Instagram is creating a standardized format that should make it clearer to everyone when a post has been paid for by an advertiser. These aren’t for ads that businesses buy
Day: June 14, 2017
Patreon gives creators CRM and Snapchat Stories clone just for fans who pay
Ads aren’t enough to support professional online content makers. So Patreon is equipping them with new ways to organize, measure, and entertain fans who use its platform to pay them
Facebook’s Safety Check will integrate fundraisers, among other upgrades
Facebook today announced a series of improvements for its Safety Check feature – the service that allows Facebook users to communicate about their safety to friends and family during a
Search for Earth-like planets: Try a statistical approach
“The nature of proof should not be: ‘Can we point at a planet and say, yes or no, that’s the planet hosting alien life,” said Jacob Bean, associate professor of
Low-mass stars always born with a sibling: Many, like our sun, split up
Almost certainly yes — though not an identical twin. And so did every other sunlike star in the universe, according to a new analysis by a theoretical physicist from the
Solar material for producing clean hydrogen fuel
Global climate change and the energy crisis mean that alternatives to fossil fuels are urgently needed. Among the cleanest low-carbon fuels is hydrogen, which can react with oxygen to release
Extraction of phenols from grape skin, seeds, optimized
The research group ‘Food Colour and Quality’, which is part of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Seville, has published two scientific articles in which the reason that
Ancient otter tooth found in Mexico suggests mammals migrated across America
Tseng, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, was on the dig
3-D facial recognition technology on brink of commercial breakthrough
On the face of it, the old saying goes, things are not always as they seem. However, when it comes to faces, things are almost always what they seem, according
New face-aging technique could boost search for missing people
Images generated as part of the wider research. Credit: University of Bradford The method maps out the key features, such as the shape of the cheek, mouth and forehead, of
HealthUnlocked support social network app goes global
Long time UK-based health-focused social network HealthUnlocked has flipped the switch to make its mobile app globally available, aiming to boost access to its network and feed more data into machine
Graphene transistor could mean computers that are 1,000 times faster
Ryan M. Gelfand, an assistant professor in CREOL, The College of Optics Photonics, was a graduate student at Northwestern University when he began researching the concept with fellow grad student
E. coli bacteria’s defense secret revealed
When undesirable molecules show up, the bacterial cell opens a tunnel though its cell wall and “effluxes,” or pumps out, the intruders. “Dynamic assembly of these tunnels has long been
Magnets, all the way down!
It turns out that assemblies of metallic nanoparticles, which can be carefully arranged at multiple length scales, behave like bulk magnets and display intriguing, shape-dependent behavior. The effects, reported this
Seaweed derivative could be just what lithium-sulfur batteries need
In research led by Gao Liu, the team unexpectedly found that carrageenan, a seaweed derivative, acts as a stabilizer in lithium-sulfur batteries. Better stability allows for more cycling and an