Study: Giant Carnivorous Dinosaurs were Optimized for Energy-Efficient Walking Non-avian theropod dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex relied less on speed, more on energy-saving, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE. Daspletosaurus chasing Spinops. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi. Theropod dinosaurs were the dominant terrestrial carnivores during much of …

Seven New Species of Australian Peacock Spiders Discovered Museums Victoria arachnologist Joseph Schubert has described seven new species of the peacock spider genus Maratus from Australia. Maratus azureus. Image credit: Joseph Schubert. Maratus is a relatively large genus of jumping spiders in the family Salticidae. Members of this genus are …

Kustomer acquires Reply.ai to enhance chatbots on its CRM platform Last December, when CRM startup Kustomer was announcing its latest round of funding — a $60 million round led by Coatue — its co-founder and CEO Brad Birnbaum said it would use some of the money to build more RPA-style automations …

WeWork and SoftBank unveil the first 14 startups in their Emerge accelerator for underrepresented founders SoftBank Investment Advisers and WeWork Labs say they’ve officially kicked off the first session of Emerge, an accelerator program designed for underrepresented founders. In their press release, the companies describe Emerge as “launched by SoftBank …

Apple Operations SVP details supply chain safety changes due to COVID-19 Today, Apple released its 2020 Supplier Responsibility progress report. In it, Senior Vice President of Operations Sabih Khan published a letter that details an outline of the plan it created to increase safety and protection efforts in its supply …

What do local SEOs really think of Google My Business support? It’s already hard to remember a time when a local SEO’s priorities included having to deal with Google My Business’ various support teams across email, phone, live chat, and social media. Earlier this year, though, it was a different …

Compare ad management tools for Google Shopping, Amazon, and more \ As the websites of retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target become not only distribution channels, but also marketing channels, many campaign management software vendors are adding functionality that allows marketers to extend their campaigns to these new platforms. MarTech …

Google Chrome to crack down on battery- and data-sucking display ads   Google’s Chrome browser will start blocking resource-heavy ads around the end of August, the company announced Thursday. Ads that are programmed poorly, aren’t network-optimized or mine cryptocurrency (seriously) can affect users’ devices — hogging network data and draining …

Dell Screws Early Adopters With Its Failed Alienware Area-51m Gaming Laptop   Dell demonstrated an astonishing amount of chutzpah today when it unveiled a second-generation Alienware Area-51m — and declared that whoops, the first-generation of the “upgradeable” laptop isn’t actually going to be upgradeable after all. The company has officially …

New research from Tel Aviv University sheds light on the building history of monumental structures in the main area of Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic site in southeast Turkey known for its impressive megalithic architecture with characteristic T-shaped pillars, and the chronological relations between them. Monumental round-oval buildings with their characteristic …