The sooner you wrap your brain around the idea that a few weeds or weed patches in the lawn is normal, the happier you’ll be with your organic lawn maintenance program. Many “problems” with the lawn are more like minor annoyances. Unless the problems result in a full-scale death of …

NASA’s Juno probe spent years en route to the gas giant, and the main observation phase hasn’t gone completely smoothly. The probe is in a longer orbit of Jupiter, meaning it makes a close approach of the planet only once every 53 days. Still, the images we’re getting are really …

Smoking only about one cigarette per day carries a risk of developing coronary heart disease and stroke much greater than expected — around half that for people who smoke 20 per day, according to a review of 55 publications from 141 cohort studies, published online in the journal BMJ. There …

There are probably few things that small businesses hate more than accounting. It’s tedious, time consuming and totally vital to ensure that businesses can remain in business and don’t run afoul of authorities. Well, to make the process of bookkeeping a little bit less painful, a number of investors have …

Samsung has been riding high on the success of the Galaxy S8 and Note 8, but it’s not resting on its laurels. In just one month, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S9 . February 25th is the big day, and it’ll take place at the opening of Mobile World Congress …

Spectre and Meltdown are two of the most significant security issues to surface since the beginning of this millennium. Spectre, in particular, is going to be difficult to mitigate. Both AMD and Intel will have to redesign how their CPUs function to fully address the problem. Even if the performance …

Many of the most magical pieces of consumer technology we have today are thanks to advances in neural networks and machine learning. We already have impressive object recognition in photos and speech synthesis, and in a few years cars may drive themselves. Machine learning has become so advanced that a …

If you stopped 10 people on the street and asked them the first thing they thought of when you mentioned Burger King, you’d probably hear about various types of Whoppers, with a potential mention of flame-broiled bovine or the odd reference to the company’s infinitely-inferior-to-the-Egg-McMuffin CROISSAN’WICH. Yes, it’s actually spelled …

Each presidential administration works to put its own stamp on America’s space program. In the Trump administration’s case, that reportedly involves cutting back on funds for the International Space Station and diverting them into funds for lunar exploration. The proposal isn’t entirely a surprise; Vice President Pence announced the Trump …

Smartphone adoption in emerging markets just delivered the highest number of app downloads Google Play has ever seen in a quarter. According to today’s report from App Annie, Google Play app downloads topped 19 billion in Q4 2017, a new record. That also makes Google Play’s download lead over iOS …