The Apple App Store has announced it is expanding support for Search Ads into Canada, Mexico and Switzerland. Apple released Search Ads for the App Store a little over a year ago, with previous support limited to the US, the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Apple’s Search Ad product is the …

Although Vancouver-based comedian Gavin Matts may be just 23 years old, he is already raking in the cash. Granted, the cash is a $25,000 prize which Matts won as the newest SiriusXM Top Comic- money which he partly plans to spend on Gucci loafers. However, it’s cash nonetheless, and for …

A little over four years ago, Google started talking about what it called Project Loon–an ambitious plan to deploy balloons roughly 11 miles up to create an aerial wireless network. The balloons are positioned in wind layers based on NOAA data and float above target areas. Signals travel via LTE …

According to a new study led by Lund University scientist Stanley Heinze, a network of compass and speed neurons in the bee brain integrates every detail of changes in direction and distance covered on outbound journeys, and enables the insect to return directly home. Brain of the sweat bee Megalopta …

An international team of researchers from Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia has sequenced the genome of durian (Durio zibethinus), a Southeast Asian tropical plant known for its hefty, spine-covered fruit and sulfury and onion-like odor. Durian (Durio zibethinus). Image credit: Amon Heijne / CC BY-SA 3.0. Durian is an edible …

After having to make the gut-wrenching decision to miss defending his Australian Open title last year, 2015 champion Matt Jones will return for this year’s event with one thought on his mind to win it again. Jones will return to The Australian Golf Club, the scene of the biggest win …

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has identified what appear to be ancient hydrothermal deposits in the Eridania region in the southern highlands of Mars. The deposits would represent the remains of a vast inland sea that existed 3.7 billion years ago, according to a study published in the journal Nature …

Microsoft has finally acknowledged for good what the rest of us have known for some time. Windows 10 Mobile has bought the farm, kicked the bucket, left the building, and passed on. Said in that particular order, it makes it sound as if the OS is perhaps enjoying a well-deserved …

Whether you’re building your next PC or shopping for a new computer online, one of the questions that comes up from time to time is whether the Intel Core i5 or Core i7 is a better bargain. The short answer, “It depends,” isn’t all that helpful, so we’ve broken the …

Seagate has announced a new set of 12TB hard drives for desktop and NAS drives. The new 12TB volumes are part of the BarraCuda Pro, IronWolf, and IronWolf Pro product families. The BarraCuda Pro family of drives all spin at 7200 RPM and carry five-year warranties; the new 12TB drives …