Google teased the upcoming Pixel 5 and 4a 5G a few weeks back when it finally launched the long-delayed Pixel 4a. We only got to see a tiny sliver of the device at the time, but now we have the first reliable leak of the design. The new render …

As third-party cookies disappear, one of the candidates to replace them is mobile-location data. It can be used to understand real-world customer behavior, purchase intent, brand affinity and as a versatile targeting tool for online and mobile campaigns. But the quality and accuracy of location data has been a contentious …

  BlackBerry used to dominate the “smartphone” market back when those devices were not really very smart. The Canadian company never adapted to a post-iPhone world, and even switching to Android didn’t help. Earlier this year, TCL announced it was ending its agreement to build BlackBerry Android phones. It’s not …

  Cloud gaming is just starting to become a viable technology with new platforms like Stadia and xCloud gearing up to offer next-gen titles. Nvidia, however, has been toiling on GeForce Now for years — it first debuted the technology as “Grid” in 2013. Today, GeForce Now is a service …

Multiple supernova explosions about 65 light-years away may have contributed to the ozone depletion and several subsequent extinction events at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary, approximately 359 million years ago, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. An artist’s rendition of a supernova explosion. …

  2019 was a fabulous year to be in the market for a NAND SSD, with prices falling due to a supply glut. This isn’t at all unusual for the NAND flash industry, which typically alternates between boom and bust cycles as manufacturers first add capacity to respond to new …

A new species of crested penguin that lived 3.2 million years ago (Pliocene period) has been identified from multiple exceptionally well-preserved specimens found in New Zealand. Holotype specimen of Eudyptes atatu: (a) right lateral view of skull and block with (c) mandible and (d) postcranial elements; (b) right lateral view …

An international team of physicists has studied the controlled interaction of two spatially separated time crystals. Experimental set-up. Quartz-glass sample container cylinder is filled partially with superfluid 3He-B, leaving a free surface of the superfluid approximately 3 mm above the centre of the surrounding coil system. The space above the …

Opioid receptors in the inner ear can cause partial or full hearing loss, according to new research from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and New Jersey Poison Information and Education System. Inner ear anatomy. Image credit: Medical Gallery of Blausen Medical 2014, doi: 10.15347/wjm/2014.010. “Ototoxicity, or ‘ear poisoning,’ is a …

Genetic Researchers Reconstruct Evolutionary In a new study, an international team of scientists used 22 newly-sequenced genomes from 18 extant species of penguins to reconstruct the history of their diversification and adaptation. The authors found that ancient penguins diverged in the early Miocene epoch in Australia and New Zealand and …