By 2021, there will be more smart speakers in use than tablets according to a new global forecast from Canalys. The firm says that the worldwide base of smart speakers will grow from approximately 114 million units this year to 208 million next year. Other estimates put the installed base …

The countdown toward the record of 18 major victories is back on, big time, and every major golf championship now will be a new chance for Tiger Woods to chase history. Golfs entire map changed Sunday afternoon when Woods won the Masters, his first victory in a major in 11 …

Several footprints and exquisitely-preserved skin impressions made by a small theropod dinosaur approximately 120 million years ago (Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous epoch) have been found in the Jinju City area in Korea. Four-track Minisauripus trackway. Image credit: Kim et al, doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-38633-4. The Jinju footprints, assigned to the …

  It is not a matter of if but when a dangerously large asteroid ends up on a collision course for Earth, and NASA wants to be ready. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has been in development for several years, and now it’s got a real launch date with …

Google announced Wednesday night that it has finally fixed de-indexing issue that has been affecting websites for a week. Here is the tweet: The indexing issue has now been fully resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience. We appreciate your patience as we restored normal operation. — Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April …

  The newly released image of a black hole (below) is a watershed moment for physics. Finally, we can put some of Einstein’s most famous predictions from a century ago to the test, but it was not as easy as pointing a big lens at the M87 galaxy and pressing …

  Amazon wants us to think of Alexa as a computer that does our bidding with the help of magical AI technology, but there’s still a significant human component, according to an investigation by Bloomberg. The company has allegedly used an army of human beings to listen to audio clips …

The Arizona Cardinals have been on the clock for the past few months and in two weeks, they will be selection the first pick of the NFL draft in Nashville. The Washington Redskins are not pursuing trade for Arizona Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen. The New England Patriots meeting are meeting …

  Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia listed on the New York Stock Exchange today, with shares beginning trading at $14.50 under ticker symbol JMIA. This comes four weeks after CEO Sacha Poignonnec confirmed the IPO to TechCrunch and Jumia filed SEC documents. With the public offering, Jumia becomes the first startup from Africa …

  Security breaches, where malicious hackers obtain snippets of information that then get used to impersonate individuals in order to gain access to individuals’ and businesses’ sensitive financial and other private information, have become par for the course in the world of digital services. More than 2.7 billion records were  breached …