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Google’s Gadget Vision: Same Stuff, Different Screens Oct 06, 2017

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First thing in the morning, the second your head pops off the pillow, you reach over and grab your Pixel off the nightstand. You check Twitter, thumb through email, poke at the New York Times app to make sure we're not at nuclear war . You stand, stretch, and say, "Hey Google, good morning.

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MTV's Bringing Back 'TRL'—But It's Not the (Carson) Daly Show Anymore Oct 05, 2017

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It’s been almost a decade since anyone watched TRL and since then everything about its primary foci—music videos, celebrity culture, TV consumption—has changed. So when the network announced in July that it was bringing back its afternoon music-video countdown show, the prevailing question was: “Why?” TRL , the MTV show formerly known as Total Request Live , went off the air in 2008. On November 16 of that year, to be exact; Beyoncé performed its swan song.

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Candylab’s New Wooden Cars Swing Into the Prohibition Era Oct 04, 2017

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Five years ago, Vlad Dragusin began making wooden cars in the evenings and on weekends. At the time, he was an architect at the design studio Gensler, and the cars were just a hobby—a way to escape the real world obstacles inherent in designing buildings. “With architecture, it gets to the point where you’re spending this much time on other things,” he says stretching his arms wide, “and this much time on design.” The cars, on the other hand, were pure design.

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Stop the Endless Scroll. Delete Social Media From Your Phone Oct 03, 2017

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Most of the time, I navigate to my social media apps reflexively, as though my finger and the icons are magnets. I don't even realize I'm doing it until my thumb taps the Instagram icon on my screen. Again. And again. And again. It’s a dirty digital habit, and it doesn’t make me happy. Maybe you can relate. Studies have repeatedly found that while social media connects us to one another, it also makes us feel bad. And yet, we do it anyway. We do it because we can’t stop.

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Amazon's New Fire TV Gives Alexa One More Place to Live Oct 02, 2017

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Amazon's new Fire TV looks more like a Chromecast than a typical set-top box. It's a small rectangle attached to an HDMI cable, meant to go right behind your TV. But the tiny thing packs heat: It supports 4K and HDR, Dolby Atmos sound, and all the games and apps on the Fire TV. And most important, it supports Alexa, which Amazon hopes will be the remote control of the future. Amazon's announcement was full of little digs at the new Apple TV. It's $69.99, not $179.99—for $79.

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Review: Nintendo SNES Classic Edition Sep 29, 2017

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Even just mentioning the Super Nintendo brings memories flooding back: there’s little me, sitting in the playroom at the top of the stairs in my house in Massachusetts, battling my sister in Donkey Kong Country. She still swears she didn’t need my help, but deep down she knows I was the only one who could hack the mine cart levels. My family got a SNES a couple of years after its 1991 release, and didn’t upgrade for the better part of a decade.

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A Brief History of the Ever-Expanding Tweet Sep 28, 2017

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For as long as Twitter has existed, it has been a place of brevity, if not levity. The 140 character limit—originally created so that tweets could fit into single SMS messages—is as much a part of the brand as the silhouetted bird. You want to yell about the NFL, hurl some insults at the president, or debate the parentage of Kylie Jenner’s unborn child? Fine. Just make it quick.

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'Star Trek: Discovery' Is Worth the Price of CBS All Access—Maybe Sep 27, 2017

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Last night, CBS finally took the wraps off its oft-delayed new show , Star Trek: Discovery . The two-part debut ("The Vulcan Hello" and "Battle at the Binary Stars") gave fans the first new TV Trek since Star Trek: Enterprise ceased subspace transmission in 2005. And they were ready for it—last night's premiere set a single-day record for new signups for CBS' All Access streaming service.

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Sean Spicer's Emmys Appearance Tops This Week's News Roundup Sep 26, 2017

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Over the last seven days, the internet has been full of unwelcome nostalgia: Here's some nuclear brinksmanship! Here's Puerto Rico, decimated by a natural disaster ! Here's the Senate, planning to vote on yet another healthcare plan to repeal Obamacare! But it's not all been familiar badness; there's been some new ill-feeling torment, as well. Just look below, if you don't believe us.

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HP Omen 15 Review: Decent Performance, But Man Is It Ugly Sep 25, 2017

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Gaming laptops tend have a certain reputation in the design department. I guess that the teams that work on these systems do so in a vacuum, and they feed off of the designs of other gaming laptops in an attempt to one-up their competitors’ audacity with each new release. It’s the only explanation I can think of for why the recent Alienware 13 looks the way it does, and the only explanation I can fathom for the design of HP’s latest release of the Omen, the Omen 15.

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