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Tech NewsGadgetsRose Gold Is the Best Thing That’s Ever Happened to Tech and I Will Hear No Arguments
Call me a basic bitch all you want—and it’s true, I totally am—but I absolutely adore rose gold. In fact, if I’m being brutally honest, I think rose gold is the best thing that has ever happened to tech. It’s pretty simple, really. As you might have guessed, I love the color pink. Any pink … Continued
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Tech NewsA Brief History of Trump and TiVo, Which He Called ‘One of the Great Inventions of All Time’
Donald Trump, the seventy-year-old president of the United States of America, really loves his TiVo. This much is clear from a new Time magazine profile on Trump, which focuses on what our nation’s mercurial boss does after hours. To no one’s surprise, the leader of the free world spends a lot of time watching cable … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Apple Doesn’t ‘Need’ to Buy Anything
With a market cap that is, as of this writing, hovering around $800 billion and more than $250 billion in cash, Apple is fucking loaded. Not even its decidedly flat earnings report last week can change the fact that it is the most valuable publicly traded company of all time. With all that cash, and … Continued
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Tech News
Snapchat Debuts New Disappearing Stock Price
Snap Inc., the parent company formerly known as Snapchat just released its first earnings report since its IPO, and the results aren’t pretty. Snap missed analyst revenue estimates by $10 million, bringing in $149.6 million in revenue. And although Snapchat had a 36 percent jump in daily active users on a year over year basis, … Continued
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Tech News
Lame Grammar Startup Raises Stupid Amount of Money
Need any proof that we’re still knee-deep in a tech bubble? Grammar startup Grammarly just raised $110 million in its first round of funding. If you haven’t heard of Grammarly—I had not, but our friends at Lifehacker have covered the service before—it’s basically a Chrome extension that promises to check your grammar/spelling as you type … Continued
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Tech News
Thoughts I Had While Watching Law & Order: SVU’s ‘Pizzagate’ Episode
Now in its eighteenth season (!), Law & Order: SVU is famous for storylines that are “ripped from the headlines.” This season alone, episodes have been inspired by the Apple vs. FBI battle, Netflix’s Making a Murderer, and the Roger Ailes saga at Fox News. (An episode that seemed to be inspired by the sexual … Continued
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Reviews
Hulu Live TV Is the Best Cordcutter Service Yet, But It Needs Some Work
Hulu’s highly-anticipated live TV service is now available in beta and from my viewing experience, it’s the strongest offering yet, thanks to its combination of live TV, Hulu originals, and an on-demand selection of thousands of movies and TV shows. It used to be that if you wanted to watch ESPN, you had to subscribe … Continued
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ReviewsPhonesBlackberryUm, Kim Kardashian? I Think I Found Your New BlackBerry
Pardon me dear readers. Normally this space is reserved for missives to you, but I am positive you do not care about the BlackBerry KeyOne, a new phone from BlackBerry Mobile. Besides Kim Kardashian, very few people have cared about BlackBerry phones in recent years. That’s why today I’m going to take a moment to … Continued
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io9TelevisionHulu’s Live TV Service Is Now Available in Beta With 50 Channels for $40 Per Month
At its Upfront presentation this morning, Hulu showed off more details of its new live streaming service, and announced that the service is now available in a public beta starting today. Interested users can sign-up here. Hulu first announced its live TV service back in at its Upfront’s in May 2016 and since then, we’ve … Continued
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Tech News
Better Excuses for Avoiding Journalists During Your Company’s Massive Sexual Harassment Scandal
Despite his company’s litany of problems, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was supposed to appear onstage at Code Conference, a fancy tech gathering, at the end of May. It would have been a good time for the yelling executive to weigh in on the allegations of sexual harassment at his company, the ongoing investigation into those … Continued
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io9
All the Major Changes The Handmaid’s Tale Has Made From the Book
The first three episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale are now available on Hulu; we’ve already given our thoughts on the series, which remains mostly faithful to Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel of the same name, but there are some changes, some big, some small, that separate the two—and we’ve broken them down for you here. … Continued
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Reviews
The Circle Is Not Your Scary Future, It’s Your Boring Present
The most believable part of The Circle, which opens in theaters Friday, is the tech. Sadly, the film’s arguments surrounding privacy, which are integral to the movie’s plot, are a muddled mess, portrayed in ways that lack nuance and understanding of the world its audience is already living in. The film, which is based on the … Continued
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Tech NewsAmazonAmazon Has a New Echo That Tells You If Your Outfit Sucks
Amazon has a new Echo and this time, it has a camera built-in to tell you how ugly, or hot, your outfit looks. Dubbed the Echo Look, this forthcoming $200 device has a depth-sensing camera that can take full-length photos and videos using just your voice. If you’re like me, and your small Brooklyn apartment … Continued
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Tech NewsA Devastating Holocaust Documentary Proves VR Filmmaking Isn’t Just a Gimmick
It’s really easy to mess up a film project about the Holocaust. The wrong tone, the wrong direction, and it can all go horribly awry. Add cutting-edge technology operated by unskilled hands to a topic as devastating as survivor testimony, and you could have a disaster. Fortunately, the VR film The Last Goodbye, which debuted … Continued
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Tech News
Twitter’s Free Fall Is Slightly Less Brutal Than It Was Before
Twitter announced its Q1 2017 earnings on Wednesday, and good news, everyone: The company isn’t performing as poorly as it was last quarter! Now, make no mistake. Twitter still made less money than it did a year ago—its revenue declined eight percent year over year. But because of, uh, a lack of investor confidence, it … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleApple Delays ‘Carpool Karaoke’ Show, Should Just Kill It Instead
Back in February, Apple excitedly told the world that its first original series, the Carpool Karaoke spin-off, would be launching in April. Now, according to Reuters, the premiere has been pushed back until “later this year.” Carpool Karaoke: The Series is one of Apple’s first big bets on content—the company is also planning the awful-looking, … Continued
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Tech News
Lawsuit Claims Theranos Ran Fake Tests to Impress Investors
The bad news continues to roll in for Theranos. Earlier this week, the embattled blood-testing startup had to issue refunds to anyone in the state of Arizona who had used its services. Today, The Wall Street Journal reports on new allegations made by a Theranos investor in a recently filed lawsuit. You may recall that … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
Facebook Researchers Used Celebrity Bitmoji to Help Create VR Avatars
Researchers at Facebook AI Research and Tel Aviv University school of computer science published a preprint paper outlining how they created an automatic process to create VR avatars. The company’s new Facebook Spaces “social” VR venture launched this week. The process of how Facebook set out to solve the problem of automatically generating VR avatars … Continued
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Tech NewsThe New Rick and Morty Game Is One of the Best VR Experiences You Can Play
Growing up, one of my favorite CD-ROM games was called The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield. As games go, it wasn’t that advanced, but it let me take a virtual, interactive tour through my favorite television show. The game had in-jokes from the show, voices from the cast, and perfect attention to detail. It was awesome. I … Continued
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