Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor leagues. Starting in 2024, MLB focused testing on a challenge system in which the human umpire makes each original call. What is the technology?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The country’s unemployment rate is at a staggering 34% and continues to leave many university graduates in its trail. When students apply to the program, they are provided with a home study kit in preparation for an assessment test. Nigeria has a population of almost 200 million, with 60% under the age of 25.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Performance: The account must maintain a 5% click-through rate each month. Alternatively you can change your website and make the keywords more relevant and thereby increase the quality score. Responsive Search Ads can increase your click through rate which helps keep you above Google’s thresholds. Use Ad Extensions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Disrupting the traditional MBA may be the most tried, tested and tweaked edtech startup pitch out there. The Goa-based startup has raised millions to bring an unaccredited, high-quality alternative to higher business education in India amid a broader awakening of the country’s growing startup scene. The startup’s initial raise, a $1.5

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2022

While it’s nice that the government will be sending us four free at-home rapid COVID test kits a month , that’s not going to be enough for many households. Announced back in January , the new rules state that private health insurers are required to cover these tests without needing approval from a doctor or other medical provider.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 23, 2023

As part of this, we explored different user experience (UX) alternatives through a series of user studies. a test of the feature in development) including user feedback (e.g., A dedicated pipeline collects these logs and generates aggregate insights, e.g., the overall acceptance rates as reported in this blog post.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 25, 2024

If your offerings are outdated or not unique enough, members may seek alternatives elsewhere. Compelling subject lines and preview texts can significantly impact open rates. It’s important to continually test different approaches throughout the year to find what resonates best with your members.

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Whole Whale

JULY 20, 2023

The great search for free and low-cost A/B Testing Tools is upon us. In the world of digital marketing, A/B testing is a crucial tool for optimizing website performance and improving user experience. However, there is a glimmer of hope for organizations seeking an affordable A/B testing solution.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 13, 2014

Another way to go about it is to follow the scientific method : a) make an observation, b) ask a question, c) form a hypothesis, d) conduct an experiment, e) accept hypothesis, or f) reject hypothesis, test a new one. Example: user retention rate. Assess the best alternatives in the event that your principle strategy doesn’t work.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

AMD’s own benchmarks are also similar at 1440p, with the same games tested. We’ll obviously need to test this card fully against the RTX 3080, but it looks like AMD has managed to match or beat Nvidia’s latest GPU in a number of games. This includes hardware-accelerated ray tracing and variable rate shading.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

If you have doubts about Google’s trustworthiness, try an alternative search such as a forum or Bing. Before you get over-excited though, put these bits of data to the test through the rest of the steps. The first column is the “keyword difficulty” rating. Test these keywords in Moz – and make your final list.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

There’s many different paths your story can go and giving yourself time to reflect on it will help you consider different alternatives that could make your story better. Just like testing a product, we wanted to test our presentation by getting feedback from our target audience. You’re growing how much? How fast?”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

My daughter’s project involved testing different potting soils to see one was better for seed germination. As I was helping her translate the data in excel spreadsheet into a line graph, I realized that the project was essentially an a/b test. Figure 4: Alternate email variant with sick sea lion on the beach.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The feature is currently in testing and limited to certain games before it rolls out to all Xbox app users. If the ratings are reliable, it could be an easy alternative to using third-party tools and websites like Can You Run It. All you need to do is download the Xbox Insider app and opt into the Windows gaming preview.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Social features on your site—such as comments, discussion boards, user-submitted stories, ratings, and voting widgets—can help build engagement within your audience. Many sites implement a CAPTCHA system to filter out spam robots, but quite a few systems use only visual-based tests, which aren’t accessible.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Second, the device must meet at least one of the following: The device represents breakthrough technology; no approved or cleared alternatives exist; the device offers significant advantages over existing approved or cleared alternatives; and the device availability is in the best interest of patients. Of all the startups, 43.8%

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

An Oura ring user posted that the device said that his overall health score had dropped below his normal level, which prompted him to get tested for COVID-19 — and the test ended up being positive. Heart rate variability, which tracks the time between heartbeats, is a good proxy for how the nervous system is working, he says.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 3, 2025

Last year marked the fourth consecutive year that retention rates declined year over year in Q3, with only 13.8 These declining retention rates show the importance of employing good retention strategies , as retaining existing donors is more cost effective than acquiring new ones. percent of new donors retained year to date.

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The Next Web

APRIL 20, 2013

For example, the A/B testing advocated by Lean Startup is very similar to randomized control trials in medical studies. I outline the specifics of how we made minimal viable products, tested hypotheses and either persevered or pivoted. Finally, we used Lean Startup to create MVPs and test these solutions.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This data tells us two things about user behavior: nonprofit supporters use their mobile devices to learn about your organization, but dont make mobile donations at the same rate. Manually test your website to identify readability and tap target issues. Simple navigation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

This means shorter checkout times and also enables BillEase to offer lower interest rates, at about 3.49% compared to 7% to 12% for other BNPL loans, Steiger said. At any given time we usually run a few A/B tests to test new models or process improvements.”. It gives merchants customizable installment plans. seed round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

The report provides benchmarks for FB and Twitter, including engagement rates and fan growth rate. Some more alternatives and discussion from nonprofit folks here. How will you use the information in the reports above to help guide your digital strategy? Take any of the above tools for a test drive? Retweet Lab.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

If your conversation rate is low or bounce rate is high, it’s a good indicator that your site isn’t engaging your visitors. Some of the considerations you should take into account when redesigning your website for engagement include navigation and A/B testing. Include alternative text on images.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Isn’t it more of a success if potential solutions can be tested and co-created with stakeholders to deliver the greatest benefit? Redefine Success by Solution Testing. Or better yet, they quickly learned of alternative options that exceeded the impact they originally envisioned. Redefine Solution by Centering the Stakeholder.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

This might seem obvious, but it’s dangerously easy for development teams to fall into ‘group think’ and create something that already exists or is only slightly better than current alternatives in the market. Try what I call the “the viral reality check” or “bar test”: show your bar buddies your new app. Make your app free at launch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Alternatively, companies try to build their own solutions using Elasticsearch. Now a new Berlin startup, which has tested its theories after being spun out from a larger corporate, is poised to tackle this thorny problem. This is important for modern needs, which nearly always demand real-time response rates.”.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Measuring the effectiveness of your marketing efforts: Set yourself up to track your marketing efforts success by measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) like return on investment, click-through rate, conversion rate, and more. Use your email marketing tool to A/B test different elements. Launch your website.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Studies have shown that adding videos to your landing page can increase conversion rates by 80%! A slow page can lead to decreased conversion rates. Each additional second of load time decreases your conversation rate. Alternatively, you can look up “image optimizer” for a few other sites. That sounds amazing.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Making these simple updates to your donation form will create a better donor experience, improve form conversion rates, and help you raise more money online. Removing additional fields from your donation form is one of the simplest ways to improve your conversion rates. Try running an A/B test ! These five tips will help!

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The Next Web

AUGUST 18, 2013

Alternatively, each organic search lead averages three logins with a monthly revenue around $90 — definitely worth the acquisition cost. Improving your organic search ranking is an obvious choice with huge payoffs — we currently get an average of 500 new signups per month with an 8 percent conversion rate. Organic search.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 7, 2023

This evaluation phase typically involves listening tests , during which dozens of annotators listen to the utterances one after the other to determine how natural they sound. SQuId is based on mSLAM (a pre-trained speech-text model developed by Google), fine-tuned on over a million quality ratings across 42 languages and tested in 65.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

New Zealand-based Zenno Astronautics has come up with an alternative to these heavy and time-limited propulsion systems. Magnetic fields don’t act differently in a vacuum, so that means the company has been able to test the system here on Earth. This is a key problem to solve for deep space crewed missions, including to Mars.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In a week of testing, I have pushed this computer and its new Apple-made processor to its limits and found that those limits exceeded my expectations on nearly every level. The model I’m testing has 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage for $1,649. But I just want to call out one, in particular: the frame rate on Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

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Singularity Hub

JANUARY 31, 2025

In real-world tests, it outperformed commercial drones in both tracking and collision avoidance, while flying at more than 20 meters per second (45 miles per hour). The SUPER drone achieved a nearly perfect success rate of 99.63 The SUPER drone achieved a nearly perfect success rate of 99.63

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

There are a few major players out there and we tested them all. Even cable company DirecTV has joined the crowd with MyFree , though we havent had a chance to test that one yet. Monthly Price When I started testing these cord-cutting alternatives, I was struck by the price difference between live TV and a standard video streaming app.

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The Verge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Body fat, water, and lean mass all have different resistance levels, so depending on the rate at which the current travels, the scale will estimate your body composition. Each of these companies has emphasized their body fat tools as an alternative to Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a flawed metric for evaluating your overall health.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Let’s test that assumption. A quick run through the Moz keyword difficulty calculator shows a 73 percent competition rate for both. Step 3: test your assumption. to test this. With [hash]tags you can be a little more creative. Google Adwords showed the following: “Bicycle helmet” gets about 5,000 searches a month.

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