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Beyond the Headlines: Meta’s Record of Protecting Teens and Supporting Parents

Recent lawsuits that attempt to place the blame for teen mental health struggles squarely on social media companies oversimplify a serious issue and ignore Meta's work for more than a decade to protect teens online.
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17 Jan 2026

Competitor Keywords: How to Find & Win Rivals’ Best Terms

Find competitor keywords for SEO & PPC with Semrush. Step-by-step workflows plus free methods.

Digital Marketing

16 Jan 2026

SEO audits: How to conduct one that drives traffic growth [+ checklist]

At its core, an SEO audit is a step-by-step review of your website’s technical health, content quality, and search visibility. An SEO audit identifies technical, on-page, content, and link issues on a website. It helps SEO teams identify, prioritize, and fix the issues that block traffic, rankings, and, importantly, conversions. Businesses and SEO teams should create audits to identify opportunities that advance business goals and growth.

Digital Marketing

16 Jan 2026

What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and how does it change SEO?

If you‘re familiar with the world of SEO, I probably don’t have to tell you there's been a serious shift in its landscape. Marketers are no longer just optimizing content for Google‘s traditional blue links; we’re now optimizing for AI.

Digital Marketing

16 Jan 2026

SEO Brand Marketing: Create a Brand Guide That Drives Search Visibility

Brand marketing is more important to SEO than ever before. Search engines now understand brands as entities, not just keywords. They connect your brand to your industry and offerings to surface you in relevant searches beyond exact matches. Google and&...

Digital Marketing

16 Jan 2026

Vibe Coding Your Own SEO Tools — Whiteboard Friday

Ready to learn how to "vibe code" custom SEO tools using ChatGPT and Google Colab? Gus Pelogia shares 5 automation ideas, including entity tracking and hreflang matching, to save you time.

Digital Marketing

16 Jan 2026

Unlocking health insights: Estimating advanced walking metrics with smartwatches

Health & Bioscience

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16 Jan 2026

Canonical Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro now available on AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Canonical announced it is a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro now available. This new independent cloud for Europe enables organizations to run secure, enterprise workloads with full operational autonomy and EU data residency. By combining the performance and expanded security coverage of Ubuntu Pro with AWS sovereignty controls, customers can meet stringent EU regulatory requirements while continuing to innovate at scale.

Desktop & Laptop

16 Jan 2026

5 Audiobooks to Help You Level Up in 2026

The start of a new year brings fresh possibilities. Whether you’re diving in with big goals or simply setting new intentions, audiobooks can bring inspiration and practical advice to every aspect of your life. To help you stay focused and energized, Spotify’s audiobook editors have curated a selection of self-help and motivational titles. From optimizing...
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16 Jan 2026

TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models

TranslateGemma is a new family of open translation models built on Gemma 3.

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16 Jan 2026

Copilot Memories

Are you wasting time reviewing code for nits on code standards, project preferences, or important contribution guidelines? We know the pain. It’s all too easy for best practices and those tiny but critical team details to slip through the cracks, resulting in inconsistencies, confusion, and wasted time. But now, there’s a smarter way to ensure everyone’s always on the same […]
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15 Jan 2026

Upcoming Changes to Spotify Premium Subscriptions

We’re updating the price of Spotify. Over the next month, Premium subscribers across the U.S., Estonia, and Latvia will receive an email explaining what this update means for their subscriptions (see example image below and link to the full list of Premium features and benefits here). New subscribers can find the latest pricing by visiting...
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15 Jan 2026

Introducing Community Benchmarks on Kaggle

Community Benchmarks on Kaggle lets the community build, share and run custom evaluations for AI models.

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14 Jan 2026

How We Built a Content Optimization Tool for AI Search [Study]

We analyzed thousands of AI search results to identify what makes content citation-worthy. Learn the five text features that boost AI visibility and GEO performance.

Digital Marketing

14 Jan 2026

22 Best Content Creation Tools for Creators

The top content creation tools include the Keyword Magic Tool, the Semrush Content Toolkit, and CapCut.

Digital Marketing

14 Jan 2026

How to build DORA-ready infrastructure with verifiable provenance and reliable support

DORA requires organizations to know what they run, where it came from, and how it’s maintained. Learn how to build infrastructure with verifiable provenance.

Desktop & Laptop

14 Jan 2026

9 SEO Best Practices to Help You Rank Higher

SEO best practices include building topical authority, optimizing for conversational queries, and more.

Digital Marketing

14 Jan 2026

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

Algorithms & Theory

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14 Jan 2026

Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR

Generative AI

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14 Jan 2026

Dynamic surface codes open new avenues for quantum error correction

Quantum

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14 Jan 2026

Enhanced Veo 3.1 capabilities are now available in the Gemini API.

Today, we are releasing updates to Veo 3.1 in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, giving developers greater creative control and production-ready quality.Enhanced Ingre…

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14 Jan 2026

Use Semrush to Benchmark Brand Mentions in AI Answers

See how Semrush helps you track when, how, and where AI platforms mention your brand and benchmark that visibility against competitors.

Digital Marketing

13 Jan 2026

How Suburbios Skate built a scalable brand for Mexico’s skate community

“More than boards, more than a store, we’re a movement pushing for accessible skateboarding for everyone.” That’s the slogan Ángel, Luis, and Mario use to describe Suburbios, a sk…
The post How Suburbios Skate built a scalable brand for Mexico’s skate community appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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13 Jan 2026

Deploy your Spring Boot application to production

In this article we walk through the steps required to deploy a Spring Boot application to production using Juju and Kubernetes. The goal is to showcase the integration of the application with essential services like PostgreSQL for database management and Traefik for ingress control.

Desktop & Laptop

13 Jan 2026

Generative Engine Optimization Tools that Marketing Teams Actually Use

If you‘ve noticed your brand appearing less frequently in ChatGPT answers, you’re not alone. Savvy marketers are using generative engine optimization tools to address this issue. These tools help your content get cited by AI platforms, rather than being buried under competitors.

Digital Marketing

13 Jan 2026

Creating Video for Instagram: 13 Tips from Brands You Love [+ Examples]

Creating video for Instagram is one of my favorite marketing tasks.

Digital Marketing

13 Jan 2026

How simple semantics increased our AI citations by 642% [New results]

Like your weird uncle, nobody knows exactly how AI engines choose the sources they cite. But experiments are starting to point to ways you can get on their radar.

Digital Marketing

13 Jan 2026

NeuralGCM harnesses AI to better simulate long-range global precipitation

Climate & Sustainability

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13 Jan 2026

Increased file size limits and expanded inputs support in Gemini API

The Gemini API now supports increased inline file size limit of 100MB and new file inputs from GCS buckets and any HTTP/Signed URL.

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13 Jan 2026

Spotify’s Music Team Reveals Its Songwriters to Watch 2026

Spotify’s global editors and Songwriter & Publisher Partnerships team spend their days immersed in new music, tracking the writers behind the songs breaking through and the creators shaping what’s next. Today, we’re spotlighting the Songwriters to Watch 2026 class, a group of standout songwriters and writer-producers poised to define the sound of the year ahead....
The post Spotify’s Music Team Reveals Its Songwriters to Watch 2026 appeared first on Spotify.

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13 Jan 2026

Spotify’s Artists to Watch 2026 Are Ready for the Spotlight

At Spotify, we listen to a lot of music. And every year, our global editors and artist partnerships teams come together to spotlight the emerging voices we believe are about to make a serious impact. Enter our Artists to Watch list. These are the artists turning heads on our playlists, gaining momentum around the world,...
The post Spotify’s Artists to Watch 2026 Are Ready for the Spotlight appeared first on Spotify.

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13 Jan 2026

New Year, New Jobs, Renewed Commitment

Spotify’s new co-CEOs, Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström, start off the new year with a message of renewed leadership, creative responsibility, and what’s ahead for the brand. 2025 was a massive year for this company. Now that it’s January, we go again. And we, of course, have new job titles. For us, this is less...
The post New Year, New Jobs, Renewed Commitment appeared first on Spotify.

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13 Jan 2026

Minimal Ubuntu Pro: lean images backed by enterprise-grade security

The security landscape is growing continually in complexity. Whatever industry you work in, your organization has to contend with evolving threats and ever-stricter compliance requirements, whilst at the same time facing pressure to build fast and scale smart. This is especially true when innovating on the public cloud.

Desktop & Laptop

12 Jan 2026

Dina Powell McCormick Joins Meta as President and Vice Chairman

Dina will be a member of Meta’s management team, helping guide the company’s overall strategy and execution.
The post Dina Powell McCormick Joins Meta as President and Vice Chairman appeared first on Meta Newsroom.

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12 Jan 2026

Multi-channel content distribution: How to scale content reach in the era of Loop Marketing

I’ll say the hard thing nobody wants to admit: Creating “great content” isn’t enough; it’s time for a change. And that change starts with multi-channel content distribution.

Digital Marketing

12 Jan 2026

How to Pitch To Speak at MozCon New York 2026

Thinking of pitching for MozCon New York 2026? Learn how to create a standout speaker pitch, discover hot topics organizers love, and boost your chances of taking the stage.

Digital Marketing

12 Jan 2026

Golden Week Nominees Night Celebrates a Podcasting Milestone

This year, podcasts are making their Golden Globes debut with a new category honoring the medium’s leading shows and creators. To mark the occasion, Spotify and The Hollywood Reporter hosted Golden Week Nominees Night in West Hollywood on Thursday, bringing together award nominees and industry leaders for an evening celebrating podcasting’s arrival on one of...
The post Golden Week Nominees Night Celebrates a Podcasting Milestone appeared first on Spotify.

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10 Jan 2026