The computer industry is currently reeling from the disclosure of multiple CPU vulnerabilities that strike at the very heart of multiple system architectures. Vendors are rolling out fixes for Meltdown and Spectre, but the process has not been entirely smooth with Microsoft accidentally bricking some AMD-based systems. By contrast, things …

Astronomers have been puzzling over so-called fast radio bursts for several years now, but their unpredictable nature has hampered our attempts to understand this bizarre phenomenon. That’s why an object called FRB 121102 has been of such interest. Whatever this object is, it fires off fast radio bursts repeatedly. A …

We’ve known for years that there is at least some water ice on Mars, but it’s been hard to pin down where it is and how easy it would be to extract. New data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicates there could be a lot of it in giant sheets …

Photo: Twenty20 We’ve all been there: You’re at the end of a workout class when the instructor says you have another set of burpees to do. Your muscles and your mind want to scream “no” as soon as the words come out of her mouth. You can’t possibly push through another …

An international group of paleontologists has found the oldest fossilized remains of insects from the order Lepidoptera known to date. The fossils, mostly wing scales, are more than 70 million years older than the oldest fossils of flowering plants, and they shed new light on the so-far presumed co-evolution between …

New images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal never-before-observed details about Martian ice sheets, including that some begin just a few feet below Mars’ surface and extend to depths greater than 300 feet (100 m). The findings are published in the …

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. A deprecated GoogleBot: Source: Instagram Google Brain jacket: Source: Instagram Google …

Author’s note: Besides being a customer of Ahrefs, I have no affiliation with the tool, and this is not a paid article. Ahrefs is a robust SEO toolset that is popular among search professionals — yet many are not using it to its fullest potential. There are so many nooks …

Allyson Wright from the Google My Business team announced today that the video upload feature we saw being tested is now available for business owners in the Google My Business dashboard. Business owners can “view videos added by customers and upload videos about their business for customers to view,” she …

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 My Business video uploads now available to business ownersJan 12, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Videos can appear on Google Maps and local search listings. 4 …