A team of researchers from the University of East Anglia, Earlham Institute and the UK’s National Institute for Agricultural Botany has successfully sequenced the genome of the common primrose (Primula vulgaris), a species of flowering plant native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and parts of southwest Asia. The …

Naspers, the South African investment giant, is back at it again in India! Days after backing educational startup Byju’s by leading a $540 million investment, it has led a $1 billion investment in food delivery company Swiggy. The new round sees Chinese internet and Naspers ally Tencent join the party, …

During the incident, Russell Westbrook and Kris Dunn got into a shoving match, while Robin Lopez went absolutely ballistic on Jerami Grant. Dunn, Lopez and Grant all received fines for their roles in instigating the altercation.

  Climate change is the result of increasing levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, primarily referenced in terms of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The longer we delay action on climate change, the worse its effects will be. Every person, business, organization, and government can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect …

The rollout of a new cellular data standard is rarely a cheap endeavor, but ATT’s early pricing for its brand-new 5G service is raising eyebrows even so. The company declared itself the first firm to make mobile 5G service live today, thanks to its new service in parts of 12 …

The smartphone spec race isn’t as hot as it once was with almost every flagship phone sporting the same chips and features. However, some markets are much more focused on the speeds and feeds than others. Case in point: Lenovo has been on a tear lately, launching ultra-high-end smartphones in the …

Ever since it debuted in 2015, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) has promised to deliver huge amounts of RAM bandwidth at power consumption levels that traditional GDDR arrays can’t match. It’s mostly kept that promise, albeit at pricing that has kept it out of reach for most consumer GPUs, and limited …

The internet is full of wonder and the accumulated knowledge of humanity, but it’s also full of malicious software and scams. That’s why Windows users have always been warned not to launch shady executables. You’re not going to open virus.exe, but sometimes it’s not so clear. Windows will soon have …

Facebook is a social network, but it doesn’t make money by connecting you to your friends and family. It makes money by showing you ads, and advertisers pay more for highly targeted ads. You might think you’ve blocked Facebook from tracking you, but computer science professor Aleksandra Korolova from the …

When we think about the planets, we tend to think of them as static and unchanging. While the planets unquestionably evolved into their current states, most of that evolution appears to have happened hundreds of millions to billions of years in the past. Mars has been a cold, frozen rock …