Tag: Books & Publishing
The best student discounts we found for 2024
Despite college being (potentially) some of the best years of your life, it can be hard to enjoy it if you’re scrounging every dollar for books, supplies, food and, if you’re lucky, the occasional outing with friends. But there is a silver lining: student discounts. While it seems like good…
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Kobo Clara Colour review: Judging books by their covers is now more fun
Kobo isn’t the first on the color-ereader scene; Boox and Pocketbook have had color ereaders and tablets for years. Both of those companies make beautiful, premium devices that are highly capable and customizable — but they don’t offer the plug-and-play ereader experience of a Kindle or Kobo. Of all the…
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Twitch introduces new filtering tools that lets you exclude sexual and violent content
Twitch has updated its filtering tools to allow the exclusion of livestreams that feature mature themes, like sexual, violent and profane content. In other words, you won’t have to sift through hundreds of gross streams just to find someone innocently drinking soda pop and playing through Hades 2. These new…
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Google Project Astra hands-on: Full of potential, but it’s going to be a while
At I/O 2024, Google’s teaser for Project Astra gave us a glimpse at where AI assistants are going in the future. It’s a multi-modal feature that combines the smarts of Gemini with the kind of image recognition abilities you get in Google Lens, as well as powerful natural language responses.…
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The best ereaders for 2024
Few things beat the smell of a new book (or an old one for that matter), but carrying an entire library in your pocket or instantly getting a new book you just heard about make ereaders attractive gadgets. The experience of reading on one beat tablets and smartphones thanks to…
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The best books we read in 2023
With El Niño slated to drop a warm, wet winter on most of the US in the coming months, everybody’s going to need something good to read while the weather outside is frightful. Engadget’s well-read staff have some suggestions: our favorite books of 2023! We’ve got a phenomenal assortment of…
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