Best of both worlds: How Recteq designed a pellet grill for gas grillers

Recteq makes pellet grills, but those can’t do it all when it comes to backyard cooking. So when the company sought to create an alternative for gas grillers, without making an actual gas grill, it [...]

How to use Accessibility Reader on Apple devices

Earlier this year, Apple launched a new tool that makes it easier to read anything on your device’s screen. Designed for people with visual disabilities, Accessibility Reader provides a full-screen [...]

Apple brings Magnifier to Macs and introduces a new Accessibility Reader mode

This Thursday is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), and as has been its custom for the last few years, Apple's accessibility team is taking this time to share some new assistive features [...]

One AI module faked 86% of a pipeline's accuracy gains by feeding another the answers

A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system is built to answer strictly from the documents it retrieves. But when engineers optimize these AI pipelines end-to-end, the reader module can learn a shor [...]

Recteq X-Fire Pro 825 review: A smart grill that pulls double duty

Occasionally, you really can have it both ways. For the most part, pellet grills are great for smoking and mid-temperature cooking, but you’ll typically need other grills for high-heat searing and 1 [...]

The best microSD cards in 2025

Most microSD cards are fast enough for boosting storage space and making simple file transfers, but some provide a little more value than others. If you’ve got a device that still accepts microSD ca [...]

Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with a gigantic tower of gas and dust

As part of their ongoing celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA and ESA have shared a new image of the Eagle Nebula, specifically a "spire of cosmic gas and dust& [...]

How to shop for a smart grill

Smart grills are expensive. Unless you find one on clearance, they’re far from an impulse buy, and companies definitely make you pay a premium for the conveniences a dash of Wi-Fi can afford. As suc [...]

Toyota's Prius Prime saved me gas money but probably not the environment

I’ve always wondered what it would be like to own a plug-in hybrid, and recently, fate handed me that opportunity. On a recent trip to Vancouver, I rented a 2024 Toyota Prius Prime for nearly two mo [...]