Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau. IT consultant and services provider Accenture has agreed to buy Speedtest and Downdetector owner Ookla from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion in cash. Accenture plans to integrate Ookla’s data products into its own offerings that are targeted at…
Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals. Forget “eye of newt and toe of frog/wool of bat and tongue of dog.” People in the 16th century were more akin to DIY scientists than Macbeth’s three witches when it came to concocting home remedies for…
There’s a lot of good Hyundai and Kia EVs in this price bracket, plus the Bolt and i3. Last time we looked at the used electric vehicle market, it was to see what the options are if you’re spending $10,000 or less. Two solid choices emerged quickly: a BMW…
Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family. As part of today’s MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family. Normally, the Pro and Max chips take the…
New Airs leave more room underneath for the rumored low-cost MacBook. Most of Apple’s laptop lineup is getting refreshed today—the high-end MacBook Pros are getting M5 Pro and M5 Max chip refreshes, and the MacBook Air is getting upgraded with an M5. The more significant update might be the…
New laptops come with more storage but also higher starting prices. Apple updated its low-end MacBook Pro with the Apple M5 chip back in October, but the higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch Pros stuck with the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips. This morning, Apple circled back and updated the…
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless. Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching consequences for privacy on the Internet, researchers said. The finding,…
Questions remain as Google prepares to lock down Android app distribution in the name of security. It’s been nearly 20 years since Google revealed Android, which the company described as the first “truly open” mobile operating system, setting Google-powered phones apart from the iPhone’s aggressively managed experience. Over time,…
Unexpected RAM upgrade is the highlight of an otherwise straightforward refresh. As expected, Apple has announced a mild update for the iPad family’s middle child today. The new iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but it replaces the Apple M3 chip with an M4. That M4…
Smart underwear measures farts, brain cells play Doom, and AI discovers rules of an ancient game. It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories…
