Did you put off thinking about winter tires until there’s a snowstorm bearing down? No problem. What you need to know can be digested in a couple of minutes. Winter tires, the tire-industry-preferred term for snow tires, make a significant difference in driving when it snows. Or when there’s snow on the ground, or slush, or ice. If a set of winter tires costs $ 500 and your collision damage
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. You might want to clear some time in your schedule this weekend to look up at the night sky. Those in the western hemisphere will be treated to a rare celestial alignment known colloquially as the “super blood moon.” It sounds pretty cool, but it’s just science — cool science. The super blood moon will
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Nvidia announced it would begin supporting FreeSync with its GeForce GPUs, it did so in more or less the nastiest way possible. Things got off to a nice enough start, with Nvidia explaining that it had only formally certified 12 displays out of the more than 400 it had tested, but that the feature
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One of the common features of star systems is that both stars and their planets tend to orbit in the same plane. That means the equator of the star tends to align with the plane of the planets in orbit around it. In our own solar system, for example, all of the major planets follow
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. DETROIT — Even with few European automakers present, the final January North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) had a sizable yield of first-rate introductions — more than a dozen if you count cars also shown the previous week at CES 2019. Highlights this year included the new Ram HD (heavy duty) pickup truck, the sixth-generation
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Now that it’s the most popular game in the world, Fortnite has become a target for both lawsuits and hackers. Security firm Check Point Software says Fortnite developer Epic Games had a major vulnerability in its system that could have allowed an attacker to play as the victim, purchase items, and even listen to the
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A few weeks ago, we covered rumors that Nvidia would launch either a GTX 1160 or a GTX 1660 Ti as a non-RTX, Turing-based follow-up to its current high-end family of GPUs. We’re hearing more rumors about the 1660 Ti version of that part, with new data suggesting it’ll drop into space below the RTX
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD’s Radeon VII announcement at CES earlier this month was the major surprise of the event. While the company had previously launched a 7nm Vega-based GPU design, AMD had given every impression that the GPU was intended strictly for the professional market, where it would compete as an AI and machine learning card against Nvidia’s
DETROIT — Ford is busy killing the sedan business, getting cozy with VW, and envisioning a self-driving, electrified future. Meanwhile, nothing is as important to the Ford of today as the sixth generation Ford Explorer midsize SUV introduced this week at Detroit’s North American International Auto Show. The Explorer name is the umbrella for the kind of car so many Americans want — big, and not a sedan — with
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Science requires finesse, but sometimes it also needs more power. CERN took the latter approach when it built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile (27 kilometers) particle accelerator that smashes protons together with so much energy they fracture into subatomic confetti. By studying the remnants of those collisions, scientists have learned more about the
