Watch Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Eat Mountains Of French Toast

“That ain’t just French toast that’s Europe toast,” one viewer wrote of the action star’s cheat-meal.

Fast and Furious Joins the Lego Family With Dom's Dodge Charger

Lego has always been a family-friendly toy and now it’s getting friendly with a franchise that’s all about family: Fast and Furious.

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How to Use Your iPad With a Trackpad or Mouse

Apple has been promoting its iPads as laptop replacements for a long time now—with docks, and split screen views, and drag and drop operations—and the latest push comes with the arrival of iPadOS 13.4 and proper support for mice and trackpads. Any iPad that can run iPadOS 13.4 can now work with a mouse or trackpad too.

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Build This Soap Pump Speaker That Automatically Plays 20 Seconds of Your Top Spotify Songs

We’ve all suddenly discovered there’s something even more tedious than watching paint dry: washing our hands for 20 whole seconds. To make the necessary but excruciating process feel like it doesn’t drag on forever, this soap pump speaker swaps Happy Birthday for tracks from your Spotify account.

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Rice University creates a low-tech device to help COVID-19 patients in respiratory distress

Rice University and a Canadian health company called Metric Technologies teamed up to create a device that they call an automated bag valve mask ventilation unit. The creation they’ve come up with is a low-tech device that will squeeze the common bag valve mask ventilation devices that are found in hospitals around the world. These devices are frequently called AmbuBags, … Continue reading

BYD Blade Battery promises safer electric vehicles

A Chinese company called BYD officially announced the launch of Blade Battery that it developed to mitigate concerns about battery safety in electric vehicles. The goal of the company was to resolve issues with battery safety and redefine safety standards for the entire electric vehicle industry. The company shared a video of the Blade Battery successfully passing a nail penetration … Continue reading

Astro Slide 5G is an Android mini-laptop phone for keyboard addicts

If you’ve been waiting for a 5G smartphone with a physical keyboard, get ready to get excited. Planet Computers – known for its steadfast, some might say obsessional, commitment to the mini-laptop form factor – has revealed its latest model, the Astro Slide, complete with a “RockUp” sliding mechanism and high-speed connectivity. It’s not a small device, but then it’s … Continue reading

AI transforms 'The Great British Bakeoff' into a horror show

Artificial intelligence (AI) can do astonishing things when given specific jobs, but it’s terrible at understanding context — something we’ve seen before in this series. Thanks to a new experiment inspired by The Great British Bakeoff (GBBO), we can…

Facebook pledges $100 million to support journalism during coronavirus crisis

Facebook has already taken a number of measures to help the global effort against the spread of the coronavirus, most recently by opening up its Messenger platform to governments, and in announcing plans to invest $100 million in small businesses aro…

Acer's Ryzen 4000 series laptops will be available in weeks

Acer is adding the option to choose Ryzen 4000 series processors to another of its laptops. After announcing the Swift 3 would get AMD chips back at CES, the company has announced that the Aspire 5 will also join the party.