Today Briefly

Today Briefly

Do you know what your internet speed is? Are you getting the service your ISP ( internet service provider) promised when you signed that contract? Or are you dealing with slow internet? These might seem like simple questions, but they're important ones. Internet speeds affect nearly everything you do online: how smoothly your video calls run, how responsive your video games feel, and whether you can stream the latest season of "Stranger Things" without buffering.

Every new Google email account comes with 15GB of free storage -- a solid offer at no cost. However, that space can fill up fast, especially since it also covers files in Google Drive and Google Photos. If your inbox is cluttered with unread newsletters and sneaky spam, there's a way to clean house without losing important messages. With the right approach, you can preserve what matters while giving yourself a fresh start.

I'm deeply skeptical of anyone who calls themselves an expert in the metaverse,

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Those words, from a Senior Director of Product Design, brought to mind an old Aesop fable. A father is trying to get his sons to stop arguing, so he hands them a bundle of sticks and asks them to break it. They try, but they can't. Then he unties the bundle and asks them to break each stick individually. They snap them in half, one by one. Moral of the story? Individually weak, together strong.

To understand how ACR works, imagine a constant, real-time Shazam-like service running in the background while your TV is on. It identifies content displayed on your screen, including programs from cable TV boxes, streaming services, or gaming consoles. ACR does this by capturing continuous screenshots and cross-referencing them with a vast database of media content and advertisements. According to The Markup, ACR can capture and identify up to 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two images every second.

In early 2023, Microsoft announced that it would end all official support for Windows 10 in 2025, giving users just over two years to migrate to Windows 11. As of October 14, 2025, Microsoft officially ceased regular updates and security patches for Windows 10, marking the end of its 10-year run, while leaving millions of users seeking alternatives. Also: New laptop? How to wipe your old Windows PC clean before getting rid of it Some reluctantly upgraded to Windows 11, while others switched to Linux.

The business is pulling its EMEA operations and activities back into its headquarters in Paris, France just seven months after it set up a London base. Executives in London were tasked with selling to media agencies the Adikteev's MotionLead technology, which creates bespoke mobile ad units, and it is understood that the first local campaigns for the formats had been secured.

Fresh from trialling a ban on the use of ad block blocking technology on its website City A.M. is pressing ahead with a full roll-out of the technology to all desktop users - although mobile users will not be affected. City A.M. became the first UK newspaper to ban ad blockers on its website back in October with Firefox users prevented from accessing content if they have active ad blocking software installed.

One red flag that gets overlooked too often relates to the utensils, or lack thereof. If every dish does not have its own serving utensil, think twice about eating there. The larger the buffet is, the more serving utensils it requires. While that seems like something you might take for granted, not all buffet restaurants put in the effort to make this happen. This is a buffet red flag that should make you turn around.

Though not everyone has a sweet tooth, there is often at least one dessert that someone can find appealing. There have been a number of popular desserts through the decades, but one has stood the test of time as a favorite to this day. Yes, even now, we all scream for ice cream. The most important distinction about this popular frozen treat, however, is the fact that people still love enjoying it in a cone.

Picture this: You're getting ready for your birthday party at the roller rink. The colored disco lights are shining, almost matching the colorful, patterned carpet. All of your friends are standing around at one of the laminate booths, greeted by none other than a Funfetti cake (or cupcakes). Funfetti is a type of cake that has been cemented into sweet history. It first got its start in the '90s.

Moving house is one of the rare occasions in life when we are brought face to face with the reality of all our belongings - right down to the contents of the bottom kitchen drawer. My partner and I talked about making a sea change for years. We wanted to leave life in Sydney behind for a simpler, lighter existence a little further up the coast. Now it was finally time to leap.

Australian-born Sue Fennessy has spent the last 30 years at the coal face of digital media. After creating the data aggregation tool Standard Media Index, she says she became increasingly frustrated by the lack of effectiveness of digital media platforms and the increasingly negative impact of social media on our day-to-day lives. Her next endeavor, the social media app WeAre8, was born after asking herself one question:

Conservative newspaper the Daily Mail enlisted a top creative agency to help position it as a 'powerful positive force'. Many titles are embracing marketing to sell subscriptions and alter perceptions, but the 124-year-old title's efforts inspired a bit more attention. The paper's detractors, to put it kindly, made sure I knew how difficult a brief the agency had. Expletives were shared. Some questioned why the newspaper was even 'platformed' by The Drum. It's a brand that stirs strong emotion...

How can you drive value through this technology? Does deployment mean you need to look at your processes and business model? What is AI going to cost? What benefits will you create? How do you make sure you're making the right choices and decisions?

Why has it been so successful both from a user perspective and a brand perspective? They've mastered the art of visual sociability, using animations and pictures instead of just characters and text

As explains, "if you are late for work, do some work from home, or do anything on Teams and Outlook from any network that is not your organization's, your employer would know about this. This obviously did not sit well with workers who either work in hybrid setups or do not appreciate this type of invasion of privacy."

A little rice? A little soup? I'd rather die reading the early texts you sent about my breasts. I wouldn't take a picture- infidelity!- and so instead had conjured them with words, for which, with words, you gave me back a tongue we dragged across the skin of common thought. Such is our lot, our shared disease or gift. Like Bernini's angels propped somewhere in Rome

K.J. Boone, the exec, is a bad man. In the 1970s he made a famous speech to a gathering of his fellow petroleum magnates that provided the blueprint for climate change denial, and he takes credit for the U.S.'s decision to abandon the Kyoto Protocol. This doesn't matter much to our narrator, Jill "Doll" Blaine, who has so far comforted 342 dying souls, each equally

The history of winemaking in Oregon dates back over 150 years, but it wasn't until the 1960s that things really started to take off. The state - particularly the Willamette Valley region - became known for producing pinot noir, and more vineyards were planted to expand the local wine industry. While California produces the lion's share of American wine, Oregon is still considered a leader in the domestic industry, ranking fourth nationally for wine production by volume.

The debate around YouTube is no longer a debate; we will not go onto YouTube when there's just not the level of brand safety that we need. As advertisers, we all know the issues with online platforms around measurement, viewability, ad fraud and brand-safety. If we, as brands spending millions of pounds on advertising, can't guarantee a certain standard of transparency, how can the individual feel protected in the digital Wild West?

New York, NY, June 11, 2024 - When brand trust increases by just one point, the average consumer purchase intent increases by 33%, with Reliability, Respect, Ethical Business Practices, Authenticity, and Relatability top drivers of brand trust. This is according to a new study released today by Vevo, MAGNA Media Trials and Initiative, which surveyed a nationally representative group of nearly 5,000 U.S. consumers to understand the components of brand trust and how they vary across verticals and inclusive cohorts.

After the week-long Twitter backlash which received over 50,000 tweets under the hashtag #FBrape, Facebook agreed to update its policies, releasing a statement acknowledging that its systems to monitor and remove gender-based hate speech had failed. The backlash prompted 15 major advertisers, including Nissan and Nationwide, to suspend their Facebook marketing campaigns, and highlighted some of the issues brands potentially face when it comes to online advertising.

The One Point is a fob that fits on a keyring or anything else you can think of attaching a fob to -- from your pet to your bike. It measures 1.49in/37.9mm and is 0.25in/6.4mm thin, and it is splashproof to the IPX5 standard. Powering the tiny fob is a user-replaceable CR2032 lithium coin cell that should last about a year. Regarding range, the fob is good to about 200ft/60m if you want to activate it to play a sound.

LinkedIn has made significant changes to its platform over recent years to focus more on content and enabling connections around content out in the open, versus just allowing professionals to connect and message privately. It creates an immense opportunity for thought leadership at scale, but with that comes risk and responsibility to individuals and institutions. Honesty Honesty was a key theme for success on LinkedIn.

Kacper Borucki blogged about parameterizing exception testing, and linked to pytest docs and a StackOverflow answer with similar approaches. The common way to test exceptions is to use pytest.raises as a context manager, and have separate tests for the cases that succeed and those that fail. Instead, this approach lets you unify them. I tweaked it to this, which I think reads nicely: One parameterized test that covers both good and bad outcomes. Nice.

Look, we've all been there - analyzing every "we should talk about our future" comment and wondering if that suspicious Pinterest activity means what we think it means. Whether you're dropping hints harder than an anvil or playing it cool, your love story has its own timeline. Choose LOTS of pasta, and I'll predict when your person will finally make it official!

I' m not sure where this minimalist urge came from. I've always been more of a maximalist, as one glance at my bag collection (54 at last count) or my coffee-maker constellation (six, more or less) or my leather-notebook ensemble (don't ask). Enough, I decided. This must stop. I know many people dismiss the efficacy of New Year's resolutions, but I like them. They help me make vital course corrections. So, on January 1st I resolved to buy nothing.

Lenovo's ThinkPad P series consists of powerful, portable workstations designed for users in engineering, design, and media creation. The eighth-generation personifies the lineup as its latest flagship model, with up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 255H CPU, Nvidia RTX PRO 2000 GPU, and classic ThinkPad form with some premium elements. It pairs its hardware with impressive portability: just 4.06 pounds and 0.39 inches thick -- much lighter than its horsepower would suggest, for a cutting-edge device in a reliable package

Nearly every part of modern life depends on our connection to the internet. When my provider experiences an outage, everything grinds to a halt -- working remotely via VPN, streaming music on Spotify, and even using smart home devices. It's a stark reminder of how much we rely on the invisible network that keeps us connected. Almost every aspect of modern life is affected by our connectivity to the Web.

In any given relationship or group, there is always one person who makes things happen. Everyone says "hey, we should get together!" but this person finds a date and makes the restaurant reservation. After a family meet-up in a park, everyone says "we should do this again!" but this person suggests meeting next Saturday at the children's museum at 10 a.m. since the forecast calls for rain.