Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google begins rolling out mobile-first indexing to more sitesMar 26, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing will be migrating …

The slow rate of battery improvement is responsible for many of the shortcomings in modern technology. Your smartphone might be much faster than it was a few years back, and your laptop can last most of a day on a charge, but think about how much better they could be …

Microsoft was one of the first companies to experiment with FPGAs in data centers; the company began testing FPGAs with its Project Catapult designs back in 2011. That work has continued through the present day, with successive generations of FPGAs deployed to improve search results and lower response time. Today, …

Google announced this morning its “mobile -first” indexing of the web is now starting to roll out, after a year and a half of testing and experimentation. Back in 2016, Google first detailed its plan to change the way its search index operates, explaining how its algorithms would eventually be …

  What are Hot Cross Buns? Hot Cross Buns look a bit like dinner rolls — they’re round, soft, and fluffy — but they’re slightly sweet and spiced with a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg (sometimes even cloves and allspice).  They’re called “Hot Cross Buns” because of the icing piped …

A team of paleontologists from Yale University, Smithsonian Institution and Johns Hopkins University has discovered a new species of reptile that lived 200 million years ago during the Triassic period, in what is now Connecticut in the United States. An artist’s rendering of Colobops noviportensis. Image credit: Michael Hanson. Dubbed …

A newly-released video, captured in the waters around Portugal’s Azores islands, shows a pair of deep-sea anglerfish called the fanfin angler (Caulophryne jordani) mating: a fearsome-looking female and her parasitically attached mate drift almost helplessly, salvaging precious energy in their dark, food-scarce environment. A pair of fanfin anglers (Caulophryne jordani). …

A new study from the University of Nottingham, UK, shows that the way in which fat is made within the body is not ‘pre-programmed’ during the early years of development as previously thought but even in adulthood cells can be influenced by environment to change the type of fat that …

Elon Musk’s The Boring Company is indeed living up to its namesake and boring tunnels, but its primary source of revenue still seems to be selling stuff branded with its logo. First there was the hat, then the ‘not a flamethrower,’ and now Musk has said that the company will …

What’s the best way to stay up to date on things happening within your industry? Seasoned finance professionals read the Wall Street Journal. Anyone who wants to work in politics reads The Washington Post. In Silicon Valley we have industry-specific news sites like TechCrunch supplemented by Hacker News and others. …