When Intel launched the Core i9-9900K, it established a new best-in-class performance record with a price tag to match it. One of the questions raised in the wake of the launch, however, was why Intel was calling the Core i9-9900K a 95W TDP CPU when it used far more power …

Windows 10 comes with a voice assistant called Cortana, and newer builds of the OS really try to push you to use it. Most people don’t, because Cortana isn’t very capable. Now, you can get a much more powerful voice assistant on your PC with the launch of an official …

GPS technology is so ubiquitous now that it can be hard to remember a day when you couldn’t just take out your phone and find out exactly where you are in the world. However, that’s actually a very recent development and one that could be denied to us in the …

Cave paintings in Lubang Jeriji Saléh, a limestone cave in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, have been dated to at least 40,000 years ago. A rock painting of a wild bovid from Borneo. Image credit: Pindi Setiawan. Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000 …

Hongyacha, a new type of wild tea plant from the mountains of southern China, contains little or no caffeine, according to a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Leaves and young shoots of hongyacha. Image credit: Ji-Qiang Jin et al, doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b03433. “Hongyacha is a wild …

Orangutans spontaneously make hook tools out of a straight piece of wire, using them to ‘fish’ for food. Laumer et al show that orangutans can spontaneously innovate a hook tool out of a straight piece of wire to solve a novel problem. Image credit: Laumer et al, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34607-0. Orangutans …

Exposure to blue light significantly decreases systolic blood pressure and increases heart rate, lowering the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, a study led by University of Surrey’s Professor Christian Heiss has found. Whole body irradiation with visible blue light improves blood pressure. Image credit: Daniel Reche. “Previous studies have shown …

Nigerian consumer data analytics firm Terragon Group has acquired Asian mobile marketing company Bizense in a cash and stock deal. Based in Singapore, with operations in India and Indonesia, Bizense specializes in “mobile ad platform[s] for Telco’s, large publishers, and [e-commerce] ad networks” under its proprietary Adatrix platform—according to its website and a release. The …

Bradley Wright-Phillips wasnt your typical European player making the move to Major League Soccer when he left his native England for New York five years ago. He was 28 at the time and just one year removed from a high-scoring season that helped Charlton earn promotion to the League Championship. …

When Intel launched the Core i9-9900K, we noted that while the CPU was easily the best-performing (and best-priced, in terms of price-per-core) Intel chip we’d ever tested, its price/performance ratio didn’t hold up very well compared to AMD’s eight-core Ryzen 7 2700X. When we checked prices back on October 26, …