Month: October 2023
Puzzmo is imagining a better newspaper games page
For more than a decade, designer Zach Gage has been building an impressive library by reimagining classic games. There have been remixes and updates to everything from chess to solitaire to sudoku, along with inventive word games like Knotwords and SpellTower. But now, as these kinds of games have reached…
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The tragically millennial vocabulary of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial
It is one thing to type the world YOLO, jokingly, on Beyoncé’s internet. It is another thing entirely to hear it explained in a court of law. The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried has been, in its vocabulary, tragically millennial. (Disclosure: I am also a millennial.) Christian Drappi, a former Alameda…
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Want to build a new PC with an Intel Arrow Lake CPU next year? Here’s how you might save a bit of money
Intel’s next-gen desktop processors, Arrow Lake, will be compatible with current-gen CPU coolers, according to new information. Tom’s Hardware picked up on this one with the observation that Azza has recently launched a couple of new liquid coolers (the Cube 240 and 360) which state that they support the LGA1851…
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DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 features a 1-inch sensor and rotating display
DJI's Osmo Pocket 3 gimbal camera has arrived with major updates over the previous model, adding a much larger 1-inch sensor that should greatly improve quality. In addition, the new model offers 4K 120p video, the company's latest tracking, face detection, dynamic framing and a very handy rotating display. It's…
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DJI’s baby steadicam Osmo Pocket 3 has so many upgrades, I don’t know where to begin
Five years ago, DJI paired its super-stable drone cameras with a postage-stamp-size screen to create the Osmo Pocket, a tiny vlogger cam. It was neat, and its successor had a handful of key improvements. But the new Osmo Pocket 3, announced and shipping today, has more than a handful. While…
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Automattic is going all-in on messaging apps
Automattic, the company behind the popular website builder WordPress.com, has announced its acquisition of Texts.com as it looks to break into a new market. The app works as a central hub for a number of supported messaging platforms and is designed to make keeping track of messages across those platforms…
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