Web browsers sucking up precious resources from our computers is not a new phenomenon. Still, now Microsoft has one weird trick to fix a situation that has bedeviled PC users for ages. In the latest test build of its Edge browser, the company is letting users set a hard limit …
Read More »Scientists Build Artificial Brain From Silver Nanowires
Every company even tangentially involved in technology is currently obsessed with generative AI, which has led to some fascinating and occasionally useful tools. However, the cost to access some of these services is surprisingly high. Training and running AI models are hugely expensive, but new research from the University of …
Read More »Lifespan Satellite
When space agencies launch satellites into orbit, they have to worry about more than just the satellite’s data-gathering efficacy: Cost and end-of-life are also significant concerns. It costs tens of millions of dollars to build and launch a single satellite, and when the satellite’s job is done, it needs to …
Read More »TextExpander Raises $41.4M
RPA, and companies like UiPath, swooped into on the world of work a few years ago as a catchy way for organizations to help teams automate and speed up repetitive business activities such as processing information on forms. Today, a company called TextExpander — which has identified and built a …
Read More »Conductor Raises $150M
Conductor — a marketing technology company that was snapped up by WeWork at the height of the latter company’s expansion ambitions, only then to buy itself out in the wake of WeWork’s collapse — has raised its first round of funding as a once-again independent startup. It has picked up …
Read More »Google Alternate IDs
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Read More »Intel High Performance CPU
Intel’s new CEO is already putting his own stamp on the company, even if he doesn’t formally take power until February 15. News broke today that Intel will rehire former Intel Senior Fellow Glenn Hinton to work on an “exciting high-performance CPU project.” Hinton spent 35 years with Intel …
Read More »Intel Enhanced 7nm Node
One of the biggest questions facing Intel as we move into 2021 is the degree to which the company will rely on third-party foundries for its leading-edge products. Over the past year or so, Intel has announced that it would tap foundry partners for a wider range of products, …
Read More »How to Rebuild SEO
How would an SEO agency be built today? This was the challenging question behind our three-part analysis on the state of SEO agencies in an uncertain 2020. Our team at SEOmonitor designed this strategic experiment to support agency leaders think about the forces influencing their business and where the …
Read More »Ancient Beavers Food
Extinct semi-aquatic beavers of the genus Dipoides lived 4 million years ago (Pliocene epoch) in the Canadian High Arctic and were approximately two-thirds the size of today’s North American beavers (Castor canadensis). They gnawed trees with rounded front teeth, not squared teeth like their modern relatives. A team of paleontologists …
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