E-commerce now accounts for 14% of all retail sales, and its growth has led to a rise in the fortunes of startups that build tools to enable businesses to sell online. In the latest development, a company called VTEX — which originally got its start in Latin America helping companies …

According to a review of previous prospective cohort studies, eating beans, lentils, peas, and other legumes reduces the risk for cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, and high blood pressure. Dietary pulses with or without other legumes are associated with reduced cardiovascular disease incidence with low certainty and reduced coronary heart …

  We recently wrote about how PPC managers are making keyword research a lot harder than it should be. If you’re seeing a pattern here, well done. It’s all about overcomplication. Overcomplication is a frustratingly irritating problem because you’re not doing anything wrong per se. The job will still get …

  Boeing is in the final stages of preparing its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for launch next month. The vehicle will one day carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), but first, it has to complete its maiden voyage. Boeing just rolled the CST-100 out to the launch …

  Verizon was the first US carrier to make a big push into 5G network technology. Its rival ATT has had 5G almost as long, but customers still can’t buy 5G devices on ATT’s network. Verizon, meanwhile, is loading its lineup with as many 5G phones as possible. Now, you …

  Apple has long positioned itself as a seller of premium electronics, and it commands a correspondingly high price for its phones, laptops, and desktops because of it. The MacBook Pro line has won fans, but many of those fans began questioning their allegiance to the brand a few years …

At Microsoft’s Ignite conference this month, the company announced a new vision for its personal productivity assistant, Cortana — one which aimed to make it more useful in your day-to-day work, including email, but one which also saw Microsoft scaling its ambitions back from Cortana as a true Siri, Alexa …

  Google Maps will soon begin testing a new feature that’s more common to social networks like Facebook, rather than a maps app: the ability to find and follow other users. In Google Maps’ case, it’s specifically rolling out the ability to follow top “Local Guides” — its community members …

Paleontologists in New Zealand have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a giant-sized penguin that swam the oceans about 27 million years ago (Oligocene period). A reconstruction of the Kawhia giant penguin. Image credit: Simone Giovanardi. New Zealand is a key area for understanding the ancient history of penguins. Fossils …

Genetic variants determine whether or not you can tolerate eating certain vegetables, according to new research. TAS2R38 predicted lower consumption of vegetables in people who possessed the PAV haplotype. Image credit: Jerzy Górecki. “Taste matters when it comes to altering your diet. If you aren’t appealing to your tastes when …