Month: September 2024
What to read this weekend: The Night Guest, Is Earth Exceptional? and Into the Unbeing
New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir Anyone who lives with a difficult-to-diagnose chronic illness and has endured the demoralizing process of trying to get proper treatment can tell you it is, at times, a living nightmare. Advocating for yourself,…
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8BitDo’s new Bluetooth mod kit puts GameCube controllers back into play
8BitDo announced it’s taking preorders for a new mod kit that lets you retrofit a wired GameCube controller with Hall effects joysticks and Bluetooth connectivity. The company is charging $25.98 for the kit, which it says is a simple, solderless mod. 8BitDo has made a few of these in the…
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This is what the largest LED video wall in the world looks like — Adele’s extravagant 44,000sq ft display goes straight into the Guinness World Records book
Adele has set a new Guinness World Record with the largest continuous outdoor LED screen. Used during her now-completed ‘Adele in Munich’ concert series, the temporary screen, verified on August 23, 2024, measured an impressive 4159.7 square meters (44,774.6 square feet) and was a standout feature of her residency at…
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I just canceled my Pixel 9 Pro Fold order and bought the iPhone 16 Pro Max instead – here’s why
So here’s the thing: I want to ditch my iPhone and move to Android so badly, yet every time I verge on making the move, Apple pulls me back in. Last year, I used a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra for a week and really enjoyed it. But it was for…
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Check out the Pixel 9 Pro Fold’s guts in iFixit’s latest teardown
Courtesy of iFixit, a new teardown video of the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold reveals what the repairability advocate organization’s Shahram Mokhtari says is “the most exciting foldable we’ve seen on the iFixit teardown table.” iFixit offers very clear shots of the phone’s internals in the video and its accompanying…
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Google’s smart Circle to Search feature could soon expand beyond Pixel and Galaxy phones
Circle to Search, which lets you run a visual search from anything on screen, launched on the Galaxy S24 and Pixel 8, and has since made its way to other Galaxy and Pixel devices. Now, it looks as though the feature is about to roll out to other Android handsets…
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