These Healthy Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are so soft, chewy, and delicious (not to mention, easy to make!), you’d never know they’re refined sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, and vegan too! Thumbprint Cookies are just like regular cookies but with a teaspoon or so of fruit jam in the center, which …
Read More »Victoria Azarenka Misses Entry To US Open.
The U.S. Tennis Association announced Wednesday that defending champion and top-ranked Rafael Nadal is one of six past male singles champions in the U.S. Open field, along with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Juan Martin del Potro and Marin Cilic.
Read More »The 3 Greatest Retirement Fears and How to Feel More Confident About Them
Spiders. Snakes. The dark. Boogey men. Clowns. It’s likely that you have at least one of these fears. However, if you are around retirement age, then what scares you most is perhaps more menacing and real than any of those things. Transamerica recently published a new survey that lists the …
Read More »Apple Can’t Handle the Heat: Severe Core i9 Throttling Found on New MacBook Pros
Apple’s new top-end MacBook Pro 15-inch, with the optional Core i9 CPU, is markedly slower than last year’s Core i7 design despite fielding two more CPU cores. That’s the result of empirical tests of the system, which show that under full load, Apple’s redesigned MacBook Pro can’t handle the heat …
Read More »Google Now Predictive Search Cards Resurface in Google Assistant
Back in the days of Android Jelly Bean, Google focused much of its AI efforts on a feature called Google Now. The idea was Google Now could scrape useful data from your account activity and proactively give you helpful alerts and actionable notifications. Google phased out Now as a brand …
Read More »Google Hit With Record $5 Billion Fine in Android Antitrust Case
A multi-year investigation of Alphabet’s Google in the European Union has resulted in a record $5 billion (€4.34 billion) fine for the search giant. At issue is the way Google requires device manufacturers to build Android software for phones and other devices in order to get access to the Play …
Read More »US Mobile Download Speeds Shot Up in 2018, T-Mobile Beats Verizon
Ookla has released its annual report on US download speeds, powered by SpeedTest Intelligence. The US improved its download speeds markedly from 2017 to 2018, but is still ranked poorly overall relative to our overall economic strength. The data set Ookla uses is drawn from over 12 million speed tests …
Read More »Voting Machine Vendor Admits Installing Remote-Access Software on State Systems
In February 2018, Election Systems and Software told the press that it had never installed remote-access software in any of the e-voting systems it has sold in the various US states or to local governments. In April, the company told Senator Ron Wyden’s office (D-OR), that it had sold pcAnywhere …
Read More »World’s Most Sensitive Radio Telescope Peeks at Our Local Supermassive Black Hole
A multi-year project to explore the universe in new ways is one step closer to completion. South Africa has finally switched on a highly sensitive radio telescope called MeerKAT, which is part of a global project called the Square Kilometer Array. With MeerKAT online, scientists can scan the sky and …
Read More »Upgraded Very Large Telescope Captures Neptune in Stunning Detail
A newly released image of the planet Neptune shows just how far telescope technology has come in recent years. This view of Neptune is almost impossibly clear compared with past attempts, thanks to a recent upgrade to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. …
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