In an effort to better cater to newcomers, Twitter once again is redesigning its app across mobile, desktop and the web. The revamp isn’t a radical departure from its prior look-and-feel or user experience – unlike when it introduced its own stories-like feature called Moments, for example, or when began …
Read More »Microsoft Pix can now turn your iPhone photos into art, thanks to A.I.
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 …
Read More »Fire Up the Grill: 12 Insanely Easy Skewer Recipes
With barbeques and grilling aplenty, ‘tis the season for skewered foods. Ditch the fork and knife, pile on the fun, and invite some friends to join! We’ve rounded up 12 guilt-free skewer recipes from some of our favorite food bloggers. Nibble on dainty stacks of fruit and cheese or layers of meaty …
Read More »Giant Flying Turkeys Lived in Australia 1-3 Million Years Ago
Progura gallinacea, a species of extinct giant brush turkey that lived in Australia during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene (1-3 million years ago), is among five megapode birds described (or redescribed) by Flinders University paleontologists. A reconstruction of Progura gallinacea (right), alongside a kangaroo and modern bush turkey (Alectura …
Read More »Elon Musk’s Vision of Self-Sustaining Martian City, Manned Flights to Mars, Other Planets
An article entitled ‘Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species’ presents the vision of Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, for future manned trips to Mars and other planets in the Solar System and specifically what will be needed to create a self-sustaining Martian city. Artist’s concept of humans working on Mars. Image …
Read More »500 Startups closes $35M Japan fund with the backing of the Japanese government
500 Startups has announced the close of its fund for Japan, more than 18 months after it was first unveiled. The effort is backed by the Japanese government, which has chipped in as an LP via its Cool Japan Fund. (Yes, that really is the name of the fund, which …
Read More »Falling in draft ‘doesn’t motivate me’
Dalvin Cook: Falling in draft ‘doesn’t motivate me’ Vikings rookie Dalvin Cook came to the NFL after rewriting almost every significant rushing record at Florida State set by retired legend Warrick Dunn. “I just have to come in and be the rookie that I am, come in, work my tail …
Read More »Setting up and testing AMP for WordPress: A quick 7-step guide
In today’s mobile-centric world, having pages that load quickly is essential for satisfying the user. Not only that, but the effects of slow page speed have been correlated to a decease in overall revenue and an increase in page abandonment. Users have come to expect mobile sites to load just as quickly …
Read More »Dear Google: 4 suggestions for fixing your massive problem with fake reviews
Hey Google, If you’re reading this, you already know that fake reviews on Google have been a hot topic lately — and it appears the problem is getting a lot worse, resulting in a huge headache for small business owners. Rather than outlining all the issues and turning this post …
Read More »New Microsoft Whitepaper Details Windows 10’s Built-in Ransomware Protection
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 …
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