Google is increasingly focusing on neural networks and artificial intelligence to solve problems in search, image processing, and other areas of computing. It’s also doing what it can to foster interest in artificial intelligence among the developer and DIY communities with initiatives like “AIY Projects,” which stands for artificial intelligence …

Over the last two months, we’ve seen a rapid proliferation of websites that mine cryptocurrencies while users visit. While some of the guilty sites are less reputable, we’ve also seen this behavior from companies like Showtime (which may or may not qualify as “less reputable,” depending on your point of …

When Apple launched the iPhone 7 last year, it broke with its usual tradition and adopted two different modems for different versions of the device. Testing then showed that performance wasn’t equivalent between the two, with Qualcomm modems generally outperforming Intel, particularly in lower signal areas. After the iPhone X …

SpaceX has been flying the Falcon 9 for several years, and the next step is the Falcon Heavy, a launch vehicle with enough power to take payloads to the moon, Mars, and beyond. As recently as a few weeks ago, SpaceX has been talking about a 2017 date for the …

If you’ve ever quickly swiped through Tinder, you know that sometimes your fingers can get away from you – and, all of a sudden, you’ve Super Liked someone without meaning to. Oops! Tinder today is addressing that problem with a new feature now testing in select markets that will make …

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a fossil-rich site with more than 200 fossilized eggs of the Cretaceous pterosaur species Hamipterus tianshanensis in China. Life restoration of Hamipterus tianshanensis. Image credit: Chuang Zhao. To date, only a small handful of pterosaur eggs with a well-preserved 3D structure and embryo …

An international group of biologists from Israel and Sweden has obtained a detailed view of a scallop’s visual system — an arrangement of up to 200 eyes they say is strikingly similar to a reflecting telescope. Palmer et al found that spatial vision in the scallop is achieved through precise …

In a span of six days last offseason, Rockies general manager Jeff Bridich signed the two players — closer Greg Holland and first baseman Mark Reynolds — that might very well have gotten his team over the top in its quest to return to the postseason. Holland signed an incentive-laden …

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google drinks from light bulb cups: Source: Instagram Front of the …

In 2012, Google paid $22.5 million to settle an FTC claim that the company “misrepresented to users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Internet browser that it would not place tracking cookies or serve targeted ads to those users . . .” The company bypassed Safari’s cookie-blocking settings, it said, to deliver a …