Today, Intel is launching its first Optane SSDs for the mainstream consumer market after introducing higher-end solutions over the past few years. It’s been nearly three years since Intel and Micron first announced 3D XPoint (pronounced “cross point”) memory, and the rollout to customers hasn’t set the world on fire, …

The swirls and vortexes in the clouds of gas giants like Jupiter sometimes have analogs in Earth’s atmosphere, but some cloud formations are completely alien. NASA’s Juno probe has been in orbit of Jupiter since 2016, sending back fascinating images and data from the solar system’s largest planet. In the …

Samsung’s new Galaxy S9 may not quite live up to the iPhone X when it comes to Samsung’s implementation of a Face ID-style system or its odd take on AR emoji. But that’s not going to matter much to Samsung device owners — not only because the S9 is a …

Usually, finding malware in the Google Play Store would be a bad thing. Finding several hundred apps with thousands of downloads would be substantially worse, but in this case, it’s no big deal. The newly discovered malware apps don’t actually contain Android malware — they have Windows malware. Oops. Security …

Sometimes I forget that Google Lens is there. But when I remember and use it, it works surprisingly well — depending on the object or image being captured. In my experience, it gets things right about 65 to 70 percent of the time. Previously only available on the Pixel and …

In every competitive niche, you’ll find sites that do not play by or bend Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. If that’s how a direct competitor is getting ahead in the game, you can submit a spam report to Google to alert them to the violation. Here’s how to get Google’s attention with …

Google has announced that Google will now show images, videos, GIFs and text posted directly by an artist or musician, in addition to the Knowledge Panel directly in the search results. Google launched this feature as a limited beta a year ago and then opened up Google Posts to all …

In her 2017 Internet Trends Report, KPMG’s Mary Meeker named voice as one of the top trends of the year, noting the rise in mobile voice queries and improved voice recognition. AI-enabled voice recognition is becoming a normal part of how we interact with technology. What humans say is becoming …

Google continues to make major investments in improving the performance of and user experience on the web. This has been primarily through the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) framework, which was first launched in 2015 and has been aggressively developed, promoted, and integrated into publishing platforms ever since. Initially viewed as …

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 working to integrate AMP benefits into future open web standardsMar 8, 2018 by Michelle Robbins Standardization will allow sites to implement, and benefit from, AMP …