Flashlights are an essential item for nighttime outdoor activities like camping or walking a dog, emergency situations, or whenever you need an alternative and portable light source. The average flashlight shines a decent enough beam, but if you’re looking for something brighter, there are significantly brighter flashlights available. The world’s brightest flashlight clocks in at… Continue reading The 5 brightest flashlights of 2022
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The bike that got me through the pandemic (it’s $2000 less than a Peloton)
Still going. Chris Matyszcyk/ZDNET Remember the panic? Suddenly we were all going to be shut down. Almost everything would close. We’d have to adjust. Oh, how we’d have to adjust. I confess there was only one thing that worried me about the pandemic — other than the perfectly obvious concerns about catching a potentially deadly… Continue reading The bike that got me through the pandemic (it’s $2000 less than a Peloton)
United Airlines thinks you’re a fool if you fly Southwest
Funny? Or Not so much? United Airlines Southwest Airlines. Such a terrible company. Honestly, do these people even know what they’re doing? All those smiling flight attendants cover up a chasm of failure. Are they even aware of what’s really going on? Southwest’s passengers are suffering so much that perhaps they just don’t have the… Continue reading United Airlines thinks you’re a fool if you fly Southwest
Southwest Airlines just made a twisted admission that’ll infuriate customers
Coulda, woulda, shoulda? Southwest Airlines/Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk Do you find yourself breathing a little more deeply these days? more Technically Incorrect The evenings are getting ever darker, the pressure of work ever more intractable. You need to be somewhere different. You need to experience different people, different places, and different smells. You want, in… Continue reading Southwest Airlines just made a twisted admission that’ll infuriate customers
The layoffs are starting at Elon Musk’s Twitter
Image: Getty/Anadolu Agency Twitter has warned staff around the world to expect an email at 9AM PST Friday regarding “Your Role at Twitter” amidst rumours of expected mass layoffs. Washington Post reporter Will Oremus published the email sent to Twitter staff on Thursday after many reports that Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk planned to cull… Continue reading The layoffs are starting at Elon Musk’s Twitter
Secretlab Skins are stylish car seat covers… for your gaming chair
Image: Secretlab My very first review at ZDNET was of Secretlab’s Titan Evo 2022, a premium-built gaming chair that has since become a staple of my home office — and virtually any major esports league that you can think of. It sits comfortably at the top of ZDNET’s best gaming chairs list and continues to… Continue reading Secretlab Skins are stylish car seat covers… for your gaming chair
Forgetful? This tiny key chain power bank can help you out of a few jams
Rolling Square Tau. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET What is Tau? Made by Rolling Square — the company behind the really cool inCharge X, 6-in-1 charging cable — Tau is designed to keep your smartphone charged up and your keys in one place. Tau is a tiny power bank key fob that magnetically attaches to a wall-mounted charger. In… Continue reading Forgetful? This tiny key chain power bank can help you out of a few jams
AI is running out of computing power. IBM says the answer is this new chip
A close up of the IBM Artificial Intelligence Unit chip. Image: IBM The hype suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) is already everywhere, but in reality the technology that drives it is still developing. Many AI applications are powered with chips that weren’t designed for AI – instead, they rely on general-purpose CPUs and GPUs created for… Continue reading AI is running out of computing power. IBM says the answer is this new chip
The 12 best robot toys of 2022
Show more (7 items) All the signs were there. If my parents knew then what parents know now, they would have been prepared. But back in the 1960s and 1970s, the maker movement was still far in the future. Robots were something you only saw in movies and awesome TV shows (or as my Mom… Continue reading The 12 best robot toys of 2022
The 12 best educational robot toy holiday gift ideas of 2022
All the signs were there. If my parents knew then what parents know now, they would have been prepared. But back in the 1960s and 1970s, the maker movement was still far in the future. Robots were something you only saw in movies and awesome TV shows (or as my Mom would often put it,… Continue reading The 12 best educational robot toy holiday gift ideas of 2022