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Best Last-Minute Digital Gifts You Can Give Right Now

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) In prior years, if you needed a last-minute gift, you might run out to the store and brave the crowds, but in this year of pandemic, that’s not a good idea. Besides, it might not even be safe or practical to visit your giftee in person. Fortunately, there are a… Read more

‘Twas The Night Before Tom’s Christmas 2020

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock, Tom’s Hardware) [Editor’s Note: The Tom’s Hardware staff first published a version of this poem in 2014 on Christmas Eve. We updated it a little bit and ran it again each year at the same time. The poem was given a complete overhaul in 2018 and 2019. We understand that… Read more

City-ATM: Researchers test traffic systems for unmanned flying objects

Scientists are working in the City-ATM project on counterparts to traffic lights, priority and stop signs in urban, largely uncontrolled airspace up to 760 meters above ground. The integration of unmanned aircraft into traffic with larger aircraft has long been considered a challenge. Observers expect that the use of quadrocopters, unmanned helicopters and larger fixed-wing… Read more

Best Google Assistant and Alexa powered board games 2020

(Pocket-lint) – There are multiple games you can play through Google Home speakers or Google Assistant-powered speakers, as well as Amazon Echo or Alexa-powered speakers – and now’s the perfect time to explore them, given how much time we’re all spending at home. Say “Play a Game” to Google Assistant and you’ll get several options… Read more

Rainbow Six Siege, Italy at the Six Invitational: the Mkers qualify for the world tournament

An epochal feat for the Mkers team: for the first time in the history of the Six Invitational, an Italian team qualifies for the Rainbow Six Siege international tournament. The Italian team will face the twenty strongest teams in the world to compete for the prize pool of three million dollars. by Pasquale Fusco published… Read more

Best RGB Mouse Pads: Smooth Gaming, Extra Glow

Home Best-picks We’ve tested a pile — these are the best RGB mouse pads out there. (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) For many, mouse pads have become a commodity — or even unnecessary — with many optical mice claiming to work with most surfaces. But when it comes to PC gaming, a mouse pad can be… Read more

Review: Furutech NCF Clear Line AC Power Supply Optimizer

Fake, snake oil, scam, money beating, the well-known terms are flying around when someone starts talking about a Furutech NCF Clear Line, with which the display can be optimized simply plug the black thing into a wall socket. Before you quit now, a short test was simply playing music for my wife (who doesn’t like… Read more

Fake OLED windows to relieve office stress in Japanese cubicles, the proposal by SkipLand and JOLED

Taking advantage of the 4K OLED panel from 22 inches, LandSkip offers Sky Scape, a fake airplane window, which displays images similar to what a passenger can see out the porthole cruising above the clouds or departing or landing in a major city airport by Roberto Colombo published 19 December 2020 , at 13: 31… Read more

10 of the best tracks to test your headphones

Home Features You’ll likely use your headphones more than any other piece of hi-fi equipment. At any one time in the What Hi-Fi? office at least half of us are using them, and not exclusively due to our questionable personalities (though this figure will spike, depending on who’s talking). We’re well aware there is personal… Read more

NASA will fly Orion deep-space crew capsule ‘as is,’ despite failed component

NASA is opting to fly its future deep-space crew capsule Orion “as is” next year, after the agency discovered that one of the spacecraft’s power instruments had suffered a failure. Engineers had been mulling over whether to replace the instrument before the vehicle’s flight but ultimately decided that there was enough redundancy in the system… Read more

Best gaming mice 2020: The best wired, wireless and RGB gaming mice to buy today

(Pocket-lint) – Gaming mice are the high-end devices of the mouse world. They are designed to be more accurate, offer a more comfortable experience and are built to last – as gamers are likely to spend more time with their mouse than anyone else. Top-of-the-range gaming mice also have multiple buttons, highly adjustable dots per inch… Read more

ESA: a hypersonic spacecraft to launch rockets into space

ESA, together with a partner company in the United Kingdom, it is designing a new hypersonic spacecraft that will allow small satellites to be brought into low orbit at low cost and focusing on maximum reusability. But look at the 2030. by Mattia Speroni published 17 December 2020 , at 14: 21 in the Science… Read more

The best drones 2020: Top rated quadcopters to buy, whatever your budget

(Pocket-lint) – From military drones to amateur camera drones pestering celebrities, crashing into National Parks or hitting the headlines because of airports – drones are everywhere. There’s never been a better time to buy one because today’s drones are extremely capable and brilliant at the basics. With the advancement of battery efficiency, navigation, obstacle avoidance and… Read more

A Canadian astronaut will fly around the Moon on the first crewed mission of NASA’s new rocket

One of Canada’s astronauts will be sent around the Moon as part of a partnership between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), NASA announced today. The two organizations have formally agreed to collaborate on building a lunar space station called the Lunar Gateway. The Gateway is just one part of NASA’s larger Artemis program,… Read more

Chang'e-5 has landed: Luna's champions are back on Earth!

Yesterday we wrote about the imminent arrival on Earth of the capsule of the Chinese mission Chang’e- 5 containing the samples of rocks and sand collected on the Moon a few days ago. As expected, the maneuvers to deflect the trajectory were successful thanks to the Earth’s atmosphere and the capsule landed as planned in… Read more