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The Morning After: The Amazon Prime Day deals worth your time and money
It’s back and here to ruin our savings and increase the gadgets in our homes. Yes, Amazon Prime Day isn’t entirely about headphones, tablets and wearables, but for Engadget staff… well, it feels like it is. Prime Day deals on tech are typically only matched by Black Friday and Cyber…
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What we bought: The last gamepad I’ll need to buy for Switch and PC
If you regularly play video games, there’s a good chance you’ve dealt with stick drift. You may be lining up a shot in Apex Legends or surveying the land in Tears of the Kingdom, and suddenly, you notice your cursor slowly dragging to one side on its own. This, to…
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The Morning After: Meta’s Threads tops 100 million users in under a week
In just four days of the app going live on Wednesday evening, Threads already has more than 100 million users, according to Quiver Quantitative's Threads Tracker. Thread is a sibling app to Instagram, making it easy for that platform's existing billion-plus users to sign up — unless they live in…
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Meta’s Threads races to 100 million users in under a week
Meta's Twitter competitor is off to a flying start. Within just four days of the app going live on Wednesday evening, Threads already has more than 100 million users according Quiver Quantitative's Threads Tracker. It helps that Thread is a sibling app to Instagram and it's easy for the image-sharing…
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Hitting the Books: Amazon’s unique ‘threat’ to digital commerce
When it comes to online merchandizing, nobody is bigger than Amazon. The same can be said for Walmart’s utter domination of physical retail. But for a brief time in 2016, the two behemoths sought to get all up in each other’s lanes. The resulting multi-year fracas would shake the world…
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James Webb telescope captures the most distant active supermassive black hole yet
The James Webb space telescope has given scientists the capability to discover celestial objects they wouldn't have been able to otherwise, such as ancient galaxies that theoretically shouldn't exist. Now, as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey, researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black…
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