We tested many popular cordless vacuum models from Hoover, Shark, Dyson, Bissell, Moosoo and others. The best cordless vacuum for 2021: Moosoo, Shark, Dyson, Bissell, Hoover and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe compare a new Honda Civic Type R with a pristine Acura Integra Type R to see if the goodness of Honda’s Golden Era is still alive today. Type R retrospective: What if gold really can stay? – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreBloomberg: Source: Ant Group is planning to fold its financial operations into a holding company that could be regulated more like a bank — – Financial units face stricter regulation in planned structure — Lifestyle businesses to be excluded from holding company Source: Ant Group is planning to fold its financial operations into a holding
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Graphcore, which designs chips designed for AI workloads, raises $222M Series E led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan at a $2.77B post-money valuation — Applications based on artificial intelligence — whether they are systems running autonomous services, platforms being used … Graphcore, which designs chips designed for AI workloads, raises
Read MoreSD cards have long been a favorite with microcontroller hobbyists. Cheap, readily available, and easily interfaced, they remain a staple for small projects that need to store a lot of data. Now, they’re available in chip form! These are known as SD NAND parts that emulate the SD card interface itself. [LadyAda] recently gave them
Read MoreNew documents show Lens Technology, which makes iPhone glass and is owned by China’s richest woman, received Uighur Muslim laborers transferred from Xinjiang. Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreAfter the Apple Watch’s fifth birthday and with the new Watch Series 6 and Watch SE now on sale, the smartwatch’s native apps are still the best. Best Apple Watch apps: These 9 are the only ones you'll ever really need – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s often said that a trader’s worst enemy is himself. Behavioral biases tend to throw otherwise rational trading strategies out of whack as anxieties over loss aversion, the fear of missing out, or even overconfidence take control—ultimately putting portfolios in jeopardy. Fortunately, technology has progressed to a point where impulsive decision-making humans can be replaced
Read MoreImage: Apple Demo New images and video purporting to show an Apple Watch prototype, concealed by a security case that resembles a tiny iPod, offer a rare look behind the product-development curtain of the notoriously secretive company built by Steve Jobs. First teased a few months ago by Twitter user Apple Demo, this is our
Read MoreFor concerned customers, avoiding one of the world’s largest retailers and web service providers is proving harder than expected. Life Without Amazon (Well, Almost) Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMany of the projects we serve up on Hackaday are freshly minted, hot off the press endeavors. But sometimes, just sometimes, we stumble across ideas from the past that are simply too neat to be passed over. This is one of those times — and the contraption in question is the “Kataka”, invented by [Jens
Read MoreOlivia Solon / NBC News: Police rely heavily on car sensor and infotainment system data, including GPS and call records, to challenge alibis, thanks to looser privacy standards for cars — On June 26, 2017, the lifeless body of Ronald French, a bearded auto mechanic with once-twinkling eyes, was mysteriously found in a cornfield in
Read More2020 was a tumultuous year for gaming — well, it was a tumultuous year for everything, but in gaming’s case at least it wasn’t all bad. We got four new consoles from two of the major companies, and we got a number of wonderful games. However, several of the games we thought we were going
Read MoreIt’s been a tough year of pivoting, remote work, and conceptualizing the ‘new normal.’ But as we enter a new year, it’s time to take stock of how we’ve operated professionally and what we’ll take with us into 2021. So when exactly was the last time life was good? Was it when you were huddled
Read MoreIf someone gifted you a cheap laptop this holiday season, you might be a little put out by the 2GB of RAM and the 400 MHz CPU. However, you might appreciate it more once you look at [Noel’s Retro Lab’s] 4.8 Kg Amstrad PPC512 He shows it off inside and out in the video below.
Read MoreThe actor posts a Star Wars gag that has fans giggling. Luke Skywalker finally makes it to Tosche Station (or at least Mark Hamill does) – CNET Source: CNet
Read More“The only holiday sweater designed to keep loved ones apart while together.” SimpliSafe social distancing sweater sounds siren when others get too close – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSiobhan Roberts / New York Times: Mathematicians, professors, and others reflect on Game of Life, a simulation game devised in 1970, and its lasting influence on the field of cellular automata — Fifty years on, the mathematician’s best known (and, to him, least favorite) creation confirms that “uncertainty is the only certainty.” Mathematicians, professors, and
Read MoreA global pandemic didn’t slow down the tech world at all. The biggest tech stories of a disastrous 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) magnetic fusion reactor claimed a new record last month — containing hydrogen plasma at 100 megakelvins for 20 seconds. For reference, the core temperature of the Earth’s Sun is a mere 15 megakelvins, although to be fair, it has been in operation quite a bit longer than 20
Read MoreThat “N” in QNED is not a misprint: They’re different from Samsung QLED TVs. LG QNED Mini-LED TVs with quantum dots are its best non-OLED TVs for 2021 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: LG LG might be the company that’s most synonymous with OLED TVs, but tonight it’s announcing what to expect from its LCD-based sets in 2021. Like other manufacturers including TCL have already done (and Samsung is expected to soon join in on), LG is adopting Mini LED technology for its premium LCD 8K and
Read MoreRita Liao / TechCrunch: DXY, a Chinese online portal for doctors, healthcare organizations, and consumers to share knowledge, raises $500M led by Trustbridge Partners — DXY, a 20-year-old online healthcare community for Chinese consumers and healthcare organizations like Pfizer, announced this week … DXY, a Chinese online portal for doctors, healthcare organizations, and consumers to
Read MorePhoto Illustration by Yu Chun Christopher Wong/S3studio/Getty Images Coinbase announced today that it is halting all trades of XRP on its cryptocurrency exchange, according to an official blog post (via Coindesk). Certain kind of trades became restricted today, and the full suspension will go into place January 19th, 2021 at 10:00AM PT. Coinbase is the
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Pixel 5 and 4a 5G users can no longer use their ultra-wide cameras to take pictures of the stars: Google apparently removed the lens’s astrophotography capabilities with the Google Camera 8.1 update. The feature was a selling point of the Pixel 4, and was available on the
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