Positioning is a critical part of making vehicles autonomous and accurately locating construction points. The most common positioning systems today use GPS (global positioning system) or, in Europe, Galileo satellites. Although popular, these systems have limitations, primarily their radio signal strength variability and the difficulty of getting a usable signal inside structures or even outside…
The European Union passed legislation (opens in new tab) for universal USB-C charging in October this year but had not set a specific date for when the law would come into effect. Now, fthe EU has set an official deadline (opens in new tab) for when all phones will have to be sold only with…
Mobile games have a bad reputation due to many games on the platform utilizing overwhelming microtransactions and other questionable features meant to squeeze the most play time and money out of players. Despite that, plenty of awesome games still emerge on mobile platforms — ones that don’t use those practices at all. In fact,…
Apple Music has a new feature called Sing that sounds pretty great. An expansion of the time-synced lyrics feature available in Apple Music, it animates lyrics so you can sing along with precision and lets you adjust the vocal level of the song with a slider depending on how confident you are in your singing. …
The European Union passed legislation (opens in new tab) for universal USB-C charging in October this year but had not set a specific date for when the law would come into effect. Now, fthe EU has set an official deadline (opens in new tab) for when all phones will have to be sold only with…
Large-cap pharmaceuticals Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) are among stocks outperforming the broader market in the past year, particularly in the past three months. Both stocks are S&P 500 components, so a comparison with that index offers an appropriate benchmark for pharmaceutical stocks. MarketBeat.com – MarketBeat While the pharma industry…
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 last month and the first phones with it are starting to come out. While the vivo X90 Pro+ was the first to be announced, we don’t have a unit to test. But we do have an iQOO 11, and we spent quite some time putting it through its…
MachineQ and Omdia say 67% of respondents expect #IoT ROI within one year.
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Hyrox has recently taken the world by storm, and it seems the popular new workout trend isn’t going anywhere. If you haven’t heard of it yet or want to find out more, here’s your chance, because Hyrox is posting a regular Workout of the Week to their fast-growing Instagram. Hyrox (opens in new tab) is…
Apple’s announcement this week that it’s boosting security for some iCloud data hasn’t pleased everyone. Advanced Data Protection for iCloud began rolling out to users on Thursday as an opt-in feature. It offers end-to end encryption for iCloud backups, Photos, and Notes, though at this stage it doesn’t include iCloud Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. The…
