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. […]
Enlarge (credit: Jorisvo | Getty Images) Google is making a last-ditch effort to change the EU’s incoming laws on Big Tech with a flurry of advertising, emails and targeted social media posts aimed at politicians and officials in Brussels. As EU policymakers put the finishing touches to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), executives at Google’s […]
Enlarge / Gabriel Weinberg, creator of DuckDuckGo. (credit: Washington Post | Getty Images) At the end of April, Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency tools shook the advertising industry to its core. iPhone and iPad owners could now stop apps from tracking their behavior and using their data for personalized advertising. Since the new privacy controls […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson) Many of us make jokes about how we’ve outsourced part of our brain to electronic devices. But based on a new paper by the University of Texas at Austin’s Adrian Ward, this is just a variation on something that has been happening throughout human history. No person could […]
Over the weekend, yet another critic jabbed at Dog The Bounty Hunter for his involvement in the manhunt for Brian Laundrie. But this one has the credentials to back up his disdain. Since the reality star decided to join the search, many (including one of his own daughters) have written off Duane “Dog” Chapman‘s efforts as self-aggrandizing […]
One of the wildest, most incredible, most wholly unbelievable things we’ve heard in a long time is the theory that Brian Laundrie never really left his parents’ home in North Port, Florida. Never hiked to the Carlton Reserve, didn’t double back north to the Appalachian Trail, none of that — because he’s hiding in the backyard, […]
Is Dog The Bounty Hunter done? When we first heard the reality star was jumping on the hunt for Brian Laundrie, we were pretty skeptical. The whole thing frankly smelled like a publicity stunt. But the progress made by Duane “Dog” Chapman was pretty quickly undeniable. It was his discovery of the Laundrie family’s campsite that […]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (credit: Microsoft) Google has portrayed itself as a defender of the open Internet as it battles an Australian proposal to force Google and Facebook to pay Australian news organizations to link to their articles. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has argued that the ability to link to […]
Expand / The iPhone XR directed iPhone earnings, but iPhone earnings was down 15 per year over year. (charge: Samuel Axon) Apple is stepping up attempts to develop its search engine as US antitrust authorities sabotage multibillion-dollar obligations that Google creates to procure prime positioning of its motor to the iPhone. At a little-noticed switch […]