Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: What’s different about digital marketing in the cannabis industry?Mar 15, 2018 by Brett Middleton Contributor Brett Middleton explores the current challenges and opportunities facing this budding …

Earlier this week, bombshell news surfaced of 13 supposedly critical security flaws in AMD processors. While at least some of the flaws appear to be real based on independent confirmation from security researchers, the manner and nature of the disclosure lifted a number of eyebrows. A simultaneously released report from …

As Intel has rolled out fixes for Spectre and Meltdown, it’s worked closely with Microsoft to make the required microcode updates available to as wide a group of hardware as possible. Newer motherboards might receive an update, but older systems, including the Ivy Bridge rig of this author, aren’t exactly …

Logitech has been making PC speakers for many years, but none of them have had RGB lights in them. In this age of LEDs in mousepads, headphones, and keyboards, how are speakers so far behind? Logitech is looking to rectify this with the new G560 gaming speakers. They’ve got a …

Behind only AI, Blockchain is the second-most-hyped developer technology. There are a few good reasons to use it in a project, but plenty of bad ones too. Whether blockchain technology is right for your application is ultimately up to you, but we’ll take you through some of the basics on …

AUSTIN — At SXSW 2018, artificial intelligence (AI) was everywhere, even in the sessions that were not specifically about the subject. AI has captured the attention of people well outside the technology space, and the implications of the technology are far-reaching, changing industries, eliminating many human jobs, and changing the …

Facebook’s Instant Games are now open to all developers, Facebook announced this week in advance of the Game Developers Conference. First launched in 2016, the platform lets developers build mobile-friendly games using HTML5 that work on both Facebook and Messenger, instead of requiring users to download native apps from Apple …

According to a study in mice published in the Journal of Neuroscience, reduced ability to maintain body temperature in colder environments may contribute to the development of obesity in adulthood. Obese and thin mice. Image credit: Shannon Reilly, University of Michigan. Energy from food fuels maintenance of a constant body …

Planetary scientists have noticed that Jupiter’s most distinctive feature — the Great Red Spot (GRS) — has been getting smaller in area over time. Because of this, many expected to see the wind speeds inside the GRS increasing as the storm was shrinking. But surprisingly, this isn’t the case — …

The long-standing mystery of why comets give off X-ray emission has been solved by a group of experimental physicists led by the University of Oxford, UK. On October 19, 2014, Comet Siding Spring made a remarkably close encounter with Mars, buzzing the planet at just one third of the Earth-Moon …