Last November, Facebook launched Instant Games, a new platform for gaming with friends inside the Messenger chat app. Today, the company is announcing a couple of notable new features for this gaming platform, including support for live streaming via Facebook Live and video chatting with fellow gamers. The idea with …

Photo: Twenty20 A few years ago, a vacation might have been synonymous with sitting by the beach and sipping a refreshing cocktail. And while that’s always a welcomed break, these days more people are gearing up for getaways filled with equally epic and active adventures. So to inspire a little …

The microbial community composition on the International Space Station (ISS) is more similar to home surfaces than to the human microbiome samples, according to a new study published in the journal PeerJ. The International Space Station. Image credit: NASA. A team of microbiologists from the University of California, Davis, and …

A team of researchers from the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and the Amway Botanical Research Center has sequenced the genome of Chrysanthemum indicum (Indian chrysanthemum). The Indian chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum). Image credit: KENPEI / CC BY-SA 3.0. Chrysanthemums are flowering plants of the …

Bobby Clark, the one-time Dartmouth College men’s soccer coach, heads into retirement having grown a significant coaching tree. Clark announced his retirement from college coaching last week, ending a 31-year run that included eight seasons in Hanover (1985-93), his first sideline assignment following a storied Scottish football-playing career. Already a …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The lowdown on driving app downloads with Universal App campaignsDec 7, 2017 by Matt Lawson Google’s Universal App campaigns use machine learning to automate app promotion. …

Photo: backstreetboys on Instagram Mark your calendars, because this December, Toronto is welcoming a pretty epic lineup of artists onto its stages. Whether you’re a fan of rock, rap or pop, you can beat the winter blues and jam out with some of the biggest names in music. Check out …

The internet can be a marvelous thing that gives us access to all the world’s information. However, it also gives us access to all the world’s malware. Every browser maker has implemented tougher security in recent years, but Google and Microsoft are particularly intent on competing with each other. In …

The Bitcoin cryptocurrency has exploded in popularity over the last few years, pushing its value to thousands of dollars per unit. There’s no regulation or government backing for Bitcoin, so it’s also a favorite target for hackers. Users of one Bitcoin mining website are learning that the hard way today …

There is still a great deal scientists don’t know about the early universe. Most celestial objects from that era are long gone, and those that still exist from our perspective are extremely distant. That’s why finding ancient quasars is so important. These active supermassive black holes are so bright, we …