Study: Extended Parental Care Helps Juvenile Siberian Jays and New Caledonian Crows Grow Smarter New research on two corvid species, Siberian jays (Perisoreus infaustus) and New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides), shows that extended family life is crucial to provide the social learning opportunities where juveniles acquire vital skills; the study …

Scientists Unravel Genetic Mysteries of Dead Sea Scrolls The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls had an incomparable impact on the historical understanding of Judaism and Christianity. ‘Piecing together’ scroll fragments is like solving jigsaw puzzles with an unknown number of missing parts. Because most of the 2,000-year-old scrolls were …

— and the Mobile Market Update (6/1/2020): We’ve republished the story below as a discussion of how Intel’s mobile efforts consumed so much of the company’s attention, yet ultimately came to naught. In the years since this story was published in 2016, Intel attempted to build a competitive 5G modem …

How Intel Lost the Mobile Market, Part 2: The Rise and Neglect of Atom Update (6/1/2020): The article below may have been written in 2016, but it still stands up as a postmortem of what went wrong with Intel’s mobile efforts — with one very important omission. Back in 2016, …

These Smart Contact Lenses Overlay Info Without Obscuring Your View Maybe our eyes really need head-up displays. For a company that until recently was in stealth mode, high-powered Mojo Vision hasn’t been shy about advertising its radical vision for the way we interact with computers. Skipping past all those bulky …

Paleontologists Find World’s Oldest Fossil Bug A 425-million-year-old fossil millipede from Scotland is the oldest-known ‘bug’ (an insect, arachnid or other related creature), according to new research published in the journal Historical Biology. Kampecaris obanensis. Image credit: British Geological Survey. Named Kampecaris obanensis, the prehistoric millipede lived during the Silurian …

Neutron Star Cores May Contain Exotic Quark Matter Massive neutron stars have sizable quark-matter cores, according to a study published in the journal Nature Physics. An artist’s conception of a massive neutron star. Image credit: L. Calçada / ESO. Neutron stars, which are the result of a supernova explosion, are …

Gives you competitive link data   Bing announced it pushed out a new feature for its backlinks tool within Bing Webmaster Tools. The new feature is named “similar sites” and it lets you compare your site’s backlinks to another site. How do you access it. To access this, login to …

AMD Unlikely to Jump to 5nm For Zen 3, Despite Rumors to the Contrary There’s a rumor that’s popped up in the past several days concerning AMD’s long-term plans for 7nm and 5nm. According to this rumor, which began with a DigiTimes post now sealed behind a paywall, AMD is …

Microsoft Puts Windows 10 May 2020 Microsoft used to release new versions of Windows like clockwork every couple of years, but we’ve been on Windows 10 for quite a while now. The company has instead released free feature updates for the operating system once or twice per year. Although, rolling …