Month: October 2023
A leaked Google ‘Switch to Pixel’ ad highlights Pixel 8 AI features
The ad kicks off highlighting the process for transferring data to a Pixel 8, but spends most of its time on the AI features of the phone — some new, like Best Take, and some old, like Magic Eraser: 9to5Google also points to a leak from Kamila Wojciechowska, who posted…
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Hitting the Books: We are the frogs in the boiling pot, it’s time we started governing like it.
Climate change isn’t going away, and it isn’t going to get any better — at least if we keep legislating as we have been. In Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation, a multidisciplinary collection of subject matter experts discuss the increasingly intertwined fates of American ecology…
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7 Best Bed Frames (2023): Easy Assembly, Fabric, Wood, and Metal
Get that box spring off the floor with these WIRED-tested frames. Source
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Best Bed Frames (2023): Easy Assembly, Fabric, Wood, and Metal
Get that box spring off the floor with these WIRED-tested frames. Source
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Hong Sangsoo’s new movies are losing focus
Recently, we’ve been gifted two new works by Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo each year. He loves a small movie, usually comfortably under the 90-minute mark, and a scope that might encompass a novella or even a short story. I personally find them kind of hit or miss. Not to say…
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The Pixel Watch exceeded expectations — now it needs to be as good as Samsung
After I reviewed the Pixel Watch last year, skeptics kept asking me the same questions over and over again: Do you think Google’s actually going to keep this thing going? Do you think it’s going to ax the Pixel Watch if it doesn’t sell? These are fair questions to ask.…
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