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Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.

Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:

The Social Security website features a dedicated space for names given to newborn boys and girls in the United States, called "Get Ready For Baby”.

The list of the most common names of 2024 is topped by Liam, Noah and Oliver for boys, and by Olivia, Emma and Amelia for girls.

The following images show the 50 most popular boy and girl names in the United States in 2024.

This interactive Social Security space allows users to explore the popularity of baby names by decade and across the different states of the country. It also includes a section showing how the popularity of names has changed over time.

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AI research and product company ElevenLabs has just premiered "11 Voices," the first docuseries where 11 individuals from the US and UK living with conditions such as ALS and Cerebral Palsy narrate their own stories using their AI-generated voices.

The series is part of the "1 Million Voices" initiative that ElevenLabs is driving to provide free access to its voice restoration technology to 1 million people worldwide living with permanent voice loss. "By showing the human impact of AI-enabled voice restoration, ElevenLabs aims to reach more people living with voice loss across every country and language," the company has stated.

The initiative is being championed by actor Rebecca Gayheart Dane, who will join ElevenLabs at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, "to honor the legacy of her late husband, actor Eric Dane. Eric, who lived with ALS, used ElevenLabs' technology to restore his voice and was an early advocate for the program," according to the company.

ElevenLabs notes that "the series shows how restoring someone's voice can restore their sense of self. By using AI to bring back the specific warmth and nuance that make a person's voice unique, ElevenLabs is helping people reconnect with their families, friends, coworkers and themselves."

The program started in 2024 as a small project in the U.S. to help people with ALS. Since then, it has grown to support anyone in the world with permanent voice loss, regardless of their medical diagnosis. To date, ElevenLabs has supported approximately 7,000 individuals and built a network of more than 800 nonprofit and communications partners worldwide.

"The initiative provides eligible users with a free ElevenLabs license for life. Participants use past recordings to create a digital version of their voice that integrates with assistive devices, allowing them to use their own voices in daily communication. Participants keep full ownership of their voice models and decide how they are used," the company explains.

ElevenLabs currently serves millions of users and thousands of businesses across three main platforms: ElevenAgents (to deploy voice and chat agents at scale), ElevenCreative (to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages) and ElevenAPI (for developers working with its AI audio foundational models).

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Apple remains the world's most valuable brand, ahead of Microsoft, Google and Amazon, according to the Global 500 2026 ranking recently published by Brand Finance. The list continues to be dominated by U.S. technology companies.

Among the leaders, the brand showing the most significant value growth this year is NVIDIA, which has overtaken established names such as Facebook and Walmart to climb four places to fifth position. NVIDIA's brand value has risen 110% to USD184.3 billion.

The number one in the ranking, Apple, grew its brand value by 6% to USD607.6 billion. Microsoft, in second place, recorded stronger percentage growth of 23%, reaching a brand value of USD565.2 billion.

Google holds third position after a 5% increase in brand value to USD433.1 billion. Amazon ranks fourth with a brand value of USD369.9 billion, up 4% from the previous year.

Revolut has entered the Global 500 ranking of the world's most valuable brands for the first time, having grown its brand value by 239%.

The ranking also measures brand strength, which produces a separate ranking from brand value. In this regard, YouTube has become the world's strongest brand, with a BSI score of 95.3 out of 100, climbing from eighth place in 2025. WeChat ranks second in this brand strength ranking, having held the top position in 2024 and 2025. Microsoft is third, Google fourth, and LEGO fifth.

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Today our quiz is also about Apple. In 1989, the company launched its first portable computer. It wasn't a great success, but it paved the way for this type of product at the company.

Last week we asked about a person who was part of LinkedIn's founding team. The correct answer was Reid Hoffman.

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