Alex Rodriguez And Many Others Trying To “Save” The MLB. Approximately 25 percent of the 2020 Major League Baseball season has already been lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, and if all goes well, roughly 50 percent of the season will be played. MLB’s proposal includes a revised salary system that …

Google to sunset Gallery ads beta, focus on Image Extensions Gallery ads, the splashy, image-driven format that Google introduced last year, will be phasing out. Instead, Google will focus its other image beta, image extensions. Google is informing Gallery ad beta testers that the format will sunset beginning in August. …

Samsung Announces Phone With ‘Quantum’ Security Technology The first 5G phones have launched over the past year, and you might even have one now that Qualcomm has pushed OEMs to include the next-generation tech on all flagship devices. However, you probably don’t have a quantum 5G phone. Yes, that’s a …

Doesn’t Have an ‘X-ray’ Camera, but Here’s How It Sees Through Things There’s a rumor going around that the new OnePlus 8 camera can see through objects in a sort of x-ray effect. It can’t — that’s not what it does — but it does provide some slight visibility through …

Google Search Console API to stop supporting HTTP and JSON-RPC requests Back in 2018, Google notified developers that it will end support for HTTP and JSON-RPC requests for its APIs. Today, Google announced on the Google Webmaster Twitter handle that this will be happening soon. HTTP JSON-RPC requests. Google said …

Building a Retirement Paycheck Through Retirement Income Planning This deep dive into the concept of using an income floor to establish a three bucket plan for retirement income needs comes from Glen Nakamoto. First of all, just to make clear, I am not a financial advisor or anyone who has …

Mainland Chinese Foundry SMIC Builds Its First 14nm FinFET SoC for Huawei One of the long-term ramifications of the tensions between the US and China has been an acceleration of China’s efforts to move its government and corporate users towards natively-produced semiconductors. China famously imports more semiconductors than oil, and …

Nvidia Unveils Its First Ampere-Based GPU, Raises Bar for Data Center AI In lieu of the multi-day extravaganza that is normally Nvidia’s flagship GTC in San Jose, the company has been rolling out a series of talks and announcements online. Even the keynote has gone virtual, with Jensen’s popular and …

US Senate Falls One Vote Short of Protecting Your Online Privacy The US Senate had a chance yesterday to protect your online privacy, and you’ll never guess what happened. Okay, maybe you will. They didn’t do it. The effort to rein in government powers granted by the Patriot Act fell …

Paleontologists Find Strange Ball-Like Structures in 80-Million-Year-Old Fossils A team of paleontologists from Australia and the UK has found fullerene-like structures in Cretaceous-period crinoids, marine animals related to starfish, sea urchins, and brittle stars. The researchers believe these strange structures might have acted as a buoyancy chamber to allow the …