A paper published — and then removed — from NASA’s website claims that Google has established so-called quantum supremacy. If true, it would be a significant achievement for quantum computing as a whole. The impact on the general-purpose world of computing from this specific breakthrough is minimal, but it’s …

  NASA is currently on an incredibly ambitious timetable to send the new crewed missions to the moon by 2024. The Artemis Program will use the agency’s Orion spacecraft, which borrows liberally from the old Apollo-era command module. Now, NASA is formalizing its plans with a long-term contract for Lockheed …

Rauisuchians — predatory crocodile-like creatures that lived during the Triassic period, some 210 million years ago — preyed on early herbivorous dinosaurs and mammal relatives, according to a new study. An artist’s reconstruction of two rauisuchians fighting over a desiccated corpse of a mammal-relative in the Triassic of southern Africa. …

Domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) form attachments with their owners that are similar to the bonds formed by children and dogs with their caretakers, a new study from Oregon State University shows. Pet cats show a similar capacity for the formation of secure and insecure attachments towards human caregivers previously …

Dr. Jonathan Betts from the University of Surrey and colleagues have found that the green-tea polyphenol epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) can restore the activity of aztreonam, an antibiotic commonly used to treat infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a Gram-negative pathogen that is intrinsically multidrug-resistant and frequently associated with healthcare-associated outbreaks. Epigallocatechin …

A team of Australian scientists has successfully completed an integrated genomic characterization of a reef-building coral species called Porites lutea and its microbial partners (bacteria, Archaea, algae etc.). Schematic overview of interactions between Porites lutea and its microbial symbionts. Image credit: Robbins et al, doi: 10.1038/s41564-019-0532-4. “Symbiotic relationships are incredibly …

Phone calls convert at 10x the rate of clicks, so it makes sense that many marketers spend a considerable portion of their budgets driving calls from paid search and social media. What doesn’t make sense is that the data available from phone calls are allowed to slip through the attribution …

While it’s true that you can access abundant resources through your operating system’s GUI, a terminal emulator window will provide you access to command line utilities including notably important network-centric ones for technical SEO and programming. There’s a lot of power and much more to see when you’re working “under …

Server migrations “are pretty uneventful for Google systems” so long as everything else stays the same, although Googlebot will readjust how frequently it crawls your site, Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller said on the September 24 edition of #AskGoogleWebmasters. The question. “Our site is changing servers and I’ve had this …

Founded in 2008, Nextdoor is probably the most interesting company in local search that isn’t named Google, Facebook or Yelp. It’s not really on the mainstream local SEO to-do list at this point but it’s definitely a massive site with lots of traffic and engagement. Today the site announced a …