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Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt recently discussed how HTML sitemaps may still be useful for SEO even though the XML standard has largely replaced it.

Google announced through a short community post today that the LTE versions of the Pixel Watch 2 and 3 are losing free access to Safety Signal that allowed features like Emergency SOS, Fall Detection, and Safety Check to work through cellular networks without the need for a carrier plan. The connectivity was included as part…

DJI is a relative newcomer to the 360 camera space, and the DJI Osmo 360 II is their opportunity to fix some of the problems that come with expanding into a new product category. I had a lot of praise for the original Osmo 360 camera, but also a number of caveats that needed fixing.…

Google has detailed an update bringing a slew of new features to its Pixel Buds 2A and Pro 2, which the company says are rolling out now. The new features were first teased in August. The biggest update is Pixel Watch-powered sleep detection, rolling out to both pairs of earbuds. If you’re wearing a Pixel…

Google’s Martin Splitt and John Mueller discussed the reasons why Search Console may display a “couldn’t fetch” error even though a website displays a valid XML sitemap. While Mueller acknowledged there sometimes may be a technical reason for that happening he also said that the actual reason is often a quality issue.

Google’s John Mueller says AI training crawlers usually don’t give site owners a way to submit a sitemap, and he suggests a default file name or an RSS feed for sites that want those crawlers to find their content.

Google is entering a new phase of SERP scraping due to AI agents. Some of it may be driven by networks of LLMs that are reverse engineering Google’s search results. The public face of Google’s war against scraping remains rank trackers but the real battle may be elsewhere.

RealFi launched USDrf and yield-bearing sUSDrf on Cardano on October 1, bringing real-world credit exposure into the blockchain ecosystem. The rollout follows years of development around lending in emerging markets. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has described RealFi as part of a wider effort to connect blockchain finance with underserved borrowers.

Right now, the United States pumps out around 5.3 million barrels of distillate fuels a day, which includes both diesel and home heating oil. Of that, the U.S. exports as much as 1.5 million barrels of diesel per day. The country sends it to a long list of buyers throughout South America and Europe, even…

Korea’s defense-tech cluster had a defining week — ADSYSTEM raised a Series A for its low-observable drones, Flex System filed for a KOSDAQ IPO, and StepLab partnered with US-based SRI on space-domain-awareness technology. Wrtn Technologies named its IPO underwriters, and Korean capital showed up in an overseas megadeal for the fifth straight week, this time