In digital marketing, 2019 was the year that the big players evolved from their core branding identities, showing advertisers that they could reach customers in more ways than ever before. Google and Amazon in particular were on a mission to capture more advertising dollars and greater customer engagement, implementing various …

There’s an old advertising slogan that goes, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” The same might be said of Apple Maps, which had a botched launch in 2012 and has spent “billions” trying to play catch up with Google Maps, which celebrates its 15 year …

You might be forgiven for thinking MIDI music was completely dead. While MIDI files were originally awesome (especially if your alternative was a PC speaker), everyone knew that WAV files offered higher audio fidelity by the early 1990s. Not being a musician, the last time I seriously recall encountering MIDI …

  We’ve heard rumblings that Samsung’s second foldable phone could debut soon, and a new leak lays out all the details and press images. The Galaxy Z Flip has more in common with the upcoming Moto Razr than it does with Samsung’s 2019 Galaxy Fold. It’s a clamshell device with …

  Amazon-owned Ring has been more apt to brush aside privacy concerns than other smart home companies. It has defended controversial initiatives like its cooperation with police by claiming that it only wants to make communities safer. It’s going to be harder to deflect the latest troubling chapter in the …

  As we peer out into the universe in search of other worlds, we’ve spotted many gas giants orbiting close to their home stars. These so-called “hot Jupiters” have extreme environments, but the planet KELT-9b is in a class of its own. This is the hottest exoplanet ever discovered, and …

Neanderthals were once widespread across Europe and western Asia. They also penetrated into the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, but the geographical origin of these populations and the timing of their dispersal remain elusive. Archaeologists excavating Chagyrskaya Cave in the Altai foothills have found 90,000 stone artifacts, numerous bone tools, …

A team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of Polistes fuscatus, a species of paper wasp that has uniquely evolved visual individual recognition abilities, and two closely related species lacking facial recognition, Polistes metricus and Polistes dorsalis. Their findings suggest Polistes fuscatus‘ increasing intelligence provided an evolutionary advantage …

An NBA fan has become the voice of nearly 2 million people in the wake of the deaths of Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others in a helicopter crash in California on Sunday. of Vancouver, Calif., started a petition to make Bryant the new NBA logo, replacing Jerry West …

  Enterprise SEO platform Botify announced a partnership with Bing last week that will bring near real-time indexing to brand websites through the Bing content submission API pilot. The offering, dubbed “FastIndex” (part of Botify Activation), will feed Bing new content and be allowed to exceed the 10,000 URL limit currently …