Living With the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon If you’re on the road a lot – or were on the road a lot – and you’ve got to do business work that can’t be handled with a smartphone or tablet, you may want to invest in a seriously good, seriously compact notebook …

Experimental Drug Has Broad Spectrum Antiviral Activity against Multiple Coronaviruses An orally bioavailable prodrug called EIDD-2801 (β-D-N4-hydroxycytidine-5’-isopropyl ester) has broad spectrum antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and related zoonotic coronaviruses in primary human airway epithelial cells, according to a new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The …

View and change all your budgets easily with this script While effective budget management is Paid Search 101, it can also be hard work. Budgets are set at campaign level, and some advertisers have hundreds if not thousands of campaigns in their account. Not only that, but many advertisers run …

Google postpones Google Partners program changes slated for June In February, Google announced sweeping changes to the requirements for agencies to qualify for the Google Partners badging and certification program. Those new requirements were set to take effect in June. Now, amid the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic and …

MediaTek Now Provides Mobile Benchmark Cheating as a Service Cheating in benchmarks is a problem that rears its head in a lot of different contexts in the PC and mobile industries, but up until now, the cheating has typically been limited to OEM implementations of a different company’s SoC. MediaTek, …

Maingear Will Build Ventilators for the Fight Against COVID-19 The boutique PC manufacturer Maingear has announced that it has retrofitted its factories to build ventilators rather than high-end PCs. The newly announced Maingear LIV is intended to be produced at scale at roughly a quarter of the cost of an …

How to Stay Fit at Home With Your VR Rig As stay-at-home orders tighten in many parts of the US and around the world, it’s increasingly challenging for many of us to continue our fitness regimes. For the most part, all multi-player sports have been stopped — especially those involving …

Earliest Inhabitants of Amazon Created Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands, Study Shows A University of Bern-led study shows that, starting at around 10,850 years ago, inhabitants of the Llanos de Moxos region in northern Bolivia began to create a landscape that ultimately comprised 4,700 artificial ‘forest islands’ within a treeless, …

Pole-to-Pole Map of Saturn’s Thermosphere Reveals Likely Reason Why It’s So Hot A team of planetary researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom has created a 2D map of densities and temperatures in Saturn’s thermosphere (upper atmosphere). Composite of a true color image of Saturn, observed by Cassini …

Bing adds CDC coronavirus self-checker chatbot to search results pages   Bing’s “corona” and “coronavirus”-related search results pages now feature the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Coronavirus self-checker as a persistent, expandable chatbot. Users can interact with the self-checker right from the search results page to assess their …