With new cases of coronavirus in the UK falling consistently, we’re starting to get the first few whispers that lockdown restrictions may soon be eased. But before you get too excited, remember that we’ve not…
7 Ideas for a More Effective Cold Email…
Is email still an effective form of outreach? Many of us have overflowing inboxes and if you are anything like me, many will be deleted without so much as a glance. Are customers doing the…
How One Determined Faerie Saved Her Small Business…
At DigitalMarketer, we know that our customers are amazing. But occasionally someone in our DM Engage community does something so great that we feel the need to brag unabashedly. Sometimes, it’s someone with a new…
Fooling NLP Systems Through Word Swapping
MIT researchers have built a system that fools natural-language processing systems by swapping words with synonyms: The software, developed by a team at MIT, looks for the words in a sentence that are most important…
Top cyber security tips for keeping kids safe…
If you’re among the millions of people working from home while also trying to entertain and educate your kids during the coronavirus pandemic, we imagine things have been pretty chaotic. Were it not for the…
Automatic Instacart Bots
Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders: Before it closed, to use Cartdash users first selected what items they want from Instacart as normal. Once that was done, they had to…
Clarifying the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
A federal court has ruled that violating a website's terms of service is not "hacking" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The plaintiffs wanted to investigate possible racial discrimination in online job markets by…
How Google SERP Layouts Affect Searching Behavior
Posted by Stephen_JobThere are several studies (and lots of data) out there about how people use Google SERPs, what they ignore, and what they focus on. An example is Moz’s recent experiment testing whether SEOs…
Global Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19
OneZero is tracking thirty countries around the world who are implementing surveillance programs in the wake of COVID-19: The most common form of surveillance implemented to battle the pandemic is the use of smartphone location…