By Ronan Shields • November 21, 2024 • In its most recent earnings call, The Trade Desk declared 2024 a “banner year for CTV,” a now familiar catch-cry for the company that’s long been the ad tech darling of Wall Street. The public markets’ curiosities saw the demand-side platform’s stock price tumble in the immediate …
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This Media Briefing covers the latest in media trends for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers in the U.S. and Europe have seen programmatic ad sales on the open market slow in the fourth quarter …
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By Alexander Lee • November 21, 2024 • Ivy Liu As gaming companies look to beef up their advertising businesses, they have developed an increasingly diverse range of inventory types. It’s an exciting moment for advertisers — but also a source of potential confusion for those less experienced with the space. At Digiday’s virtual Gaming …
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British scaleup Tokamak Energy has secured $125mn as it looks to harness fusion — the same clean, virtually limitless energy source that powers the Sun and stars. Tokamak spun out from the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority in 2009. As its name suggests, the company is building a tokamak reactor, the most common kind of fusion …
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For the past few months, Meta has been sending recipes to a Dutch scaleup called VSParticle (VSP). These are not food recipes — they’re AI-generated instructions for how to make new nanoporous materials that could potentially supercharge the green transition. VSP has so far taken 525 of these recipes and synthesised them into nanomaterials called …
Nanoprinter turns Meta’s AI predictions into potentially game-changing materials Read More »
Dawn Aerospace has flown its rocket-powered aircraft past the speed of sound, the latest milestone on its path to its first commercial flights. During the test, which took place on New Zealand’s South Island, the startup’s Mk-II Aurora aircraft reached Mach 1.1 and an altitude of 25 kilometres. Dawn said this marks the first time …
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Two years ago, the minds behind Testing for All — a Covid-era at-home testing service — launched a new startup. But instead of those dreaded antigen tests that make you feel like you’re trying to tickle your brain with a cotton swab, the company delivers something much more comforting: a trained nurse or doctor. The …
UK startup taps last-mile delivery algorithms to bring a nurse to you Read More »
To dismantle Google’s illegal monopoly over how Americans search the web, the US Department of Justice wants the tech giant to end its lucrative partnership with Apple, share a trove of proprietary data with competitors and advertisers, and “promptly and fully divest Chrome,” Google’s search engine that controls over half of the US market. The …
Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Google’s Search Monopoly Read More »
Image: Acemagician As Black Friday draws closer, we’re seeing more and more stunning discounts for cool tech, and that includes this gaming-capable Acemagician AMR5 mini PC for just $339 on Amazon. That’s a huge drop from its original $499 price tag, and a killer price for the hardware it’s packing inside. (The only catch here …
This Ryzen 7 mini PC with triple 4K support is just $339 today Read More »
At Ignite 2024, Microsoft unveiled a new feature for the Windows 11 taskbar. It’s called Microsoft 365 Companions and it’ll give users quick access to important data, reports The Verge. These so-called “companions” are additional bits of information that are integrated into the taskbar and Start menu, and you can spot these details — which …
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