According to a new study published in the European Respiratory Journal, fatty tissue accumulates within the airway walls of people who are overweight or obese; it also alters the structure of airways and could be the reason behind the increased risk of asthma. Elliot et al show that fatty tissue …

Nadiem Makarim, founder and CEO of Gojek, said on Monday he has stepped down from his role at the ride-hailing startup to join Indonesia president Joko Widodo’s cabinet. The announcement, which has taken many by surprise, comes a day after Widodo was sworn in for a second term. Widodo has …

E-commerce cart conversions columns now in beta in Google Ads Merchants running Google Ads Shopping campaigns can now see e-commerce cart data in the UI to gain a clearer sense of which products are driving profitable cart transactions. Why we should care. We are just over a month out from …

  span class=”featured__span-first-words”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. The app industry in 2018 saw 194 billion downloads and more than $100 billion in purchases. Just in the past quarter, consumer spending …

  Large gaming monitors are becoming increasingly popular in today’s modern world. As a fan of large displays, for the last decade I’ve forgone the use of a real computer monitor and opted for an LCD TV instead. I remember discussing this on a public forum some years ago and …

  Building your own games online can be profitable as well as fun. With Adobe’s long-standing Flash software nearing the end of its life and the world wide web transitioning over to HTML5, now is an excellent time to learn how to make games for this new framework. Learning to …

  The Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL are finally official, and as the leaks suggested, there’s no fingerprint sensor. Google is going the same route as Apple with an IR-based 3D face unlock system. With “Face Match” being the Pixel’s only biometric option, you’d naturally want it to be …

  We’ve talked a lot about fancy mechanical keyboards on ExtremeTech, including Star Trek homages, travel boards, and gamepads. That’s just barely scratching the surface, though. You might think it’s crazy to spend a few hundred on building a custom keyboard, but fans of Topre switches will go to greater …

  Razer made its name creating flashy gaming peripherals like mice, headset, and of course, keyboards. It has since moved into the laptop space with the Blade series of gaming-oriented notebooks. Its previous innovation in laptop keyboards has been mostly limited to equipping them with RGB LEDs, but the new …

  One of the most interesting questions of hominin evolution is exactly how much of our vanished cousins remains in us. Between 1-4 percent of the modern human genome is derived from Neanderthals everywhere but sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, between 4-6 percent of the modern Melanesian genome has been shown …