The world’s last population of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) lived on Wrangel Island, currently some 140 km off the coast of the Chukotka mainland in northeastern Siberia. They went extinct 3,700 years ago and, according to the frequency of their remains from the island, the extinction was extremely abrupt. In a …

  The web service company Ookla, owners of Speedtest.net, has published a detailed report on internet speeds across tribal lands in North America. (Disclosure: ExtremeTech and Ookla are both owned by Ziff Davis). Mobile and wireline performance are both discussed, with data given for the fastest and slowest reservation/reserves in …

“To be able to replace Tsutsugo is going to be very, very hard,” BayStars manager Alex Ramirez told reporters, including Jason Coskrey of the Japan Times. “I’ve had this dream since I was little, so I told the team that I wanted to play with the intent of moving to …

Nextdoor is launching a new ad product called “Local Deals.” While the company has shown ads from local businesses for some time those have come largely through partners; this is the first broad-based self-service offering for small businesses (SMBs) on the site. Simple ad creation. In order to set up …

  Ever since the disclosure of side-channel attacks like Spectre and Meltdown, the semiconductor industry in general and Intel in particular have been grappling with the security problems this class of attacks creates. While these ongoing attacks have mostly been discussed in terms of what they mean for Intel, the …

  Last week, Microsoft and AMD announced that a new AMD APU would power the 15-inch Surface Laptop intended for the consumer market (there’s also an Ice Lake variant built for corporations). It’s a unique chip, with 11 Vega graphics units in a 15W TDP, when all of AMD’s other …

  Last week, we brought you a quick bit of information on Intel’s upcoming Cascade Lake refresh for the High-End DeskTop (HEDT) and Xeon W markets. These chips, as we previously discussed, are a major improvement on their predecessors in price. Performance gains are a bit more workload-dependent, but there …

  With the RX 5700 and 5700 XT in-market since June, it was inevitable that AMD would refresh the lower end of its product family. Big Navi may not drop until 2020, but there’s plenty of room at the lower end of the market for a major refresh cycle. Since …

  You can’t take a trip to the real moon, at least not right now. You might be able to visit the surface virtually before long, though. NASA has released a visual data set that it calls the “CGI Moon Kit,” which will allow designers to create authentic moonscapes in …

An international team of ornithologists has discovered a new species of the honeyeater genus Myzomela in the highlands of the Lesser Sunda island of Alor, southeast Indonesia. Two individuals of the Alor myzomela (Myzomela prawiradilagae) perched in Eucalyptus urophylla tree at 1,250 m near Manmas-Subo, Alor Island, Indonesia, in April …