Google is becoming a black box, shifting its PPC tools to smart bids, smart creatives and smart campaigns. The result is that more and more advertisers are in the dark about bid efficiency, keywords and what competitors are doing. To gain the upper hand in today’s PPC market, you …

Bing announced Wednesday at SMX West that it will release the first phase of a refreshed and improved Bing Webmaster Tools in the first week of March. The new toolset promises to offer a faster, cleaner, more responsive and even more actionable set of features for SEOs and Webmasters. New …

We’ve spent our whole lives working, spending the money we earn and hopefully saving a little too. When we retire, everything we have ever experienced about managing our own finances gets turned upside down. We no longer earn as much or any money from work. We have to figure out …

  Over the last three decades, Photoshop has become part of our culture. Even those who’ve never used a copy are familiar with the concept of “Photoshopping.” While the program has been eclipsed by slicker, newer applications for many, it’s still the most widely-used powerful image editor on the planet. …

  Solid-state storage devices are slowly taking over everywhere that traditional hard drives used to rule, and the mobile market is no exception. Crucial’s X8 is the company’s newest external SSD, which is designed to be fast and durable. Let’s see if it performs relative to its price. Design and …

A team of U.S. physicists and materials scientists has observed a new state of matter at the interface between two oxide materials: lanthanum aluminate (LaAlO3) and strontium titanate (SrTiO3). The discovery shows electrons can bind together in ways similar to how quarks combine to form neutrons and protons. Electrons travel …

  Folding phones are the hot new trend in smartphone design, even if they aren’t always as durable or useful as we might hope. They’re still a refreshing change from the endless succession of flat glass slabs we’ve seen in recent years. TCL might be planning to take folding phones …

  SpaceX has been working toward a crewed NASA launch to the International Space Station (ISS) for years, but that’s not the company’s only plan for human spaceflight. Today, SpaceX and Space Adventures have announced a partnership that will bring Elon Musk’s company fully into the world of space tourism. …

Using a novel technique called clumped isotope paleothermometry, an international team of paleontologists analyzed eggshell fossils representing three major dinosaur groups and found that these creatures were characterized by warm body temperatures. A nesting cassowary-like dinosaur named Beibeilong sinensis in the act of incubating eggs. Image credit: Zhao Chuang. “Dinosaurs …

The combination of decaffeinated green tea extract and voluntary exercise can effectively mitigate nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, suggests a new study conducted in mice. Khoo et al investigated the effects of decaffeinated green tea extract, voluntary exercise or the combination on the development of obesity-related nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) …