Google Maps has added a “popular dishes” section to eatery listings, giving prospective diners a faster way to check out a restaurant’s most talked about food and drinks. The popular dishes section is located within a listing’s overview tab and is already available on Google Maps for Android devices. The …
Read More »The 3 Ps to growing your agency – position, price and pitch
Want to grow your agency profitably? Setting your agency apart from the competition is all about knowing exactly what your client is looking for and being able to frame your pitch around those specific needs. Marketing automation can help you meet those needs. And adding marketing automation to your agency’s …
Read More »Google Play cracks down on marijuana apps, loot boxes and more
On Wednesday, Google rolled out new policies around kids’ apps on Google Play following an FTC complaint claiming a lack of attention to apps’ compliance with children’s privacy laws, and other rules around content. However, kids’ apps weren’t the only area being addressed this week. As it turns out, …
Read More »Google’s EfficientNet Offers up to a 10x Boost in Image Analysis Efficiency
Google has earned a reputation for pushing out new AI technologies and upgrades at a remarkable pace and their announcement of EfficientNet serves as the latest example. Leveraging their work with AutoML, Google’s scientists employed a scaling method that offers up to a tenfold increase in network efficiency. The …
Read More »PWA: How to avoid partial rendering issues with service workers
In preparation for my upcoming SMX Advanced session about The New Renaissance of JavaScript, I decided to code a progressive web app and try to optimize it for SEO. In particular, I was interested in reviewing all key rendering options (client side, server side, hybrid and dynamic) from a development/implementation …
Read More »Adam Silver Reports On NBA Finals.
Were flattered that other Canadian cities have expressed interest, as some other U.S. cities have, but again, nothing new, and Ive said this before: We, meaning the NBA collectively, all our team owners are very focused on creating the best possible competition among the 30 teams. The city approved a …
Read More »Elevated Levels of ‘Bad’ Cholesterol Linked to Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
A study published in the journal JAMA Neurology suggests that levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, sometimes referred to as ‘bad’ cholesterol, play a causal role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Lipoprotein structure (chylomicron): ApoA, ApoB, ApoC and ApoE – apolipoproteins; T – triacylglycerol, CEo – cholesterol ester, green …
Read More »Gluten-Free German Chocolate Cake Coconut Macaroons
How to take Coconut Macaroons up a notch: turn them into German Chocolate Cake Coconut Macaroons! These bite-sized cookies are chewy on the inside, crisp on the outside, and packed with chocolate, coconut, and pecans… just like German Chocolate Cake! And right when you thought these macaroons couldn’t get any …
Read More »ARM Announces New Cortex-A77 CPU Architecture
Computex buried us in a flurry of announcements from Intel and AMD earlier this week, but the two x86 manufacturers weren’t the only companies showing off new hardware improvements. ARM also announced new designs for its own products, including the Cortex-A77 and Mali-G77. The Cortex-A77, codenamed Deimos, is intended …
Read More »Google is expanding when it shows ads to ‘people in targeted locations’
Google has been quietly rolling out a change to the location targeting options in Google Ads. The change was first spotted in display campaigns, but now appears to have rolled out for search and shopping campaigns, too. What’s changing? Google has changed the “People in your targeted locations” option to …
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