Google is running a new image test in search ads. An image from the landing page appears to the right of the description area of the text ad. Sergey Alakov tweeted a screen shot of the ad test over the weekend. A Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land, “We’re always …

It’s been nearly two and a half years since Microsoft introduced Windows 10, and the operating system’s market share has grown steadily throughout that time period. Nevertheless, there are still some users who either don’t like Windows 10 or ran into bugs and problems affecting their systems. Here, we’ll walk …

AMD announced it has landed Baidu as a customer and partner. It’s a significant win for AMD; Baidu doesn’t really have a US presence, but it controls 76 percent of the PC search market in China and 82 percent of the mobile and tablet markets. Specifically, Baidu is opting to …

Intel announced its new Stratix 10MX FPGA today, marking the first time an FPGA has been available with HBM2 memory onboard. The Stratix 10 MX has up to 10x more memory bandwidth than competing solutions that rely on DDR4 (512GB/s of aggregate bandwidth in two HBM2 stacks). Like the now-confirmed …

Scientists have studied plenty of asteroids and comets — the ESA even landed a spacecraft on one. However, the mysterious object known as ‘Oumuamua is something new. It’s from someplace outside of our solar system, the first such object ever detected. It’s moving too fast to be studied closely, but …

Reddit today is giving its mobile apps a major upgrade – the first since their launch last year, when the company decided to take back control over the official Reddit experience on mobile – an experience that had long been available mainly through third-party clients. Today’s updated apps introduce a …

Photo: Twenty20 As a runner, you’ve probably given some thought to keeping your hips happy and healthy. But, if you’re like most mile chasers, that stops at hip exercises to “strengthen them.” While that’s definitely a start, you can’t effectively train any muscle that’s tight, overstretched, or altogether asleep, explains …

Here’s something to celebrate: Research shows that we don’t pile on the 10-ish pounds we think we do during the holidays. But the one pound we do put on between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve tends to stick. So for every LB you add to your frame for the next …

A total of 28 rock art cave sites have been discovered on the Indonesian island of Kisar, which measures just 81 km2 and lies north of Timor-Leste. A paper describing cave paintings at five of the discovered sites is published in the Cambridge Journal of Archaeology. Kisar cave painting of …

An international team of paleontologists has found the remains of an unusual prehistoric bear that lived 3.5 million years ago (Pliocene epoch) in Canada’s High Arctic. Reconstruction of Protarctos abstrusus in the Beaver Pond site area during the late summer. An extinct beaver, Dipoides, is shown carrying a tree branch …