Ever since Spectre and Meltdown were unveiled, there’s been the risk that future attacks might surface as well. One of the things that sets the Spectre attacks apart from Meltdown is that Meltdown targeted a specific vulnerability. The Spectre variants (Variant 1 and Variant 2) described already are two examples …

HTC built the very first official Android phone, known as the T-Mobile G1 in the US and HTC Dream elsewhere. For several years afterward, it was the most prominent maker of Android phones. Then came Samsung, which has now become the largest smartphone maker in the world. HTC, meanwhile, has …

According to a study published in the journal PLoS ONE, a 35,000-year-old flint flake found at a Middle Paleolithic site in Crimea, Ukraine, was likely engraved symbolically by a skilled hand of a Neanderthal. The engraved flint flake from the Kiik-Koba site, Crimea, Ukraine; the arrow indicates the point of …

The European mistletoe (Viscum album) is a plant steeped in ancient associations with druids and Northern European folklore and since the 18th century, has been synonymous with kissing at Christmas time. This plant is a hemiparasite (a parasitic plant that is capable of some photosynthesis), latching onto trees and extracting …

Middle-aged to elderly men and women who take frequent sauna baths have a substantially reduced risk of new-onset stroke, according to a 15-year follow-up study published in the journal Neurology. In this new study, people taking a sauna 4-7 times a week were 61% less likely to suffer a stroke …

The Dallas Cowboys’ all-time great informed Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and coach Jason Garrett he will retire to join the Monday Night Football crew, NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo and NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, per sources informed of the decision. Witten ends his career as one of the best …

Creating useful and engaging content is an essential part of search engine optimization (SEO) and link building today. While it often feels fun and exciting in the beginning, it can quickly become a monotonous task that you dread. I mean, no matter how interesting a topic might be, can you …

Machine learning has come to Shopping Campaigns. This week, Google announced a new Shopping campaign type — subtype, really — that is “goal-optimized.” The campaigns will use machine learning to aim to automatically optimize ad delivery to achieve the defined conversion goal value, such as revenue or return on ad …

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google’s Greatest Talent: Source: Instagram The YouTube and Google Emmy from …

It looks like after a year and a half of running Google Shopping campaigns, Amazon has stopped bidding on product listing ads. According to data pulled by the digital marketing firm Merkle, Amazon’s shopping campaigns had begun to slow down near the end of Q1, and then they completely disappeared …