Archaeological deposits from a cave on Barrow Island, a large limestone continental island located 60 km off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia, reveal some of the oldest evidence for Aboriginal occupation of the continent. The discovery is reported in the online edition of the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. Barrow …

Yesterday we discussed how caches work, what the difference is between L1 and L2, and the various design elements that determine how fast (and how effective) a CPU’s cache is. Today, we’re going to take one step further and explore the difference between L2 and L3 caches. At its simplest level, …

TechCrunch is hosting its first startup competition in Sub-Saharan Africa. We’ve wanted to bring TechCrunch to Africa for a long time, and now thanks to our sponsor Facebook, we will bring the Startup Battlefield competition, to Nairobi on October 11 this year. We’re looking for Sub-Saharan Africa’s best innovators, makers …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Now you can schedule offline conversion imports in AdWordsMay 18, 2017 by Ginny Marvin Imports from files can be scheduled daily or weekly. 7 unannounced updates …

Digital delivery and content is the new currency of advertising. Brands must find a way to connect while measuring returns on more than recall or click through rate (CTR). Only programmatic platforms can deliver that value. Get the basics of using programmatic advertising in this guide from Oracle: learn what …

Graduation is great and all, but what comes next? An empty apartment: major buzz kill. Do they need something for around the house, or something to get them started with a first “real job,” or are they going to continue on toward a higher degree? Short-circuit the milk crate blues …

Facebook Messenger is getting a new look. No, it’s not getting rid of its Stories feature, Messenger Day, but is instead making a series a smaller changes to the way the content on its home screen is organized in an effort to speed navigation and help you pick up where you …

Photo: Twenty20 When you look at a slam ball, leg and glute exercises may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But incorporating this soft weighted ball into your booty routine will work your lower half hard. Weak hamstrings, glutes and hips can lead to knee and back …

New research from the University of Sheffield, UK, has shed light on how hunter-gatherers adopted agriculture and how crops were domesticated to depend on people. Ploughing with a yoke of horned cattle in Ancient Egypt. Domesticated crops have been transformed almost beyond recognition in comparison with their wild relatives — …

An international team of physicists from Finland and the United States has made the first experimental observations of the dynamics of isolated monopoles in quantum matter. The results are published in the journal Physical Review X. This is an artistic view of the decay of a quantum-mechanical monopole into a …