Study: Single Gene Causes ‘Virgin Births’ in Cape Honeybees A protein-coding gene called GB45239 is responsible for thelytokous parthenogenesis — the ability to produce daughters asexually — in the Cape honeybee (Apis mellifera capensis), a subspecies of honeybee found in the two southern provinces of South Africa, according to a …

FDA Approves CRISPR-Based Coronavirus Test Public health officials universally agree that the world needs much more coronavirus testing before we can safely ease current lock-down restrictions. Even at the low end, experts say we’ll need to do hundreds of thousands more daily tests, but the equipment and resources to make …

How About an Intel B150 Motherboard With an Integrated GTX 1050 Ti?   One of the downsides — or “downsides”, depending on your point of view — to living in the United States is that we don’t get a lot of the weird electronics gear that exists elsewhere in the …

How Does Windows Use Multiple CPU Cores? A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS’s) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built into the hardware, how do the cores know which apps to …

Asrock Announces $1,100 Water-Cooled Z490 Motherboard The motherboard manufacturer Asrock has announced a unique Z490 motherboard that seems almost certain to win the coveted 2020 award for Most Expensive Yet Pointless Feature. At first glance, the fact that the Z490 features a built-in water cooler for the CPU might seem …

Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth Yet Black holes have a reputation for being voracious monsters that tear apart stars and wreak easily recognizable havoc across the universe. However, most of them are pretty quiet and hard to spot. As such, astronomers haven’t found many of these objects near …

Green Tea May Help Fight Obesity, Says New Study Green tea supplementation is associated with a decrease in body weight and body mass index in obese patients, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Lin et al suggest that the use of green tea can …

Symend raises $52M to help mediate when customers are at risk of defaulting on payments With unemployment growing at a worrying rate, we’re seeing a lot more people finding themselves in hot water when it comes to their finances. Today a startup that’s built a platform to help identify and …

What to Expect When Migrating Marketing Automation Platforms Many marketing leaders are evaluating whether or not their current technology stack provides the right foundation for their marketing strategy. Often, those contemplating a move fear that migrating to a new marketing automation platform will jeopardize their ability to drive revenue. While …

How Much Power Do GPUs Actually Consume? Nailing down how much power PC components consume is a surprisingly difficult question. It’s easy to answer how much power a system draws at the wall — a basic Kill-A-Watt meter doesn’t cost much, and while it doesn’t offer features like power consumption …