Google has announced three new search updates around featured snippets, knowledge panel information and suggestions for related topics. According to a post on Google’s The Keyword blog, a selection of featured snippets will now include more images and related search suggestions within the box displaying the featured snippet content. It …

Virtually every person with a cell phone has sent a text message by now, but 25 years ago just one person had done so. That’s when engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS, on December 3rd, 1992. What started as a curious implementation of existing cellular standards eventually grew into …

2017 has been a banner year for CPU launches. AMD’s Ryzen debut in March kicked off its own aggressive hardware ramp, with the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 families following in the spring and summer, and Raven Ridge debuting in the last few weeks. Intel’s Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X launched …

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 Santa Tracker is live, counting down the days until Christmas with holiday games resourcesDec 4, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues This year’s Google Santa Tracker comes …

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The new iPhone X comes with a fancy sensor array capable of scanning and recognizing your face. It’s all part of the new Face ID system, which replaces Touch ID on Apple’s most expensive iPhone yet. The early response to Face ID has been mostly positive, and it does seem …

The value of Bitcoin has skyrocketed over the past year, putting past price spikes to shame. A single Bitcoin is now worth more than $11,000, but the drive to accumulate Bitcoins has also driven energy consumption to mind-boggling levels. Mining Bitcoin now consumes more than 30 terawatt-hours of power globally, …

Several years ago, security researchers began sounding the alarm about Intel’s Management Engine (IME). IME support allows the laptop to run an entirely separate OS with what amounts to backdoor access to the entire system. It’s invisible to the main operating system, which means there’s no way for Windows or …

Is there life out there among the stars? No one knows for sure, but we’re constantly finding new exoplanets that have some potential to harbor life. Astronomers don’t currently have the technology to examine these distant objects directly, but we may be able to learn about their atmospheres. This could help …

Ideally, a rocket makes things go up instead of down, but a Russian Soyuz launch last week did very much the opposite. The rocket’s payload of 19 satellites failed to reach orbit for previously unknown reasons. Now, reports indicate that it was a programming error that led to the loss …