determine the direction of your content so that it resonates with them. The most important tools to consider in Facebook Audience Insights are Demographics and Behavior. These two sections provide you with valuable information about your target market, such as their age and from where they belong, how much time they spend on social media per day, what devices they use to access it, etc.

There is another section of Facebook Audits that is very helpful. This will let you know the interests, hobbies, and activities that people in your target market are most interested in. You can use this information to create content for them about things they will be about as opposed to topics they may not be so keen on.

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7. Pexels (Images)

Pexels is a warehouse for any content creator with millions of free royalty images who wants to find high-quality images that can be used freely without having to worry about permissions or licensing so you are free to use the photos in your content and also there is no watermark on photos

The only cons are that some photos contain people, and Pexels doesn't allow you to remove people from photos. Search your keyword and download as many as you want!

Visit Pexel From Here

So there you have it. We hope that these specially curated websites will come in handy for content creators and small businesses alike. If you've got a site that should be on this list, let us know! And if you're looking for more content creator resources, then let us know in the comments section below

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People in Port Talbot: how will the steelworks job cuts affect the town?
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:07:27 GMT

We would like to hear about the impact of the job cuts on workers and their families, as well as the local community and businesses

The steel manufacturer Tata Steel is to cut 2,500 jobs at the Port Talbot steelworks despite a taxpayer-backed deal securing the long-term future of the plant.

The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has agreed a deal under which the government will provide £500m towards the construction of a new, greener electric arc furnace at the site, with the plant’s Indian owners paying £750m. However, the deal fell short of job guarantees for current employees.

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Weed, wages and same-sex marriage: The most intriguing ballot measures that voters will decide in November
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:00:00 EST
Across the U.S. in November, voters will weigh proposals on election policies, minimum wage increases and marijuana legalization.
Match ID: 103 Score: 5.71 source: www.politico.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 5.71 economy

Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:38:38 +0000

The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma resulted in the largest restoration of Indigenous land in U.S. history. 

The post Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible. appeared first on The Intercept.

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YubiKeys Are a Security Gold Standard—but They Can Be Cloned
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:01:38 +0000
Security researchers have discovered a cryptographic flaw that leaves the YubiKey 5 vulnerable to attack.
Match ID: 105 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 5.71 gold

Harris targets small business tax break in contrast with Trump’s corporate tax cuts
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:01:48 EST
The vice president looks to beef up her economic plans ahead of next week's debate.
Match ID: 106 Score: 5.71 source: www.politico.com age: 15 days
qualifiers: 2.86 economy, 2.86 business

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
2024-08-29T00:00:00Z
Outer space has come a long way since the 1960s. Matthew Weinzierl explains the current state of the space economy, highlighting the various opportunities for businesses hidden among the stars.
Match ID: 107 Score: 5.71 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 21 days
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Witness to Titan sub tragedy tells of fear and false hope
Wed, 31 Jul 2024 23:41:35 GMT
Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.
Match ID: 108 Score: 5.71 source: www.bbc.com age: 49 days
qualifiers: 5.71 gold

American office delinquencies are shooting up
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:12:24 +0000
How worried should investors be?
Match ID: 109 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse?
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:27:59 +0000
Enough policies have been proposed to make a call
Match ID: 110 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gouging
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:16:29 +0000
There are worse things in life than paying a fair price
Match ID: 111 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

As stock prices fall, investors prepare for an autumn chill
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:39:55 +0000
Markets are in a very different place from earlier in the year
Match ID: 112 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 14 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Will interest-rate cuts turbocharge oil prices?
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:00:48 +0000
As policymakers prepare to ease policy, traders (and presidential candidates) hold their breath
Match ID: 113 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:36 +0000
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
Match ID: 114 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:50:36 +0000
Reliance on America grows, as other countries clutch their pearls
Match ID: 115 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:50:21 +0000
A few years ago, nobody thought that a soft landing was possible
Match ID: 116 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Are American rents rigged by algorithms?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:50:27 +0000
That is what Department of Justice prosecutors allege
Match ID: 117 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
Match ID: 118 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Vast government debts are riskier than they appear
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:24:42 +0000
A provocative new paper gets central bankers talking at Jackson Hole
Match ID: 119 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 22 days
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Jerome Powell (almost) declares victory over inflation
Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:58:33 +0000
The Federal Reserve chairman strikes a notably doveish tone
Match ID: 120 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 26 days
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Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:04:37 +0000
Some proposals may even be a risk to financial stability
Match ID: 121 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
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America’s recession signals are flashing red. Don’t believe them
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:57:20 +0000
We assess a range of measures
Match ID: 122 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

America’s anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communist
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:42:20 +0000
No matter what critics of Kamala Harris allege
Match ID: 123 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?
Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:54:23 +0000
Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech
Match ID: 124 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Kamala Harris’s cost-of-living plan will end in failure
Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:33:03 +0000
She is the latest presidential candidate to embrace self-defeating economics
Match ID: 125 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 29 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Artificial intelligence is losing hype
Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:13:51 +0000
For some, that is proof the tech will in time succeed. Are they right?
Match ID: 126 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 30 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Europe’s economic growth is extremely fragile
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:05:09 +0000
Risk is concentrated in one country: Germany
Match ID: 127 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 34 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
Match ID: 128 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 34 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why companies get inflation wrong
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:36:35 +0000
Bosses should pay less attention to the media
Match ID: 129 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 34 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0000
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
Match ID: 130 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 35 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

How to invest in chaotic markets
Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:43:59 +0000
Contrary to popular wisdom, even retail investors should pay attention to volatility
Match ID: 131 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 36 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Africa’s two most populous economies brave tough reforms
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:04:32 +0000
Will Ethiopia and Nigeria be able to stick to them?
Match ID: 132 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 41 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Should central bankers argue in public?
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:48:48 +0000
Division is not always a weakness
Match ID: 133 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 41 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountain
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:39:12 +0000
Berkshire Hathaway’s boss is an impressive investor, not an economic oracle
Match ID: 134 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 41 days
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How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:37:53 +0000
The trend will dismay the country’s policymakers
Match ID: 135 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 41 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

A global recession is not in prospect
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:28:24 +0000
That will be a relief to investors everywhere
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qualifiers: 4.29 finance

The Big Mac index: where to buy a cheap hamburger
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:07:08 +0000
Meat-eaters may want to avoid Argentina
Match ID: 137 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 42 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why Japanese markets have plummeted
Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:21:56 +0000
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
Match ID: 138 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 44 days
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India’s economic policy will not make it rich
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:58:55 +0000
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
Match ID: 139 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 48 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Which cities have the worst overtourism problem?
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:22:55 +0000
We rank popular destinations on two measures
Match ID: 140 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 48 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:18:55 +0000
Donald Trump is just the latest to take a swing. In an interview with The Economist, the SEC chair defends his record
Match ID: 141 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 48 days
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EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixed
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:17:17 +0000
New research highlights their failures
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Investors beware: summer madness is here
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:16:08 +0000
This year’s hottest months are shaping up to be especially wild
Match ID: 143 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 48 days
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China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:09:53 +0000
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
Match ID: 144 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 50 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

What the war on tourism gets wrong
Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:11:20 +0000
Visitors are a boon, if managed wisely
Match ID: 145 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 51 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:55:47 +0000
Turning a profit from political news is a lot harder than it looks
Match ID: 146 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 55 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:54:52 +0000
The combative Marxist economist focused on questions related to growth
Match ID: 147 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 55 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:41:16 +0000
All come with their own drawbacks
Match ID: 148 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 55 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:17:18 +0000
Vast new holdings of grain, natural gas and oil suggest trouble ahead
Match ID: 149 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 57 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:39:56 +0000
Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years
Match ID: 150 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 58 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration
Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:04:06 +0000
Moderates want to limit numbers. Radicals want mass deportations. What will be the economic consequence?
Match ID: 151 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 59 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:17:13 +0000
Currency meddling will prove futile
Match ID: 152 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 62 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

At last, Wall Street has something to cheer
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:14:26 +0000
Consumer banks, on the other hand, are starting to suffer
Match ID: 153 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 62 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 09:57:55 +0000
Even though political instability is an economic threat
Match ID: 154 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 62 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 09:56:07 +0000
The Russell 2000 puts in a historic performance
Match ID: 155 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 62 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents
Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:01:01 +0000
But to take full advantage of deregulation, Austin and Auckland need other changes
Match ID: 156 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 63 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:49:47 +0000
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
Match ID: 157 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 65 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:53:40 +0000
He balances that with being unshakeably committed to state-owned enterprises, too
Match ID: 158 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:37:44 +0000
Pursuing domestic investment at the expense of returns is reckless
Match ID: 159 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Europe prepares for a mighty trade war
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:36:54 +0000
Will it be able to stick to its rule-abiding principles?
Match ID: 160 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:36:12 +0000
Why, then, are they largely outlawed in America?
Match ID: 161 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:08 +0000
Opposition would come from all angles
Match ID: 162 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:40:33 +0000
They can get Western governments and banks to crack down on exiled dissidents
Match ID: 163 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 71 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:05:23 +0000
The state is struggling to deal with troubled institutions
Match ID: 164 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 76 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

How Starbucks caffeinates local economies
Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:33:09 +0000
Call it the frappuccino effect
Match ID: 165 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 76 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:09:17 +0000
Undoing quantitative easing provokes fierce debate
Match ID: 166 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 76 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

America’s banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:06:05 +0000
To understand why, consider the ouroboros theory of financial risk
Match ID: 167 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 76 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
Tue, 02 Jul 2024 18:30:07 +0000
So far the technology has had almost no economic impact
Match ID: 168 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 78 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Ukraine has a month to avoid default
Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:24:53 +0000
Lending to a borrower at war entails an additional gamble: that it will win
Match ID: 169 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 80 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:00:31 +0000
Don’t hate the new players—or the new game
Match ID: 170 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 83 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

How Chinese goods dodge American tariffs
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:53:11 +0000
Policymakers are unsure what to do about a tricky loophole
Match ID: 171 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 83 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

McDonald’s v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:25:20 +0000
American consumers will be licking their lips. So will Federal Reserve officials
Match ID: 172 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 84 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Will services make the world rich?
Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:51:25 +0000
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
Match ID: 173 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 86 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Is America approaching peak tip?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:05:29 +0000
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
Match ID: 174 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

America’s rich never sell their assets. How should they be taxed?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:03:09 +0000
It is tempting to tax them during their lives. It is wiser to do so after their deaths
Match ID: 175 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:59:48 +0000
A weakened Narendra Modi is bad news for investors in government-controlled firms
Match ID: 176 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:53:05 +0000
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
Match ID: 177 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier still
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:14:15 +0000
Investors are willing to follow whichever narrative paints the rosiest picture
Match ID: 178 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 91 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

How bad could things get in France?
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:45:15 +0000
The country’s next prime minister faces a brutal fiscal crunch
Match ID: 179 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 92 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Why house prices are surging once again
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:52:53 +0000
In America, Australia and parts of Europe, property markets have shrugged off higher interest rates
Match ID: 180 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 94 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:38:25 +0000
Its share of international reserves has stalled
Match ID: 181 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 97 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Rumours of the trade deal’s death are greatly exaggerated
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:35:38 +0000
Plenty of countries are in a dealmaking rush
Match ID: 182 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 97 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

Does motherhood hurt women’s pay?
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:33:00 +0000
Two new studies suggest not—at least in the long run, and in Scandinavia
Match ID: 183 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 97 days
qualifiers: 4.29 finance

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
2024-09-10T00:00:00Z
Can generative AI help entrepreneurs solve their business problems? Yes, but mostly when companies are already thriving, suggests research by Rembrand Koning that reveals the potential for AI-powered mentors to reach owners around the world.
Match ID: 184 Score: 2.86 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 9 days
qualifiers: 2.86 business

Why the far-right AfD has been so successful in Germany – video explainer
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:04:53 GMT

The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is riding a populist wave across Europe’s largest economy.

According to polls conducted this month, the AfD has become the strongest party in Thuringia, a former state of the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR). In Saxony, another former GDR state, the party finished a very close second behind the CDU.

The Guardian's Berlin correspondent, Deborah Cole, explains how the AfD has risen from its eurosceptic origins to a party that is 'managing to set the agenda' in German politics

• Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart

• Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. Here’s why it won’t happen

Continue reading...
Match ID: 185 Score: 2.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 2.86 economy

What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:30:00 +0000
xAI’s generative AI tool, Grok AI, is unhinged compared to its competitors. It’s also scooping up a ton of data that people post on X. Here’s how to keep your posts out of Grok—and why you should.
Match ID: 186 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 2.86 business

Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood Data
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Kaspersky’s US business sold, Nigerian sextortion scammers jailed, and Europe’s controversial encryption plans return.
Match ID: 187 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 2.86 business

The NSA Has a Podcast—Here's How to Decode It
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000
The spy agency that dared not speak its name is now the Joe Rogan of the SIGINT set. And the pod's actually worth a listen.
Match ID: 188 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 2.86 business

Trump's Wall Street pitch: Punishing tariffs, low taxes, 'explosive' growth
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:11:22 EST
Trump arrived in New York amid growing concerns among some investors about his economic plans as Harris casts his agenda as a financially calamitous wishlist.
Match ID: 189 Score: 2.86 source: www.politico.com age: 13 days
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Trump says he would name Elon Musk head of government efficiency commission
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Why It's So Hard to Fully Block X in Brazil
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With 20,000 internet providers across the country, the technical challenges of blocking X in Brazil mean some connections are slipping through the cracks.
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How Republicans and Democrats paint starkly different pictures of America
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:00:00 EST
This summer's conventions featured strongly diverging visions of the future — and the present.
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Trump, Harris lay out tax plans with trillions of dollars on the line
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 04:00:00 EST
With a huge swath of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts set to expire at the end of next year, the presidential candidates are putting down markers on the issue.
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Harris goes after Trump on economy and inflation in new ad
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The vice president is trying to shore up the affordability argument.
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Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
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‘America is not a museum’: Why Democrats are going big on housing despite the risks
Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:00:00 EST
Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to flip the script and own an issue impacting large swaths of Americans.
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Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
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While fears about slowing economic growth have roiled stock markets in recent weeks, credit markets remain stable and bullish, and a recession hasn't materialized as some analysts predicted. Robin Greenwood discusses the market conditions that are buoying the economy—and risk signals to watch.
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Harris breaks from ‘Bidenomics’ in North Carolina
Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:37:08 EST
The vice president makes her pitch in North Carolina, where Democrats have long hoped to flip the closely divided state.
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Harris' economic plan supercharges Biden proposals to fight inflation
Fri, 16 Aug 2024 06:00:00 EST
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Trump hits Harris on the economy: 'She destroys everything she touches'
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:20:14 EST

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Everything was going Kamala Harris’ way. Then came the market sell-off.
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 04:00:00 EST
"We cannot win if people think we’re headed into a recession," one Democratic National Committee member said.
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To Keep Gen Z, Companies Need to Level Up
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The old playbook for power and control won’t work to retain Gen Z talent. Instead, employers need to take a cue from Roblox.
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The VC Funding Party Is Over
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The glory days of venture capital are winding down, leaving in their wake a host of overstuffed tech firms and a bear market ready to maul.
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Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment
Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Rose-tinted predictions for artificial intelligence’s grand achievements will be swept aside by underwhelming performance and dangerous results.
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Gen Z and the Art of Incentivized Self-Actualization
Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Stepping off the hedonistic treadmill, younger workers are demanding a more authentic employment experience.
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Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier
Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:52:00 +0000

 In this article, we explore the top 10 AI tools that are driving innovation and efficiency in various industries. These tools are designed to automate repetitive tasks, improve workflow, and increase productivity. The tools included in our list are some of the most advanced and widely used in the market, and are suitable for a variety of applications. Some of the tools focus on natural language processing, such as ChatGPT and Grammarly, while others focus on image and video generation, such as DALL-E and Lumen5. Other tools such as OpenAI Codex, Tabnine, Canva, Jasper AI,, and Surfer SEO are designed to help with specific tasks such as code understanding content writing and website optimization. This list is a great starting point for anyone looking to explore the possibilities of AI and how it can be applied to their business or project.

So let’s dive into

1. ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a large language model that generates human-like responses to a variety of prompts. It can be used for tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion. It can handle a wide range of topics and styles of writing, and generates coherent and fluent text, but should be used with care as it may generate text that is biased, offensive, or factually incorrect.

Pros:

• Generates human-like responses to a variety of prompts
• Can be fine-tuned for specific tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion
• Can handle a wide range of topics and styles of writing
• Can generate coherent and fluent text, even when completing a given text prompt.

Cons:

• May generate text that is biased or offensive
• Can generate text that is not accurate or factually correct
• May require large amounts of computational resources to run
• The model can sometimes generate text that is not coherent or fluent, depending on the prompt given.

Overall, ChatGPT is a powerful tool for natural language processing, but it should be used with care and with an understanding of its limitations.

2. DALL-E

DALL-E is a generative model developed by OpenAI that is capable of generating images from text prompts. It is based on the GPT-3 architecture, which is a transformer-based neural network language model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text. DALL-E can generate images that are similar to a training dataset and it can generate high-resolution images that are suitable for commercial use.

Pros:

• Generates high-resolution images
• Can generate images from text prompts
• It can be fine-tuned for specific tasks such as generating images of a certain style or category

Cons:

• May generate images that are not entirely original and could be influenced by the training data
• May require significant computational resources to run
• The quality of the generated images may vary depending on the specific prompt

Overall, DALL-E is a powerful AI-based tool for generating images, it can be used for a variety of applications such as creating images for commercial use, gaming, and other creative projects. It is important to note that the generated images should be reviewed and used with care, as they may not be entirely original and could be influenced by the training data.

3. Lumen5

Lumen5 is a content creation platform that uses AI to help users create videos, social media posts, and other types of content. It has several features that make it useful for content creation and marketing, including:

Pros:

• Automatically summarizes text from a blog post, article, or another source into a script for a video or social media post
• Offers a library of royalty-free videos, images, and music to use in content
• Has a drag-and-drop interface for easy content creation
• Can create videos in multiple languages
• Has a built-in analytics tool to track the performance of created content.

Cons:

• The quality of the generated content may vary depending on the source material
• The automatic summarization feature may not always capture the main points of the source material
• The library of videos, images, and music is limited.
• The analytics feature is basic

Overall, Lumen5 is a useful tool for creating content quickly and easily, it can help automate the process of creating videos, social media posts, and other types of content. However, the quality of the generated content may vary depending on the source material and it is important to review and edit the content before publishing it.

4. Grammarly

Grammarly is a writing-enhancement platform that uses AI to check for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors in the text. It also provides suggestions for improving the clarity, concision, and readability of the text. It has several features that make it useful for improving writing, including:

Pros:

• Checks for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors in the text
• Provides suggestions for improving clarity, concision, and readability
• Can be integrated with various apps and platforms such as Microsoft Office, Google Docs, and social media platforms
• Offers a browser extension and a desktop app
• Has a premium version with more advanced features such as plagiarism detection and more

Cons:

• The suggestions provided may not always be accurate or appropriate
• The grammar checker may not always recognize context-specific language use
• The free version has limited features
• Limited to English language only
• Overall, Grammarly is a useful tool for improving writing, it can help users identify and correct grammar and punctuation errors, and improve the clarity, concision, and readability of their text. However, it is important to review the suggestions provided by the tool and use them with caution, as they may not always be accurate or appropriate.

5.OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex is a system developed by OpenAI that can create code from natural language descriptions of software tasks. The system is based on the GPT-3 model and can generate code in multiple programming languages.

Pros:

• Can automate the process of writing code
• Can help developers to be more productive
• Can help non-technical people to create software
• Can generate code in multiple programming languages

Cons:

• The quality of the generated code may vary depending on the task description
• The generated code may not always be optimal or efficient
• The system may not be able to handle complex software tasks
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the code.

Overall, OpenAI Codex is a powerful tool that can help automate the process of writing code and make it more accessible to non-technical people. However, the quality of the generated code may vary depending on the task description and it is important to review and test the code before using it in a production environment. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the developer's knowledge.

6. Tabnine

Tabnine is a code completion tool that uses AI to predict and suggest code snippets. It is compatible with multiple programming languages and can be integrated with various code editors.

Pros:

• Can improve coding efficiency by suggesting code snippets based on context
• Can complete entire code blocks
• Can predict variables, functions, and other elements of code
• Can be integrated with various code editors

Cons:

• The suggestions may not always be accurate or appropriate
• The system may not always be able to understand the context of the code
• May not work with all code editors
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the code.

Overall, TabNine is a useful tool for developers that can help improve coding efficiency and reduce the time spent on writing code. However, it is important to review the suggestions provided by the tool and use them with caution, as they may not always be accurate or appropriate. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the developer's knowledge.

7. Jasper AI

Jasper is a content writing and content generation tool that uses artificial intelligence to identify the best words and sentences for your writing style and medium in the most efficient, quick, and accessible way.

Pros:

• User-friendly interface
• Generates a wide variety of content types
• Guarantees 100% unique and free-plagiarism content
• SEO friendly
•  Create articles of up to 10k words

Cons:

• Not the cheapest AI writer on the market

8. Surfer SEO

Surfer SEO is a software tool designed to help website owners and digital marketers improve their search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. The tool provides a variety of features that can be used to analyze a website's on-page SEO, including:

Features:

• A site audit tool that checks for technical SEO issues
• A content editor that suggests optimizations for individual pages
• A keyword research tool that suggests keywords to target
• A SERP analyzer that shows how a website's pages rank for specific keywords
• A backlink analysis tool that shows the backlinks pointing to a website.

Pros:

• Can help website owners and marketers identify technical SEO issues
• Can provide suggestions for optimizing individual pages
• Can help with keyword research
• Can show how a website's pages rank for specific keywords
• Can provide insight into a website's backlink profile

Cons:

• Some features may require a paid subscription
• The tool is not a guarantee of better ranking
• The tool can only analyze the data it has access to
• The tool's suggestions may not always be applicable or optimal

Overall, Surfer SEO can be a useful tool for website owners and digital marketers looking to improve their SEO efforts. However, it is important to remember that it is just a tool and should be used in conjunction with other SEO best practices. Additionally, the tool is not a guarantee of better ranking.

9. Zapier

Zapier is a web automation tool that allows users to automate repetitive tasks by connecting different web applications together. It does this by creating "Zaps" that automatically move data between apps, and can also be used to trigger certain actions in one app based on events in another app.

Features:

• Can connect over 3,000 web applications
• Can automate repetitive tasks
• Can create "Zaps" to move data between apps
• Can trigger certain actions in one app based on events in another app.

Pros:

• Can automate repetitive tasks
• Can save time
• Can improve workflow
• Can increase productivity
• Can be integrated with a wide range of web applications

Cons:

• Can be difficult to set up
• May require some technical skills
• May require a paid subscription for some features
• Some apps may not be compatible
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the apps

Overall, Zapier is a useful tool that can help users automate repetitive tasks and improve workflow. It can save time and increase productivity by connecting different web applications together. However, it may require some technical skills and some features may require a paid subscription. It is important to use the tool with caution and not to rely too much on it, to understand the apps better.

10. Compose AI

Compose AI is a company that specializes in developing natural language generation (NLG) software. Their software uses AI to automatically generate written or spoken text from structured data, such as spreadsheets, databases, or APIs.

Features:

• Automatically generates written or spoken text from structured data
• Can be integrated with a wide range of data sources
• Can be used for a variety of applications such as creating reports, summaries, and explanations
• Provides an API and a user-friendly interface

Pros:

• Can automate the process of creating written or spoken content
• Can help users create more accurate and consistent content
• Can help users save time by automating repetitive tasks
• Can be integrated with a wide range of data sources

Cons:

• The quality of the generated content may vary depending on the data source
• The generated content may not always be optimal or efficient
• The system may not be able to handle complex tasks
• Dependence on the tool may lead to a lack of understanding of the data

Overall, Compose AI's NLG software can be a useful tool for automating the process of creating written or spoken content from structured data. However, the quality of the generated content may vary depending on the data source, and it is essential to review the generated content before using it in a production environment. It is important to use the tool as an aid, not a replacement for the understanding of the data.

Conclusion

AI tools are becoming increasingly important in today's business and technology landscape. They are designed to automate repetitive tasks, improve workflow, and increase productivity. The top 10 AI tools included in this article are some of the most advanced and widely used in the market, and are suitable for various applications. Whether you're looking to improve your natural language processing, create high-resolution images, or optimize your website, there is an AI tool that can help. It's important to research and evaluate the different tools available to determine which one is the best fit for your specific needs. As AI technology continues to evolve, these tools will become even more powerful and versatile and will play an even greater role in shaping the future of business and technology.

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TOP 11 AI MARKETING TOOLS YOU SHOULD USE (Updated 2022)
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:25:00 +0000

  

 The marketing industry is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to save time and execute smarter, more personalized campaigns. 61% of marketers say AI software is the most important aspect of their data strategy.

  If you’re late to the AI party, don’t worry. It’s easier than you think to start leveraging artificial intelligence tools in your marketing strategy. Here are 11 AI marketing tools every marketer should start using today.

1. Jasper Ai(Formerly known as Jarvis)

2. Personalize

 Personalize is an AI-powered technology that helps you identify and produce highly targeted sales and marketing campaigns by tracking the products and services your contacts are most interested in at any given time. The platform uses an algorithm to identify each contact’s top three interests, which are updated in real-time based on recent site activity.

Key Features

• Identifies  top three interests based on metrics like time on page, recency, and frequency of each contact
• Works with every ESP and CRM
• Easy to get up and running in days
• Enterprise-grade technology at a low cost for SMBs

3. Seventh Sense

  Seventh Sense provides behavioral analytics that helps you win attention in your customers’ overcrowded email inboxes. Choosing the best day and time to send an email is always a gamble. And while some days of the week generally get higher open rates than others, you’ll never be able to nail down a time that’s best for every customer. Seventh Sense eases your stress of having to figure out the perfect send-time and day for your email campaigns. The AI-based platform figures out the best timing and email frequency for each contact based on when they’re opening emails. The tool is primarily geared toward HubSpot and Marketo customers 

Key Features 

4. Phrasee

  Phrasee uses artificial intelligence to help you write more effective subject lines. With its AI-based Natural Language Generation system, Phrasee uses data-driven insights to generate millions of natural-sounding copy variants that match your brand voice. The model is end-to-end, meaning when you feed the results back to Phrasee, the prediction model rebuilds so it can continuously learn from your audience.

Key Features 

• Instantly generates millions of human-sounding, brand-compliant copy variants
• Creates tailored language models for every customer
• Learns what your audience responds to and rebuilds the prediction model every time

5. Hubspot Seo

  HubSpot Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an integral tool for the Human Content team. It uses machine learning to determine how search engines understand and categorize your content. HubSpot SEO helps you improve your search engine rankings and outrank your competitors. Search engines reward websites that organize their content around core subjects, or topic clusters. HubSpot SEO helps you discover and rank for the topics that matter to your business and customers.

Key Features 

• Helps you discover and rank topics that people are searching for
• Provides suggestions for your topic clusters and related subjects
• Integrates with all other HubSpot content tools to help you create a well-rounded content strategy

 6. Evolve AI

  When you’re limited to testing two variables against each other at a time, it can take months to get the results you’re looking for. Evolv AI lets you test all your ideas at once. It uses advanced algorithms to identify the top-performing concepts, combine them with each other, and repeat the process to achieve the best site experience.

Key Features 

• Figures out which content provides the best performance
• Lets you test multiple ideas in a single experiment instead of having to perform many individual tests over a long period
• Lets you try all your ideas across multiple pages for full-funnel optimization
• Offers visual and code editors

7. Acrolinx

  Acrolinx is a content alignment platform that helps brands scale and improves the quality of their content. It’s geared toward enterprises – its major customers include big brands like Google, Adobe, and Amazon - to help them scale their writing efforts. Instead of spending time chasing down and fixing typos in multiple places throughout an article or blog post, you can use Acrolinx to do it all right there in one place. You start by setting your preferences for style, grammar, tone of voice, and company-specific word usage. Then, Acrolinx checks and scores your existing content to find what’s working and suggest areas for improvement. The platform provides real-time guidance and suggestions to make writing better and strengthen weak pages.

Key features

• Reviews and scores existing content to ensure it meets your brand guidelines
• Finds opportunities to improve your content and use automation to shorten your editorial process.
• Integrates with more than 50 tools and platforms, including Google Docs, Microsoft Word, WordPress, and most web browsers.

8. MarketMuse 

MarketMuse uses an algorithm to help marketers build content strategies. The tool shows you where to target keywords to rank in specific topic categories, and recommends keywords you should go after if you want to own particular topics. It also identifies gaps and opportunities for new content and prioritizes them by their probable impact on your rankings. The algorithm compares your content with thousands of articles related to the same topic to uncover what’s missing from your site.

Key features:

• The built-in editor shows how in-depth your topic is covered and what needs improvement
• Finds gaps and opportunities for new content creation, prioritized by their probable impact and your chance of ranking

9. Copilot

Copilot is a suite of tools that help eCommerce businesses maintain real-time communication with customers around the clock at every stage of the funnel. Promote products, recover shopping carts and send updates or reminders directly through Messenger.

Key features: 

• Integrate Facebook Messenger directly with your website, including chat history and recent interactions for a fluid customer service experience 
• Run drip messenger campaigns to keep customers engaged with your brand
• Send abandoned carts, out-of-stock, restock, preorder, order status, and shipment notifications to contacts 
• Send branded images, promotional content, or coupon codes to those who opt in
• Collect post-purchase feedback, reviews, and customer insight
• Demonstrate social proof on your website with a widget, or push automatic Facebook posts sharing recent purchases
• Display a promotional banner on your website to capture contacts instantly

10. Yotpo

Yotpo’s deep learning technology evaluates your customers’ product reviews to help you make better business decisions. It identifies key topics that customers mention related to your products—and their feelings toward them. The AI engine extracts relevant reviews from past buyers and presents them in smart displays to convert new shoppers. Yotpo also saves you time moderating reviews. The AI-powered moderation tool automatically assigns a score to each review and flags reviews with negative sentiment so you can focus on quality control instead of manually reviewing every post.

Key features:

• Makes it easy for shoppers to filter reviews and find the exact information they’re looking for
• Analyzes customer feedback and sentiments to help you improve your products
• Integrates with most leading eCommerce platforms, including BigCommerce, Magento, and Shopify.

11. Albert AI

  Albert is a self-learning software that automates the creation of marketing campaigns for your brand. It analyzes vast amounts of data to run optimized campaigns autonomously, allowing you to feed in your own creative content and target markets, and then use data from its database to determine key characteristics of a serious buyer. Albert identifies potential customers that match those traits, and runs trial campaigns on a small group of customers—with results refined by Albert himself—before launching it on a larger scale.

  Albert plugs into your existing marketing technology stack, so you still have access to your accounts, ads, search, social media, and more. Albert maps tracking and attribution to your source of truth so you can determine which channels are driving your business.

Key features:

• Breaks down large amounts of data to help you customize campaigns
• Plugs into your marketing technology stack and can be used across diverse media outlets, including email, content, paid media, and mobile

Final Saying

There are many tools and companies out there that offer AI tools, but this is a small list of resources that we have found to be helpful. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to share them in the comments below this article. As marketing evolves at such a rapid pace, new marketing strategies will be invented that we haven't even dreamed of yet. But for now, this list should give you a good starting point on your way to implementing AI into your marketing mix.

Note: This article contains affiliate links, meaning we make a small commission if you buy any premium plan from our link.

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ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:04:00 +0000

What is Grammarly?

Grammarly is a tool that checks for grammatical errors, spelling, and punctuation.it gives you comprehensive feedback on your writing. You can use this tool to proofread and edit articles, blog posts, emails, etc.

Grammarly also detects all types of mistakes, including sentence structure issues and misused words. It also gives you suggestions on style changes, punctuation, spelling, and grammar all are in real-time. The free version covers the basics like identifying grammar and spelling mistakes

whereas the Premium version offers a lot more functionality, it detects plagiarism in your content, suggests word choice, or adds fluency to it.

Features of Grammarly

• Spelling and Word Suggestion: Grammarly detects basic to advance grammatical errors and also help you why this is an error and suggest to you how you can improve it
• Create a Personal Dictionary: The Grammarly app allows you to add words to your personal dictionary so that the same mistake isn't highlighted every time you run Grammarly.
• Different English Style: Check to spell for American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.
• Plagiarism: This feature helps you detect if a text has been plagiarized by comparing it with over eight billion web pages.
• Wordiness: This tool will help you check your writing for long and hard-to-read sentences. It also shows you how to shorten sentences so that they are more concise.
• Passive Voice: The program also notifies users when passive voice is used too frequently in a document.
• Punctuations: This feature flags all incorrect and missing punctuation.
• Repetition: The tool provides recommendations for replacing the repeated word.
• Proposition: Grammarly identifies misplaced and confused prepositions.
  
• Plugins: It offers Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Chrome plugins.

What is ProWritingAid?

ProWritingAid is a style and grammar checker for content creators and writers. It helps to optimize word choice, punctuation errors, and common grammar mistakes, providing detailed reports to help you improve your writing. 

ProWritingAid can be used as an add-on to WordPress, Gmail, and Google Docs. The software also offers helpful articles, videos, quizzes, and explanations to help improve your writing.

Features of ProWriting Aid

Here are some key features of ProWriting Aid:

• Grammar checker and spell checker: This tool helps you to find all grammatical and spelling errors.
• Find repeated words:  The tool also allows you to search for repeated words and phrases in your content.
• Context-sensitive style suggestions:  You can find the exact style of writing you intend and suggest if it flows well in your writing.
• Check the readability of your content: Pro Writing Aid helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your article by pointing out difficult sentences and paragraphs.
• Sentence Length: It also indicates the length of your sentences.
• Check Grammatical error: It also checks your work for any grammatical errors or typos, as well.
• Overused words: As a writer, you might find yourself using the same word repeatedly. ProWritingAid's overused words checker helps you avoid this lazy writing mistake.
• Consistency: Check your work for inconsistent usage of open and closed quotation marks.
• Echoes: Check your writing for uniformly repetitive words and phrases.

Difference between Grammarly and Pro-Writing Aid

Grammarly and ProWritingAid are well-known grammar-checking software. However, if you're like most people who can't decide which to use, here are some different points that may be helpful in your decision.

Grammarly vs ProWritingAid

• Grammarly is a writing enhancement tool that offers suggestions for grammar, vocabulary, and syntax whereas ProWritingAid offers world-class grammar and style checking, as well as advanced reports to help you strengthen your writing.
• Grammarly provides Android and IOS apps whereas ProWritingAid doesn't have a mobile or IOS app.
• Grammarly offers important suggestions about mistakes you've made whereas ProWritingAid  shows more suggestions than Grammarly but all recommendations are not accurate
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX whereas the ProWritingAid interface is not friendly as Grammarly.
• Grammarly is an accurate grammar checker for non-fiction writing whereas ProWritingAid is an accurate grammar checker for fiction writers.
• Grammarly finds grammar and punctuation mistakes, whereas ProWritingAid identifies run-on sentences and fragments.
• Grammarly provides 24/7 support via submitting a ticket and sending emails. ProWritingAid’s support team is available via email, though the response time is approximately 48 hours.
• Grammarly offers many features in its free plan, whereas ProWritingAid offers some basic features in the free plan.
• Grammarly does not offer much feedback on big picture writing; ProWritingAid offers complete feedback on big picture writing.
• Grammarly is a better option for accuracy, whereas ProWritingAid is better for handling fragmented sentences and dialogue. It can be quite useful for fiction writers.

ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Pricing Difference

• ProWritingAid comes with three pricing structures. The full-year cost of ProWritingAid is $79, while its lifetime plans cost $339. You also can opt for a monthly plan of $20.
• Grammarly offers a Premium subscription for $30/month for a monthly plan  $20/month for quarterly and $12/month for an annual subscription.
• The Business plan costs $12.50 per month for each member of your company.

ProWritingAid vs Grammarly – Pros and Cons

Grammarly Pros

• It allows you to fix common mistakes like grammar and spelling.
• Offers most features in the free plan
• Allows you to edit a document without affecting the formatting.
• Active and passive voice checker
• Personal dictionary 
• Plagiarism checker (paid version)
• Proofread your writing and correct all punctuation, grammar, and spelling errors.
• Allows you to make changes to a document without altering its formatting.
• Helps users improve vocabulary
• User-friendly interface
• Browser extensions and MS word add-ons
• Available on all major devices and platforms
• Grammarly will also offer suggestions to improve your style.
• Enhance the readability of your sentence
• Free mobile apps 
• Offers  free version

Grammarly Cons

• Supports only English 
• Customer support only via email
• Limits to 150,000 words
• Subscription plans can be a bit pricey 
• Plagiarism checker is only available in a premium plan
• Doesn’t offer a free trial
• No refund policy
• The free version is ideal for basic spelling and grammatical mistakes, but it does not correct advanced writing issues.
• Some features are not available for Mac.

ProwritingAid Pros

• It offers more than 20 different reports to help you improve your writing.
• Less expensive than other grammar checkers.
• This tool helps you strengthen your writing style as it offers big-picture feedback.
• ProWritingAid has a life plan with no further payments required.
• Compatible with Google Docs!
• Prowritingaid works on both Windows and Mac.
• They offer more integrations than most tools.

ProWritingAid Cons

• Editing can be a little more time-consuming when you add larger passages of text.
• ProWritingAid currently offers no mobile app for Android or iOS devices.
• Plagiarism checker is only available in premium plans.
• All recommendations are not accurate

Summarizing the Ginger VS Grammarly: My Recommendation

As both writing assistants are great in their own way, you need to choose the one that suits you best.

• For example, go for Grammarly  if you are a non-fiction writer
• Go for ProWritingAid if you are a fiction writer.
• ProWritingAid is better at catching errors found in long-form content. However, Grammarly is more suited to short blog posts and other similar tasks.
• ProWritingAid helps you clean up your writing by checking for style, structure, and content while Grammarly focuses on grammar and punctuation.
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX whereas; ProWritingAid offers complete feedback on big picture writing.

Both ProWritingAid and Grammarly are awesome writing tools, without a doubt. but as per my experience, Grammarly is a winner here because Grammarly helps you to review and edit your content. Grammarly highlights all the mistakes in your writing within seconds of copying and pasting the content into Grammarly’s editor or using the software’s native feature in other text editors.

Not only does it identify tiny grammatical and spelling errors, it tells you when you overlook punctuations where they are needed. And, beyond its plagiarism-checking capabilities, Grammarly helps you proofread your content. Even better, the software offers a free plan that gives you access to some of its features.

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Sellfy Review 2022: How Good Is This Ecommerce Platform?
Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:54:00 +0000

 

Are you searching for an ecomerce platform to help you build an online store and sell products?

In this Sellfy review, we'll talk about how this eCommerce platform can let you sell digital products while keeping full control of your marketing.

And the best part? Starting your business can be done in just five minutes.

Let us then talk about the Sellfy platform and all the benefits it can bring to your business.

What is Sellfy?

Sellfy is an eCommerce solution that allows digital content creators, including writers, illustrators, designers, musicians, and filmmakers, to sell their products online. Sellfy provides a customizable storefront where users can display their digital products and embed "Buy Now" buttons on their website or blog. Sellfy product pages enable users to showcase their products from different angles with multiple images and previews from Soundcloud, Vimeo, and YouTube. Files of up to 2GB can be uploaded to Sellfy, and the company offers unlimited bandwidth and secure file storage. Users can also embed their entire store or individual project widgets in their site, with the ability to preview how widgets will appear before they are displayed.

Features

Sellfy includes:

Online Store

Sellfy is a powerful e-commerce platform that helps you personalize your online storefront. You can add your logo, change colors, revise navigation, and edit the layout of your store. Sellfy also allows you to create a full shopping cart so customers can purchase multiple items. And Sellfy gives you the ability to set your language or let customers see a translated version of your store based on their location.

Sellfy gives you the option to host your store directly on its platform, add a custom domain to your store, and use it as an embedded storefront on your website. Sellfy also optimizes its store offerings for mobile devices, allowing for a seamless checkout experience.

Product hosting

Sellfy allows creators to host all their products and sell all of their digital products on one platform. Sellfy also does not place storage limits on your store but recommends that files be no larger than 5GB. Creators can sell both standard and subscription-based products in any file format that is supported by the online marketplace. Customers can purchase products instantly after making a purchase – there is no waiting period.

You can organize your store by creating your product categories, sorting by any characteristic you choose. Your title, description, and the image will be included on each product page. In this way, customers can immediately evaluate all of your products. You can offer different pricing options for all of your products, including "pay what you want," in which the price is entirely up to the customer. This option allows you to give customers control over the cost of individual items (without a minimum price) or to set pricing minimums—a good option if you're in a competitive market or when you have higher-end products. You can also offer set prices per product as well as free products to help build your store's popularity.

Sellfy is ideal for selling digital content, such as ebooks. But it does not allow you to copyrighted material (that you don't have rights to distribute).

Embed options

Sellfy offers several ways to share your store, enabling you to promote your business on different platforms. Sellfy lets you integrate it with your existing website using "buy now" buttons, embed your entire storefront, or embed certain products so you can reach more people. Sellfy also enables you to connect with your Facebook page and YouTube channel, maximizing your visibility.

Payments and security

Sellfy is a simple online platform that allows customers to buy your products directly through your store. Sellfy has two payment processing options: PayPal and Stripe. You will receive instant payments with both of these processors, and your customer data is protected by Sellfy's secure (PCI-compliant) payment security measures. In addition to payment security, Sellfy provides anti-fraud tools to help protect your products including PDF stamping, unique download links, and limited download attempts.

Marketing and analytics tools

The Sellfy platform includes marketing and analytics tools to help you manage your online store. You can send email product updates and collect newsletter subscribers through the platform. With Sellfy, you can also offer discount codes and product upsells, as well as create and track Facebook and Twitter ads for your store. The software's analytics dashboard will help you track your best-performing products, generated revenue, traffic channels, top locations, and overall store performance.

Integrations

To expand functionality and make your e-commerce store run more efficiently, Sellfy offers several integrations. Google Analytics and Webhooks, as well as integrations with Patreon and Facebook Live Chat, are just a few of the options available. Sellfy allows you to connect to Zapier, which gives you access to hundreds of third-party apps, including tools like Mailchimp, Trello, Salesforce, and more.

Pricing and Premium Plan Features

Free Plan

• Price: $0

The free plan comes with:

• Up to 10 products
• Print-on-demand products
• Physical products

Starter Plan

• Price: $19/month

Starter plan comes with:

• Everything is Free, plus:
• Unlimited products
• Digital products
• Subscription products
• Connect your domain
• 2,000 email credits

Business Plan

• Price: $49/month

The business plan comes with:

• Everything in Starter, plus:
• Remove "Sellfy" branding
• Store design migration
• Cart abandonment
• Product upselling
• 10,000 email credits

Premium Plan

• Price: $99/month

The premium plan comes with:

• Everything in Business, plus:
• Product migration
• Priority support
• 50,000 email credits

Sellfy Review: Pros and Cons

Sellfy has its benefits and downsides, but fortunately, the pros outweigh the cons.

Pros

• It takes only a few minutes to set up an online store and begin selling products.
• You can sell your products on a single storefront, even if you are selling multiple product types.
• Sellfy supports selling a variety of product types, including physical items, digital goods, subscriptions, and print-on-demand products.
  
  
• Sellfy offers a free plan for those who want to test out the features before committing to a paid plan.
• You get paid the same day you make a sale. Sellfy doesn't delay your funds as some other payment processors do. 
• Print-on-demand services are available directly from your store, so you can sell merchandise to fans without setting up an integration. 
• You can conduct all store-related activities via the mobile app and all online stores have mobile responsive designs.
• Everything you need to make your website is included, including a custom domain name hosting, security for your files, and the ability to customize your store
• The file security features can help you protect your digital property by allowing you to put PDF stamps, set download limits, and SSL encryption.
• Sellfy provides unlimited support.
• Sellfy provides simple and intuitive tax and VAT configuration settings.
• Marketing strategies include coupons, email marketing, upselling, tracking pixels, and cart abandonment.

Cons

• Although the free plan is helpful, but it limits you to only 10 products.
• Payment plans often require an upgrade if you exceed a certain sales amount per year.
• The storefront designs are clean, but they're not unique templates for creating a completely different brand image.
• Sellfy's branding is removed from your hosted product when you upgrade to the $49 per month Business plan.
• The free plan does not allow for selling digital or subscription products.

Conclusion

In this article, we have taken a look at some of the biggest benefits associated with using sellfy for eCommerce. Once you compare these benefits to what you get with other platforms such as Shopify, you should find that it is worth your time to consider sellfy for your business. After reading this article all of your questions will be solved but if you have still some questions let me know in the comment section below, I will be happy to answer your questions.

Note: This article contains affiliate links which means we make a small commission if you buy sellfy premium plan from our link.

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Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

SEMrush and Ahrefs are among the most popular tools in the SEO industry. Both companies have been in business for years and have thousands of customers per month.

If you're a professional SEO or trying to do digital marketing on your own, at some point you'll likely consider using a tool to help with your efforts. Ahrefs and SEMrush are two names that will likely appear on your shortlist.

In this guide, I'm going to help you learn more about these SEO tools and how to choose the one that's best for your purposes.

What is SEMrush?

SEMrush is a popular SEO tool with a wide range of features—it's the leading competitor research service for online marketers. SEMrush's SEO Keyword Magic tool offers over 20 billion Google-approved keywords, which are constantly updated and it's the largest keyword database.

The program was developed in 2007 as SeoQuake is a small Firefox extension

Features

• Most accurate keyword data: Accurate keyword search volume data is crucial for SEO and PPC campaigns by allowing you to identify what keywords are most likely to bring in big sales from ad clicks. SEMrush constantly updates its databases and provides the most accurate data.
• Largest Keyword database: SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool now features 20-billion keywords, providing marketers and SEO professionals the largest database of keywords.


• All SEMrush users receive daily ranking data, mobile volume information, and the option to buy additional keywords by default with no additional payment or add-ons needed
• Most accurate position tracking tool: This tool provides all subscribers with basic tracking capabilities, making it suitable for SEO professionals. Plus, the Position Tracking tool provides local-level data to everyone who uses the tool.
• SEO Data Management: SEMrush makes managing your online data easy by allowing you to create visually appealing custom PDF reports, including Branded and White Label reports, report scheduling, and integration with GA, GMB, and GSC.
• Toxic link monitoring and penalty recovery: With SEMrush, you can make a detailed analysis of toxic backlinks, toxic scores, toxic markers, and outreach to those sites.
• Content Optimization and Creation Tools: SEMrush offers content optimization and creation tools that let you create SEO-friendly content. Some features include the SEO Writing Assistant, On-Page SEO Check, er/SEO Content Template, Content Audit, Post Tracking, Brand Monitoring.

Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading SEO platform that offers a set of tools to grow your search traffic, research your competitors, and monitor your niche. The company was founded in 2010, and it has become a popular choice among SEO tools. Ahrefs has a keyword index of over 10.3 billion keywords and offers accurate and extensive backlink data updated every 15-30 minutes and it is the world's most extensive backlink index database.

Features

• Backlink alerts data and new keywords: Get an alert when your site is linked to or discussed in blogs, forums, comments, or when new keywords are added to a blog posting about you.
• Intuitive interface: The intuitive design of the widget helps you see the overall health of your website and search engine ranking at a glance.
• Site Explorer: The Site Explorer will give you an in-depth look at your site's search traffic.
• Domain Comparison
• Reports with charts and graphs
• JavaScript rendering and a site audit can identify SEO issues.
• A question explorer that provides well-crafted topic suggestions

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

Now that you know a little more about each tool, let's take a look at how they compare. I'll analyze each tool to see how they differ in interfaces, keyword research resources, rank tracking, and competitor analysis.

User Interface

Ahrefs and SEMrush both offer comprehensive information and quick metrics regarding your website's SEO performance. However, Ahrefs takes a bit more of a hands-on approach to getting your account fully set up, whereas SEMrush's simpler dashboard can give you access to the data you need quickly.

In this section, we provide a brief overview of the elements found on each dashboard and highlight the ease with which you can complete tasks.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs dashboard is less cluttered than that of SEMrush, and its primary menu is at the very top of the page, with a search bar designed only for entering URLs.

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

• You can see analytics from the dashboard, including search engine rankings to domain ratings, referring domains, and backlink
• Jumping from one tool to another is easy. You can use the Keyword Explorer to find a keyword to target and then directly track your ranking with one click.
• The website offers a tooltip helper tool that allows you to hover your mouse over something that isn't clear and get an in-depth explanation.

SEMRUSH

When you log into the SEMrush Tool, you will find four main modules. These include information about your domains, organic keyword analysis, ad keyword, and site traffic.

You'll also find some other options like

• A search bar allows you to enter a domain, keyword, or anything else you wish to explore.
• A menu on the left side of the page provides quick links to relevant information, including marketing insights, projects, keyword analytics, and more.
• The customer support resources located directly within the dashboard can be used to communicate with the support team or to learn about other resources such as webinars and blogs.
• Detailed descriptions of every resource offered. This detail is beneficial for new marketers, who are just starting.

WHO WINS?

Both Ahrefs and SEMrush have user-friendly dashboards, but Ahrefs is less cluttered and easier to navigate. On the other hand, SEMrush offers dozens of extra tools, including access to customer support resources.

When deciding on which dashboard to use, consider what you value in the user interface, and test out both.

Rank Tracking

If you're looking to track your website's search engine ranking, rank tracking features can help. You can also use them to monitor your competitors.

Let's take a look at Ahrefs vs. SEMrush to see which tool does a better job.

Ahrefs

The Ahrefs Rank Tracker is simpler to use. Just type in the domain name and keywords you want to analyze, and it spits out a report showing you the search engine results page (SERP) ranking for each keyword you enter.

Rank Tracker looks at the ranking performance of keywords and compares them with the top rankings for those keywords. Ahrefs also offers:

You'll see metrics that help you understand your visibility, traffic, average position, and keyword difficulty.

It gives you an idea of whether a keyword would be profitable to target or not.

SEMRUSH

SEMRush offers a tool called Position Tracking. This tool is a project tool—you must set it up as a new project. Below are a few of the most popular features of the SEMrush Position Tracking tool:

All subscribers are given regular data updates and mobile search rankings upon subscribing

The platform provides opportunities to track several SERP features, including Local tracking.

Intuitive reports allow you to track statistics for the pages on your website, as well as the keywords used in those pages.

Identify pages that may be competing with each other using the Cannibalization report.

WHO WINS?

Ahrefs is a more user-friendly option. It takes seconds to enter a domain name and keywords. From there, you can quickly decide whether to proceed with that keyword or figure out how to rank better for other keywords.

SEMrush allows you to check your mobile rankings and ranking updates daily, which is something Ahrefs does not offer. SEMrush also offers social media rankings, a tool you won't find within the Ahrefs platform. Both are good which one do you like let me know in the comment.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is closely related to rank tracking, but it's used for deciding which keywords you plan on using for future content rather than those you use now.

When it comes to SEO, keyword research is the most important thing to consider when comparing the two platforms.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs Keyword Explorer provides you with thousands of keyword ideas and filters search results based on the chosen search engine.

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

• It can search multiple keywords in a single search and analyze them together. At SEMrush, you also have this feature in Keyword Overview.
• Ahrefs has a variety of keywords for different search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and other search engines.
• When you click on a keyword, you can see its search volume and keyword difficulty, but also other keywords related to it, which you didn't use.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool has over 20 billion keywords for Google. You can type in any keyword you want, and a list of suggested keywords will appear.

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

• Show performance metrics by keyword
• Search results are based on both broad and exact keyword matches.
• Show data like search volume, trends, keyword difficulty, and CPC.
• Show the first 100 Google search results for any keyword.
• Identify SERP Features and Questions related to each keyword
• SEMrush has released a new Keyword Gap Tool that uncovers potentially useful keyword opportunities for you, including both paid and organic keywords.

WHO WINS?

Both of these tools offer keyword research features and allow users to break down complicated tasks into something that can be understood by beginners and advanced users alike.

If you're interested in keyword suggestions, SEMrush appears to have more keyword suggestions than Ahrefs does. It also continues to add new features, like the Keyword Gap tool and SERP Questions recommendations.

Competitor Analysis

Both platforms offer competitor analysis tools, eliminating the need to come up with keywords off the top of your head. Each tool is useful for finding keywords that will be useful for your competition so you know they will be valuable to you.

AHREFS

Ahrefs' domain comparison tool lets you compare up to five websites (your website and four competitors) side-by-side.it also shows you how your site is ranked against others with metrics such as backlinks, domain ratings, and more.

Use the Competing Domains section to see a list of your most direct competitors, and explore how many keywords matches your competitors have.

To find more information about your competitor, you can look at the Site Explorer and Content Explorer tools and type in their URL instead of yours.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush provides a variety of insights into your competitors' marketing tactics. The platform enables you to research your competitors effectively. It also offers several resources for competitor analysis including:

Traffic Analytics helps you identify where your audience comes from, how they engage with your site, what devices visitors use to view your site, and how your audiences overlap with other websites.

SEMrush's Organic Research examines your website's major competitors and shows their organic search rankings, keywords they are ranking for, and even if they are ranking for any (SERP) features and more.

The Market Explorer search field allows you to type in a domain and lists websites or articles similar to what you entered. Market Explorer also allows users to perform in-depth data analytics on These companies and markets.

WHO WINS?

SEMrush wins here because it has more tools dedicated to competitor analysis than Ahrefs. However, Ahrefs offers a lot of functionality in this area, too. It takes a combination of both tools to gain an advantage over your competition.

Pricing

Ahrefs

• Lite Monthly: $99/month
• Standard Monthly: $179/month
• Annually Lite: $990/year
• Annually Standard: $1790/year

SEMRUSH

• Pro Plan: $119.95/month
• Guru Plan:$229.95/month
• Business Plan: $449.95/month

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

When it comes to keyword data research, you will become confused about which one to choose.

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

• Like friendly and clean interface
• Searching for simple keyword suggestions

• Want to get more keywords for different search engines like Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, and more

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

• Want more marketing and SEO features
• Need competitor analysis tool
• Need to keep your backlinks profile clean
• Looking for more keyword suggestions for Google

Both tools are great. Choose the one which meets your requirements and if you have any experience using either Ahrefs or SEMrush let me know in the comment section which works well for you.

 

 

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Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000

Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Would you like to read a detailed review of Canva? As it's one of the tools I love using. I am also writing my first ebook using canva and publish it soon on my site you can download it is free.  Let's start the review.

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload your own photos from your computer or from Google Drive, and add them to Canva's templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that doesn't require Graphic designing knowledge to use. It’s best for nongraphic designers.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.

To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. To use it, you’ll need to learn its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and it’s best to have a good background in design, too.

Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.

So here  Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easier to use and free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12.95 per month.

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99/month per user or  $119.99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).

Free plan Features

• 250,000+ free templates
• 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
• Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
• Invite members to your team
• Collaborate and comment in real-time
• 5GB of cloud storage
• Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days

Pro Plan Features 

• Everything Free, has plus:
• 100+ million premium and  stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
• 610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
• Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
•  Create a library of your brand or campaign's colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
• Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
• Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
• Save designs as templates for your team to use
• 100GB of cloud storage
• Schedule social media content to 8 platforms

Enterprise Plan Features

• Everything Pro has plus:
• Establish your brand's visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
• Control your team's access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
• Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
• Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
• Unlimited Storage
• Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.

How to Use Canva?

To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between student, teacher, small business, large company, non-profit, or personal. Based on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.

You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.

Canva Sign Up

Designing with Canva

When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Based on the type of account you set up  you'll be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: social media posts, documents, presentations, marketing, events, ads, launch your business, build your online brand, etc.

 Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.

Templates

Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of templates that are ready to go, with customizable photos, text, and other elements.

You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.

 Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose from

Elements

Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.

To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:

Photos

The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.

You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suited to your industry.

You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.

When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop, or animate it.

 When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any stock photo in  library or any image you upload.

Text

The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.

When you click on  text, you'll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows). 

Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content remains on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.

Audio

Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.

If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.

Video

Want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock video clips. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes

You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab. 

Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.

Backgrounds

On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. Change out the background on a template to give it a more personal touch.

Styles

The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your brand’s custom colors and fonts to ensure designs stay on brand.

Logos

If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use throughout your designs.

With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo with stock content in it.

Publishing with Canva

With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.

Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. For example, you can start by designing an Instagram post, and Canva's Magic Resizer can resize it for other networks, Stories, Reels, and other formats.

Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.

Canva Team

Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created inside Canva, and then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can make comments, edits, revisions, and keep track via the version history.

Canva Print

When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With an extensive selection of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall art to mugs and t-shirts. 

Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs people will want to wear, keep, and share. Hand out custom business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers' minds.

Canva Apps

The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.

In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

• A user-friendly interface
• Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
• Hundreds of templates, so you'll never have to start from scratch.
• Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
• Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
• Creating visual content on the go
• You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.

Cons:

• Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
• Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
• Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
• Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
• If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva's features limited.
• Prefers to work with vectors. Especially logos.
• Expensive enterprise pricing

Conclusion

In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. If you are a graphic designer with experience, you will find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features – particularly vectors. But if you have little design experience, you will find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.

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Top 7 Best Wordpress Plugin Of All Time
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0000

 

If you are looking for the best wordpress plugins, then you are at the right place. Here is the list of best wordpress plugins that you should use in your blog to boost SEO, strong your security and know every aspects of your blog . Although creating a good content is one factor but there are many wordpress plugins that perform different actions and add on to your success. So let's  start

1.Yoast SEO

Those users who are serious about SEO, Yoast SEO will do the work for them to reach their goals. All they need to do is select a keyword, and the plugin will then optimize your page according to the specified keyword

Yoast offers many popular SEO WordPress plugin functions. It gives you real-time page analysis to optimize your content, images, meta descriptions, titles, and kewords. Yoast also checks the length of your sentences and paragraphs, whether you’re using enough transition words or subheadings, how often you use passive voice, and so on. Yoast tells Google whether or not to index a page or a set of pages too.

Let me summarize these points in bullets:

• Enhance the readability of your article to reduce bounce rate
• Optimize your articles with targetted keywords
• Let Google know who you are and what your site is about
• Improve your on-page SEO with advanced, real-time guidance and advice on keyword usage, linking, and external linking.
• Keep your focus keywords consistent to help rank better on  Google.
• Preview how your page would appear in the search engine results page (SERP)
• Crawl your site daily to ensure Google indexes it as quickly as possible.
• Rate your article informing you of any mistakes you might have made so that you can fix them before publishing.
• Stay up-to-date with Google’s latest algorithm changes and adapt your on-page SEO as needed with smartsuggestionss from the Yoast SEO plugin. This plugin is always up-to-date.
• Free Version is available 

Pricing

• Premium version=$89/year that comes with extra functions, allowing you to optimize your content up to five keywords, among other benefits.

2. WP Rocket

A website running WordPress can put a lot of strain on a server, which increases the chances that the website will crash and harm your business. To avoid such an unfortunate situation and ensure that all your pages load quickly, you need a caching plugin like WP Rocket.

WP Rocket plugin designed to increases your website speed. Instead of waiting for pages to be saved to cache, WP Rocket turns on desired caching settings, like page cache and gzip compression. The plugin also activates other features, such as CDN support and llazy image loadding, to enhance your site speed.

Features in bullets:

• Browser Catching
• Preloading the cache of pages
• Reducing the number of HTTP requests allows websites to load more quickly.
• Decreasing bandwidth usage with GZIP compression
• Apply optimal browser caching headers (expires)
• Minifying and combining JavaScript and CSS files
• Remove Unused CSS
• Deferred loading of images (LazyLoad)
• WebP compatibility
• Deferred loading of JavaScript files
• Delay JavaScript Execution
• Critical Path CSS generation and deferred loading of CSS files
• Database optimization
• WordPress Heartbeat API control
• DNS prefetch
• CDN integration
• Cloudflare integration
• Sucuri integration
• Easy import/export of settings
• Easy roll back to a previous version

Pricing

• Single License =$49/year for one website
• Plus License =$99/year for 3 websites
• Infinite License =$249/year for unlimited websites

3.Wordfence Security

Wordfence Security is a WordPress firewall and security scanner that keeps your site safe from malicious hackers, spam, and other online threats. This Plugin comes with a web application firewall (WAF) called tthread Defence  Feed  that helps to prevents brute force attacks by ensuring you set stronger passwords and limiting login attempts. It searches for malware and compares code, theme, and plugin files with the records in the WordPress.org repository to verify their integrity and reports changes to you.

Wordfence security scanner provides you with actionable insights into your website's security status and will alert you to any potential threats, keeping it safe and secure. It also includes login security features that let you activate reCAPTCHA and two-factor authentication for your website.

Features in Bullets.

• Scans your site for vulnerabilities.
• Alerts you by email when new threats are detected.
• Supports advanced login security measures.
• IP addresses may be blocked automatically if suspicious activity is detected.

Pricing

• Premium Plan= $99/Year that comes with extra security features like the real time IP backlist and country blocking option and also support from highly qualified experts.

4. Akismet

Akismet can help prevent spam from appearing on your site. Every day, it automatically checks every comment against a global database of spam to block malicious content. With Akismet, you also won’t have to worry about innocent comments being caught by the filter or false positives. You can simply tell Akismet about those and it will get better over time. It also checks your contact form submissions against its global spam database and weed out unnecessary fake information.

Features in Bullets:

• The program automatically checks comments and filters out spam.
• Hidden or misleading links are often revealed in the comment body. 
• Akismet tracks the status of each comment, allowing you to see which ones were caught by Akismet and which ones were cleared by a moderator.
• A spam-blocking feature that saves disk space and makes your site run faster.
• Moderators can view a list of comments approved by each user.

Pricing

• Free to use for personal blog 

5. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is a plug-in that allows you to create contact forms that make it easy for your users to send messages to your site. The plug-in was developed by Takayuki Miyoshi and lets you create multiple contact forms on the same site; it also integrates Akismet spam filtering and lets you customize the styling and fields that you want to use in the form. The plug-in provides CAPTCHA and Ajax submitting.

Features in bullets:

• Create and manage multiple contact forms
• Easily customize form fields
• Use simple markup to alter mail content
• Add Lots of third-party extensions for additional functionality
• Shortcode offers a way to insert content into pages or posts.
• Akismet spam filtering, Ajax-powered submitting, and CAPTCHA are all features of this plugin.

Pricing

• Free to use

6. Monster Insights

When you’re looking for an easy way to manage your Google Analytics-related web tracking services, Monster Insights can help. You can add, customize, and integrate Google Analytics data with ease so you’ll be able to see how every webpage performs, which online campaigns bring in the most traffic, and which content readers engage with the most. It’s same as Google Analytics

It is a powerful tool to keep track of your traffic stats. With it, you can view stats for your active sessions, conversions, and bounce rates. You’ll also be able to see your total revenue, the products you sell, and how your site is performing when it comes to referrals.

MonsterInsights offers a free plan that includes basic Google Analytics integration, data insights, and user activity metrics.

Features in bullets:

• Demographics and interest reports:
• Anonymize the  IPs of visitor
• See the results of how far visitors Scroll down
• Show the insights of multiple links to the same page and show you which links get more clicks
• See sessions of two related sites as a single session
• Google AdSense tracking
• Send you weekly analytics report of your blog you can download it as pdf

Pricing

• Premium plan= $99.50/year that comes with extra features like page and post tracking, Adsense tracking,  custom tracking and reports.

7. Pretty Links

Pretty Links is a powerful WordPress plugin that enables you to easily cloak affiliate links on your websiteIt even allows you to easily redirect visitors based on a specific request, including permanent 301 and temporary 302/307 redirects.

Pretty links also helps you to automatically shorten your url for your post and pages.

You can also enable auto-linking feature to automatically add affiliate links for certain keywords

Features

•  Create clean, easy-to-remember URLs on your website (301, 302, and 307 redirects only)
• Random-generator or custom URL slugs
• Track the number of clicks
• Easy to understand reports
• View click details including ip address, remote host, browser, operating system, and referring site
• You can pass custom parameters to your scripts when using pretty permalinks, and still have full tracking capability.
• Exclude IP Addresses from Stats
• Cookie-based system to track your activity across clicks
• Create nofollow/noindex links
• Toggle tracking on / off on each link.
• Pretty Link Bookmarklet
•  Update redirected links easily to new URLs!

Pricing

• Beginner Plan=$79/year that can be used on 1 site
• Marketer Plan: $99/year – that can be used on upto 2 sites
• Super Affiliate Plan: $149/year – that can be use on upto 5 sites

We hope you’ve found this article useful. We appreciate you reading and welcome your feedback if you have it.

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Ginger VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:28:00 +0000

Ginger VS Grammarly: When it comes to grammar checkers, Ginger and Grammarly are two of the most popular choices on the market. This article aims to highlight the specifics of each one so that you can make a more informed decision about the one you'll use.

What is Grammarly?

If you are a writer, you must have heard of  Grammarly before. Grammarly has over 10M users across the globe, it's probably the most popular AI writing enhancement tool, without a doubt. That's why there's a high chance that you already know about Grammarly.

But today we are going to do a comparison between Ginger and Grammarly, So let's define Grammarly here. Like Ginger, Grammarly is an AI writing assistant that checks for grammatical errors, spellings, and punctuation. The free version covers the basics like identifying grammar and spelling mistakes

While the Premium version offers a lot more functionality, it detects plagiarism in your content, suggests word choice, or adds fluency to it.

Features of Grammarly

• Grammarly detects basic to advance grammatical errors and also help you why this is an error and suggest to you how you can improve it
• Create a personal dictionary 
• Check to spell for American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.
• Understand inconsistencies. 
• Detect unclear structure. 
• Detect Plagiarism.
• Explore overuse of words and wordiness. 
• Get to know about the improper tones. 
• Discover the insensitive language aligns with your intent, audience, style, emotion, and more.

What is Ginger

 Ginger is a writing enhancement tool that not only catches typos and grammatical mistakes but also suggests content improvements. As you type, it picks up on errors then shows you what’s wrong, and suggests a fix. It also provides you with synonyms and definitions of words and allows you to translate your text into dozens of languages.

Ginger Software: Features & Benefits

• Ginger's software helps you identify and correct common grammatical mistakes, such as consecutive nouns, or contextual spelling correction.
• The sentence rephrasing feature can help you convey your meaning perfectly.
• Ginger acts like a personal coach that helps you practice certain exercises based on your mistakes.
• The dictionary feature helps users understand the meanings of words.

In addition, the program provides a text reader, so you can gauge your writing’s conversational tone.

Ginger vs Grammarly

Grammarly and Ginger are two popular grammar checker software brands that help you to become a better writer. But if you’re undecided about which software to use, consider these differences:

• Grammarly only supports the English language while Ginger supports 40+ languages.
• Grammarly offers a wordiness feature while Ginger lacks a Wordiness feature.
• Grammarly shows an accuracy score while Ginger lacks an accuracy score feature.
• Grammarly has a plagiarism checker while ginger doesn't have such a feature.
• Grammarly can recognize an incorrect use of numbers while Ginger can’t recognize an incorrect use of numbers.
• Grammarly and Ginger both have mobile apps.
• Ginger and Grammarly offer monthly, quarterly, and annual plans.
• Grammarly allows you to check uploaded documents. while Ginger doesn't check uploaded documents.
• Grammarly Offers a tone suggestion feature while Ginger doesn't offer a tone suggestion feature.
• Ginger helps to translate documents into 40+ languages while Grammarly doesn't have a translation feature.
• Ginger Offers text to speech features while Grammarly doesn't have such features.

Grammarly Score: 7/10

Ginger:4/10

So Grammarly  wins here.

Ginger VS Grammarly: Pricing Difference

• Ginger offers a Premium subscription for 13.99$/month. it comes at $11.19/month for quarterly and $7.49/month for an annual subscription with 40$ off.
• On the other hand,  Grammarly offers a Premium subscription for $30/month for a monthly plan  $20/month for quarterly, and $12/month for an annual subscription.

For companies with three or more employees, the Business plan costs $12.50/month for each member of your team. 

Ginger Wins Here

Ginger vs Grammarly – Pros and Cons

Grammarly Pros

• Offers  free version
• All-in-one tool (grammar checker + spell checker + punctuation checker)
• Allows you to edit a document without affecting the formatting.
• Style checker (paid version)


• Active and passive voice checker
• Personal dictionary 
• Plagiarism checker (paid version)
• Available on all major devices and platforms
• Free mobile apps 
• User-friendly interface
• Browser extensions and MS word add-ons
• Can upload and download documents

Grammarly Cons

• Supports only English 
• Customer support only via email
• Limits to 150,000 words
• Subscription plans can be a bit pricey 
• Doesn’t offer a free trial
• No refund policy

Ginger Pros

• Offers free version
• All-in-one tool (grammar checker + spell checker + punctuation checker)
• Affordable Subscription plans (Additionals discounts are available)
• Active and passive voice changer
• Translates documents in 40+ languages 
• Personal dictionary
• Browser extension available 
•  Personal trainers help clients develop their knowledge of grammar.
• Text-to-speech feature reads work out loud
• Get a full refund within 7 days

Ginger Cons

• Mobile apps aren't free
• Limited monthly corrections for free users
• No style checker
• No plagiarism checker
• Not as user-friendly as Grammarly
• You are unable to upload or download documents; however, you may copy and paste files as needed.
• Doesn't offer a free trial

Summarizing the Ginger VS Grammarly: My Recommendation

While both writing assistants are fantastic in their ways, you need to choose the one you want. 

For example, go for Grammarly if you want a plagiarism tool included. 

Choose Ginger if you want to write in languages other than English. I will to the differences for you in order to make the distinctions clearer.

• Grammarly offers a plagiarism checking tool
• Ginger provides text to speech tool
• Grammarly helps you check uploaded documents
• Ginger supports over 40 languages
• Grammarly has a more friendly UI/UX

Which one you like let me know in the comments section also give your opinions in the comments section below.

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Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It.
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:22:57 +0000

A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.

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