Nick Kyrgios is vowing to keep his head down after confirming his status as a grand slam champion in waiting. Kyrgios drew rich praise even in defeat for his class and sportsmanship in his pulsating semi-final against Roger Federer at the Miami Open. Federer wins battle of tiebreaks against Kyrgios …

In preparation for Disrupt New York and our upcoming TC Sessions series on Robotics Matt Burns and I will be heading to Pittsburgh to talk to some startups. We could use some help. We’re aiming to be in Pittsburgh on April 11 and we need a spot and potentially a …

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich met with top investors and stockholders this week, on the same day that Intel held its Technology and Manufacturing Day (which we reported on here). ExtremeTech has received a tape-recording of that meeting and the contents will shock you: According to Krzanich, there’s an industry-wide conspiracy …

When AMD announced Ryzen, it made it clear that the chip would hit the desktop market first, followed by server and mobile APUs. Server parts are expected in Q2, with mobile APUs following in the back half of the year. Analysts and reviewers have broadly praised the architecture, but some …

Photo: Pond5 If you’ve ever taken a HIIT or running class, chances are the instructor will ask you to wear a heart rate monitor. Why? The range of your heart rate throughout your workout puts a number to the intensity of the exercise and how hard your body is working. …

Addison Lambeth of Browns Summit, a senior golfer at top-ranked Huntingdon College, scored his first win of the spring season this week at his team’s home tournament, the Wynlakes Intercollegiate in Montgomery, Ala. Lambeth was the runner-up at last year’s NCAA Division III Championships and won the D-III Jack Nicklaus …

Traditionally, cameras achieve resolution by having many pixels spread across space — the surface of the sensor. They also use a lens to focus the image on that sensor. Single-pixel imagers turn this approach on its head, by using randomly patterned light to illuminate the scene, and recording the result …

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has sent back some incredible images and data from the Red Planet of the years, and it just hit an important milestone. It has now made 50,000 orbits of Mars since it arrived more than 11 years ago. Lockheed Martin really built this spacecraft to …

According to an analysis of new data from NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft, solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the atmosphere of Mars. By measuring light and heavy isotopes of argon in the planet’s atmosphere, the authors have determined that the majority of the planet’s …

Improving marketing performance often involves a lot of spot treatment: you spend some time working on your paid search campaigns, then you spend some time working on your organic search, and so on and so forth. One of my favorite things about conversion rate optimization (CRO) is that so much …