An international team of researchers has identified a cryptic new species of slender-snouted crocodile living in Central Africa. The Central African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops leptorhynchus). Image credit: Shirley et al, doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.2.1. “The African slender-snouted, or sharp-nosed, crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) is medium-sized, lives in freshwater habitats, and, as its name …

With Golf TV announced as the live video streaming service at the centre of Discoverys US$2 billion deal with the PGA Tour, Sports Pro spoke to Discovery Golf president Alex Kaplan about a product and a partnership that could change the course of sports broadcasting. Nobody has ever done this …

Most Android phones get updates, but they don’t get very many of them. This has been an issue even for very expensive and popular phones, which quickly end up with old security patches that can’t protect you from every online threat. Google is reportedly rolling out a new Android licensing …

Apple touts its iOS platform as more secure than Android, but we don’t actually know how secure it is. Android is open source, so everyone can follow the patching and disclosure of bugs. iOS is essentially a black box with an unknown number of flaws, some of which have been …

AMD reported its Q3 2018 earnings on October 24, and the results are good, if a touch mixed in places. Revenue for the quarter was $1.65B, up 4 percent year-on-year and down 6 percent quarter-on-quarter. That’s a little unusual for AMD, Q3 has been the company’s best quarter for revenue …

Google Lens made its debut at Google I/O a few years ago, eventually coming to Pixel phones before expanding to most Android devices. Lens is another of Google’s semi-magical implementations of machine learning technology, in this case used to identify objects in images. Now, it’s coming to Google image search …

October started out rough for NASA with the failure of the Hubble and Chandra observatories in the space of a week. However, Hubble is coming back online after the team got its backup gyroscope working again. Now, Chandra is working again after NASA engineers implemented a fix for its gyroscope …

New evidence indicates the primary cause of the extinction of one of Australia’s top predators, the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex), around 40,000 years ago was likely a result of changing weather patterns and loss of habitat, not human impacts. The aridificaiton of Australia impacted the hunting effectiveness or preybase of …

Researchers from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a novel therapeutic that can deliver oxygen specifically to under-oxygenated tissues, thereby restoring the contractile function of cardiac cells, which is heavily affected under hypoxic conditions. The study is published in the journal PLoS Biology. A new oxygen-delivery …

For Kljestan, playing in his first season with Orlando and after leading the league in assists the last two years as a player for the New York Red Bulls, it was the most difficult season of his career. Personally, Id say its been the hardest, most difficult, most frustrating season …