If you’re here looking for general information and specs on the new true wireless earbuds, I’d recommend you check out this article. This piece is looking at something different: the clever branding Apple has undertaken with the AirPods Pro. Now, when the second generation of AirPods (colloquially known as AirPods 2) were announced in March of this year, I was disappointed. Yeah, there was an improvement in battery life, a new chip (gotta love that sweet H1, right?...

Omnia Wireless Car Charger You shouldn’t need three hands to drive. The Omnia Wireless Car Charger makes sure that you can charge your phone, connect with the world and chauffeur yourself all at once, and safely to boot. The Omnia is geared specifically for the Latitude encased iPhone, giving you the perfect angle to view the screen while staying safely connected with the road. The Omnia Wireless charger holds your phone in place with a powerful magnet and protects it with a secure and soft rubber backing....

At first glance, it resembles an ordinary (if not somewhat hefty) smartphone. Looks, however, are deceiving. Concealed within its chassis is a full QWERTY keyboard, which slides out with a push of one’s thumb. This gracefully snaps into place with a slick spring-loaded mechanism, allowing you to bang out emails and documents with relative ease. But is it worth your hard-earned money? We’re reserving our judgement until we get a device to thoroughly test, but first impressions are positive, particularly to this nostalgic BlackBerry enthusiast....

On the same day, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure launched a free website and called for scientists to publish research on the coronavirus with open access. Shortly after, the prominent scientific journal Nature issued an editorial urging all coronavirus researchers to “keep sharing, stay open.” So while cities are locked down and borders are closed in response to the coronavirus outbreak, science is becoming more open. This openness is already making a difference to scientists’ response to the virus and has the potential to change the world....

Increasingly, much of daily life is conducted online. School, work, communication with friends and family, as well as news and images, are accessed through a variety of websites. Information that once was printed, physically mailed, or kept in photo albums and notebooks may now be available only online. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed even more interactions to the web. You may not realize portions of the internet are constantly disappearing....

But automation has a vital role to play for services with shorter routes. I recently met with Gatik, a company successfully deploying middle mile autonomous trucks throughout Northern America and parts of Canada. Gatik delivers goods between micro fulfillment centers, drugstores, smaller warehouses, and other local pickup points. Their biggest clients are Walmart in the US (over 4700 stores) and Loblaws in Canada, with over 2500 stores. I spoke to Richard Steiner — Head of Policy and Communications at Gatik — to find out about the legal state of play for autonomous trucks, including the safety aspects, and how other drivers feel when they see a huge vehicle heading their way with no one in the driver’s seat....

Naim is a premium audio company. The Mu-so 2 cost $1,600, so it’s not surprising the smaller Qb 2 comes in at a staggering $899 price point. But the former is one of the best streaming speakers I’ve heard, so I have high expectations for the latter. Like its bigger sibling, the Qb 2 can play music through Google Cast, AirPlay 2, Spotify Connect, Tidal, Bluetooth (SBC/AAC), UPnP, and Roon....

If you’re looking for a talking point at your next socially distanced car meet or something to tell your archaic combustion engined friends over coffee, let it be this: there are more than 1 million public chargers installed globally. To put that into some kind of perspective there are less than 300,000 filling stations across Europe and the USA. This is by no means an apples to apples comparison because gas stations have many more pumps than charging points have connectors....

Apple was famously (or is that infamously?) the company that ran headphone jacks in phones out of town. It was the first big manufacturer to remove the jack from these devices and, since then, most others have followed its lead. And I was concerned. I’m not against Bluetooth headphones, in fact there are lots of benefits to wireless cans — but pure sound is not one of them. Nor is the ease of connection (AKA just plugging them in and not fiddling with settings or switching between devices)....

Now the company has gone ahead and completely redesigned the bike, bringing a more premium design (and price) with the new RadRover 6 Plus. For reference, here’s the old bike: And here’s the new one: That’s a big improvement, if you ask me. Long story short, here’s what’s new: Hydraulic disc brakes (instead of mechanical ones). A new 750W geared motor with 25 percent more torque. A new frame design....

Yet, there are of course the electrification opposers, flaunting as an argument that electric vehicles aren’t actually “zero-emission.” Okay, I’ll give them that, no vehicle is 100% green, and there are indeed greenhouse emissions in the life-cycle of EVs. But even when you take that into account, EVs are still ‘good’ for the environment, while fossil fuel cars are absolutely horrible. Just feast your eyes on this! The image above is a comparative graph from the International Energy Agency detailing how much ICE vehicles suck, and EVs rule....

A smaller and lighter follow-up to the excellent Sonos Move, the Roam measures just 168 x 62 x 60mm (6.6 x 2.4 x 2.3 inches), but aims to shine in the sound department with its racetrack woofer and tweeter plus automatic TruePlay tuning. If you’re not familiar, TruePlay is Sonos’ technology that allows a speaker to change its frequency response depending on its environment, and it can make notable improvements to sound quality in my experience....

The Internet of Things has changed virtually everything. Not too many years ago, if you wanted a smart house with all kinds of electronics springing to life automatically to serve your needs, you needed to be independently wealthy. And it wasn’t even to buy all the equipment you’d need to make it happen. It was because you’d literally need to custom build the house from the ground up with all that ability baked into the construction to achieve that level of home autonomy....

As a progressive and independent woman, I’ve always assumed I had swerved the majority of activities that are defined as Unpaid Labour. I share all responsibility of my son 50/50 with his father, I have a local cleaner once a week, and on the days I’m not with my son, I mostly cook and care for myself. But the spate of female founder takedowns has led me to reflect on a form of start-up unpaid labour that women endure, and one that puts them at relative risk....

The current Australian bushfire crisis is also the worst on record, having emerged due to a combination of increased average temperature (roughly 1.5°C above the long term average) and a reduction in rainfall. But can we attribute this to anything more natural than anthropogenic effects? Solar activity, for example, has previously been linked to temperature and is sometimes blamed for climate change. But our new analysis provides evidence for why this isn’t the case....

But sometimes, the magic of Google fails to give us the results we are searching for. You try several different word combinations and go deep into the search results but still can’t find what you need. But there may be a solution to this! Did you know that Google provides different options to refine your search to find exactly what you want from thousands of matches? In this article, we will introduce you to some googling tips and tricks that will make your search results more efficient and effective....

For over 70 years, astronomers have been scanning for radio or optical signals from other civilizations in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, called SETI. Most scientists are confident that life exists on many of the 300 million potentially habitable worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers also think there is a decent chance some life forms have developed intelligence and technology. But no signals from another civilization have ever been detected, a mystery that is called “The Great Silence....

It’s well known that EVs can lower emissions, especially when they’re charged with green energy. Much of their popularity stems from the desire to make driving more environmentally friendly, but that’s only one part of an EV’s carbon footprint. The process of manufacturing an electric car often produces more emissions than traditional fuel-powered vehicles (although EVs don’t produce emissions while being driven, which makes up for this discrepancy). One factor that’s often overlooked is the production of the thousands of individual parts that go into one vehicle....

Microsoft Excel has been around for over three decades, but it wasn’t until last month that it became perfect. Well, at least enough for computers to recognize it as perfect anyway. Long the foundational spreadsheet program for any and all digital data organization, Microsoft’s latest additions to the venerable app make Excel equations Turing-complete. That basically means it’s become a language of its own that can be fed any algorithm and come up with a solution....

The proponents say that AI unleashes new artistic ideas and cuts the time creators spent on monotonous work. Critics, however, argue that the techniques distort reality and propagate an artificial homogeneity. A new entry to the debate is GFP-GAN. The system gives low-quality images a high-resolution revamp — and the results can be impressive. GFP-GAN’s outputs (far-right) look impressive compared to other state-of-the-art techniques.The system, which was created by researchers at the Tencent ARC Lab in China, uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) architecture to enhance faces in old, damaged, and unclear photos....