Microsoft has moved with surprising speed ever since it announced the move to the Chromium browser engine. It spent years toiling in an attempt to make EdgeHTML work, but it could never compete with the speed and near-universal compatibility of Chromium. Microsoft launched test versions of Chromium Edge earlier this …

Humanity first left the solar system in 2012 when the Voyager 1 probe passed into interstellar space decades after leaving the planets behind. Now, there’s a second spacecraft beyond the limits of our solar system: Voyager 2. Luckily, Voyager 2’s instruments are in somewhat better shape than Voyager 1’s, so …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support, and the money that flows through it all. What are the developers talking about? What Do app publishers and marketers need to know? How is international politics playing out …

A cut-marked eagle phalange recovered from Foradada Cave in Spain suggests that Iberian Neanderthals used the birds’ talons as bead-like objects. The 39,000-year-old eagle phalange with cut marks from Foradada Cave, Spain: (A) dorsal, medial, plantar, and lateral views of the phalange (from left to right, respectively); (B) detail of …

A previously unrecognized mode of fossilization of ancient microbes may explain how some of Earth’s oldest microfossils formed, according to new research. Rasmussen Muhling show that the infiltration of liquid hydrocarbons was responsible for the formation of these filamentous microfossils from the Red Dog Zn-Pb-Ag massive sulfide deposit in the …

Google is out with its holiday updates for merchants. The company recently rolled out interface and navigation updates for Google Merchant Center. On Wednesday, Google announced a number of new and updated features aimed at simplifying the process of getting your product information on Google properties for the holidays. Automated …

There are business ratings sweet spots. Locations that improve their Google My Business star ratings from 3.5 to 3.7 can see significant increases in conversions. Further, enterprise locations that reply to at least 32% of reviews achieved 80% higher conversion rates compared SMBs and direct competitors that replied to 10% …

  Invalid traffic (IVT) is endemic in online advertising and inflates an advertiser’s budget with ad clicks or impressions that were never seen by a valid user. While growth and sophistication of fraud is significant, not all IVT is fraud. Much is simply a side effect of the digital ecosystem, …

  Dell’s new Latitude 5300 2-in-1 laptops are designed to be an affordable business solution for those people that need a tablet and a laptop. In testing, the 5300 did a decent job, but here you don’t get enough performance for your money. Overview The Latitude 5300 was constructed out …

  For much of the past year, Intel’s Core i9-9900K was the top x86 CPU on the market. AMD’s Ryzen 2700X offered excellent performance-per-dollar and made a strong argument in its own right, but the Core i9-9900K was the top-end performer in absolute terms. That remained the case until July …