As winter approaches, many northern cities will experience snowfall that makes road slippery and dangerous. The traditional reaction is to spread chemicals or sand to melt the snow (salts or other chemicals) or provide traction (sand). In non-snow locations, rain will often be the seasonal disrupter, again making roads slippery and dangerous. Engineers will tell…
Refresh 2022-11-25T17:45:37.514Z (Image credit: Samsung) The Samsung Frame TV is one of the best QLED TVs you can buy right now, but crucially it doesn’t just function as a TV. This novel concept takes a traditional television and makes it instead look more like a picture frame. It has an innovative design that looks like…
With so many different deals to check out, we’ve helped you out by pinning down the absolute best Walmart Black Friday deals below. We all know that Black Friday deals are some of the best prices all year round but things can get intimidating when it comes to finding what you need quickly. That’s why…
“Metaverse” is among the leading three contenders for Oxford’s Word of the Year (WotY). The metaverse is an unsurprising inclusion for WotY—not everyone understands it, but most will have at least heard the term. Facebook changing its company name to Meta towards the end of 2021 undoubtedly led to increased awareness of the metaverse. Over…
It hasn’t been a kind year for blockchain-based startup activity. In addition to an asset-price correction during a general venture capital slowdown, web3-focused tech upstarts have also had to deal with a series of intra-industry crises that have, at times, dominated technology headlines. The Terra/Luna mess comes to mind. As does the meltdown of Three…
Cryptocurrency exchange company Binance has released a new site that explains its proof-of-reserves system. The company is starting with BTC reserves. Right now, Binance has a reserve ratio of 101%. It means that the company has enough bitcoins to cover all users’ balances. This move comes a couple of weeks after the collapse of FTX,…
Cryptocurrency exchange company Binance has released a new site that explains its proof-of-reserves system. The company is starting with BTC reserves. Right now, Binance has a reserve ratio of 101%. It means that the company has enough bitcoins to cover all users’ balances. This move comes a couple of weeks after the collapse of FTX,…
Cryptocurrency exchange company Binance has released a new site that explains its proof-of-reserves system. The company is starting with BTC reserves. Right now, Binance has a reserve ratio of 101%. It means that the company has enough bitcoins to cover all users’ balances. This move comes a couple of weeks after the collapse of FTX,…
At the end of 2021, the EU + UK region had nearly 163 million smart electricity meters More than 56% of the electricity customers in European Union and the United Kingdom (the so-called EU27+3) had a smart meter at the end of 2022, according to a report by Swedish IoT consultancy firm Berg Insight.…
As winter approaches, many northern cities will experience snowfall that makes road slippery and dangerous. The traditional reaction is to spread chemicals or sand to melt the snow (salts or other chemicals) or provide traction (sand). In non-snow locations, rain will often be the seasonal disrupter, again making roads slippery and dangerous. Engineers will tell…
