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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Market structure is not simply the number of firms, but the cost structure and economic incentives in the market that follow from the institutions, adjacent government regulations, and available financing. For social media platforms, this was addictive content to increase time spent on platform at any cost to user health.

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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

As the media coverage of the project ramps up, you may have heard of Starlink – SpaceX’s new satellite constellation project. A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Elon Musk’s need for speed.

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Compatibility Testing – An introduction

Testlodge

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. Media may not play on some environments. Why Perform Compatibility Testing?

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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Smashing Magazine

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. The Arms Race. Targeted Manipulation at Scale.

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Better Video Streaming With imgix

Smashing Magazine

Adaptive bitrate videos have multiple versions of the video available and can adapt to the network speed of your customer. That ensures that the video will start playback quickly and is much less likely to stall during playback — no matter the speed of your user’s internet connection. Mp4 (h264 and 265), MOV, WebM, and others.

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