A research team led by University of Alberta marine biologists has discovered a new species of sea sponge living off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Desmacella hyaline. Image credit: Sally Leys. Glass sponges (class Hexactinellida) are cup-shaped marine animals, ranging from 10 to 30 cm (3.9-11.8 inches) in height, …
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on Amazon: Not just for retailers anymore When you think about Amazon marketing and advertising, naturally the retail sector comes to mind. But Danielle Waller, Amazon capability lead at Merkle, made the case at SMX Next last month that brands in travel, entertainment, financial services and even automotive should …
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The U.S. App Store’s downloads have surpassed China’s downloads for the first time since 2014. According to data from Sensor Tower’s Q2 2020 report, out today, the U.S. App Store saw 27.4% year-over-year growth in the quarter, compared to the 2.1% growth for the China App Store. During the quarter, …
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Biologists Identify 16 Deep-Sea Fish Species with Ultra-Black Camouflage In a paper published today in the journal Current Biology, a team of marine biologists from the United States and the United Kingdom investigated the distribution and production of ultra-black camouflage in deep-sea fish. They found that at least 16 deep-sea …
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Google has removed the prominent Twitter carousel of tweets from the Google search result pages after many prominent Twitter accounts were hacked yesterday. If you missed the Twitter hack news, you can read about it on Techmeme. But this news resulted in Google removing Twitter carousel boxes completely from …
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How to show up on Google Discover: Google has made significant updates to the Google Discover help document designed to help publishers learn about how to get their content to show up in Google Discover. The document was updated a few days ago, as Kenichi Suzuki first noticed, and Google …
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Intel Discontinues Skylake-X HEDT CPUs, With Cascade Lake Barely Available Intel has published a new set of Product Change Notifications (PCNs) for the Skylake-X platform as well as a number of Xeon processors. The boxed and unboxed versions of the Core i9-9980XE, i9-9960X, i9-9940X, 9-9920X, i9-9900X, i9-9820X, and i7-9800X are …
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Gates, Musk, Others Hacked in Comprehensive Twitter Attack Normally, managing to hack just one celebrity, CEO, or tech industry titan would be something of an event. On Wednesday, however, dozens of famous individuals began tweeting out the same Bitcoin scam. ? pic.twitter.com/9cDkJ1RdRH — Louan ??? (@louanben) July 15, 2020 …
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Hackers Might Have Paid a Twitter Employee to Conduct Massive Crypto Scam The dust is still settling after yesterday’s massive Twitter hack, and there are numerous questions that still need to be answered. While Twitter’s initial response blamed hackers targeting employees with phishing attacks, some reports claim the hackers had …
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A Partial Supernova Flung This White Dwarf Across the Milky Way Image credit: Sephirohq (CC BY SA 3.0) Supernovas, by their nature, often don’t leave a lot of star behind for astronomers to later peruse. Many of these titanic explosions result in the formation of a black hole or a …
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