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Tech NewsFleshlight Finally Made An iPad Case That You Can Have Sex With
You don’t need to know much more about the Fleshlight Launchpad other than it’s an iPad case that you have sex with (and that the Lightning connector is not, uhm, liquidproof), but here is a photo in case you really need the visual, in the way you need the visual on your iPad while you … Continued
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Tech NewsWhere Are They Now: The Obama Marshmallow Canon Kid
Intel paraded out a few CEOs who are working with Intel to do, oh, whatever—one of them was young Joey Hudy, he of Obama Marshmallow Canon Photo Face fame. That’s all, no updates. That’s where the kid is right now. Here, watch the video again.
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Tech NewsPanasonic Life+Screen Smart TV: Can A Smart TV Actually Be Useful?
Panasonic is working on a new kind of smart TV that seems, at least, slightly less grossly useless than the typical smart TV ends up being once you connect it to, oh, say, anything. It’s going to be in all the new Panasonic TVs this year. Apparently Life+Screen will throw you right into favorite channels … Continued
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Vizio Reference Series: 120 Inches Of Ultra HD
Holy shit, giant TV. Vizio, TV upstart turned legit power, thinks it’s made the best ultra HD TV, or at least the best to own. Maybe it did. This is the 120-inch Vizio Reference series TV. It’s really impressive. The Reference has an 800-nit display (this is brightness; your laptop’s screen probably has somewhere between … Continued
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Tech NewsWindows 8 Survival Guide: All the Tips, Tricks, and Workarounds
Windows 8 is out, and Microsoft’s army of touchscreen devices has made its way into many people’s hands. It’s a huge change from what you’re used to. And we’re here to get you through it. If you’ve got any tips specific to Windows 8, put them in the comments below. We’ll feature the best of … Continued
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ReviewsiPhone 5S Review: A Great Phone, With a Whole Lot of Buts
The trajectory of the iPhone is, in most ways, the trajectory of Apple over the past decade. Insane ambition, untouchable dominance, the inevitable slowing of momentum. And now, reinvention, sort of. Mostly from iOS 7, partly from the iPhone 5S itself. But underneath it all, it’s still just an iPhone. And that’s still pretty good. … Continued
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How Jeff Bezos Made Amazon Everyone’s Everything All of the Time
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is probably the defining salesman of our time. But in a sit-down with a small group of journalists yesterday that was ostensibly about new Kindle hardware, it became more clear than ever that his company’s success has come not from any individual product line, but from one impossibly ambitious strategy: Be … Continued
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The Kindle Fire HD (Last Year’s Guts), Redesigned and Now $140
In addition to the new Kindle Fire HDX, Amazon also has a new, low-cost model of the original Kindle Fire HD. But unlike the discount on the original Kindle Fire last year, the redesigned HD is a pretty good bargain at $140. The new model has a redesign to look like the new HDX—they’re very … Continued
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Amazon Building 24/7/365 Video Tech Support into Kindle Fires
Amazon has a new button. This button, built into the new Kindle Fire HDX’s software, summons a real, live human being (support technician) to your tablet over video chat, day or night, any day of the year, for whatever reason you want. It’s positively absurd, in scope (and, likely, practice). And it’s something that only … Continued
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Kindle Fire HDX: Amazon’s Tablet, All Growed Up At Last
The new Kindle Fires are here. And they’re pretty damn impressive. The Kindle Fire HDX, in 7- and 8.9-inch models, has improved the screen, processor, RAM, software, and body of last year’s Fire HD. And that’s before you get to the insane new tech support feature Amazon dreamed up. But is that enough for the … Continued
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Tech NewsiPhone 5S First Impressions: So, About That Fingerprint Thing
For once, there’s actually something new to talk about with an iPhone. Well, sort of. There isn’t that much difference between an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 5S. Physically, the only thing that separates them is that the home button is now much flatter, with chamfered edges. It’s clickier than before, and pressing it is … Continued
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Apple’s Dumbest, Sloppiest iOS 7 Screwups, Collected in One Tumblr
So it’s come to this. We knew iOS 7 had some dumb and frustrating imperfections, but hadn’t scoured every bit of it for flaws in the small details that Apple used to nail. Well, some industrious design head has given Apple’s new OS a proper fisking, and put all the screwups on a Tumblr. This … Continued
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“Everyone Else Has One” Is a Perfectly Good Reason to Buy an iPhone
It’s not even better, it’s just popular. You only want one because you see everyone else has one. These are some of the more common reasons people avoid the iPhone. It’s a perfectly natural reflex—it just also happens to be a dumb one. It’s easy to forget that the tech we use is so communal, … Continued
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One Huge Reason to Not Switch to Android or Windows
iPhone pre-orders start tonight, and for a lot of people, that means deciding if you want to spend two years (or more) with a phone you’ve never held. The irony is, if you’re not sure you want to commit for the full two years, then the answer is cut and dry: Get an iPhone. I’ve … Continued
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Apple Missed the Best Use for a Fingerprint Scanner
The iPhone has a fingerprint scanner now. Great. It will make your iPhone more convenient (or a pain in the ass) to unlock. But unlocking is sort of beside the point when it comes theft. The truth is, Apple didn’t give the iPhone 5S the one feature that could actually help get a stolen phone … Continued
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The Laptop Revival Is Here. The Laptop Is Dying.
There’s an old joke about a doctor giving an elderly patient some good news and bad news. “Give me the bad news first,” the old guy says. “OK, you’ve got cancer and you’re dying. Best case, you have a few years left.” “Oh god, that’s awful,” cries the old man. “What’s the good news?” “Well,” … Continued
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Microsoft Will Announce the Surface 2 September 23rd
Microsoft just sent out invitations for an event in New York City on Monday September 23rd, two weeks from today. It will be showing off the new Surface. Which is to say, it’s going to be showing us the future of Microsoft. The upgrades to the Surface RT (expected to just be called Surface) and … Continued
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Why I Will Never Want a Smartwatch
I don’t want a smartwatch. I don’t, and will not. Because the very idea of a smartwatch, even at its platonic ideal, is damn useless. Let me explain. Basically, a smartwatch, even a great one (which does not exist) is like NFC—the “futuristic” technology that lets you pay for things by tapping your phone against … Continued
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Here’s the Gigantic Nokia Windows Phone We Might Never See
There’s a new leaked image of Lumia’s gigantic phone-tablet, the Lumia 1520, and it looks pretty nice. It comes from @evleaks, a historically reliable source for advance shots of phones. It looks pretty nice—if it ever comes out. Evleaks posted the image as “Nokia Lumia 1520, 2013”, but it’s unclear what’s happening to all of … Continued
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Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro: Basically a Perfect Upgrade
Last year’s Lenovo Yoga was one of the better laptops we’ve ever used, and certainly right at the top of Windows 8 convertibles. This year’s Yoga 2 Pro refines the hell out of that notion, and adds a super high res screen on top. The Yoga 2 Pro isn’t a great deal thinner than last … Continued
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