In its latest effort to streamline its myriad of offerings, Google has decided to send its Shopping app to the scrapyard. Google is no stranger to axing apps and services when it feels that something no longer serves its purpose, and Shopping for Android and iOS is the latest casualty, the company has confirmed. Of […]
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Klevu, a company developing AI products that personalize ecommerce search and discovery experiences, today announced it has closed […]
Google and Apple’s billion-dollar search engine deal is under fire in the United Kingdom. The country’s competition watchdog is investigating the exuberant sum Google pays Apple every year to be the default search engine on Safari which the regulators say creates “a significant barrier to entry and expansion” for rivals. As per an updated study […]
Whether you’re selling an old air compressor or trying to haggle the price on a meat grinder, Craigslist is one of the best ways to find used goods in your local area. People who are just browsing Craigslist might not need to widen their search, but if you’re looking for a specific item, you might […]
Two PANOSETI telescopes installed in the recently renovated Astrograph Dome at Lick Observatory. PANOSETI will utilize a configuration of many SETI telescopes to allow simultaneous monitoring of the entire observable sky. Laurie Hatch Astronomers have a new tool in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), with the installation of two new dedicated SETI telescopes. The […]
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Police investigating the disappearance of YouTuber Etika have confirmed that they have found his body. The gamer, 29, whose real name is Desmond Amofah, was reported missing six days ago. His belongings were found on Manhattan Bridge on Monday. He had uploaded an eight-minute YouTube video in which he talked about suicide. Etika was popular […]
SETI The Breakthrough Initiatives, a program founded in 2015 to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), recently submitted two papers covering the analysis of its first three years of radio telescope data. Using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the team searched for evidence of technological activity out among the stars such as radio signals […]
Google is making it a little easier to share search results. How? Well, with a share button, of course. The new share button is available in the Google app beta for Android, so its reach is a little limited right now. That said, the feature will likely make its way to the standard app on […]
Artist’s impression of a potentially habitable exomoon orbiting a giant planet. Sci-News.com The search for life outside of our planet has a new target: exomoons. Traditionally scientists have looked to other planets for signs of life, but a new study by an astrophysicist from the University of Lincoln, U.K., suggests we may be more successful […]
Riley Young/Digital Trends Computer vision puts the camera to use when you’re at a loss for words — but Google Lens can soon do more than just reverse search for similar items or details about what’s in that photo. During I/O on Tuesday, May 7, Google demonstrated new search capabilities powered by the camera and […]
During the Tuesday keynote that kicked off Google’s I/O 2019 developer conference, the Mountain View company unveiled a slew of enhancements headed to Google Search on mobile. Building on those announcements, it today detailed in a developer session Mini-apps, which it describes as a “new capability” on Google Search and the Google Assistant that deliver […]
Creative Commons has officially launched a search engine allowing for the easy exploration of more than 300 million images that are free to use within certain conditions. The database comprises images from 19 collections, among them Flickr, Rawpixel, and a number of museums including New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the U.K.’s Science […]
These screens will pop up when users open the Play Store. Google Chrome will also give users the option to pick an alternate search engine. Google Last year the European Commission ruled that Google had illegally used Android to dominate search. Last month the European Commission gave Google feedback that bundling Chrome with the OS […]
Image Search is the ability to search on a term and find images related to what you typed. Most search engines offer it, and it’s great. But what if you have an image and want to know its origin? Or find similar photos? That’s a reverse image search. Google’s reverse image search is a breeze […]