It’s no secret we’re in the midst of a mental health crisis. Whether you attribute this to social-media-induced nausea or a societal trade-off between “purpose and power,” as explored in Yuvai Hariri’s latest offering Homo Deus, it amounts to much the same thing – an explosion in prescription SSRIs, billable …

Microsoft is rolling out an update to its AI-powered photo editing app, Microsoft Pix, that aims to give Prisma and others like it some new competition. While the app was originally designed to enhance your iPhone photos by tweaking things like color, exposure and other variables, the newly updated Microsoft …

Using multispectral imaging, a team of Israeli researchers has discovered a hitherto invisible text on the back side of an ostracon (ink-inscribed pottery shard) that has been on display for half a century. The recto (upper image) and the verso (lower image) of the ostracon Arad 16: color images, multispectral …

On June 9, 2017, NASA’s Cassini orbiter captured an image of methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan’s summer skies. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute. Compared to earlier in Cassini’s mission, most of the surface in Titan’s northern high latitudes is …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Dear Google: 4 suggestions for fixing your massive problem with fake reviewsJun 15, 2017 by Joy Hawkins Columnist and local search expert Joy Hawkins notes that …

Photo: roma_hq2 on Instagram  Last night, the official opening night of the 2017 Luminato Festival took place at Toronto’s David Pecaut Square. For this season, the grand opening of the annual arts and culture festival paid homage to First Nations performers. With a theme of Tributaries, the focus of the night …

When WannaCry hit last month, Microsoft took the unusual step of patching all of its older operating systems to guard against the systemic threat the ransomware posed to infrastructure and critical facilities, like hospitals. The one OS that didn’t require any patching was Windows 10. Now, Microsoft has released a …

Over the past few years, we’ve seen the foundry business evolve from a single-horse race that TSMC effectively “won” each and every cycle to a two-way competition with Samsung. Now, GlobalFoundries is making a serious push of its own with early 7nm technology availability and volume production currently planned for …

After eight years of work, Mozilla just took the wraps off its multi-threaded rendering engine and declared it ready for the general public to use. The new Firefox 54 is capable of using multiple threads simultaneously — a major step forward for the browser. In a new Medium post, Mozilla’s …

Solar eclipses happen every so often, but the one taking place on August 21st will be a first-of-its-kind event. That’s not because of the eclipse itself, but because of what the people in its path are doing. Google has partnered with the University of California Berkeley to collect an unprecedented …