The Asus ROG 3 and Lenovo Legion Android gaming phones feel like the end of an era

The Asus ROG 3 and Lenovo Legion Android gaming phones feel like the end of an era

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] The Asus ROG 3 and Lenovo Legion Android gaming phones feel like the end of an era While the gaming world anxiously awaits the next piece of information about the next-generation of Playstation and Xbox consoles arriving later this year, Asus and Lenovo are … Read more

Quantum Tunneling Is Not Instantaneous, Physicists Show

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Quantum Tunneling Is Not Instantaneous, Physicists Show Although it would not get you past a brick wall and onto Platform 9¾ to catch the Hogwarts Express, quantum tunneling—in which a particle “tunnels” through a seemingly insurmountable barrier—remains a confounding, intuition-defying phenomenon. Now Toronto-based experimental … Read more

COVID Pandemic Shows Telecommuting Can Help Fight Climate Change

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] COVID Pandemic Shows Telecommuting Can Help Fight Climate Change As COVID-19 forced many workers across the U.S. to move from downtown office towers to spare rooms and kitchen tables, their commutes shrank from an average of almost 30 minutes (often in bumper-to-bumper traffic) to … Read more

COVID-19 Pandemic Shows Telecommuting Can Help Fight Climate Change

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] COVID-19 Pandemic Shows Telecommuting Can Help Fight Climate Change As COVID-19 forced many workers across the U.S. to move from downtown office towers to spare rooms and kitchen tables, their commutes shrank from an average of almost 30 minutes (often in bumper-to-bumper traffic) to … Read more

XPG Xenia 15: This Intel-designed laptop is light and fast

XPG Xenia 15: This Intel-designed laptop is light and fast

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] XPG Xenia 15: This Intel-designed laptop is light and fast The XPG Xenia 15 may not look “new” to you if you’ve been conditioned to consider “old hardware” obsolete the day the new models come out. But it’s actually proof that prior-generation parts can be … Read more

Johnson Controls’ Lux CS1 smart thermostat review: A rather ho-hum addition to a crowded market

Johnson Controls’ Lux CS1 smart thermostat review: A rather ho-hum addition to a crowded market

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Johnson Controls’ Lux CS1 smart thermostat review: A rather ho-hum addition to a crowded market Johnson Controls acquired smart thermostat maker Lux Products in late 2018, and the Lux CS1 follows in the footsteps of that company’s affordable GEO and Kono products, which are … Read more

Rocket League Turns Free-to-Play Later in Summer 2020 as It Hits Epic Games Store

Rocket League Turns Free-to-Play Later in Summer 2020 as It Hits Epic Games Store

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Rocket League Turns Free-to-Play Later in Summer 2020 as It Hits Epic Games Store Rocket League will soon be free-to-play. Epic Games-owned developer Psyonix has announced its football-meets-cars multiplayer video game is dropping its paywall later in summer 2020. When that happens, Rocket League … Read more

FCA, Waymo team up on Level 4 self-driving commercial vehicles

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] FCA, Waymo team up on Level 4 self-driving commercial vehicles The Ram ProMaster commercial vehicle will be the first vehicle to benefit from the new Waymo/FCA L4 autonomy partnership. Ram Leading autonomous vehicle development firm Waymo and Fiat Chrysler have been working together for … Read more

Apple to Remove Carbon From Supply Chain, Products by 2030

Apple to Remove Carbon From Supply Chain, Products by 2030

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Apple to Remove Carbon From Supply Chain, Products by 2030 Apple said on Tuesday it plans to remove carbon emissions from its entire business, including its products and sprawling supply chain, over the next decade. The iPhone maker said its global corporate operations such … Read more

How experts say you can stop a hack like what happened to Twitter

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] How experts say you can stop a hack like what happened to Twitter Twitter was hacked in mid-July through a social engineering scheme that targeted employees, which resulted in world-famous people’s accounts tweeting a bitcoin scam. The attack shows key areas of vulnerability for … Read more

AMD demos how fast Ryzen 4000 laptops are in Adobe Premiere Pro

AMD demos how fast Ryzen 4000 laptops are in Adobe Premiere Pro

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] AMD demos how fast Ryzen 4000 laptops are in Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro acceleration usually gets love from Nvidia’s CUDA and Intel’s QuickSync, but AMD has joined the party too. The company posted a blog on Tuesday morning highlighting that the recent … Read more

It sure sounds like OnePlus’s affordable and attractive 5G Nord will never come to the U.S.

It sure sounds like OnePlus’s affordable and attractive 5G Nord will never come to the U.S.

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] It sure sounds like OnePlus’s affordable and attractive 5G Nord will never come to the U.S. If you’re waiting for OnePlus’s U.S. website to update with ordering information for the new 5G Nord, we’ve got some bad news. It’s not happening. Not later today … Read more

The AMD Ryzen 4000 G chips are for mainstream desktop PCs

The AMD Ryzen 4000 G chips are for mainstream desktop PCs

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] The AMD Ryzen 4000 G chips are for mainstream desktop PCs Describing its newest line of Ryzen and Ryzen Pro chips with graphics cores as the “ultimate” desktop chips, on Tuesday AMD unleashed no fewer than 18 new processors. There’s a catch, though: They’ll … Read more

Microsoft Tells Congress That iOS App Store Is Anticompetitive

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   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Microsoft Tells Congress That iOS App Store Is Anticompetitive This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. US regulators are taking aim at big tech firms like Google, Apple, and Amazon, with the potential for antitrust cases … Read more

Best smart plugs of 2020: Reviews and buying advice

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   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Best smart plugs of 2020: Reviews and buying advice Every room in your house has them: power outlets, and they’re about as dumb as technology can be. To create a true smart home, you need to upgrade the way your wiring works, so that … Read more

You can finally stream Netflix on a Google Nest Hub or Hub Max smart display

You can finally stream Netflix on a Google Nest Hub or Hub Max smart display

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] You can finally stream Netflix on a Google Nest Hub or Hub Max smart display The Google smart display in your kitchen or bedroom is perfect for watching YouTube TV, Hulu, or casting Disney+, but up until now, it hasn’t been able to play … Read more

Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer up to Four Years before Symptoms Appear

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer up to Four Years before Symptoms Appear For years scientists have sought to create the ultimate cancer-screening test—one that can reliably detect a malignancy early, before tumor cells spread and when treatments are more effective. A new method reported … Read more

The App of the Summer Is Randonautica

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] The App of the Summer Is Randonautica I decided to try the app because of that video. As did Jennifer Costello, a 32-year-old true-crime fan from Vancouver, who was the lucky finder of a plastic bag full of hundreds of photos of moldy bread, … Read more

Contact Tracing, a Key Way to Slow COVID-19, Is Badly Underused by the U.S.

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Contact Tracing, a Key Way to Slow COVID-19, Is Badly Underused by the U.S. There is no coronavirus vaccine. Medications for COVID-19 are still being tested. Across the U.S., states that once acted as if the pandemic was going away are setting new daily … Read more

Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Key Specifications Leaked via Google Play Console, 10.4-Inch Display and 64GB Storage Tipped

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Key Specifications Leaked via Google Play Console, 10.4-Inch Display and 64GB Storage Tipped Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 has been spotted on Google Play Console, revealing key specifications of the tablet and hinting at an upcoming launch. The listing shows that … Read more

Genes May Influence COVID-19 Risk, New Studies Hint

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Genes May Influence COVID-19 Risk, New Studies Hint As COVID-19 continues its fateful march around the globe, researchers have seen patterns of characteristics tied to bad cases of the disease. Increased age, diabetes, heart disease and lifelong experiences of systemic racism have come into … Read more