eBay opened up its U.S. platform to Africa through its partnership with MallforAfrica.com. Americans can now buy products on eBay from select vendors in six African countries, starting with merchandise categories of fashion, art, jewelry, and clothing. For the new program, MallforAfrica selects the sellers and handles payments on its proprietary platform. DHL is the...Read More
A Google Street View car. Flickr / Sancho McCann You’re about to see a lot more on Google Street View — and Street View’s about to see a lot more of you. Google has upgraded the cameras for its mapping service for the first time in eight years, with the new kit capturing sharper imagery...Read More
The full ‘how to’ list: how to tie a tie how to kiss how to get pregnant how to lose weight how to draw how to make money how to make pancakes how to write a cover letter how to make french toast how to lose belly fat “Recently, we noticed that ‘how to…’ searches have...Read More
Google is turning 19 and we wanted to celebrate the world’s most popular search engine by showing off some of Alphabet’s family photos. We hopped in the Wayback Machine and took a look at Google.com from its birth to today. The company was founded in 1998, and even though Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Wanna Miss A...Read More
Google is making it easier to find a place to park with a new feature in Google Maps for Android. Now, when plugging in a destination, you’ll be able to tap a new “find parking” option that will pull up a list of nearby parking lots and garages. Once plugged in, Maps will direct your...Read More
Back in November, Google showcased a few of its funky machine learning experiments, and among them was Quick, Draw! (their bang, not mine) — a game where you sketch something and an image recognition system guesses what it is. Now the company is releasing the millions upon millions of sketches players submitted as an open...Read More
“We are trying to help customers shop in ways that they may have never imagined,” said Marc Lore, who is leading Walmart’s efforts to bolster its e-commerce business. He came to Walmart last year after the retailer bought the company he founded, Jet.com. Google is a laggard in e-commerce. Since starting a shopping service in...Read More
Google has made a significant change to search results, which have started playing short previews of videos. They’re replacing the static image thumbnails Google has traditionally used for video results, with the move designed to help you find relevant content even faster. The main issue with Google’s previous approach was that it allowed misleading thumbnails...Read More
Google’s research division today detailed just how easy it is for computer algorithms to bypass standard photo watermarking practices, stripping those images of copyright protection and making them vulnerable to reposting across the internet without credit. The research, presented at a leading computer vision conference in Hawaii back in July, is described in detail in...Read More
Google might soon release a data-friendly version of its search app for mobile. That’s because the company is currently piloting such an app in Indonesia, as the eagle-eyed team at Android Police first spotted. “Search Lite” — which TechCrunch understands is not the name of the app, but it is certainly an accurate description of...Read More
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