Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls. This program now also provides customers who are building IoT solutions that connect to Azure with access to 10,000 patents to defend themselves against intellectual property lawsuits. …

Physicists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) Collaboration announced this week the discovery of a new pentaquark particle, Pc(4312)+, decaying to a proton and a J/ψ meson, a particle composed of a charm quark and a charm antiquark. Illustration of the possible layout of the quarks in a pentaquark …

Backyard bird feeding is a popular form of human-wildlife interaction in certain regions of the northern and southern hemisphere including North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Given its scale, it can have profound consequences for the ecology of feeder birds and their behavior. In a new study, researchers from …

  Consumer spending in mobile apps across both Apple’s App Store and Google Play will grow by 120 percent to reach $156 billion worldwide by 2023, according to a new report out today from app store intelligence firm, Sensor Tower. The forecast estimates that both stores will more than double …

  Some events in the universe are so cataclysmic the ripples in space-time can spread across billion so flight years. The existence of these “gravitational waves” was the last major prediction in Einstein’s general relativity, and scientists confirmed it in 2016 thanks to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project. …

  The era of foldable phones is upon us whether you like it or not. Both Samsung and Huawei have shown off some upcoming foldable devices, but they won’t be cheap. Samsung’s Galaxy Fold will cost almost $2,000, and the Huawei Mate X is well over $2,000. If you spend …

Google is testing a new search bar menu with icons next to the names of the search categories. So instead of just showing the search vertical filters for displaying news results or image results, Google is showing icons next to those categories. Screenshot of the test. Here is a screen …

You’ve probably spent at least a little time thinking about what to do in retirement. How will you fill your days? Where will you go? What will you do? With whom will you spend time?In retirement, you likely have more options for how to spend your time than ever before. …

If you’re one of the thousands of Americans approaching retirement, one of your top concerns is probably when to retire. But an accompanying question is where to retire. Realtor.com crunched the numbers and identified the fastest growing retirement destinations. The fastest growing retirement destinations might not be the best place …

On Thursday, March 28, these debenture tickets were released by Wimbledon for the wealthy, costing a 60% premium over the previous such release five years ago. These debentures allow Wimbledon fans a chance to watch all the Centre Court matches at Wimbledon for a five-year period but it also serves …