Review: Comet Lake Paints a Target on AMD’s Matisse Today, after no small amount of speculation as to its overall performance and power consumption, the Intel Core i9-10900K and associated rest of the 10th Generation desktop family are up for review. It’s a significant moment for Intel, given the dominant …

Banksy’s Latest Is A Tribute To Superhero Nurses British street artist Banksy’s latest work of art was made in response to the Covid-19 crisis, and in it he pays tribute to the superhero nurses that have made such a huge difference in the war against it. Not only that, but …

Archaeologists Find 300,000-Year-Old Elephant Skeleton in Germany A team of archaeologists from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, the Lower Saxony State Office for Heritage, and Leiden University has unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), an extinct species …

Titanichthys: Devonian-Period Armored Fish was Suspension Feeder Titanichthys, a giant placoderm (armored fish) from the Devonian period, fed in a similar manner to basking sharks, according to a study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Titanichthys was a suspension feeder with jaws ill-suited for biting and crushing but …

Multispectral Imaging Uncovers Hidden Text in Fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls Four Dead Sea scroll fragments from the Reed Collection in the University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library, which were previously thought to be blank, do in fact contain text. Reed Collection Ryl4Q22 as it looks using multispectral imaging. Image …

Microsoft Built One of the Most Powerful Supercomputers in the World to Develop Human-Like AI Microsoft and OpenAI announced a partnership last year to develop new artificial intelligence technologies, and Microsoft just revealed the first product of this deal: a massively powerful supercomputer. The system is one of the top …

Ryzen 4000 CPUs on X470, B450 Motherboards Last week, we covered the news that AMD’s upcoming Zen 3 CPUs (presumably to debut under the Ryzen 4000 brand) would be incompatible with the company’s previous X470 and B450 motherboards. AMD has since decided to reverse course, citing end-user unhappiness with the …

Google Search Console adds new guided recipes reports Google launched new reports this morning in Google Search Console for Guided Recipes. Google launched a new Guided Recipes Enhancement report and also Guided Recipes in Rich Results test. This new feature allows you to “instantly validate the markup for individual recipes,” …

Google May Ditch ‘Motion Sense’ Radar Feature on Pixel 5 The Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL finally made good on a technology demo from 2015 with the introduction of Motion Sense gestures. The Soli radar chip technology lets you control some aspects of the phone simply by waving your …

Microsoft: We Were on ‘The Wrong Side of History’ With Open Source   If you had to pick two groups of people unlikely to be sending each other Christmas cards in the tech industry, you could do worse than picking Microsoft and the open-source community (we’ll assume you’re on some …