Gadgets

[ad_1] Not too much has changed for the mighty Cadillac Escalade since it rolled through the Roadshow garage last year. The 2019 model sees a few former options become standard features as this titan elbows for whatever edge it can find in the large luxury SUV space. With stiff competition ...

[ad_1] Everyone knows birds descended from dinosaurs, but exactly how that happened is the subject of much study and debate. To help clear things up, these researchers went all out and just straight up built a robotic dinosaur to test their theory: that these proto-birds flapped their “wings” well before ...

[ad_1] Why you should trust us Wirecutter has been testing and recommending adjustable standing desks since 2013. We had tested a half-dozen desktop-mounted converters over those five years. In 2019, we expanded our testing and recommendations for converters and brought them into their own guide. Over the years of testing ...

[ad_1] Heavy-duty trucks are specialized vehicles. Every part of them, from the frame to the engine to the axles, is optimized for grueling work towing huge loads. But that doesn’t mean owners are using them for hauling all the time. At some point, these trucks have to go to the ...

[ad_1] Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine ...

[ad_1] “If you use the Instagram camera, you’ll see all these AR effects, and they’re all built with Spark,” said Matt Roberts, a Spark product manager. “Now we’re allowing anybody, not just people who work for Instagram, to build their own effects for their own cameras.” Facebook launched its Camera ...

[ad_1] Everywhere I’ve been over the last week and a half, it’s been the same: entering mysterious worlds via kitchens, or bedrooms, or offices, or hallways. No matter where I go, I put on the headset, draw the magical boundaries of my new space like a boy making his window ...

[ad_1] The feature will let you select from up to nine Facebook friends who you may be interested in, and if they’re on the Dating service, they’ll get a notification letting them know someone has a crush on them. Simple enough, but the feeling has to be mutual, of course. ...

[ad_1] There’s a very good reason why the midsize crossover SUV class is so crowded: These things practically print money. Automakers are bolstering their SUV lineups with all sorts of entries in the not-too-big, not-too-small space, and with good reason. Forecasting group LMC Automotive says in the next three years ...

[ad_1] Why you should trust us Ray Aguilera, who wrote the original version of this guide, has been reviewing and writing about consumer gadgets since 2007. He previously worked as Reviews Editor at Mac|Life, where one of his major beats was audio products, and he has continued to write about ...