Consumer demands for compelling online shopping experiences continues to skyrocket. But with thousands of products on ‘digital shelves,’ how do you break through the clutter to get consumer attention? More importantly, what motivates shoppers to click the “buy” button these days? Join our product experience experts as they explain the …
Read More »Bing Ads launches new action extensions to highlight calls-to-action
Bing Ads has taken the wrapper off a brand new ad extension. Action extensions launched globally in all supported languages Wednesday and are available on desktop and mobile devices. What they look like. The action extensions feature one of 70 pre-defined calls-to-action. On mobile, the action extension appears with a …
Read More »CBD Products On The Golf Course?
While the World Anti-Doping Agency dropped the marijuana compound from its list of banned substances for athletes last year, the golf organization wants its players to be advised that some CBD products may contain THC, which is still prohibited by the league. The FDA, DEA, and private organizations including Major …
Read More »Methane on Mars: New Discovery or Just Lot of Hot Air?
The discovery of life on Mars would get pretty much everyone excited. But the scientists hunting for it would probably be happy no matter what the outcome of their search — whether life turned out to extinct, dormant or extant. They’d even consider finding no evidence of life whatsoever to …
Read More »Researchers Reconstruct Evolutionary History of Passerines
An international team of scientists has reconstructed the tree of life for all major lineages of passerines (perching birds). The Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus). Image credit: Francis Franklin / CC BY-SA 4.0. The team, led by Louisiana State University researcher Carl Oliveros, extracted and sequenced DNA from 221 specimens …
Read More »66-Million-Year-Old Fossil Site Preserves Animals Killed within Minutes of Chicxulub Impact
At a site dubbed Tanis in North Dakota’s Hell Creek Formation, paleontologists have unearthed an assemblage of exquisitely-preserved fossilized organisms — fish stacked one atop another and mixed in with burned tree trunks, conifer branches, mammals, mosasaur bones, insects, the partial carcass of a Triceratops, marine microorganisms called dinoflagellates and …
Read More »T-Mobile’s mobile TV service to include Viacom channels like MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central & more
T-Mobile and Viacom this morning announced a deal that will bring Viacom’s TV channels — like MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount and others — to T-Mobile’s new mobile video service planned for later this year. The agreement will allow T-Mobile to offer live, linear feeds of the Viacom …
Read More »Facebook Has Been Asking for Email Passwords to Verify New Accounts
You would think that after all its recent privacy missteps, Facebook would exercise a little more caution when it implements new features. Alas, this is Facebook, so it’s still blundering from one crisis to the next. Its latest ill-conceived scheme involves asking users to hand over their email passwords. …
Read More »Report: Optane DIMMs Provide Only Modest Performance Improvements
When Intel unveiled Optane in 2015, it declared it had created a fundamentally new type of memory that could revolutionize the industry. Four years later, signs of that revolution have been hard to come by. Optane DC Persistent Memory — Optane DIMMs loaded into memory slots with higher capacities …
Read More »Intel Launches New Xeons With Up to 56 Cores, 400W TDP
Intel has unveiled its latest 14nm Cascade Lake processors, including the new Cascade Lake-AP family expected to scale up to 56 CPU cores. This is significantly more than previously anticipated; the company was expected to unveil 48-core solutions, not 56-cores. These new Cascade Lake chips will arrive in two …
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