There’s no doubt that for most folks on the internet, search is synonymous with Google. However, there’s a small yet growing audience that wants a privacy-first search experience with little or no ads. That’s where Neeva comes in. This new search engine from ex-Googlers, Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan, guarantees two things: an ad-free experience and advanced features forallits customers. What’s on offer? The company launched last year with a subscription-only model....

How a flat hierarchy around the lunch table creates a close company culture I’ll have ‘close company culture’ for two, please. Creating flat hierarchies begins at lunchtime We’re constantly looking for new ways to express our core values and there’s no better way to physically enable a flat hierarchy than by sharing a meal together — which is why we facilitate our values of transparency and inclusion through communal lunches....

I am a full blown geek. I re-read entire series of fantasy novels to prepare for the next release (yes, this means that I re-read the first Harry Potter book 6 times). I have strong feelings about what Batman would or would not do in a morally ambiguous scenario. I built the computer I’m writing this on (it’s a hackintosh) and I have an unfortunately large mental database of cinema, especially science fiction cinema....

A team of physicists at Emory University recentlypublished researchindicating they’d successfully managed to reduce a mouse’s brain activity to a simple predictive model. This could be a breakthrough for artificial neural networks. You know: robot brains. Let there be mice:Scientists can do miraculous things with mice such asgrow a human earon one’s back or control onevia computer mouse. But this is the first time we’ve heard of researchers using machine learning techniques to grow a theoretical mouse brain....

Arecent TikTok videothat has been liked byalmost half a millionpeople encourages girls to record themselves putting one finger down for every time they have been sent unsolicited dick pics, begged for nudes, catcalled, repeatedly asked out after already saying no, and forced to do something sexual when they didn’t want to. Similar videos about sexual assault posted by young women became popular in 2020. Thenew videois aimed at teens and focuses on sexual harassment....