Last month, the quantum computing world lit up with the news that Google might have achieved quantum supremacy. A draft version of a paper surfaced on NASA’s website claiming this but was quickly yanked offline. Now, the final version of the same paper has run in Nature, making a …

  One of the nice things about Google’s Chrome browser is that it updates frequently in the background and delivers new goodies. However, you might never know there are new features unless you pay close attention to the changelog. Chrome 78 is rolling out now for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, …

  One of the major unanswered questions in astronomy is how our modern system of galaxies evolved into its present-day configuration in the first place. Now, researchers have found evidence of a massive galaxy that formed when the universe was far younger than it today, with a very different configuration …

Paleontologists have discovered the fossils of a new type of early tetrapod (four-limbed vertebrate) in the Komi Republic. Dubbed Parmastega aelidae, the ancient creature lived about 372 million years ago (Devonian period) and was an aquatic, surface-cruising animal. An artist’s reconstruction of the Devonian-period Sosnogorsk lagoon just before a storm. Image …

In a new paper published this month in the journal Physical Review D, a duo of theoretical physicists from Case Western Reserve University, the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences and Yangzhou University described a technique for detecting traversable wormholes — theoretical portals through space-time that could create …

  Naspers’ 1.4 billion rand (≈$100 million) VC fund to support South African startups — Naspers Foundry — is accepting pitches, after making its first investment in online cleaning services company SweepSouth. The funding initiative also has a new leader, Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa, who joined Naspers in July as a CEO …

  It’s no secret that the art of customer service in the modern era is something that banks desperately need help with. One of the reasons why challenger banks have been able to find acceptance, new customers and — well — the ability to challenge existing banking companies is the …

  Shipwell, the software platform for managing trucking logistics, has raised $35 million and is expanding its suite of services to become a full-service hub for logistics management. The new round led by Georgian Partners comes as the company has just expanded its suite of tracking and management tools to …

  Following the introduction of its digital well-being tools for Android at Google’s I/O developer conference last year, the company has since expanded the feature set to include new options, like Focus mode and better parental controls for families with children. Now, Google is trying something new. The company today …

The end-Cretaceous mass extinction 66 million years ago eradicated roughly 75% of the animal and plant species on Earth, including whole groups like non-avian dinosaurs and ammonites. Debate lingers over what caused this extinction event, with intense volcanic activity in India’s Deccan Traps and the asteroid strike off Mexico’s Yucatan …