AMD has spent the last three years rewriting the rules of desktop performance. On Friday, the microprocessor manufacturer launched its AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, the world’s first single-socket 64-core CPU. I’ve already written a teaser for this article and gone over some of my early thoughts on the CPU, …
Read More »AMD’s Radeon Instinct MI100 Leaks, Hint at Massive, 8192-core GPU
Back in 2018, AMD launched the MI50 and MI60, Vega-based accelerators built on TSMC’s 7nm process node. Now, there are rumors of a massive new chip coming in that family, in a relatively svelte power envelope. “Arcturus” is a codename that’s been floating around for a while, having first …
Read More »Scientists Find First Fast Radio Burst That Repeats At Regular Intervals
Somewhere in the universe, a highly energetic Fast Radio Burst (FRB) is blasting outward from an unknown object, bathing the sky in radio waves. Scientists may be one step closer to understanding these mysterious signals. A new study of FRBs has revealed the first of these energetic signals that …
Read More »Web traffic increases in 2019 were driven by mobile; top 100 sites saw average of 223B monthly visits
Mobile adoption around the world is having a significant impact on the web’s traffic. According to a new report from SimilarWeb, out today, mobile web traffic has jumped 30.6% since 2017, while desktop traffic dropped 3.3%. But it’s not just the numbers that are changing. Mobile visitors also behave differently …
Read More »Strange Grains in ‘Flammable Ice’ Contain Microbes
An international team of researchers has found bacterial communities within microscopic spheroidal aggregates of dolomite, oil and water found in sheets of frozen methane and ice, known as ‘flammable ice,’ in Joetsu Basin, Japan Sea. Epifluorescence imagery of a tiny grain within methane hydrate showing internal presence of microbial DNA. …
Read More »Researchers Sequence Genomes of Two Basmati Rice Varieties
A research team led by New York University scientists has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two members of the basmati rice group: a variety of basmati rice called Basmati 334 and the sadri rice variety Dom Sufid. Basmati rice. Image credit: Republica. The Asian rice (Oryza sativa) is an …
Read More »Solar Orbiter: ESA, NASA Successfully Launch New Mission to Study Sun
Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to study our Sun, launched at 05:03 CET on February 10, 2020 (11:03 p.m. EST on February 9) on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. …
Read More »Greg Olsen And The Free Agency.
The veteran tight end’s series of visits — which included a stop in a FOX broadcast booth as part of XFL coverage Sunday — continues Monday with a visit with the Redskins, and will then include a cross-country flight to Seattle to meet with the Seahawks, NFL Network Insider Ian …
Read More »Google Search Console adds review snippets performance, enhancement and testing reports
Google announced new reports within Google Search Console to help you with your review snippets. Google added a new enhancements report, a new performance report and added new support for review snippets on the rich result testing tool. Rich snippet enhancement report. The new rich snippet Enhancement report is available …
Read More »Paid search marketers can find success with top of funnel campaigns
Most marketers view the funnel as including the following stages: Awareness, Consideration, Preference, Purchase and Post-purchase (client retention, upsell and advocacy). Paid search is often thought of as being really low funnel – and it absolutely can be! But it can also span up the funnel and, when done correctly, …
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