During the last five weeks, Search Engine Land has conducted a number of interviews with last year’s Search Engine Land Award Winners. In this week’s series, we are featuring Brainlabs and Trimark Digital. Brainlabs was awarded two trophies at last year’s event: Best Retail Search Marketing Initiative for SEM and …
Read More »SearchCap: Bing Entity Search API, Yelp’s new ad customization & Google’s Holi doodle
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Community Corner: Spotlight on Search Engine Land Award Winners Brainlabs Trimark Digital Mar 2, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues An interview series highlighting 2017’s Award winners: A …
Read More »Check Out These Toronto Events This March
Photo: canadablooms on Instagram Although beautiful springtime temperatures may still be a few weeks away, the melting snow and the (slowly) rising temperatures signal that the end of winter is near. With that in mind, adventurous Torontonians are gradually shifting away from the couch and entering the great outdoors once again. …
Read More »In First OLED-to-OLED Test, Samsung Snatches ‘Best Display’ From the iPhone X
Modern phones have matured to the point that there’s often relatively little performance difference between high-end devices. Visual technologies, like display or camera quality, are another matter, particularly when you factor in subtleties of color accuracy and battery life. For years, Samsung and Apple have been duking it out for …
Read More »Mobile Photography Workflow: Pushing the Envelope With Lightroom and Pixel
It’s no secret most of the world’s photos are now shot with, and viewed on, a smartphone. For casual photography, the impressive on-board processing of modern phones is usually plenty: Simply shoot and share. But if you’re a little more fussy about your images, or are photographing difficult subjects or …
Read More »How to Create Amazing Videos With Your Drone
Drones offer a simple and unique way to create amazing video footage. Most prosumer models now feature 4K video, and pretty good autofocus, autoexposure, and auto white balance. But there is a big difference in the quality of video you get by simply pressing the Record button in your flight …
Read More »Rare Greenland Sharks Captured on Film in Canadian Arctic
A team of marine biologists from the Fisheries and Marine Institute of the Memorial University of Newfoundland has filmed Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) in their natural habitat in the waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Juvenile Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus). Image credit: Devine et al, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-19115-x. One of very …
Read More »Varicose Veins Linked to Increased Risk of Deep Venous Thrombosis
According to an observational study published in the journal JAMA, varicose veins may be a warning sign of a type of blood clot known as a deep venous thrombosis. Chang et al found a significant association between varicose veins and DVT. The illustration shows how a varicose vein forms in …
Read More »Toyota creates a new advanced research company fo focus on self-driving
Toyota has an existing think tank, research organization and long-term development wing courtesy of Toyota Research Institute (TRI), but now it’s expanding TRI with a new sub-company of its own: Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development (TRI-AD), which I have to assume was so named just so they could have the really …
Read More »Snap reportedly working on new Spectacles, including two-camera version
Snap, Inc. calls itself a “camera company” so it shouldn’t be all that surprising that it’s working on new versions of its Spectacles hardware (especially since we reported just that last June). But a new report from Cheddar has surprised some with news that Snap is working on a refresh …
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