Google announced that many of the testing tools available within Google Search Console or the Google developer portal are now using the new evergreen Googlebot for crawling. Evergreen Googlebot. Three months ago, Google launched what is being called evergreen Googlebot. In short, it means that Googlebot, Google’s web crawler, will …

A multinational team of researchers has sequenced the genomes of Mexican, Guatemalan and West Indian avocados, and the most commercially popular hybrid cultivar, Hass, shedding light on the ancient origins of this buttery fruit and laying the groundwork for future improvements to farming. The avocado (Persea americana) is a fruit …

A new study, published recently in the journal Depression and Anxiety, provides evidence that consumption of chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, may be associated with reduced odds of clinically relevant depressive symptoms. Eating dark chocolate may positively affect mood and relieve depressive symptoms. Image credit: Sci-News.com. Chocolate is widely reported to …

An international group of paleontologists has found two incomplete bones from an ancient parrot with a mass of 7 kg, double that of the heaviest known parrot, the kakapo (Strigops habroptila). Reconstruction of Heracles inexpectatus, dwarfing a bevy of 3.1-inch (8 cm) high Kuiornis — small New Zealand wrens scuttling …

  The Kepler Space Telescope ended its wildly successful planet-hunting mission last year, but it’s still making discoveries from the grave. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has since taken up the planet-hunter banner, but it’s got a long way to go before it’s on the same level as Kepler. …

  Every now and then, a motherboard manufacturer will deploy what can only be called an unusual motherboard. There have been motherboards with PCI Express and AGP on the same board, the Aopen TubeAmp offered a vacuum tube amplifier, and Asrock once launched a board with dual sockets, with both …

  Huawei has been in a tough spot for the last few months. In May, the US government added the company to the “Entity List,” which imposes tight restrictions on exporting technology to the firm. Multiple suppliers and partners have severed ties with Huawei, including Google. With its access to …

  For the past few years, Intel has talked up its Cascade Lake servers with DL Boost (also known as VNNI, Vector Neural Net Instructions). These new capabilities are a subset of AVX-512 and are intended to specifically accelerate CPU performance in AI applications. Historically, many AI applications have favored …

  In many ways, NEC can be considered Japan’s Dell or IBM. The company has a long history in the tech world and has been known for making a wide-range of products from processors and high-end business equipment to PCs and home game consoles. The company is also known for …

  Mindfactory, a major German computer hardware retailer, has published new sales data for the month of July. AMD has had an extremely good month, even by the standards of previous Ryzen launches. Before we dive into the numbers, the usual caveats: These figures reflect data from a single German …