June 3, 2019
Live from WWDC 2019
Greetings from sunny San Jose. Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference officially kicks off this morning at the McEnery Convention Center with a big keynote. While the rest…
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May 30, 2019
Two years after Essential’s launch, still no Home hub or second phone
This morning’s Moto Z4 news was good cause to go back and reassess the state of the modular phone. Three years after the line launched, the concept hasn’t…
Read articleMay 30, 2019
The latest modular Moto Z has a beefy battery and improved low-light camera
When it arrived in 2016, the Moto Z felt revolutionary — or, at the very least, novel. Motorola soon announced it was making the Moto Z its flagship…
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ASUS leans into dual-screen laptops with the ZenBook Pro Duo, featuring two 4K touchscreen displays
Last year during Computex, ASUS introduced the ZenBook Pro 14 and 15, with a touchscreen in place of a regular touchpad. This year in Taipei, it took the…
Read articleMay 29, 2019
Go chat yourself with Facebook’s new Portal companion app
Facebook has launched the start of its push into smart home software. Ignoring calls that it’s creepy, Facebook is forging onward with its Portal gadget Today Facebook quietly…
Read articleMay 28, 2019
The Looking Glass Pro might be the weirdest all-in-one PC ever
All-in-one PCs have adopted some pretty odd designs over the years, but I’ve never seen one quite like this. The Looking Glass Pro is an all-in-one gaming PC…
Read articleMay 26, 2019
These ‘microbe-grown’ headphones could be the future of sustainable electronics
The culture of planned obsolescence in electronics produces a huge amount of toxic waste unlikely to go anywhere but a landfill for the next millennium or so. Nature…
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Best Buy cancels Samsung Galaxy Fold pre-orders
Samsung is taking its time bringing the Galaxy Fold back to market. And frankly, that’s probably for the best. The Note debacle from a few years back was…
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Panic’s Playdate is a pint-sized gaming machine with a ‘season’ of 12 intriguing titles
Tired of your smartphone games, and don’t want to take the Switch with you on the train today? Panic, renowned creator of useful Mac apps and more recently…
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Nectar’s sonar bottle caps could save $50B in stolen booze
Bars lose 20% of their alcohol to overpours and “free” drinks for friends. That amounts to $50 billion per year in booze that mysteriously disappears, making life tough…
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