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Google is confirming fewer and fewer search algorithm updates, but that doesn't mean there is less ranking volatility.

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Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a significant discovery regarding ...

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Scientific American spends a lot of time asking questions—to authors on their new science-related books, to scientists in the ...

The encryption protecting billions of dollars, which experts once called unbreakable, no longer works. Hackers don’t need passwords. They don’t brute-force keys. They simply walk through digital ...