Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

So, an identification method for polymers should provide a measure of uncertainty in its output. Unfortunately, current methods dont usually provide an uncertainty measure. It might seem that a method that outputs a set rather than a single identity isnt as useful.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

While it famously started as a networking site for college students, employees have predicted that the aging up of the app’s audience — now nearly 2 billion daily users — has the potential to further alienate young people, cutting off future generations and putting a ceiling on future growth. But there was still cause for concern.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 14, 2022

Understanding the donor’s motivations can help a nonprofit develop motivating messaging, use the right fundraising methods, and segment their supporter list to target those who are most likely to give. Alter your current appeal messaging and fundraising methods to align with these giving reasons.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

TV specs are notoriously confusing to people who don't test them for a living. Luckily, we happen to know someone who actually does test TVs for a living. Ty Pendlebury is a tech journalist who tests a ton of top TVs for CNET, which is owned by Mashable's publisher, Ziff Davis. How do I choose my new TV? at Best Buy $999.99

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 10, 2025

I’ve always been bothered by the fact we had defaulted to listing people (a recipe for disaster). People give larger gifts to receive public recognition. People complain about perceptions of exclusivity. People complain about lack of privacy. And I have only gotten one complaint about it in two years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

By Nathan Hill , Optimization Evangelist at NextAfter , works every day to share how testing and optimization can lead to fundraising growth that can transform organizations and causes. If you want to dig into all of the results, you can check out the full study (including 32 unique and data-driven test ideas) at: recurringgiving.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s also not a magical solution that only a few people in this world possess. Growth hacking actually means growth testing. Exhaustive growth testing. At the heart of growth hacking are growth marketers who use stringent experimentation frameworks to run countless A/B tests to achieve rapid growth. Stack ranking.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

In his timely, must-read book, Wetzler shows you a powerful method called The Ask Approach™ , based on a simple premise: that tapping into what other people truly think, know, and feel is a game-changing superpower for leaders. Make it Safe : How you make it easier for people to tell you hard things. Paraphrase and test.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes From Events to Online: Adapting Traditional Fundraising Methods for the Digital Age In the grand theatre of nonprofit work, fundraising is the showstopper act. These methods, rooted in physical interaction and personal connection, have stood the test of time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Small nonprofits are eligible for Google Grants and they can often reap the same advantages that a larger organization can reap such as additional donations, increasing their audience, and encouraging people to take action. You cannot have ads that send people to third party sites such as your social media pages.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 9, 2024

With the majority of people viewing their emails on mobile devices, this decreases the odds of having the subject line truncated. While some people argue that your donors eye may be drawn to a subject line with an emoji, others contest that theres little to indicate that emojis actually increase open rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 10, 2019

As more people are inspired to donate online, social media can make an extremely useful addition to your fundraising strategy. According to the Giving Report , 29% of people consider social media to be the communication tool that most inspires giving. 10) Track success and keep testing new ideas. 7) Celebrate milestones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

Startup nonprofits, nonprofit newbies, umbrella organizations, community foundations, mentors… there are a lot of ways people may think about or refer to fiscal sponsorships, even if they’re unfamiliar with the term “fiscal sponsorship.” Put simply, fiscal sponsorship is an alternative method to obtaining tax-exempt status.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Anchoring bias makes people rely too heavily on the first bit of information they receive. Predictive modeling reveals future outcomes and trends with greater accuracy than traditional methods, enabling proactive decision-making and change management. There is only one right answer, to better understand people.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

No physical movement is needed, and with the help of modern voice interfaces like Alexa, the user can not only communicate efficiently but freely access all kinds of information and content most people take for granted. But it’s not a miracle machine, and it isn’t a silver bullet. Here’s where how it got started.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When you’re working with limited resources it can be a struggle to both get new people in the door and then keep them there once you do. The people on your list are likely not all members but they signed up for a reason. Some common methods to engage and nurture potential members include articles, testimonials, email and newsletters.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The formula is easy — investment = people + solutions. And calculating the value of an experiment conducted as a result of your data team’s research and analytical insights can be quickly estimated by understanding the delta between test versus control and translating those numbers into dollars earned/saved each month. Others are not.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 30, 2025

Data PruningResults The plot above shows the models accuracy compared to the training dataset size when using the most effective pruning method Itested. I tested several data pruning strategies. Testing was done against the full testset. For time constraints, I only ran 5 tests per experiment. Cluster using k-means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

As Hasan Osman points out in his Pyramid of Communication as you move to virtual modes of collaboration and communication, group cohesion and intimacy decreases.This makes it hard for people to fully engage with each other. Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2021

Virgin Orbit’s airborne rocket-launching system during a previous test. Virgin Orbit — the sister company of billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism outfit Virgin Galactic — will try a second test of its small satellite-launching rocket later today, months after it failed to reach orbit during a first attempt. Image: Virgin Orbit.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As People For the American Way Foundation wrestles with these same questions, we’ll share insights from some recent successes. Use data to inform multigenerational organizing strategies Many nonprofits involved in get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts don’t test the effectiveness of their messaging, but they should.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Traditional methods, like direct mail, are still important for reaching older or less tech-oriented supporters. A/B testing can help determine the most effective sending days and times for an organization’s unique supporter base. However, this is not a universal rule.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2022

Neither can diagnose a person with a specific sleeping disorder, and both are used to identify whether a patient should receive further testing. I tested an older version of the mat back during that weird time when all of Withings’ products were under the Nokia umbrella. Image: Withings.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

With Voodoo , Homa is one of the companies that have turned mobile gaming development into a methodical, data-driven process. Homa also fosters A/B testing at scale to optimize user engagement. Overall, the company has raised $165 million and now works with 160 people. The company’s metrics are mind boggling.

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The Verge

MAY 16, 2021

CAPTCHAs are those tests you have to take, often when trying to log into a service, that ask you to click images of things like busses or crosswalks or bicycles to prove that you’re a human. CAPTCHA, if you didn’t know, stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.”)

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

Microsoft is announcing today that it won’t block people from installing Windows 11 on most older PCs. This means anyone with a PC with an older CPU that doesn’t officially pass the upgrade test can still go ahead and download an ISO file of Windows 11 and install the OS manually.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Tweets with links have an 86% higher retweet rate and higher engagement overall because people are hesitant to retweet or engage with tweets that do not have a source or a call-to-action. People who are active on Twitter tend to be plugged into current events and trending news. Include a link in your tweets as often as possible.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The way people discover your cause or find their way to your organization is by no means a one-size-fits-all journey—and both your engagement strategy and donation or landing page should reflect that. To remove potential barriers to giving, ensure consistency and accessibility across devices, campaigns, and donation methods.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

That first successful test run is a crucial step in what will be a daunting, decades-long decommissioning that must deal with at least 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel that has mixed with broken parts of internal structures and other debris inside the three ruined reactors. There are estimations that the work could take more than a century.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It uses principles from cognitive behavior therapy, which aims to help people recognize and understand various thought patterns and emotions. The FDA authorized EaseVRx based on data from an eight-week study in 179 people with low back pain that had lasted six months or longer.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Apple’s latest iPhones stuck with Face ID as the singular method of biometric authentication in an era when people are wearing face masks everywhere they go. Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. This inevitably means having to enter your passcode constantly throughout the day.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

Clue says that its digital birth control is 92 percent effective at preventing unwanted pregnancy when it’s used the way most people do (accounting for some errors) and 97 percent effective under perfect use. These methods can be highly effective when used correctly, but they typically take rigorous, hands-on tracking.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

But with the help of advances in machine learning, it’s also easier than ever to anonymize photos and videos, removing information that would otherwise identify people. Anonymous Camera uses machine learning to identify people in images and videos and then blur, pixelate, or block out entirely faces or whole bodies.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

That’s especially important because you want as many people as possible to launch their own fundraisers independently of the one you launch before or on that giving day. Test your donation process before the actual day. . Glitches can cost you dearly, so test run the functionality with a small group of volunteers or support staff.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It is a networking and development organization that connects executives with education, research, ideas, and people. We couldn’t have guessed that the pandemic would give our recommendations a test drive so quickly. Our goal is to be a source of inspiration and to offer the tools that make for outstanding careers and associations.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

A Twitter user claiming to be a McDonald’s employee has confirmed that the method works.). Zahid first tested McBroken in Germany, which has around 1,500 locations. But he’d intended the tool to be a joke — and is shocked to hear that people find it legitimately useful. “I If it can’t, the location gets a red dot. (A

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Corellium, a security firm that offers a virtualized version of iOS for security testing, has successfully ported Ubuntu over to M1 Macs and released a tutorial for others to follow. Virtualization seems to be Apple’s preferred method, but that hasn’t stopped people from making their own ports.

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