Changing and Maintaining Your Home HVAC Filter Posted on August 9, 2018 by Audry Black Air filters may just seem like little boxes of cardboard with coffee filter-like material inside them, but they actually play a large role in the indoor air quality of your home. Without them, airborne debris …
Read More »The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Is Official: Bluetooth S Pen, $1,000 Price Tag
It will come as a surprise to absolutely no one that the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is now official following the company’s Unpacked event. It’s an evolution of the Galaxy Note 8 but one with some notable upgrades. This is still mostly your standard Note phone, though. It’s big, pretty, …
Read More »Mysterious ‘Rogue Planet’ Roams the Stars Alone, Not So Far From Earth
Researchers have detected a rogue planet traveling the void between stars some 20 light years away. Rogue planets or brown dwarfs (which this might be) aren’t exactly rare, cosmologically speaking, but they tend to be very difficult to see. And yet, the way we found this particular planet/brown dwarf suggests …
Read More »NASA Prepares to Launch Super-Fast Probe to Enter Sun’s Corona
NASA is preparing to launch a mission that will go where no probe has gone before: the sun. Not just in orbit of the sun, either. The Parker Solar Probe will come as close as possible to touching the sun without being swallowed up by waves of superheated plasma. Parker …
Read More »Facebook is shutting down Friend List Feeds today
Facebook is shutting down Friend List Feeds sometime today, according to a message posted in the Facebook app. The feature allowed users to scroll through only those posts from one of their designated friend lists — for example, family, work colleagues, neighbors, industry peers and so on. The end result …
Read More »Francisco Lindor Gets A Walk-Off Homerun
Given that it was Indians star Francisco Lindor at the plate in the bottom of the ninth, the pitcher figured he had to act quickly if he was going to continue a recent Tribe walk-off tradition. Carrasco ducked into the tunnel behind Clevelands dugout, grabbed a bottle of baby powder …
Read More »The Four Most Underrated Ontario Museums
Photo: sciencenorth on Instagram Ontario has some amazing museums for curious minds looking to explore the past and the present. These museums feature magnificent art, ancient artifacts, and interactive exhibits for people of all ages to expand their knowledge and delve into history. Museums are a particularly great activity …
Read More »Qualcomm Unveils More Powerful Snapdragon 670 Phone Chip
All the flagship Android phones you hear about on an almost daily basis run the fastest mobile chips available, usually a Snapdragon 800-series system-on-a-chip (SoC). Midrange phones that aren’t pricey enough to justify those chips have lost out on some advanced features, but the latest design from Qualcomm closes the …
Read More »Intel Unveils New Roadmap: New 14nm Chips in 2019, 10nm Ice Lake in 2020
Just weeks after Intel’s product roadmaps purportedly leaked, we have an official update from the company itself. At a data center summit today, Intel gave fresh guidance on when it expects to have new silicon and products in-market. Now we have some idea how the company will adjust for delays …
Read More »AI training and social network content moderation services bring TaskUs a $250 million windfall
TaskUs, the business process outsourcing service that moderates content, annotates information and handles back office customer support for some of the world’s largest tech companies, has raised $250 million in an investment from funds managed by the New York-based private equity giant, Blackstone Group. It’s been ten years since TaskUs was …
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