The discovery of CRISPR has made for an interesting few years in the realm of genetic research. It meant we can make permanent edits to a genome with the aid of the CIRSPR/Cas9 system, but there has been a great deal of concern over how to use this powerful technology. Researchers …
Read More »Google’s cord cutter app YouTube TV reaches 2 million downloads
Approximately 2 million people have installed the YouTube TV app, Google’s live TV service aimed at a younger generation of cord cutters, as well as those who never signed up for traditional pay TV in the first place. That download figure comes from app store analytics firms Sensor Tower and …
Read More »Lebanese are Direct Descendants of Biblical Canaanites, Study Suggests
In the first study of its kind, a Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute-led team of researchers has uncovered the genetics of the ancient Canaanites and a firm link with people living in Lebanon today. The Grapes of Canaan, c. 1896-1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot. Image credit: Jewish Museum, New York. …
Read More »Intel beats earnings expectations as it manages to maintain growth in its Data Center Group
Intel declared $14.8 billion in revenue this afternoon and earnings per share of 72 cents. This represents a solid beat as analysts had expected revenues of $14.41 billion and EPS of 68 cents. The company’s stock finished up 22 cents and 0.63 percent to $34.97 per share in regular trading. …
Read More »How to tell whether a site is adaptive or responsive
As most SEOs are aware by now, there are three main techniques for serving mobile website content: responsive design, adaptive design (also called dynamic serving), and separate mobile URLs. While it’s easy to identify separate mobile URLs just by looking at your browser’s address bar, telling responsive and adaptive sites …
Read More »2017 Webinar Benchmarks Report
For this report, ON24 looked at more than 16,000 webinars delivered by over 1,000 organizations from around the world to detail the entire lifecycle of a webinar, including webinar promotion and registration metrics, webinar interactivity metrics, audience viewing habits, and both live and on-demand attendance and conversion metrics. Inside this …
Read More »Google testing list format for AdWords enhanced sitelinks
Over the past month or so, Google has been testing how sitelinks show up on brand queries on desktop search results. The test is on enhanced sitelinks, which include a line of description copy with each link and appear only on brand queries on desktop. Typically, these appear in two …
Read More »SearchCap: Google AdWords sitelinks, Bing fact labels & mobile techniques
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google testing list format for AdWords enhanced sitelinksJul 27, 2017 by Ginny Marvin The test displays four enhanced sitelinks with a smaller font size used in …
Read More »Hottest Montreal Concerts Of Summer 2017
Photo: coldplay on Instagram If you love music, it’s certainly a good summer to be visiting Montreal, which is often referred to as Canada’s party capital. Whether you’re simply looking for pumping beats or aiming to reminisce and sing along to some of your favourite songs, you’re in luck this Summer …
Read More »5 Steps for Defining Your Retirement Drawdown Strategy
If you’re reading this, you’re likely someone who: saves money, has built up some assets and is starting to think about how to create a retirement drawdown strategy — a plan for how to turn your assets into income that will last for life. (Nice work!) Having a sound retirement …
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