Verizon tried to take an early lead in the 5G era with its non-standard 5G home internet service last year, but today is the big day for Verizon’s real 5G network. The mobile 5G service is available in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis, but there aren’t any phones just …

  Last week, Google announced the formation of an Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC). The purpose of ATEAC was to consider the complex challenges that might arise while developing AI technology and to provide diverse perspectives on these issues. Google isn’t the first company to take these sorts of …

  April 1 is usually a day for terrible jokes masquerading as the truth, but Cloudflare says its latest announcement is the real deal. The company has fittingly chosen this hallowed day to announce that its 1.1.1.1 DNS service is getting a new feature: a free VPN. Again, it says …

  This is not an April Fool’s joke, though it may sound like one. The r/games subreddit on Reddit.com has gone dark for a day to draw attention to the growing problem of hate speech and bigotry online. The mods write that while they do not object to strong discussion, …

Mars is dry today, but numerous ancient rivers are found across the planet’s surface and their existence is a challenge to models of planetary climate evolution. A new study, published in the journal Science Advances, catalogued these rivers to conclude that the runoff production persisted until less than three billion …

A team of nuclear physicists from the Washington University, St. Louis, Michigan State University, Western Michigan University and the University of Connecticut has created and characterized ‘featherweight’ oxygen — the lightest-ever version of the familiar oxygen, with only three neutrons to its eight protons. The results appear in the journal …

An international team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München scientist Mark Scherz has described a new genus and five new species of tiny frogs from the island of Madagascar. Mini mum in Manombo Special Reserve, lateral view on a thumbnail. Image credit: Scherz et al, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213314. “The five new species belong …

A new species of mastodon that lived during the Pleistocene period has been identified from fossil found in California and Idaho. The Pacific mastodon (Mammut pacificus), holotype skull and tusks; a skull in: (A) dorsal, (B) ventral, (C) left lateral, (D) right lateral, (E) posterior, (F) distal end of left …

Google released v1_1 of the Google Ads API last week. To use the newest features, you’ll need to update your client libraries. Here’s a look at the key updates in the latest version. Asset-based display ads. If you’re running asset-based display ads such as responsive display ads, you can use …

Today’s buyers are more informed than ever. With so much information available, shoppers often turn to trusted sources for recommendations that can influence final buying decisions. Social media posts from friends or family, online polls, Q+A and ratings and reviews – these types of customer generated content can make or …