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The thank-you banners are down, but New York City residents have a real opportunity to show their appreciation for a population of low-paid, primarily immigrant frontline workers. New York City residents can help now by ditching Uber and Lyft for a competing driver-owned alternative app called “Co-op Ride,” created by the mostly volunteer-run Drivers Cooperative.…
The iPhone 13 rumors keep streaming in. Apple prognosticator Ming-Chi Kuo recently hinted bigger batteries were coming, but it looks like we now have an idea of how much bigger. Reliable leaker L0vetodream (via 9to5 Mac) tweeted some specs revealing that the iPhone 13 lineup is expected to get anywhere between an 8% and 18%…
The Texas legislature adjourned on May 31 without making any changes to the state’s auto dealer franchise laws—meaning that the only way for Tesla to sell electric cars made at its forthcoming factory in Austin will be to ship them out of state and re-import them. The Drive first reported the franchise laws currently prohibit…
After Google and Apple reached a deal to bring the Apple TV app to Android TV devices late last year, this week Nvidia has now added support for Apple TV to its Shield TV devices. Previously, Apple TV was one of the last remaining major streaming services not available on Google TV/Android TV devices. However,…
Instead of giving up on hardware hacking after developing a hand tremor that hindered their ability to do precise soldering, Jonathan Gleich leveraged their maker skills to come up with a very clever solution: a re-purposed smartphone gimbal that now holds and stabilizes a soldering iron. Gleich has been a longtime maker and is probably…
It looks like the nearlytwo-decade-long relationship between eBay and PayPal has quietly come to a close. On Monday, the auctioneering giant quietly updated its terms of service to let sellers know that pretty soon, any funds they rake in will no longer be credited to their PayPal account. If sellers want to keep getting paid,…
While they almost certainly won’t solve the shortage of graphics cards on their own, today Nvidia announced two new members of the RTX 30-series family with its new 3080 Ti and 3070 TI GPUs. Slotting in on either side of the existing RTX 3080 (which carries a $700 MSRP), the new RTX 3080 Ti and…
Humans aren’t the only ones experimenting with wearable smart masks. A Bloomberg report says agricultural giant Cargill will start selling masks for cows that can cut methane emissions from their burps. The mask was developed by Zelp Ltd, a UK startup that claims its device can cut methane emissions by up to 53% in trials.…
If sacrificing the portability of a small device is outweighed by the inconvenience of having to feed it a constant supply of replaceable batteries, a clever adapter has popped up on Kickstarter that converts a battery-powered device to USB power, and it’s as easy to use as popping in a fresh pair of AAs. It’s…
Maybe you’ve always used the keyboard and mouse that came with your computer and had a very happy life with them—if it’s not broken, why fix it? But if you’re wondering what all the fuss is about with the more expensive versions of these essential peripherals, we’re here to explain why some users spend a…
JB Foods, the world’s largest beef and pork processor, was hit by a cyber attack on Sunday that’s incapacitated systems in the U.S., Canada, and Australia according to a new report from Bloomberg News. The global food giant hasn’t shared what kind of cyberattack it’s been hit with, but large global operations like this are…
It’s been a few years since the last time Alienware’s laptops got a big revamp, but with its new X-Series laptops, Alienware has managed to cram top-tier components into its thinnest systems yet. Sporting its new Legend 2.0 design language, the new x15 and x17 will get a range of 11th-gen Intel CPUs and Nvidia…
Previously, AMD didn’t really have mobile graphics cards that could properly take on Nvidia’s line of RTX 30-series laptop GPUs, but that changes today with the introduction of AMD’s new line of Radeon RX 6000M mobile GPUs. Based on AMD’s latest RDNA 2 architecture, the new RX 6000M line is comprised of three new mobile…
If you, like me, have ever desperately plugged your charger into any outlet available for even a few minutes to prevent your phone from dying, then you will also be impressed with Xiaomi’s new charging technology. The company claims that its new chargers, dubbed HyperCharge, have broken the global records for wired and wireless charging.…
Facing an ongoing global chip shortage, Acer, one of the world’s leading laptop makers, warns that production will remain bottlenecked until at least the first or second quarter of next year. In an interview with Guardian Australia published on Monday, Acer’s co-chief operating officer Tiffany Huang said that on any given day, the company “can…
If you’ve used an app to call a cab in the past few weeks only to find a smoking crater where your bank account used to be, you’re not imaging things: Prices on ride-hailing apps are surging as the coronavirus pandemic recedes, and companies like Uber and Lyft acknowledge that a shortage of drivers is…
Instagram is making a change to its algorithm after employees raised concerns over the reach of pro-Palestinian content in light of the recent deadly confrontation between Israel and Palestine. A Financial Times report published on Sunday states that the change will affect original and reposted content in Instagram’s Stories section, which is displayed at the…
Twitter is one of many social media companies that’s struggled to keep misinformation from running rampant on its platform over the years. Its latest attempt to move the needle looks to be a tiered warning label system that changes based on how wrong you are, according to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong. So far, there…
Listen, the criteria for portable Bluetooth speakers are not complicated. They’ve got to be easy to carry, sound decent, and not get trashed if you have butterfingers or get caught in the rain. The Sony SRS-XB13 ticks off all these boxes, but it isn’t the best we’ve ever tested. You’ll have to make some compromises,…
No matter how many times you decline the call or add your number to Do Not Call lists, the spammers are ultimately going to find you. They will stop at nothing to remind you of your expiring car warranty. Even with the Google Pixel 5’s AI-driven auto-answering features, the bots persist. But rather than engage…
