Football claims another Microsoft Surface tablet

That poor Surface tablet. Microsoft Surface tablets have been taking a beating at football events these past two weekends. During the Buf...

Almost Half of Industrial Robots Are In China

According to a new report from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), China now has almost half of all the world's robot instal...

When's the Best Time To Charge Your EV? Not at Night, Stanford Study Finds

The vast majority of electric vehicle owners charge their cars at home in the evening or overnight. We're doing it wrong, according to a...

Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Drops White Paper On Building the Open Metaverse

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper toda...

TikTok To Ban All Political Fundraising On Its Platform

TikTok says it plans to ban all fundraising activity soon -- only six weeks before the November midterm elections. The Verge reports: In a b...

Is Plant-Based Meat Fizzling In the US?

Citing McDonald's shelved meat-free burger trial and a 70% dip in Beyond Meat's stock, The Guardian suggests plant-based meats may n...

AV1 Update Reduces CPU Encoding Times By Up To 34 Percent

According to Phoronix, Google has released a new AOM-AV1 update -- version 3.5, that drastically improves encode times when streaming, rende...