Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Target expands voice-commerce relationship with Google to battle AmazonOct 13, 2017 by Greg Sterling Retailer joins Walmart in climbing aboard the Google Express. Google now has …

Photo: boobyball on Instagram  With October marking breast cancer awareness month, the annual Boobyball is slated to hit Toronto today, and takes place at Rebel nightclub. This year’s theme is inspired by the retro 1980s and 1990s, and features a style code of big hair, pastel everything and all things neon. …

In April 2016, Amazon unveiled its first-generation Kindle Oasis, a 6-inch device with a 300 PPI screen, the same E Ink display that makes reading a Kindle more like reading a conventional book, and an asymmetrical design meant to make it easier to hold for one-handed reading. The original Oasis …

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book Group Chrissie Wellington, 40, started competing in triathlons on a whim. Though she grew up swimming on her local team, she never took it too seriously — practicing just a few times a week. Her studies always seemed more important than training sessions, after all. …

A new study of ancient DNA appears to rule out the likelihood that inhabitants of Easter Island intermixed with Native South Americans prior to the arrival of Europeans on the island in 1722. Fehren-Schmitz et al found no Native American admixture in pre- and post-European-contact Rapanui. Image credit: Bjørn Christian …

An international team of researchers from Canada and China has sequenced the genome of the economically important species Apostichopus japonicus, commonly known as the Japanese spiky sea cucumber or the Japanese sea cucumber. The Japanese sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus). Image credit: Qiang Xu. Sea cucumbers are members of Holothuroidea, a …

A federal appeals court overturned a district court’s decision in the Ezekiel Elliott case Thursday, meaning the Dallas Cowboys running back’s six-game suspension has been reinstated. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 in favor of the NFL that the district court did not have subject matter jurisdiction in Elliott case …

Normally, when we talk about computer vision, artificial intelligence, or deep…learning, we’re discussing hard philosophical problems (strong AI). PornHub, however, has its own uses for the technology: It wants to use it to improve video tagging, including accurately identifying performers and offering a more intelligent set of criteria than the …

A decision from the FCC several months ago removed the caps on business broadband pricing for many areas, but a new lawsuit could force it the reinstate the caps. Advocacy groups are scheduled to go before the courts to argue that the Federal Communications Commission failed to justify its change …

Karl Marx once famously remarked that history was known to speak twice, “first as tragedy, the second time as farce.” It’s one of his most famous quotations, and it’s ridiculously applicable to the latest events in the blazing dumpster fire that is Equifax. Earlier today, we reported that Equifax acknowledged …