The PCI Express 3.0 standard has been with us rather longer than anyone intended it to be. The standard was initially finished in 2010, and motherboards supporting it were in-market by 2011. PCI Express 4.0 should have been available by 2013 if the organization had kept to its previous pace, …

Photos (clockwise from top left): Karsten Delap / Fox Mountain Guides; Outessa; REI Adventures; Peak Mountain Guides If you feel like your social feed has been saturated with photos of people standing on the top of a cliff (or scaling the side of it!), it’s not just you. The number …

Gondwanagaricites magnificus represents the oldest fossil mushroom to date and the first fossil mushroom from the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. The gilled mushroom Gondwanagaricites magnificus lived during the Early Cretaceous, a time of dinosaurs when Gondwana was breaking apart. Image credit: Heads et al, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178327. Gondwanagaricites magnificus was about 2 …

An international team of physicists has experimentally demonstrated that superfluid motion of light is possible under ambient conditions. Until now, this phenomenon had only been observed at low cryogenic temperatures. Schematic of the organic microcavity used to observe superfluid flow. Image credit: Polytechnique Montreal. The wave nature of light has …

Milk deliveries may not sound like an industry in need of disruption, but that’s exactly what one startup in India is working to do. Supr Daily — the company in question — graduated the Y Combinator accelerator program this year and now it has raised $1.5 million from a range …

There’s good news for Airbnb in Japan where the government has approved legislation that legalizes its service, and others like it, in the country. The law, which was passed by Japan’s upper house on Friday, will allow home-owners to let out their property to paying guests for up to 180 …

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. On Marissa Mayer’s birthday, Yahoo decorated her office: Source: Twitter Bing …

As SEOs, we tend to obsess over changes to the organic results. It usually works like this: You get to your computer in the morning. Ready to start work, you take a quick look at Facebook to check what you have missed. You run across someone asking if anyone saw changes …

One of the concerns people expressed way back when the first iPhone launched was, “Aren’t glass phones going to break?” Well, yeah they are. In fact, Apple has been making a surprising amount of cash repairing broken iPhone screens over the years. It hasn’t exactly made it easy for third-party …

Apple was the first major smartphone maker to focus on making a smart assistant an integral part of its phones when Siri debuted on the iPhone 4s. However, Apple has since been surpassed by Amazon and Google. A new report from The Wall Street Journal blames Apple’s lack of progress on …