Google has acquired another “answer engine.” The company paid roughly $60 million for Superpod, predominantly for the team, according to published reports. Superpod matched audience questions and expert answers across a broad range of topics. Founders to work on ‘larger project’ at Google. A statement acknowledging the acquisition on the Superpod …

Chromebooks have been quite popular in the education market in recent years, and Asus has announced a new set of ruggedized hardware intended to capitalize on the trend. The four new systems — two standard laptop form factors, a flip convertible, and a tablet — target a variety of feature …

With CES right around the corner, Samsung has taken the lid off one of the most impressive monitors we’ve ever seen. The new CRG9 is an updated version of the 3440×1080 displays the company unveiled in mid-2017, with significantly improved specs. The new display is a 49-inch panel in a …

One of the long-term differences between Intel and AMD has been their approach to motherboard sockets and upgrade cycles. Generally speaking, Intel switches between chipsets and socket iterations far more quickly than AMD does. This has always been a pain point for Intel enthusiasts. There have always been questions about …

Incorporating voice controls into devices and software is very trendy these days, but not all voice assistants are created equal. Microsoft’s Cortana assistant hasn’t gained much traction compared with Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant, but Microsoft is still trying. It won’t be trying quite as hard, though. Cortana will no …

A team of researchers from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador has described a new species of treefrog from Cordillera del Condor, a largely unexplored range in the eastern Andes. Hyloscirtus hillisi. Image credit: Gustavo Pazmiño, BIOWEB Ecuador. The newly-discovered treefrog belongs to Hyloscirtus, a genus of 37 species distributed …

At 2:43 p.m. EST (7:43 GMT) on December 31, 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft went into orbit around asteroid Bennu — setting new records for the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft and the closest orbit of a planetary body by any spacecraft. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at asteroid Bennu. Image …

At 9:26 p.m. EST on January 2, 2019 (2:26 a.m. GMT, 10:26 a.m. Beijing Time on January 3), China National Space Administration’s Chang’e-4 lunar probe touched down on the far side of the Moon, becoming the first spacecraft to successfully soft-land on the Moon’s side never visible from Earth. This …

The science team of NASA’s New Horizons mission has unveiled potentially significant discoveries about a Kuiper Belt object known as Ultima Thule. This image taken by New Horizons’ Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the most detailed of Ultima Thule returned so far by the spacecraft. It was taken at 12:01 …

As a sales leader, you might think account-based marketing (ABM) isn’t for you. After all, it has the word marketing in the name. But the reality is, ABM isn’t something marketing does in a silo — and B2B sales orgs need to get on board. Put simply, ABM is a target …