OfferUp, the mobile marketplace for buying and selling locally, is expanding its sights beyond your neighborhood. Today, the company is announcing an expansion of its service that will now allow sellers to ship their items nationwide to interested buyers, potentially netting them a larger audience than if trying to sell …

On June 27, 1996, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made humanity’s first flyby of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, discovering that it is the only moon known to possess an internally generated magnetic field. As at Earth, Ganymede’s magnetic field projects a magnetic bubble around it called a magnetosphere. Galileo carried a package …

Toast, the Boston-based technology developer for the restaurant industry, has launched a new handheld point-of-sale device and a kitchen display system to integrate the front and back of any restaurant. Using the devices, any waiter can become an expert on menu offerings at the touch of a button. The new …

The underlying facts have nothing to do with the reason a case involving Google is now before the US Supreme Court. It has to do instead with an arcane legal doctrine (cy-près) that awards damages to charitable causes or entities when it’s difficult to compensate plaintiffs. In 2010, Google was …

Google My Business (GMB) recently brought back the business description field, which has caused those of us working in the local search industry to say “hooray” and raise eyebrows. Here are a few things you should know about the description and some useful tips to help you make the most …

No two ways about it — clickbait works! With the right page title, you can get people to click on your link in the search engine results pages (SERPs). That means you’ll get more clicks on call-to-action (CTA) elements on your website, which, in turn, should boost your bottom line. …

Google said this morning that local search on mobile devices is growing faster than mobile search overall — 50 percent year over year. Partly in response, Google has been regularly adding new features to the Knowledge Panel and Google My Business (GMB). Today, Google announced a new GMB API, new …

LG is on the verge of unveiling the LG G7 ThinQ, but it’s already starting to run out of things to reveal. In typical LG fashion, the company has begun dropping juicy tidbits about its upcoming phone, including the nature of the screen and now the speaker. According to LG, …

Historically, covering changes to the mainstream memory market (loosely defined as SRAM for CPU caches, DRAM for volatile RAM, and a mixture of SSDs and HDDs for non-volatile storage) has been a bit of a letdown. It’s interesting, on the one hand, to see how various niche approaches have developed …

In this age of nearly unlimited image hacking available to photographers, photo contests have become a tricky business. Perhaps ironically, though, the internationally renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has for the second time had to disqualify a winning image because of a problem with the subject. In 2010, …