Google has gotten the green light to create a smart city in Canada. To be specific, the Waterfront Toronto board is allowing a Google-affiliate, Sidewalk Labs, to turn an area of Toronto int… Read More

In a recent statement, NASA announced that the ozone layer hole has shrunk to its smallest size since its discovery. The good news is that more ozone is covering the southern hemisphere, hen… Read More

Is targeted advertising ethical? Here we shed light on the issue, starting with no one else than Mark Zuckerberg. This week, Facebook’s CEO unveiled a new initiative aimed at stop… Read More

Android adware has been in the spotlight within the last couple of months. Back in August, there was “Triout,” which could record not only phone calls but also export phone inter… Read More

Maybe we can’t grasp the full implications of artificial intelligence on the marketing industry, especially in the long-term. But it is today’s technology. AI marketing applicati… Read More

A new study from the University of Adelaide predicts that self-driving cars could lead to more traffic congestion in the coming years. But why? Autonomous vehicles have generated lots of hyp… Read More

You’ve finally scored those coveted Featured Snippets on the search engine result page, and that’s awesome. There’s just one thing. While the snippets pop up when you searc… Read More

Hundreds of employers in the United States now depend on a new AI assessment system to enhance their hiring process. However, experts find it “profoundly disturbing.” Large… Read More

While we’ve previously covered how to 3D print clothing, this is something new. This new line of adaptive clothing aims to make clothes more accessible. Not just for those who want to… Read More

Last month, Google announced that it had achieved a long-sought-after breakthrough in computing called “quantum supremacy.” Now the tech giant has released a statement to stand b… Read More

Content writing remains a vital aspect of any web building or ranking strategy. Remember, your website is a representation of your company, products, or services on the Internet. Poorly writ… Read More

Your smart bulbs may not be as safe as you think. While these bulbs may eventually light up most homes in the U.S., a study suggests that it could also open your personal information to hack… Read More

A detailed understanding of video content creation is more important now than ever before. As digital marketing evolves, videos are fast becoming a trend. About one-third of online activitie… Read More

Google has started beta testing a new ad extension for advertisers, and it’s a lead form extension in Search ads. According to the search engine giant, lead form extensions help market… Read More

Scientists at Cambridge University have developed an artificial leaf that could one day produce clean fuel alternatives called syngas. Synthetic gas or syngas is a fuel gas mixture which con… Read More

In recent years, “sustainability” has become more than just a buzzword, whether in environmental, economic, or social development contexts. As far as marketers are concerned, sus… Read More

According to a recent study, prolonged exposure to blue light – which your phone or computer emits – can affect your longevity. Every time you flip on a wall switch or turn on yo… Read More

Scientists in Japan have discovered a new virus that complicates how we define viruses and what they can do. Living organisms generally fall within three domains of life – Archaea… Read More

The perfect can be the enemy of the good. In trying to spoil their customers for choice, businesses can lose sales. In this post, we will show you why and how not to. Do you know that feelin… Read More

Researchers at Chalmers Power Central have developed a new recycling process that can turn plastic waste into new plastic materials. Plastics are the scourge of the Earth. About eight percen… Read More

A content audit can be a lengthy and complicated process. Yet, it’s necessary to enhance the performance of your web pages. Content is one of the most effective ways to promote a busin… Read More

According to reports, Alphabet-owned Google has blocked a data privacy standard proposed by the Privacy Interest Group (PING) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). W3C is an internati… Read More

The collective knowledge in the solar field is that new solar modules must last at least 25 years to make economic sense. Not only has this belief delayed the development of new solar photov… Read More

Whether it’s for camouflage or attracting mates, creatures such as neon tetra fish and chameleons have always been able to alter their color. And scientists have always believed that w… Read More

On Monday, Microsoft issued a rare emergency security patch for a recently discovered Internet Explorer bug that was actively exploited by hackers in the wild. Codenamed CVE-2019-1367, the b… Read More

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have devised a smart new strategy to kill antibiotic-resistant pathogens. It involves hijacking the haem-acquisition system – an essential ele… Read More

Ingka Group, the Dutch corporation which owns 367 of IKEA‘s 423 stores worldwide, announced at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York last week that IKEA’s renewable energy pro… Read More

For the last couple of days, online users have been criticizing an AI tool, ImageNet Roulette, for using racial slurs to describe people. But, can artificial intelligence be racist? What is… Read More

After a significant location tracking scandal, Google finally includes the incognito mode to its Google Maps app. In August 2018, findings from the Associated Press’s investigation sug… Read More

In what appears to be a massive breakthrough in quantum science, researchers at Google have reportedly achieved “quantum supremacy.“ According to a report from the Financial Time… Read More

Last Thursday, Amazon announced a new climate pledge to reduce its contribution to global warming. The online retail giant claimed that it would meet the Paris climate agreement ten years ea… Read More

Researchers have figured out how to predict El Niño events 18 months in advance using artificial intelligence. El Niño, which means The Little Boy, or Christ Child in Spanish… Read More

The two closest planets to Earth. Mars and Venus. The first is a barren, frozen land, while the other is a blazing world. As far as terraforming is concerned, Mars seems like a more str… Read More

Climate change is causing infectious diseases to claim more land, crops to get more fragile to weather stresses, wildfire to become far more dangerous, putting millions of animal and plant s… Read More

On Thursday, Facebook announced its intention to provide more interactive advertising on its platform. That means advertisers will soon be able to push their marketing messages through vario… Read More

Google has made Assistant available through a simple phone call in India. According to recent statistics, there are about 5.11 billion phone users in the world today. Of that number, about 4… Read More

For humanity to preserve its civilization for posterity, putting all eggs in Earth’s basket might not be an option. Perhaps space colonization isn’t something we should do just b… Read More

Also called coccidioidomycosis, Valley fever is an infectious disease caused by a fungus called Coccidioides. It lives in the soil across the southwestern United States and parts of Central… Read More

Paleontologists agree that in Earth’s geological record, there’s evidence of five major extinction events, each marking the end of a geological period: The Ordovician mass e… Read More

The researchers at Argonne are developing a deep learning framework that could increase engine efficiencies. Along with reducing emissions, the new model will provide improved engine perform… Read More

Summer 2019 saw a historic inferno torching the Amazon rainforest at record rates, creating a cross-country smokescreen that you can see from space! Wildfires didn’t spare even Siberia… Read More

Apple‘s new three-camera iPhone 11 Pro design appears to terrify people who have a fear of small hole, a condition known as trypophobia. A couple of days ago, Apple unveiled its new iP… Read More

Second only to oxygen, silicon (Si) is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. Because of its cost-effectiveness and nearly perfect crystal structure, silicon has dominated the… Read More

Climate change is affecting the production of vegetables and fruit crops around the world. However, researchers are currently worried about its negative impact on global banana yields. To da… Read More

Researchers at the University of Geneva, Switzerland explored how our brain filters sound using the auditory sensing gate. In our current sound dense environment, you have to wonder how we&r&hell…Read More

A previous analysis accused Apple of placing its apps higher on the App Store search result ahead of its competitors. Although the tech company denied any wrongdoing at the ti… Read More

Do extraterrestrials (ET) exist? This question has haunted the human civilization for hundreds of years. The earliest known sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO), the all… Read More

Back in 1969, English mathematician, Adrian R.D. Mathias posed a theoretical problem within the field of set theory: is there a lottery ticket that always wins? For most of the ’70s, … Read More

Cybersecurity firm CSIS Security Group has discovered a new Trojan lurking on Google Play Store. In a report released last week, the firm said that they detected the malware in 24 Play Store… Read More

According to Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, the company is now looking to unveil its Tesla pickup truck in November. The electric pickup truck, which Musk described as “the coolest car… Read More

Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Corindus, Inc. was founded in 2002 and now is a leading company in the field of robotic-assisted vascular interventions. Recently Acquired by Siemens Medical… Read More

Today, Chinese billionaire philanthropist Jack Ma has officially retired as executive chairman of Alibaba. To date, Alibaba is the largest multinational conglomerate holding company in China… Read More

Maintaining a certain body weight can be relatively easy when we’re young. But as we grow older, we begin to struggle to keep the weight in check. Now, the researchers at Karolinska In… Read More

On Friday, Google announced that it would no longer accept ads for experimental or unproven medical techniques. These include stem cell therapy, gene therapy, as well as cellular therapy. Ov… Read More

While basically all salts melt, some have extremely high melting points. For instance, sodium chloride’s melting point is around 801 degrees Celsius. On the other hand, other… Read More

According to a new study, air pollution – especially ozone air pollution – can accelerate the progress of emphysema of the lung. In the past, researchers have explored the link b… Read More

Yesterday, Google Search Outreach specialist Vincent Courson revealed more information about the search indexing bug that affected about four percent of sites indexed by Google. The issue wa… Read More

Yahoo‘s parent company, Verizon has agreed to sell Tumblr for less than 2 percent of its original cost. Back in 2013, aging web titan Yahoo made a string of high-profile acquisitions t… Read More

Data analysis is key to surviving in today’s business world. To that end, when you want to leverage your data to grow your business, you need to use every tool available to you. But, e… Read More

In a presentation at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, a psychologist explored the benefits of stress and anxiety. The American Institute of Stress described s… Read More

Scientists can’t settle the debate about the origin of life, whether it originated here on Earth or came from outer space. And, that also includes how and when it all began. Abiogenesi… Read More

Samsung recently unveiled its new 108-megapixel ISOCELL Bright HMX camera sensor. It’s the first mobile sensor to exceed 100 million pixels, and it’s coming to a Xiaomi handset s… Read More

Because of its low cost, stability, and high efficiency, silicon has been the leading industrial material for solar cells for decades now. In their search for future alternatives to silicon… Read More

Astronomers discovered the largest black hole ever observed to date. It was spotted at the center of Holmberg 15A, a galaxy about 700 million light-years away from Earth. Using the Very Larg… Read More

Scientists have grown cyborg organoids to provide a rare view into the early stages of organ development. While the early stages of organ development is a critical period in developmental bi… Read More

First developed in the early 2000s, molecular cages or nanocages, are hollow nanostructures with porous walls. Scientists have used self-assembling protein molecules to build nanocages… Read More

Researchers have long known that light plays a significant role in cardiovascular health, but the process had always remained a mystery – until now. According to a recent paper in the… Read More

Attention all hackers! Apple has increased the maximum bug bounty for its iPhone to $1 million USD. The sum is deemed the highest amount offered by any tech company so far. Apple’s hea… Read More

The human brain is a fascinating organic machine. The intricate network of neurons that makes us who we are has long been the subject of intense research by scientists looking for bio-inspir… Read More

Imagine a future where we can monitor blood pressure by merely taking video selfies. Based on a recent paper published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, the futur… Read More

You may want to think twice before allocating most of your ad budget to native ads. Native advertising is a form of paid advertising that provides valuable information to third-party website… Read More

We know the basic structure of ordinary matter is composed of nuclei (protons and neutrons) and electrons. We say “ordinary” because matter can exist in many exotic states… Read More

Reports are circulating online that social media giant Facebook is planning to launch its News tab this coming fall. According to The Wall Street Journal, Facebook has approached several pub… Read More

Earlier this week, Tesla announced its latest energy storage product designed for utility-scale projects: the Megapack. In a statement, Tesla said that the Megapack was engineered to meet th… Read More

Line cutting is a serious concern for anyone that has had to wait in line to get served at a crowded bar. But thanks to an advanced AI scanner, that’s about to change. A data scie… Read More

Ever considered adding another layer of sunscreen to help with skin cancer? While that’s not entirely a bad idea, getting more Vitamin A could also help. In a study of about 125,000 Am… Read More

When it comes to prestigious awards, nothing gets even close to the Nobel Prize. More than the work itself, the Nobel Prize immortalizes the men and women behind great achievements and sets… Read More

The engineers at the Japanese tire company, Sumitomo Rubber Industries have teamed up with a research team at the Kansai University, led by Professor Hiroshi Tani. Together, they developed a… Read More

A recent study of the popular videos in 2019 revealed which YouTube keywords get the most views. Many YouTube videos usually come with catchy titles to grab the attention of viewers. There&r&hell…Read More

Plasma is a fascinating state of matter that powers the fusion reactors inside stars, including our own Sun. On Earth, scientists have been trying to harness the quasi-infinite energy of pla… Read More

A math equation went viral on the internet this week, with hundreds of Twitter users baffled over the right answer. Considering the general lack of interest in mathematics in the United Stat… Read More

Aside from developing AI models that can defeat humans in different online games, DeepMind is also working on other projects that could benefit the health care industry. The U.K.-based, Goog… Read More

Faults are fractures in rocks deep into the Earth’s crust. They usually can sustain high stresses without slipping, but sometimes human activities create serious earthquake hazard… Read More

A recent study suggests that people may use overconfidence when they want to persuade or deceive others. Various past studies of human behavior revealed that most people tend to ov… Read More

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a wireless wearable health monitor that uses stretchable electronics. Aside from offering a comfortable health monitoring in adu… Read More

Users are currently criticizing the Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram after dozens of highly followed accounts got shut down last week. Majority of the disabled accounts share… Read More

Researchers at North Carolina University have created a hand-held device that would enable farmers to identify plant diseases in the field. When plugged into a smartphone, the device can col… Read More

If you’ve been following Edgy’s space science and astronomy coverage, you probably already have a basic idea of our place in the Universe. So bear with us, we’re going to t… Read More

According to new research, severe infections are not necessarily triggered by an increase in the bacteria population. After getting infected by some pathogens, our resistance to the harmful… Read More

The natural cells‘ constant reaction to the chemical changes in their environment is considered a critical part of our body’s biological process. The presence of certain chemical… Read More

Over the last year, ad buyers have been making a gradual shift from Feeds to Stories – specifically, Instagram Stories. According to Facebook‘s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, over 500 mil… Read More

The Sun. As our home star, it’s a gigantic ball of gas and plasma whose activity calls the tune in the whole solar system. Its power is as life-giving as it could be devastating. As fa… Read More

Using contact lenses that can zoom in and out on command sounds a bit far-fetched – like tech from a James Bond movie. But, the scientists at the University of California San Diego hav… Read More

Cheap to scale-up, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are also highly efficient at converting sunlight into power compared to existing solutions. The power conversion efficiency of silicon-based… Read More

One of the largest banks in the United States, Capital One, has announced Monday that one of its cloud-based servers had been breached. The hacking incident saw the personal information… Read More

Google Pixel 4 is not expected to launch for another three months. But, Google has dropped plenty of teasers, enough to set user expectations about the upcoming device. Now the latest tease… Read More

It’s not always easy to tell fake and real smiles apart. So, the researchers at the University of Bradford developed computer software that does just that – spot false facial exp… Read More

Last Friday, Twitter released its financial result for the second quarter of 2019. As per the report, Twitter revenue has gone up, indicating that the social networking site had a good quart… Read More

Researchers have previously proved that human cells can survive and thrive into an animal organism. They can even grow into a complete and functional organ. “Chimera” is the name… Read More

In a recent publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a team of researches explored the reason for senescence – a natural process in which cells stop creating new cells. Unli… Read More