Improving recycling practices would be a logical step in trying to keep harmful chemicals from ending up in nature, but researchers say it’s best to retire disposable paper cups altogether. It’s difficult for most recycling centers to separate the plastic coating from the cup’s paper. In the UK, for instance, a mere handful of recycling […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Microsoft recently shortened the length of a $1 trial of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to 14 days. Previously, a $1 trial provided one month of access to the subscription. The change came into effect just before the arrival of Starfield on Xbox Game Pass. Trials of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate […]
Read MoreIt’s 2023, and Lenovo just sent me a laptop to review featuring a familiar red dot in the middle of the keyboard. The laptop in question is the latest ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on. And being a ThinkPad, it has the TrackPoint. Or the nub, the nipple, […]
Read MoreSamsung has confirmed that the One UI Watch 5 beta program for the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 smartwatches has been delayed. Samsung officially announced One UI Watch 5, based on Wear OS 4, in early May and had said at the time that it would start beta testing later in the month, […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Samsung has decided to stick with Google as its default search engine for smartphones, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. A previous report stated that Samsung was considering a switch to Microsoft’s search engine, Bing. Samsung reportedly decided to stick with Google as its default to maintain […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Microsoft Teams gains support for over 20 built-in Snapchat Lenses this week. Snap’s Camera app, which allowed people to add Lenses to calls in several apps, was recently shut down. Snapchat Lenses will be available on Teams for Work but not the education or free versions of Teams. Microsoft Teams […]
Read MoreBlack widows must despise Clint Sergi. While working on his PhD in biology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sergi spent his time designing little challenges for spiders—which often involved rewarding them with tasty dead crickets, or confounding them by stealing the crickets away. “The big question that motivated the work was just wanting to know […]
Read MoreIn October 2021, Intel pulled the wraps off its 12th Gen ‘Alder Lake’ desktop processors, which have since migrated to nearly every popular laptop in the market, including Microsoft’s latest Surface devices. The 12th Generation was a major architectural shift for Intel with performance cores (‘P-core’), which do the bulk of the work as they […]
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