Elon Musk is digging a tunnel under Hawthorne near SpaceX headquarters in California, after receiving approval from city council to do so. Musk’s Boring Co. has already made considerable progress on the dig and tunnel build, apparently, as Musk shared an image of the tunnel from the inside showing a …
Read More »Unique Ichthyosaur Fossil Discovered in India
According to a new study released this week, a fossil found in the Indian state of Gujarat represents the first nearly complete skeleton of an ichthyosaur from India and the first record from the Jurassic of this country. Ichthyosaurs. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov / CC BY 3.0. Ichthyosaurs were predatory …
Read More »Verizon Will Remove Video Throttling From Plans for an Extra $10 Per Month
In past years, “unlimited” mobile data actually meant unlimited. Today, there are myriad limits placed on the so-called unlimited plans sold by Verizon, T-Mobile, and others. For example, Verizon’s unlimited plans throttle your video streams to a lower bitrate than other data. If you really want to get around that limit, …
Read More »Apple’s iPhone X Repair Fee is Over Half the Cost of the Phone
Apple’s iPhone X is supposed to represent the future of technology. Unfortunately, it appears that future isn’t going to be one any of us can afford. The company’s service pricing page for its upcoming phone makes it clear that anyone who breaks their iPhone X can look forward to paying …
Read More »AMD’s New Ryzen Mobile APUs Promise Much Higher Performance, Better Battery Life
AMD announced its new Ryzen Mobile APUs today, kicking off what’s arguably its most important refresh of 2017. Over the past decade, laptops have accounted for a steadily growing percentage of the total PC market. At the same time, however, AMD was forced to fight a defensive rear-guard action with …
Read More »Startup studios go Hollywood as CAA launches Creative Labs
The ties that bind the tech industry and Hollywood continue to get tighter as the Creative Artists Agency launches a startup studio to develop new businesses with — and for — its roster of clients. Continuing a tradition that began with the incubation and launch of Funny or Die (alongside …
Read More »Factory operations manager Polymer spins out from Dandelion Chocolate
Not every startup journey starts as sweetly as the road co-founders Ishita Prasad and Maya Balakrishnan took to launching their new company, Polymer — but then again, not every startup takes its inspiration from a chocolate factory. Spun out from the wildly successful (and wildly expensive) bean-to-bar San Francisco chocolate …
Read More »Search in Pics: Halloween at Google, Cowboy Android statue & a scary but yummy Google cake
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google office ready for Halloween: Source: Instagram A scary Google cake: …
Read More »Local SEO for service-area businesses requires a lot of servicing
Today, let’s talk service-area businesses (SABs) and local SEO. Because every time I talk to an SAB, the first thing — and pretty much the only thing — they want to know is how to rank in the Local Pack in cities where they don’t have a physical location. I …
Read More »Facebook third-party partnerships bring huge trove of used car listings to Marketplace
Facebook launched its classifieds Marketplace in October 2016 and has been building out content, categories and geographies since then. Yesterday the company announced major new third-party deals to bring more used car inventory into Marketplace. The company named partnerships with Edmunds, Cars.com, Auction123, CDK Global and SOCIALDEALER. In the Edmunds case alone, that …
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