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Volvo looks to clean up construction with electric concrete mixer truck

As part of a partnership agreement inked in 2021, construction materials company Cemex has taken delivery of the first all-electric heavy duty concrete mixer truck from Volvo Trucks, which is due to begin operation in Berlin this month.Volvo launched its first all-electric trucks back in 2018, and is aiming for half of its total sales to be electric by 2030 on the way to an entirely "fossil-free" product range by 2040. The company currently offers a range of electric refuse, haulage and construction trucks operating at a…

Best of CES 2023: Nutrition tracking and a very smart mixer

For those who want to become better home cooks, there was plenty of tech aimed at mostly affluent consumers. From an AI oven that promises to warn you when your food is about to burn to a mixing bowl designed to take the hassle out of tracking calories, food tech was a key theme at this year's CES tech show in Las Vegas.Brad Jashinsky, a director analyst at research firm Gartner, said big companies often use CES to make attention-seeking announcements about products that are currently out of reach for most consumers,

GE’s $1000 stand mixer might actually be worth it

I’ve written before about the benefits of a good, cheap , especially for baking. But there’s still something especially tedious about weighing out all your ingredients one-by-one in separate bowls and containers. GE’s new stand mixer solves that issue in a clever, if expensive, way. The new $999 , which the company is showing off at CES, has all the features of a typical stand mixer, but has a digital scale and voice controls built in to help streamline your bakes, The scale is integrated into the base of the mixer. A…

Roland’s Bride Cast mixer lets you add your own graphics

Roland may be a mainstay in the electronic music world, but it also dabbles in the occasional creator product, too. This year at CES the company has unveiled an audio interface aimed squarely at streamers and it’s called the Bridge Cast ($299). Like rival products such as the GoXLR or Rode’s Rodcaster Pro II, the Bridge Cast offers a way to pipe different audio feeds (chat, music, game audio, browser sounds and so on) to different destinations - usually your local mix and the one your audience hears. As you’d expect,…

You can buy a Chinese electric cement mixer truck

Laggards beware: no transportation industry is safe from electrification. It’s going to drag you, kicking and screaming if necessary, into the future. That’s true whether we’re talking about planes, trains or automobiles, or even cement mixers. And not only are electric cement mixers now a thing, but you can order one straight from China. Learn all about it in this week’s edition of the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week. This isn’t just any ol’ cement mixer. This is an…

GE has a new smart mixer that can shut itself off when your dough is ready

has created a smart mixer that could help take more of the sting out of baking. For one thing, the Profile Smart Mixer with Auto Sense has a built-in scale that will enable you to measure ingredients directly in the mixing bowl — just be sure to add each ingredient slowly so you don't plop in too much. It uses motor torque feedback to monitor the texture and viscosity of a mix. , which snagged the smart mixer as an exclusive product, the appliance will shut off when it detects that your concoction is ready for the next…

You aren’t too late to shop this KitchenAid Black Friday mixer deal

It is almost universally acknowledged that the holy grail of all kitchen appliances is the KitchenAid stand mixer, so chances are you’ve got one of these on your holiday wish list, or you’re hoping to bring one home for someone you love. If that’s the case, today is your lucky day because, even though Black Friday is already over, the retailer is still knocking $200 off the original price of $450, meaning you can bring home a brand new KitchenAid Pro 5 stand mixer for only $250. At nearly half off, this is one of…

The KitchenAid mixer has burly levers that still offer refined control

It took me joining a baking club to realize just how good my KitchenAid stand mixer’s controls are. Ever since I got it a few years back, I’ve admired the simplicity of its two-lever system: one that lets you tilt the head up and down and one to control the speed. But now that I’m using it every week, I’ve finally figured out what makes it click so well for me: it’s the fact that the speed lever feels sturdy and rugged while also providing incredibly precise control.The speed control lever’s job is made fairly obvious by…

Facebook Gaming app retires later this year

Facebook announced that it is shutting down its game streaming app on iOS and Android this year. As per a notice sent to users, Facebook said that the app will be no longer available to download, effective October 28, a little more than two years after its introduction.In 2018, Facebook first introduced Gaming, Fb.gg, to compete with the growing dominance of Twitch and YouTube. The Gaming platform was birthed to lure the creators and audience, mainly focusing on gameplay livestream and videos.Two years later, in 2020, the…

Are Crypto Mixer Developers at Risk? Did Tornado Cash Make Them Vulnerable?

Crypto mixer developers must be aware of the environment for the recent activity at Tornado Cash It is a never-ending story as far as the challenges to the crypto market are concerned. Now the crypto developers are facing a risky situation. The event that has caused concern about the state of the developers is the news that a person, male and 29 years old, has been arrested in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the ground of being a suspected Tornado Cash developer. It is not that the crypto mixer developers were enjoying a…