Google is exploring a new method of improving site performance in Google Chrome, this time by adding a new back-caching feature that would keep certain data in memory, even after you’ve left a site. The company writes: A back/forward cache (bfcache) caches whole pages (including the JavaScript heap) when …

  In was just a decade ago when we all lived in the golden age of the QWERTY keyboard smartphone. Devices like the Palm Pre and Motorola Droid seemed like viable alternatives to the iPhone largely because they had all those tactile keys for inputting text. Smartphones with physical keyboards …

  Nokia unveiled its latest flagship smartphone at Mobile World Congress this week, and it’s already scheduled for a US release. The Nokia 9 PureView will hit store shelves on March 3, and there will be a special promotion to celebrate. For the first week, the Nokia 9 PureView will …

Google is enabling more text in call-only ads. Google call-only ads are getting the expanded text ad treatment. What’s changing. The big change is the addition of more text. Instead of a single 25-character headline, you’ll have two 30-character headlines. Plus, descriptions are increasing from 80 to 90 characters. The …

Every two years since 2011, Search Engine Land has taken a fresh look at all the elements that impact your success in search engine optimization, mapping them out on our Periodic Table of SEO Success Factors. While our staff includes some of the industry’s leading lights, we wouldn’t be where …

The signs have been popping up, but now it’s official. Google will retire average position reporting from Google Ads later this year. What were the signs? We can point to two key ones. The first and most significant: In November, Google introduced four new ad position metrics to indicate the …

DNA is naturally composed of four basic molecules called nucleotides (commonly known as ‘letters’) — A (adenine), T (thymine), C (cytosine) and G (guanine) — that form hydrogen bonds in order to pair. A research team led by Dr. Steven Benner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution added an …

  As expected, Microsoft launched its HoloLens 2 ahead of Mobile World Congress. As expected, the new headset is a significant improvement over the original, with new features and capabilities. The one thing we didn’t expect? A petition launched by Microsoft employees criticizing the company for war profiteering and calling …

  Back in 2015, AMD’s CFO, Devinder Kumar, made a startling prediction about ARM’s likelihood of succeeding in the server market. Kumar predicted that by 2019, “15 percent of the overall server space is in the ARM server business.” While 2019 has only just begun, it’s safe to say this …

  There’s a new report claiming Apple will use TSMC for 5nm production in 2020, despite the fact that first-generation EUV chips aren’t even coming off the line yet. If it proves true, it would mean TSMC is already locking up orders on the far side of one of the …