Month: November 2021
Our favorite gadgets of the last 10 years
iPhone 5 I’ve owned a lot of iPhones in the last 10 years, but the iPhone 5 was the first. Not only was it my first iPhone, it was the first phone that I went out and voluntarily spent money on, period. Until then, I subsisted on carrier-subsidized Razr flip…
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Dell’s Black Friday-beating 2-in-1 laptop deals cut £200 of the XPS 13
November has begun, which has meant that Black Friday deals are going to be ramping up, which is exactly what’s happened here with Dell cutting a huge £200 off the new Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop. This amazing 2-in-1 laptop deal is part of Dell’s Black Friday Sneak Peek event,…
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Facebook is enabling a new generation of touchy-feely robots
Without a sense of touch, Frankenstein’s monster would never have realized that “fire bad” and we would have had an unstoppable reanimated killing machine on our hands. So be thankful for the most underappreciated of your five senses, one that robots may soon themselves enjoy. Facebook announced on Monday that…
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FitXR Is Gonna Make You Sweat (in the Metaverse)
The virtual reality workout app for Quest is a sweaty good time. Source
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The Morning After: So what is the metaverse?
So what is the metaverse? The big tech news last week was that Facebook — the company — is renaming itself Meta, which will apparently align it with its future goals and aims. But what does it even mean? Judging from Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote, it’s definitely about “experiences.” Meta’s take…
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What The Verge covered in our first 120,000 stories
THE ONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR Windows phone not included I promised an answer to whether we covered Android more or less than iOS. After 10 years and 120,000-plus stories, here’s the answer. Answers, actually. Android takes it away. Even if you add in all of the operating systems that…
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