Data from hundreds of thousands of browsing sessions is revealing how people navigate Wikipedia. Credit: Sascha Steinbach/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock An analysis of the searching patterns of nearly half a million people browsing Wikipedia suggests that the site’s users demonstrate three unique styles of curiosity. There’s the ‘hunter’, who pursues specific answers, the ‘busybody’, searching for diverse nuggets […]
Land animals exhibit a continuum of limb postures – ranging from ‘sprawled’, with the limbs held out to the side of the body, like lizards, to ‘upright’ or ‘erect’, with the limbs held beneath the body and close to the animal’s midline, like dogs, cats and horses. Upright posture is characteristic of most modern mammals, […]
“Right now, we’re seeing the highest sales of Kindle in more than a decade—20 billion pages are currently read every month,” claims Panay. “And it turns out the majority of this new cohort are millennials and Gen Z—this is the fastest growing segment.” Kevin Keith goes further, explaining that while social media used to be […]
Galaxy S24 Family Samsung Pressroom Samsung’s Galaxy S flagship smartphones have always brought a significant amount of performance to the Android world, although the community has always questioned the mixing of Samsung’s Exynos chipsets and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets throughout the range, and have been wondering which way Samsung will decide for the S25 family, including […]
Martha Stewart isn’t looking to have a group of seniors vying for her heart anytime soon. The celebrity chef and businesswoman was recently asked on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen if she would be open to going on ABC’s dating reality series, The Golden Bachelorette. “Absolutely not,” Stewart, 83, responded. However, host Andy […]
A trio of proteins helps a sperm (artificially coloured) to dock to an egg. Credit: D. Phillips/Science Photo Library An artificial-intelligence tool honoured by one of this year’s Nobel prizes has revealed intimate details of the molecular meet-cute between sperm and eggs . The AlphaFold program, which predicts protein structures , identified a trio of […]
New research has revealed genetic features that may signal the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS) long before a person shows symptoms of the disease, scientists say. MS is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in the brain and spinal cord. This inflammation damages myelin sheaths — the insulation that encases nerve cells’ long “wires” — […]
U.S. map depicting digestive disease mortality rate per 100,000 American Indian and Alaska Natives in 2019. Diseases affecting the digestive system, including the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract, chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, inflammatory bowel disease and others, are significant causes of death worldwide. Mayo Clinic and North Dakota State University researchers recently delved into demographic data […]
Thousands of Redboxes getting dumped It’s worth noting that the amount of data expected to be stored on Redboxes is small compared to Redbox’s overall business. Since Redbox once rented out millions of DVDs weekly, the data retrieved only represents a small portion of Redbox’s overall business and, likely, of business conducted on that specific […]
What if I told you the Meta Quest 3S is in some ways just a more powerful Quest 2 with color passthrough? “Yes, of course it is,” someone who’s read our coverage might say, but iFixit shows just how true that is in the teardown video it published today. The first hint of that is […]
