SSD vendors may change a product during its lifespan, not always for the better. Getty Images Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors The SSD you’ve bought may not be exactly the SSD you think it is. That’s because of a common vendor practice of…
It’s one of the smallest we’ve tested and can be purchased with a rear camera and GPS. Thinkware Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors Thinkware F200 Pro dash cam Thinkware’s F200 Pro is the slimmest, least dash-cam-like dash cam we’ve ever tested. That’s a…
Why Intel’s 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPU looks like a blast from the past. Gordon Mah Ung Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors Intel’s 11th-gen Rocket Lake chip was green-lit well before AMD’s Zen 2 and Zen 3 architectures rocked our worlds, company officials acknowledged.In…
Tungsten selenide (WSe2) and black phosphorus (BP) do not exhibit polarized electronic behavior until combined such that their structures overlap. Credit: ©2021 Ideue et al. For the first time, researchers have discovered a way to obtain polarity and photovoltaic behavior from certain nonphotovoltaic, atomically flat (2D) materials. The key lies in the special way in…
Insects and crustaceans in surface waters are among those exposed to increasing total applied pesticide toxicity. Credit: Renja Bereswill A group of scientists from the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, has shown that for plants and insects, pesticide toxicity in agriculture has substantially increased between 2004 and 2016. In a paper published in the current issue…
On the right is a microscope objective used to observe and analyze the light emerging from the resonator. Credit: © Gregor Hübl/Uni Bonn About 10 years ago, researchers at the University of Bonn produced an extreme aggregate photon state, a single “super-photon” made up of many thousands of individual light particles, and presented a completely…
From forests filled with ferns to forests filled with flowers: Plants began to produce attractive flowers containing sugary rewards for insects who carry pollen grains (basically the male sperm of the plants) to other flowers, helping plants reproduce. This strategy was so successful that flowering plants took over tropical forests, and the world. Credit: From:…
Mechanics is key to whisker tactile sensation. When a whisker is deflected, its deformation profile within the follicle determines the activity of different groups of mechanoreceptors. Credit: Yifu Luo and Nadina Zweifel We know your cat’s whiskers are handsome—but you can’t even see the cool part. The base of the whisker, which is responsible for…
A letter sent to an Asian-owned business in Utah threatening Asians and praising the shootings in Georgia is under investigation, police said.The Unified Police Department told McClatchy News that the letter was sent to an Asian business in Taylorsville and that police are working with the U.S. Postal Inspector because it was sent via U.S.…
Direct train service between Raleigh and Richmond — and cities beyond. New passenger lines running to the North Carolina coast and to the state’s mountains. And a nationwide network of rail service connecting more cities.It’s all part of Amtrak’s plan for $80 billion in federal dollars, proposed as part of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion…
