Month: February 2025
Woot is offering steep discounts on some of our favorite headphones
The Beats Fit Pro remain a good pair of fitness-friendly earbuds, though they lack features like wireless charging and heart-rate monitoring found in the new Beats PowerBeats Pro 2. They deliver terrific sound and noise cancellation, along with an IPX4 rating for water resistance. The Beats Fit Pro don’t have…
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Cooling an RTX 5090 GPU using a 12,000 BTU HVAC? I am not sure that is a good idea at all
Ultra-low GPU temps sound impressive until you consider the power bill Cooling a GPU with an AC unit may work, but the size and risks make it impractical A 12,000 BTU AC for GPU cooling: it works, but at what cost? A Chinese techtuber has integrated a 12,000 BTU air…
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Jeep’s Wrangler-like Recon EV is ready to launch this year
Jeep quietly launched a new landing website for its upcoming all-electric Recon and teased the vehicle in a Super Bowl ad last Sunday in anticipation of its arrival later this year. Jeep’s commercial stars Harrison Ford, and it flashed models such as the Wrangler 4xe Plug-in Hybrid — but if…
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Overwatch 2’s next update overhauls the game with perks and loot boxes
Blizzard is making some major changes to Overwatch 2 for its Season 15 update, including adding all new gameplay in the form of a perks system and the return of loot box rewards, on top of the new heroes and skins. Overwatch 2 has been through several changes since it…
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Popcorn brand distances itself from DOGE employee ‘Big Balls’ after backlash
Popcorn brand LesserEvil is the latest group caught up in the chaos of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s whirlwind of action over the past couple of weeks. The company recently sent a cryptic email to customers after the brand owner’s connection to a DOGE staffer became public. LesserEvil CEO…
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Google will use machine learning to try and tell if a user is under 18
Google will start testing a feature this year that uses machine learning to weed out children trying to access adult content on YouTube. The “machine learning-based age estimation model” will try to predict whether a user is under 18 and, if so, apply appropriate age filter settings to their account.…
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