Astronomers Identify 157-Day Cycle in Ultra-Powerful Radio Bursts from Space There are a lot of things in the universe that we don’t fully understand, and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are at the top of the list. We didn’t even know these phenomena even existed until 2007, and since then we’ve …
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Uber Africa launches Uber Cash with Flutterwave and explores EV Uber is launching its Uber Cash digital wallet feature in Sub-Saharan Africa through a partnership with San Francisco based — Nigerian founded — fintech firm Flutterwave. The arrangement will allow riders to top up Uber wallets using the dozens of …
Read More »Google Webspam Report
Cracking down on renegade linking practices, auto-generated content Google discovers more than 25 billion spammy pages a day, according to its annual webspam report released Tuesday. The company also published a companion post on why it’s important to keep spam out of search results. The definition of spam. “We define …
Read More »Silence Is Not An Option
Brands dive in with protest support George Floyd was killed by police on May 25. Since that time, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests have swept much of the country and grown into an international movement against racism and police violence. Most brands have historically avoided taking political stands for fear …
Read More »Intel/AMD Radeon Drivers
Updated Radeon Drivers for Intel/AMD Hades Canyon Are Nowhere to Be Found When AMD and Intel jointly announced the Hades Canyon NUC would feature an Intel CPU and AMD GPU with an attached HBM memory pool, curiosity across the user community was high. Unfortunately, the driver situation has turned into …
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HWInfo Now Checks if Your AMD X570 Motherboard is Secretly Overclocking Your CPU Motherboard vendors, as a group, do not have the best relationship with honest benchmarking. For decades, board manufacturers have used various tactics to improve performance, including overclocking the FSB by a few percentage points, overriding Intel’s per-core …
Read More »Apple ARM-Based Laptops
Apple May Announce Move to ARM-Based Laptops at WWDC This Month Apple’s annual WWDC event is happening (virtually) later this month, and the company is expected to announce a major shift in its product roadmap. After years of rumors, Apple will reportedly confirm its plans to switch to custom ARM-based …
Read More »Businesses on Facebook
can now respond to customers in Messenger Facebook is launching a new inbox on Messenger today to make it easier for business owners to respond to incoming customer messages from the same app they use to message friends and family. The update will allow businesses to manage all their communications from a …
Read More »Radar Map Ancient City
Archaeologists Use Ground-Penetrating Radar to Map Ancient Roman City of Falerii Novi The first high-resolution ground-penetrating radar survey of a complete ancient Roman town — Falerii Novi, in Lazio, Italy — has revealed previously unrecorded public buildings, such as a temple, a macellum or market building, a bath complex, and …
Read More »Great White Sharks
New Study Sheds Light on Diet of Juvenile Great White Sharks The diet of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) is about 32% mid-water fish, 17% bottom-dwelling fish, 5% reef fish, and 15% batoid fish such as stingrays; the remainder is unidentified fish or less abundant prey, according to new research …
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