(Photo: LG)LG has unveiled a new TV, and it’s one you’ll never need to wall-mount. The StanbyME, a 27-inch display on a wheeled stand, can be rolled into any room in the house without even needing to be unplugged. As funky as the StanbyME’s appears at first glance, its unexpected …
Read More »Intel Core i9-10850K
Intel Core i9-10850K: A Little Less Clock, but (Maybe) a Lot More Traction Intel quietly launched the Core i9-10850K, a new CPU that’s almost a Core i9-10900K in every single particular save one — it’s 100MHz slower, and a little bit cheaper. What’s interesting about the Core i9-10850K is that …
Read More »Robots are coming for your job — but maybe that’s okay
Many news stories about robots have a bit of fun joking about the impending robot apocalypse when the machines no longer need us. For many people, a more frightening and real possibility is that a robot may be coming for their jobs. It can feel odd to celebrate the admittedly …
Read More »UPDATED: Machine learning can fix Twitter, Facebook, and maybe even America
UPDATE: A previous version of this post went up under the editor’s byline. The author of the piece is Chris Nicholson. Quitting Twitter is easy — I’ve done it a hundred times. Someone called it “a clown car that drove into a gold mine,” and like all clown cars, Twitter makes …
Read More »VW’s 13th brand: Moia, for ride-hailing (and maybe self-driving) electric shuttles
Add Volkswagen to the major automakers who are creating a mobility services company. VW’s service is called Moia; it will be headquartered in Berlin, and it will kick off a year from now in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany. The service will eventually provide cars using the Moia brand. Before that, …
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