Author: Randall

The best immersion blender

[ad_1] Why you should trust us Senior editor Christine Cyr Clisset, who wrote our original guide to immersion blenders, has spent hundreds of hours for Wirecutter researching, testing, and writing about kitchen gadgets that whirl, cut, and chop. That includes writing our original guides to food processors and blenders. Before that she was a cookbook […]

Facebook groups for buying and selling credit cards still abound

[ad_1] The groups are pretty easy to find on the social network. Searching for terms like “spam,” “carding” or “CVV” will typically yield a handful of them. Once a user joins one of the groups, Facebook’s algorithm will recommend similar ones to join, making it easy to network with likeminded hackers and criminals. According to […]

EU believes BMW, Daimler and VW colluded over clean emissions tech

[ad_1] In particular, the Commission believes BMW, Daimler and VW coordinated their AdBlue dosing strategies and delayed the use of Otto Particle Filters. AdBlue is a urea product that’s meant to reduce harmful nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel passenger cars. The Commission believes the three manufacturers limited AdBlue-consumption between 2006 and 2014, essentially leading to […]

Sidewalk Labs is under pressure to explain its smart city dream

[ad_1] The draft version of the MIDP is yet to materialize. And for many, it’s been an agonizing wait. Waterfront Toronto, a public steward created by the Canadian government, announced its search for an innovation and funding partner back in March 2017. Sidewalk Labs put its name forward with a beautiful “vision” document that suggested, […]

To find new K-pop and J-pop stars

[ad_1] Two rounds of competition will be held over the next five months to choose the Top 100 and Top 18 acts to advance to the next round based on the popularity of their videos and the judges’ selections. TikTok says five to ten acts will be crowned winners at the end of the season, […]

Spotify, memes and voice chat come to Windows 10’s game bar

[ad_1] Game bar already lets you broadcast, screenshot, and share captures to Twitter. Now it’s making things more playful with a new meme-creator. The tool lets you edit your videos and add overlay text to your screenshots in the game bar gallery. Once your meme is ready, you can share it on Twitter, all without […]

PlayStation Classic owners: Write your own review!

[ad_1] If you missed our PlayStation Classic review back in December, here is the impression it left with editor Devindra Hardawar: He found the controllers cheap and the emulation inconsistent, concluding that overall it “feels like a mistake.” Ouch. In the end we did not find PlayStation Classic to be a fun throwback or even […]

HTC’s Viveport Video service will work on rival VR headsets

[ad_1] HTC says Viveport Video is compatible with both PC VR and Vive Wave headsets — in other words, it’ll work not just on PC-powered devices like the original Vive and the Rift, but also on HTC’s standalone Vive Focus that’s powered by the Wave platform. While the application is not exclusive to HTC-branded devices, […]

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft bombs Ryugu asteroid

[ad_1] [SCI] April 5 at 11:56 JST. The SCI operation time has passed and we have confirmed there is no problem with the spacecraft during the evacuation operation. — HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) April 5, 2019 To avoid getting hit by flying debris, Hayabusa2 maneuvered itself away from the impact zone, according to the BBC. Japan’s Jaxa […]

Apple lures another of Google’s top experts to its AI team

[ad_1] Goodfellow worked with Google from 2013 to 2016 and then again from 2017 and 2019. During the last five months of his employment with the tech giant, he was a Senior Staff Research Scientist. He also worked for the Elon Musk-funded AI research non-profit OpenAI from 2016 to 2017. More importantly, Goodfellow is known […]