As of now, the PCI Express 4.0 standard has been finalized and officially released. The new protocol promises twice the per-lane bandwidth of PCI Express 3.0, allowing a GPU or other accelerator to transfer up to 64GB/s in a duplex x16 link. It’s also been a long time coming. Initially, …

Encryption keeps our personal information safe, whether it’s stored on a smartphone or in the cloud. However, encryption can also ruin your day if you pick up some ransomware on the internet. These nasty bits of code will lock down your computer and encrypt your files. Only by paying an …

Microsoft has been making snazzy peripherals under its “Surface” and “Arc” brands for the last couple years, but it hasn’t forgotten its mousing roots. Before wireless mice were the norm and Apple showed us that trackpads don’t have to suck, there was the Microsoft Intellimouse. This pointing device was hugely …

Content has entered a whole new era with higher expectations of usefulness and functionality. Today’s B2B and B2C buyers want content that constructively helps them accomplish their goals. This collection of nine interactive content case studies from ION Interactive highlights brands embracing this new era of functional content. Their stories …

The mobile-first index has started to slowly roll out, at least for a “few sites,” Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes told an audience last night at the SMX East conference in New York City. It is unclear how many sites have already switched over to the mobile-first indexing process, …

So-called fake news and the exploitation of Google, Facebook and Twitter for the promotion of false narratives during the 2016 presidential election have given these companies a black eye. All of them have now taken corrective measures, including deploying fact-checking mechanisms to identify false claims. Adding to those efforts, this …

The SEO and SEM industry came out in full force at last night’s third annual Landy Awards Gala in New York City. Created by Search Engine Land and held in conjunction with this week’s SMX East Conference, the event recognized top performers across 24 different award categories, including Best B2B …

How can you identify if your site is suffering from a manual penalty? Google’s manual penalties differ from algorithmic updates such as Panda for content or Penguin for links. Those updates can also be perceived as penalties since sites also tend to lose their organic search visibility as a result. …

The reality of maintaining a complex business relationship where revenue is on the line is that there are several pitfalls that can destroy it. Although not all of these points will apply to all partnerships, the lesson is the same. If you’re in-house marketing staff: Do you treat your agency …

There are lots of articles filled with checklists that tell you what technical SEO items you should review on your website. This is not one of those lists. What I think people need is not another best practice guide, but some help with troubleshooting issues. info: search operator Often, [info:https://www.domain.com/page] …