Star Trek: Deep Space 9 is my favorite Star Trek show. When Paramount announced that it would extensively remaster both Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation, I was excited. When both of those remastering efforts turned out to be good, I was ecstatic. And then, Paramount declared …

The lighting industry is constantly evolving. Home and business owners are always looking for new ways to improve their efficiency and reduce their environmental impact, and lighting plays a major role in that. These days, there are plenty of fantastic lighting options that look stunning while also significantly reducing your …

Similar to ad units on Instgram and Pinterest, Google introduced Shoppable Ads on Google Images at the Shoptalk conference Tuesday. The sponsored images highlight products that, when moused over, reveal brand, price and other details. But Google isn’t stealing from others. Google debuted Shoppable AdWords formats on YouTube in 2015. And …

E-commerce SEOs often place relevant content about a category in the footer of their e-commerce category pages, hoping it will help the page rank in search. But Google’s John Mueller recently suggested in a webmaster hangout that this isn’t a good idea. He said “I’d try to stick to really …

Web visitors today don’t have time to browse all over your site. They want to search for – and find – what they need quickly and easily through personalized experiences. With site search users being up to 5 times more likely to convert, the stakes for relevant results and recommendations …

Yelp users will soon start seeing blue shields in Yelp search results and on business profiles in selected categories, which include home and local services, medical, childcare, esthetics and “other high-trust business categories.” These new badges are called “Yelp Verified Licenses” (YVL). State license, Yelp verified. Users can click on …

  Microsoft Windows 10 came with a new browser that was supposed to do battle with Google’s Chrome. Despite constant nagging and fiddling with default app settings, Microsoft has admitted that people don’t want to use Edge. So, it’s creating a new Edge based on the open-source Chromium engine. Now …

  The case of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX just got a lot more complicated. After CEO Gerald Cotten’s death late last year, the company said it was unable to access the wallets holding customer funds because Cotten was the only person with the passwords. After examining data provided by the …

  Another day, another Facebook privacy scandal. Last year, we discovered that the company was using the phone numbers users provided for two-factor authentication and selling them to advertisers. Now, it turns out that the company also allows end users to be targeted in this fashion when you sync contacts …

  Over the past few years, we’ve seen a number of AI projects demonstrate how effectively artificial intelligences can play certain games, from classics like chess to the Chinese game Go and even DOTA 2 and Starcraft 2. Now, the non-profit OpenAI has released what it calls Neural MMO. The …