Plenty of companies have had ambitions to put a computer on your face, but few have managed to produce a workable prototype. Even fewer have sold them to consumers. Vuzix, which has been making enterprise-focused augmented reality glasses for years, has finally launched a consumer version called the Vizix Blade. …

AMD’s 32-core 2990WX Threadripper CPU has always been a bit of an uncertain proposition. While undeniably fast in certain scenarios, the chip has marked performance regressions in other tests, and doesn’t always outperform the 16-core Threadripper 2950X. Now, there’s a utility, CorePrio, that can be used to restore much of …

Frédéric Dubut, a senior program manager at Microsoft working on Bing Search, said on Twitter Wednesday that when you create a specific section in your robots.txt file for its Bingbot crawler, you should make sure to list all the default directives in that section. Specify directives for Bingbot. “If you …

In a world where everyone’s fighting for relevance in search, technical SEO is a Swiss army knife you can use to improve your site’s usability, crawlability, indexation and ultimately rankings. But it’s easy to get lost in the weeds while working through technical SEO fixes — many SEOs reach a …

The rumor mill has been churning over Apple’s iPhone and the company’s strength or weakness this quarter. Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook released a letter to investors warning that the company would come up short in Q4 2019 compared with its own previous revenue guidance. He also went into some …

Almost a year ago, we wrote about the then-high DRAM prices and how DDR4 was substantially more expensive than it had been earlier in the PC cycle, regardless of clock rate. Nearly 12 months later, costs have come down substantially, but a new report suggests the three DRAM manufacturers still …

It has taken a few years, but USB Type-C is finally becoming common on new computers, smartphones, and tablets. This connector comes with a lot of benefits like higher power capacity and a reversible design, but there’s also greater potential for abuse and damage to your devices. That’s why the …

Humanity first visited the moon decades ago, but today is the first time a mission has made a soft landing on the moon’s far side. The Chinese Chang’e 4 probe set down in Von Kármán crater on January 3rd (Beijing time), marking another important milestone in the Chinese mission to …

A research team led by Rockefeller University scientists has discovered a genetic variant that makes people more vulnerable to tuberculosis, a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The team also uncovered genetic mutations that rob the immune system of its ability to combat more ubiquitous germs of the same …

A research team led by Florida State University scientists has demonstrated that there are specific points along the DNA molecule that control replication. The study appears in the journal Cell. Sima et al found that cis-regulatory elements control the 3D compartmentalization, architecture of the genome, and replication timing in a …