CERN Physicists Create Atoms of Pionic Helium Physicists from the ASACUSA (Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) Collaboration at CERN have successfully synthesized and studied theoretically predicted but never before verified atoms of pionic helium. Their results mark the first time such spectroscopic measurements have been made on an …

Men Have Higher Blood Concentrations of Enzyme that Helps SARS-CoV-2 Virus Infect Cells SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease, uses a receptor called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to gain entry into human cells. A new study published in the European Heart Journal, shows that men have higher …

Minneapolis-based Yardbird raised $4.4 million for furniture made from recycled ocean-bound plastic The Minneapolis-based outdoor furniture brand Yardbird, which makes its wares in part from recycled plastic harvested from beaches and ocean-bound waterways, has raised $4.4 million in financing. Even heading into the teeth of a pandemic, American consumers won’t …

New Van Gogh Exhibit In Toronto Is The World’s First Drive-In Immersive Art Exhibit At the start of May, Toronto was supposed to begin hosting a unique Vincent Van Gogh exhibit at the Toronto Star warehouse. The initiative was said to be an immersive, digital art experience, complete with a …

Intel Working on 144-Layer QLC NAND, PCIe 4.0 for Optane: Rumor We haven’t heard much from Intel’s storage division lately, but there are rumors that the company will make several announcements in the not-too-distant future. All of these rumors are from BlocksandFiles.com. Reportedly, Intel is working on a new type …

Huawei Releases P30 Pro for the Third Time It has been more than a year since Huawei landed on the US Commerce Department’s “entity list,” which prevents it from doing business with most US firms. That cut Huawei’s growing mobile business off from Google’s Android license, resulting in multiple smartphones …

New AMD B550 Motherboards Are Incompatible With Earlier Ryzen CPUs AMD has announced its new B550 motherboard family as the follow-on successor to the B450, with new features like PCIe 4.0 and multi-GPU support, though that feature is of questionable value these days. Still, it’s an update to the B450 …

Amazon Posts: A feed-based shopping experience on Amazon   As part of its ever-expanding repertoire, Amazon has added a feed-based shopping experience with Amazon Posts. Here is a quick rundown of what the program is, the current state of tools and capabilities, and how brands should approach it moving forward. …

Retailers can now link their PayPal and Google Merchant Center accounts Connect your PayPal account to Google Merchant Center. When Google announced last month that its Shopping search results would include free listings, it also announced an integration with PayPal. That integration is now live. Retailers and brands using PayPal …

e-commerce is booming according to three reports Retail sales were down 8.7% in March, the steepest decline ever recorded. However in April, e-commerce enjoyed unprecedented growth, aided in part by government stimulus payments. And over the past past week, data released by Adobe, Shopify and PayPal reflect the scale of …