Google has begun alerting advertisers that it will soon stop showing search queries that triggered their ads when there is not “significant” data. “We are updating the search terms report to only include terms that were searched by a significant number of users. As a result you may see fewer …

  Samsung lept into what it hopes will be the era of foldable phones last year with the Galaxy Fold, and now there’s a sequel that addresses many of that phone’s shortcomings. The price isn’t one of them, though. The new Galaxy Z Fold2 launches September 18th for a whopping …

  Apple’s CPU technology and its run-up against AMD and Intel has received a great deal of press, with various pundits weighing in on what they see as the risks or rewards of Apple pivoting to use its own silicon. Its GPU project, however, continues to fly mostly under the …

Apple Maps currently relies on Yelp and TripAdvisor for local business reviews and related content such as images. That could begin to change with iOS 14; the question is: how disruptive will it be for Apple’s partners and the “review economy” in general? First reported by 9to5Mac, based on this …

  I’ve always found Lenovo’s Yoga series of laptops intriguing, as they mix some of the features of a 2-in-1 with the performance of a traditional clamshell laptop. So I was eager to test out the most recent incarnation, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Yoga Gen 1 ($1,886.99 as tested, at …

  Samsung has announced the production of 16Gb LPDDR5 memory modules on its 10nm-class “1z” foundry node. These chips will be the first LPDDR5 modules built using extreme ultraviolet lithography, which both Samsung and TSMC are in the process of deploying. Samsung, however, made the decision to integrate EUV directly …

Paleontologists recently found well-preserved dinosaur eggs in an enormous nesting ground of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 80 million years ago (Cretaceous period) in what is now Patagonia, Argentina. In a paper in the journal Current Biology, they now describe an almost intact embryonic skull from one of these …

  Android’s application ecosystem has proven to be versatile and developer-friendly after a bit of a slow start. You are free to develop an app for Android and publish it to the Play Store with Google’s restrictions, or you can distribute it yourself outside the Play Store. This has led …

Google’s “licensable” badge in Image results is now out of beta. Google also changed the “Usage rights” search filter to let users search for images with creative common or other licenses to address concerns about digital images being commodified and used for free. Licensable badge. Google began testing the badge …

  If you remember even basic elementary school geography, you know that Earth’s surface is mostly water. Scientists have disagreed about how all that water ended up on Earth. Was it all here when the planet formed, or was Earth a dry husk until asteroids and comets delivered water? A …