Enlarge / Reddit now supports comment searches, but that’s not the only improvement to the search feature. (credit: Reddit) On Thursday, Reddit announced a significant overhaul to search functionality on its website. Comments are fully searchable for the first time, and other improvements have been made to ensure more robust, comprehensive, and useful search results. […]
Being a woman and a sports fan means looking at your phone first thing every morning and steeling yourself for the repeated punches to the gut. Read more…
Enlarge / The Fitbit app showing information on irregular rhythm notifications. (credit: Google) Google-owned wearable brand Fitbit announced Monday that it will soon introduce a new atrial fibrillation-detection feature to its devices. According to a blog post from Google, Fitbit received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), clearing the way for the […]
Enlarge (credit: Wired | Getty Images) If you want to know how worried an industry is about a piece of pending legislation, a decent metric is how apocalyptic its predictions are about what the bill would do. By that standard, Big Tech is deeply troubled by the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. The infelicitously […]
Enlarge / Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s “Smart Voting” app. (credit: Natalia Kolesnikova/Getty Images) Apple company has restored an app sponsored by Alexei Navalny, a prominent leader of Russia’s political opposition, to the company’s Russian app store. The apple company took down the app last September, days before Russia’s legislative elections, under pressure from the Russian […]
A ghost was spotted at the Los Angeles Clippers’ practice yesterday afternoon. Read more…
Enlarge / Let’s see, you landed on my “Google Ads” space, and with three houses… that will be $1,400. (credit: Ron Amadeo / Hasbro) Google’s latest antitrust headache is coming from the US government, which is starting to take issue with how Google bundles Google Maps and restricts developers from using competing services. Nothing’s official […]
Enlarge (credit: James Leynse/Corbis) The Department of Justice is throwing its weight behind an antitrust bill working its way through the Senate, with the department saying that it needs new tools to help police markets dominated by platforms such as Amazon, Meta (formerly Facebook), Apple, and Google. “The Department views the rise of dominant platforms […]
Enlarge / Photo taken on October 12, 2021 in Moscow shows Russia’s internet search engine Yandex’s logo on a laptop screen. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images) (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russia’s biggest Internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows […]
Enlarge (credit: Bungie ) Bungie slammed YouTube’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) process in a lawsuit against 10 John Doe defendants accused of sending fraudulent takedown notices against Destiny 2 videos. “Doe Defendants were able to do this because of a hole in YouTube’s DMCA-process security, which allows any person to claim to be representing […]