A few decades ago, the space around Earth was empty. It’s very much not empty anymore with a multitude of satellites and an operational International Space Station. The space around Earth is also home to many years worth of abandoned satellites, rocket boosters, and other bits of debris flying around …

F ollowing its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple released updated App Store guidelines that included a new rule allowing it to ban apps created by a “commercialized template or app generation service.” The understanding at the time was this was part of Apple’s larger App Store cleanup, and the focus was …

Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected semi-aquatic theropod dinosaur that lived 75 million years ago in what is now Mongolia. An artist’s rendering of Halszkaraptor escuilliei. Image credit: Lukas Panzarin / Andrea Cau. The new dinosaur, named Halszkaraptor escuilliei, is a strange new anomaly in the …

In a huge win for the early-stage financial services startup Tala (and for the Los Angeles tech ecosystem), Uber‘s former data chief, Kevin Novak, has agreed to join the company as its chief data officer. Novak’s achievements at Uber can’t be overstated. He was the inventor of dynamic pricing, created …

Today’s Google doodle recognizes Jan Ingenhousz, the 18th century Netherlands scientist credited with discovering the photosynthesis process. Google notes while scientists were already aware plants produced and absorbed gases, it was Ingenhousz who discovered and published his research on plants producing oxygen in the sunlight and carbon dioxide in the …

In mid-November, pre-empting the hellish holiday shopping season, Google unveiled a slew of new features designed to help advertisers maximize their AdWords budgets. While promotion extensions and ad variations are neat and all, the thing I’m most stoked about is the new custom intent audiences feature on Google Display Network …

Marketers running Bing Ads campaigns can now import call conversion data so they can tie calls back to campaign efforts for attribution. Third-party call-tracking systems can integrate directly with Bing Ads via the Offline Conversion Import tool or APIs. CallTrackingMetrics is among the first call-tracking services to participate in the program. …

Paid search, mobile, display/banner ads and social media advertising lead an expanding group of paid media that are now being managed by paid media campaign management platforms. MarTech Today’s “Enterprise Paid Media Campaign Management Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide” examines the market for paid media campaign management platforms and the considerations …

Roughly seven months ago, Nvidia launched the Tesla V100, a $10,000 Volta GV100 GPU for the supercomputing and HPC markets. This massive card was intended for specialized markets thanks to its enormous die size (815 mm sq) and massive transistor count (21.1B). In return, it offered specialized tensor cores, 16GB …

Bitcoin’s price has been rising for the past two months and skyrocketing for the past few weeks. As of this writing, prices are fluctuating wildly across multiple exchanges, with some listing a per-BTC price as high as $18,259 and others holding around the $16,500 mark. It’s unusual to see gaps …