For the past few years, the battle over AI, deep learning, and other HPC (High-Performance Computing) workloads has been mostly a two-horse race. It’s between Nvidia, the first company to launch a GPGPU architecture that could theoretically handle such workloads, and Intel, who has continued to focus on increasing the …
Read More »Adorable Japanese Camera Drone Now Lives Aboard the ISS
The International Space Station (ISS) has a new resident, but it’s not a human—it’s a drone. The small spherical drone was constructed by Japanese space agency JAXA with a special orientation system that allows it to maneuver around the ISS and capture video. Not only is it a convenient way …
Read More »The First Moon Landing Took Place 48 Years Ago Today
Humans have done a myriad of impressive things in space, from building the International Space Station to landing a robot on a comet. Still, none of those accomplishments have quite the same historical weight as the first time a person walked on the moon. That first moon walk took place …
Read More »Google brings its GIF-making Motion Stills app to Android
Google last year introduced an app called Motion Stills that aimed to help iOS users do more with their Live Photos – including being able to crop out blurry frames, stabilize images, and even turn Apple’s Live Photos format into more sharable GIFs. Today, Google says it’s bringing Motion Stills …
Read More »Got a Vitamin D Deficiency? Dig Into These Recipes
You already know that getting enough calcium is a big deal for having healthy bones and teeth. But what you may not realize is that in order to absorb calcium, you need vitamin D (that’s why you see milk fortified with vitamin D). The benefits of vitamin D go beyond …
Read More »New Evidence Pushes Back Aboriginal Occupation of Australia to 65,000 Years Ago
New evidence from a rockshelter in northern Australia shows human occupation of the continent for at least 65,000 years — much longer than other estimates of closer to 50,000 years. Photograph of the Madjedbebe rockshelter during the 2015 excavation. Image credit: Clarkson et al, doi: 10.1038/nature22968. The discovery was made …
Read More »Tomato Consumption May Protect against Skin Cancer
In a research article published in the journal Scientific Reports, Ohio State University scientists report that male mice fed a diet of 10% tomato powder daily for 35 weeks, then exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light, experienced, on average, a 50% decrease in skin cancer tumors compared to mice that ate …
Read More »Mutombo interested in Rockets ownership
Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo says he wants to get into NBA ownership and is looking for partners to join a bid for the Houston Rockets. “I’m trying to convince some people about trying to buy this team,” Mutombo told Houston’s Fox 26 Sports. Dikembe Mutombo wants to find …
Read More »Amazon Prime Day’s surprising effects on Google AdWords performance
Prime Day is now Amazon’s largest sales day of the year, growing more than 60 percent YoY and surpassing last year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to Amazon’s numbers. With so much shopping activity, many retailers now see ripple effects across different marketing channels stemming from Amazon’s big sales …
Read More »Google Search Analytics report now breaks down job listings & details results
Google quietly announced they have added the ability to filter by job listings to the Search Analytics report within Google Search Console. If you have job listings on your website, you can potentially now filter your Search Analytics report to see what traffic, impressions, clicks, positions and so on those …
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