An international team of scientists has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of representatives from all five major clades within the birds-of-paradise family (Paradisaeidae): the paradise crow (Lycocorax pyrrhopterus) from Obi Island in Indonesia, the paradise riflebird (Ptiloris paradiseus) from New South Wales, Australia, the huon astrapia (Astrapia rothschildi), the King …

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These days Bing Maps is highly focused on the enterprise, mirroring Microsoft’s turn toward cloud-based solutions with the ascension of CEO Satya Nadella. The company has stopped trying to match features with Google Maps in competition for consumer attention and has focused increasingly on developers and enterprises. In that context, …

  When considering the structural impact of technology companies on our economy and society, we tend to focus on questions of scale and monopoly. It’s true that the FAANG companies and more recent winners (Airbnb, Uber) have surfed a combination of network effects, preferential access to capital and classic efficiencies …

A new observational study by researchers from Hong Kong demonstrates that disrupted sleep is associated with DNA damage. The findings appear in the journal Anaesthesia. Sleep deprivation was associated with DNA damage in the new study. Image credit: Arek Socha / Sci-News.com. University of Hong Kong’s Dr. Siu-Wai Choi and …

A team of physicists from the Joint Institute for Lab Astrophysics (JILA) and IMRA America Inc. has measured hundreds of individual quantum energy levels in buckminsterfullerene (nicknamed buckyball), a 60-atom molecule of carbon in the shape of a soccer ball. Changala et al used frequency combs, or ‘rulers of light,’ …

  When AMD’s Lisa Su demonstrated the company’s upcoming 7nm Ryzen CPUs at CES, sharp-eyed viewers quickly realized that there was room for a second chiplet on the processor she was holding. This implies the potential existence of a 7nm Ryzen desktop CPU with up to 16 CPU cores — …

  After the Great Cryptographic GPU Shortage of 2017 sent GPU prices into the stratosphere, the slow decline through 2018 was a welcome return to normal. Now, we may see fresh shortages and higher prices thanks to a reported manufacturing problem at TSMC. The following is a quote from a …

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Google has added a microphone to the Google.com search field on Android phones to enable mobile web voice search. It’s an interesting move given that users could already do voice search on the mobile web, with the Android keyboard microphone. A new mic icon. Below are screens from Android on …