• Google Tests Products & Product Sites Search Bar Filter Tabs

    Google is now testing placing "product sites" as its own search bar filter tab in the search results. Also, Google is testing replacing "Shopping" with "Products" in that search bar.This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath on X - he shared a video but here is a screenshot from that video:We first saw a product sites box in the Google Search results when Google was testing its DMA changes to the search results for the EU. Note, there is structured data for it as well.Now, Google is testing showing...

  • Tesla will reportedly take customers on a test drive to show off its Full Self-Driving tech

    If you're in North America, a Tesla staff member will show you how the automaker's Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology works before you can take your car home, according to Bloomberg. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly issued a memo that requires Tesla stores in the region to install and activate its latest Full Self-Driving software and then take customers on a short test ride before handing over a vehicle. He added that "almost no one actually realizes how well (supervised) FSD actually works"...

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    In focus: the major European production and distribution groups

    In this special report, Screen International profiles Europe's key groups and asks what the future holds for them.

  • Report: Google and Pinterest Testing Ad Partnership in US

    Google and Pinterest reportedly may be testing Google ad units on the Pinterest app. Piper Sandler analysts said in a Tuesday (March 26) note that they have spotted such ad units on the app, along with other evidence that a partnership is being tested in the United States, Investing.com reported Tuesday. Google and Pinterest did not immediately reply to PYMNTS’ request […]

  • Google Search Tests More Product Image Snippet Variations

    We've covered product images within the search result snippets many times but here are even more variations where Google is showing up to several images across the snippet in the search results, but sometimes as few as three.These were spotted by Brodie Clark who wrote on X, "Google looks to be heavily testing changes to the multi-image thumbnail treatment right now." He added, "In some cases, they've even started to default to a different treatment. Where instead of showing the standard 7...

  • X Tests New Feature to Hide Adult Content in 'NSFW' Groups

    X, Elon Musk's rebranded social networking platform, tests NSFW groups to address concerns over adult content proliferation amid growing scrutiny and regulatory challenges.

  • Test drive: 2024 Genesis GV60 delivers rolling design statement

    Few automakers are as on-point with their design game at the moment as Genesis, and the automaker’s first electric car is no exception. In an era of garish design and massive grilles, Genesis has figured out how to stand out from the crowd with the 2024 GV60 with delightful details and reasonable efficiency. But it didn’t deliver

  • The atomic bomb, exile and a test of brotherly bonds: Robert and Frank Oppenheimer

    Every now and then, science serves up poison pills. Knowledge gained in the course of exploring how nature works opens doors we might wish had stayed shut: For much of the past year, our newsfeeds were flooded with stories about how computational superpowers can create amoral nonhuman “minds” that may learn to think better than we do (and then what?). On the big screen, the movie Oppenheimer explored a threat people have lived with for nearly 80 years: How the energy of the atom can be unleashed...

  • Test drive: 2024 Lexus RX 450h+ half-steps into future

    One of the most important vehicles in the Lexus lineup, the RX, finally plugs in. The 2024 Lexus RX 450h+ plug-in hybrid arrives on the scene with 37 miles of electric range from the Toyota RAV4 Prime’s powertrain, in a more eye-catching and softer-to-the-touch package. As I found in a recent drive of the RX 450h+, this translates to a

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    Driving instructor pleads guilty to bribing RMV road test examiner

    The instructor admitted to paying bribes to ensure driver's license applicants would pass the test, even if they didn't show up.

  • Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds

    Financiers providing billion-dollar support for industrial livestock companies to expand leading to unsustainable rise in productionBillion-dollar financing is driving unsustainable increases in global meat and dairy production, a report has found.Global meat production rose 9% between 2015 and 2021, the report said, while dairy production increased 13% in that time. Continue reading

  • Owner exits car after sham test drive, would-be buyers speed away: Police

    Two people stole a vehicle after responding to an online sales ad, taking it for a test drive with the owner and then speeding off at its conclusion, police say.