Fraudulent phone calls have become a daily reality for millions of people worldwide. From fake law enforcement officials to bank representatives and impersonated tech support agents, victims are increasingly targeted through direct, real-time conversations designed to create urgency accompanied by high psychological pressure to extract sensitive information or money theft. Reports show that this type of cybercrime significantly impacts society both financially and emotionally. According to the FBI, US elderly citizens (60+) lost $3.4B in 2023. Another report shows that vishing increased by 449% in 2025 and the average loss per scam call is $3,690. In this article, we shine…
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Research shows that 32% of buyers discover new B2B vendors using generative AI chatbots. This is why an answer engine optimization (AEO) strategy for B2B businesses is essential. AI-driven answer engines help buyers discover, evaluate, and shortlist vendors. The same research found that buyers start with an average of 7.6 potential vendors and narrow this to 3.5 before making their final decision.
C. Scott Brown / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google has announced the eighth generation of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for its data centers. The new class of TPUs is split based on usage, with separate units for training and inference. Google says this reduces energy requirements for actual end use, which in turn should benefit the environment. Last year at its Google Cloud Next event, Google announced the Ironwood class of tensor processing units (TPUs) that power its data centers. These TPUs, designed for the AI era in mind, focused on large-scale inference, or an AI’s ability to draw conclusions or make…
For model providers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, the choice of chips, Dai pointed out, enables a clearer separation between training and serving fleets, while still allowing reuse of common tools and code paths, in turn lowering total costs, improving fleet efficiency, and simplifying model lifecycle transitions. In fact, Google is not the only chip provider that is walking the split-design path, said Stephen Sopko, analyst at HyperFRAME Research, giving the example of AWS, which has two distinct chips — Trainium and Inferentia — for different AI workloads. How is 8t and 8i better than Ironwood? While the design split…
The most serious cyberattacks in the U.K. are now carried out by hostile nations including Russia, Iran and China, the head of the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said in a speech Wednesday. Richard Horne, the head of the NCSC — part of the U.K’s signals intelligence agency GCHQ — warned that the U.K. is living through “the most seismic geopolitical shift in modern history.” British businesses, he said, need to prepare themselves to defend against cyberattacks because the U.K. could be targeted “at scale,” if it became involved in an international conflict. In recent months, authorities in Sweden,…
Have you ever wanted to start a website, but then you opened up a website builder and felt totally stuck? Maybe you thought, “Where do I even begin?” Or you saw a bunch of templates and felt like you had to pick the “perfect” one right away. Or maybe you weren’t even sure what pages… Have you ever wanted to start a website, but then you opened up a website builder and felt totally stuck? Maybe you thought, “Where do I even begin?” Or you saw a bunch of templates and felt like you had to pick the “perfect” one…
You’ve been told to follow a familiar set of rules for years: always use high-quality creative, keep your brand polished, stay scripted, and follow platform-recommended formats. If you’ve been in ad accounts lately or browsing feeds, you may have noticed something. Attention-grabbing ads don’t always follow those rules. They’re scrappier, less polished, and sometimes even called “ugly ads.” The beauty is that they’re coming out on top. More brands are breaking best practices on purpose to stand out. After all, best practices are an average of what worked best for everyone else in the last six months, give or take.…
Despite what the headline of this article might lead you to believe, I don’t think AI voice generation is inherently bad. Certainly there are cases where it makes sense, like preserving people’s voices when they lose the ability to speak themselves, or turning your notes into an AI “podcast” to keep studying on-the-go, or to make written content more accessible to people with low vision. And in contrast to clunkier older tools, modern AI makes it easy to generate a realistic voice you can use in a number of scenarios. But in my humble opinion, art isn’t usually a proper…
Quality backlinks still matter for rankings and authority. In 2026, they also can help you show up in AI answers across Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Mentions, co-citations (when your brand appears alongside trusted names in your space), and topic associations shape how models understand what your brand is about. And one way to build those signals is with backlinks.When relevant sources link to you and mention you alongside specific topics or problems, LLMs start to associate your brand with those areas. This guide covers 10 tactics that build the kind of authority signals that work in both traditional search…
The Google Pixel has a sensor you probably have never used (and, in fact, there are several sensors on your phone that can trigger certain smart home automations). On the camera visor on the back, under the flash, you’ll find a small black dot which is actually an infrared thermometer, as long as you have a Pixel 8, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro, or Pixel 10 Pro XL. (And actually, the latest Pixels have several helpful features that are a bit hidden). This sensor has an accompanying app called Thermometer, and it simply lets you…