The base of Amazon Echo, a smart speaker home of voice agent Alexa Every new marketing delivery system — such as TV, websites, social media, or mobile — starts off with a single approach. In the early days of web or mobile, for instance, marketers would contemplate if they had …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Voice agents and interfaces will require many new marketing strategiesApr 19, 2018 by Barry Levine Marketers are only now getting a glimpse of the many approaches …

It’s been just over a year since AMD launched its new Ryzen microprocessor based on the Zen architecture. Zen’s impact can scarcely be overstated; the CPU market has changed more in the past 16 months than in the previous six years combined. Today, AMD is launching its second generation of …

Microsoft spends a lot of energy pushing people to use the Edge browser on Windows, sometimes in very annoying ways. However, the company seems to have come to terms with the fact that Chrome is far and away the most popular browser. Microsoft still contends its browser protections are more …

Ebay is rolling out an app update designed to make it easier to list items for sale on its online marketplace. Instead of filling out detailed forms on your mobile phone’s small screen, you can now scan the barcode on the item in question or type a description, choose the …

Walmart announced on Thursday it’s beginning to test new technology that arms store staff with mobile devices for checking out customers from the floor. The devices will first be put into use in Walmart’s “Lawn Garden Centers” in over 350 U.S. stores, where there’s the most need for a mobile …

An international team of scientists from Australia, the Netherlands, Estonia and the United States has detected significant signatures of natural selection in the human genome that influence traits associated with fertility and heart function. Zeng et al detected signatures of natural selection in the genetic architecture of 23 complex traits. …

The Almahata Sitta meteorites — diamond-bearing space rock fragments that rained down on the Nubian Desert in Sudan in 2008 — are remnants of a Mercury- to Mars-sized protoplanet, a new study suggests. The Almahata Sitta meteorite. Image credit: Peter Jenniskens. On October 7, 2008, a 13-foot (4.1 m) diameter …

Normally when you ask Google Assistant or Google Home what the weather is, Google will just tell you. But sometimes, Google might need some help from a friend, like AccuWeather. In instances when Google’s own weather service is not working, Google might offer the user to try a Google Assistant …

Like all the other stars in the universe, our sun was not born in isolation. The same clouds of dust and gas that gave rise to the sun and all the planets coalesced into other star systems that have since drifted away from us. Scientists from Australia have completed the …