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GKN Automotive has created a ‘real-time’ test rig capable of handling the unique requirements of electric vehicles to develop the most advanced, efficient, and capable products on the market, it says. The rig, installed at GKN Automotive’s Offenbach facility, can handle the extreme dynamics and higher torque of electrified powertrains, which make conventional load test rigs unsuitable for driveline parts of the latest…

A Walmart truck departs the company's distribution center in Washington, Utah.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIn April, Walmart made headlines by announcing that it will pay its private fleet truck drivers as much as $110,000 in their first year with the big-box retailer, up from an average starting salary of $87,000. Yellow Corp., a holding company for several carriers, said its drivers can make up to $100,000 a year. Some trucking companies are offering $10,000 cash bonuses to new drivers.Meanwhile, the American…

In 2018, in a fit of insanity, I decided to review every single wireless gaming headset on the market: 32 pairs to be exact. None of them were anywhere near as comfortable as the Plantronics Rig 800. “The only one so lightweight, so comfortable, I sometimes forgot I was wearing it,” I wrote for CNET. Four years later, I’m happy to say that feeling hasn’t changed. Plantronics no longer exists, after merging with Polycom to become “Poly” and then selling itself to HP. But the Rig 800 is alive and well at French gaming…

Call of Duty: Vanguard released this past Friday on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S with crossplay enabled for multiplayer modes. The PC version of Call of Duty: Vanguard is exclusively available on Battle.net. Unlike last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Vanguard does not eat up a big chunk of your storage space. Cold War needed around 82GB of your HDD or SSD space for all game modes. Vanguard gives you an option for only installing multiplayer and zombies mode. These files are…

If you’ve been planning to build a PC, you’ve probably noticed that ongoing parts shortages have left the well of GPU deals rather dry lately. The good news is that you don’t need to buy the parts separately if you want a cost-effective machine that can run the latest AAA games and cut through heavy workloads. Available components are mostly going to brand-name computer manufacturers right now, so while building your own PC might be off the table for the moment, there are still some great gaming PC deals if you know…

Desktop PC components (especially graphics cards) are slowly coming down in price and getting easier to find, but they’re still pretty costly right now thanks to ongoing supply chain problems and pent-up demand. With the lion’s share of available computer parts still going to brand-name manufacturers, building a PC might be too expensive of an endeavor at the moment given that there are so few GPU deals available — but if you’ve got your sights set on a new desktop battle station, you’ve got some other options. This…