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How Google made its newest Pixel phone so cheap
When Google released the Pixel 3a and 3a XL, they were pretty good deals — you could pay as little as $399 for a phone with the same clean software and excellent camera performance as the company’s earlier, more premium devices. The strategy paid of… Source
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Apple TV’s Ted Lasso turns a viral video into a pretty good sitcom
Part-way through the first episode of Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso, I realized that internet streaming has killed the fish-out-of-water-comedy. American shows can’t mock how the funny foreigners do things, since they’re just as necessary these days to a glo… Source
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After math: Big Tech gets bigger while AMC’s release window gets shorter
As the dust settles on another non-stop spate of news let’s take a look back at the some of the top headlines from the week that was. NurPhoto via Getty Images Volkswagen paid $9.5 billion to US 'dieselgate' driversVW’s half decade debacle known as… Source
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Hitting the Books: Why women make better astronauts
Kate Greene knows better than most what it’s like to live on Mars. As a member of NASA’s inaugural 2013 HI-SEAS project, she spent four months in a simulated Martian environment on Hawaii’s Mauna Loa. In Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars, Greene exami… Source
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PowerA’s cute Nano Switch controller is great for small hands
I’ve been spending a lot more time this year with my Nintendo Switch. Yes, that’s partly because I’m stuck inside during the pandemic, but it’s also because I’m a huge fan of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Unfortunately, all that fishing and flower w… Source
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How it feels to survive Silicon Valley and a pandemic
It shouldn’t feel like it took a pandemic to get Twitter to boot 7,000 QAnon accounts (and crack down on 150,000 more related to the violent conspiracy group), but it does. At least Twitter is doing harm mitigation around its role in this interconnec… Source
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