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UPDATED: 5 Reasons eCommerce Reviews Maximize Revenue Opportunity
Visibility leads to Trust, Trust leads to Engagement, Engagement leads to Sales. Customer Reviews are playing a larger and more impactful role in the success and online presence of eCommerce stores. In recent months we’ve …

We need more than deplatforming
There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6. Since then there has been significant focus on the deplatforming of President Donald …

How to Ensure your Web Store is ADA Compliant
How accessible is my website? That’s a question everyone should be asking, but unfortunately not everyone does. Despite it being more than 30 years since the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law, …

Why getting voting right is hard, Part III: Optical Scan
This is the third post in my series on voting systems. For background see part I. As described in part II, hand-counted paper ballots have a number of attractive security and privacy properties but scale …

Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for you in 2020
This year began like any other year, with our best intentions and resolutions to carry out. Then by March, the world changed and everyone’s lives — personally and professionally — turned upside down. Despite that, …

Mozilla’s Vision for Trustworthy AI
Mozilla is publishing its white paper, “Creating Trustworthy AI.” A little over two years ago, Mozilla started an ambitious project: deciding where we should focus our efforts to grow the movement of people committed to …

Why getting voting right is hard, Part II: Hand-Counted Paper Ballots
In Part I we looked at desirable properties for voting system. In this post, I want to look at the details of a specific system: hand-counted paper ballots. Hand-counted paper ballots are probably the simplest …

Magento’s Most Recent Platform Update
Recently, Adobe announced their last Mid-Quarter Release (MQR) for 2020 that include enhancements you need to know. Keep scrolling to check out important Magento Commerce updates and features. NEW MAGENTO COMMERCE FEATURES AND UPDATES INCLUDED …

Why getting voting right is hard, Part I: Introduction and Requirements
Every two years around this time, the US has an election and the rest of the world marvels and asks itself one question: What the heck is going on with US elections? I’m not talking …

State of Mozilla 2019-2020: Annual Impact Report
2020 has been a year like few others with the internet’s value and necessity front and center. The State of Mozilla for 2019-2020 makes clear that Mozilla’s mission and role in the world is more …