Month: May 2020
The Sims 4’s next expansion lets you live an eco-friendly life — or the opposite
The next expansion for The Sims 4 introduces a brand-new location, called Evergreen Harbor, where, for the first time, players’ actions will have a direct impact on the environment. The expansion, called Eco Lifestyle, will let players embrace a green lifestyle through gardening, renewable energy, and new features like upcycling…
Read More
Chef iQ Smart Cooker Review: Guided Cooking Done Right
A new connected pressure cooker that has enough smarts to (someday) unseat the Instant Pot. Source
Read More
Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps
Researchers based out of Australia’s Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT universities say they’ve set a new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps, according to a paper published in the open-access journal Nature Communications. That’s theoretically enough speed to download the contents of more than 50 100GB Ultra HD Blu-ray discs in…
Read More
Amazon India hires temporary workers to meet demand surge
Two months after India relaxed its Covid-19 related lockdown restrictions, Amazon India is facing a sharp surge in online shopping. This has necessitated the additional hiring of 50,000 temporary workers in their fulfilment centres and for delivery. In a blog post, Amazon’s senior executive Akhil Saxena says that the company…
Read More
WhatsApp test lets you add contacts with QR codes
If the thought of typing in someone’s phone number — by hand — seems prehistoric by 2020 standards, then WhatsApp’s about to make your life a whole lot easier. A report from WABetaInfo claims that a new beta adds support for using QR codes that’ll… Source
Read More
Windows 10X features could be coming to Windows 10 sooner than expected
Windows 10X features could be making their way to Windows 10 sooner than expected, with Microsoft reportedly gearing up to let beta testers try out the OS on single-screen devices. When it first announced Windows 10X during last year’s Surface event in October, Microsoft positioned the OS, codenamed ‘Windows Lite’,…
Read More