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DJI’s New Palm-Sized Drone Responds To a Wave of Your Hand May 26, 2017

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Isn’t DJI’s new drone just the cutest little thing? The new DJI Spark is much smaller than other quadcopters on the market; the body is about the size and weight of a can of La Croix. It arrives in mid-June for $500. It shoots HD video, has a 2-axis gimbal stabilizer on the camera, and comes with on-board software that mitigates shake and shutter roll. It tops out at 31 mph and stays aloft for 16 minutes. Not crazy-bonkers specs, but it is just so, so tiny.

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Suck at Cooking? Pinterest’s Computer Vision Can Help May 25, 2017

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The kitchen of the tomorrow is so tantalizing that it seems everyone in tech wants to build it. In a way, it presents a perfect microcosm of how artificial intelligence and ambient computing could change every aspect of your life. Refrigerators that tell you when your eggs go bad. Augmented-reality cooking tips right there on the counter. Recipe recommendations based on your dietary restrictions, seasonal veggies, and that tuna you really ought to use before it turns.

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‘Things’ Might Be the Prettiest To-Do List App Ever May 24, 2017

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Productivity blogs were one of the first corners of the internet that ever felt like home to me. For a certain set of passionate, persnickety writers and readers, there was nothing so fun as debating the merits of Getting Things Done versus The Eisenhower Method. “Eat the frog!” was an inspirational quote, not worrying nonsense. Merlin Mann, Leo Babauta, and Lifehacker were required reading.

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I Can Gripe About My Ride-Sharing Company to Passengers, Right? May 23, 2017

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I work in a casual tech setting and I’m shocked by how much everyone swears. Should I say something? Imagine what it was like to be a Puritan in 1642. You’ve come to America. The landscape is crude and endless; the soundtrack, all hissing insects and howling wolves. “Everything about the place seemed godforsaken,” writes the natural historian Tim Flannery in his book The Eternal Frontier. That lawless emptiness is why you’re here—it means freedom.

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The Maligned Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is Better—and More Important—Than You Know May 22, 2017

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When David Lynch’s neo-noir movieTwin Peaks:Fire Walk with Me premiered 25 years ago at Cannes, the audience, famously, booed.That’s not unheard of, but thereaction probably had less to do with the film than its television predecessor:By 1992,Twin Peakshad gone from critical darling to drag. To many, Fire Walk with Me played like a glorified TV movie.

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Google Assistant Comes to Your iPhone to Take on Siri May 19, 2017

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Virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana, and Google Assistant are only good when they’re nearby. The whole appeal of these services—someday, anyway, once they’re past the phase of only being good for setting timers and listening to NPR—is for them to follow you around, carrying all necessary knowledge about your life and your preferences.

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HTC’s Squishy New Phone Has All The Things—Even Alexa May 18, 2017

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Imagine you’re HTC. You were once atop the smartphone heap, making some of the best-designed and most impressive Android devices on the planet. Life was so exciting! Then everyone else kept improving, and you didn’t. Samsung, and Apple, and Xiaomi, and Oppo, and, well, just about everybody passed you by. You’re trying to get back into the game.

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The Eye-Popping 8K Madness of Red Camera’s New Super-Sensor May 17, 2017

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Insta-celeb glory requires some deliberate setup. Get more shareable results by putting this photo gear into rotation. The number one rule of influencing is Always Be Gramming. Be ready for the shot anywhere, anytime, by stashing your phonecam accessories in this ruggedly handsome leather bag. That way you won’t be fumbling around in your cluttered backpack the next time llamas escape from the zoo. | $149 Your fans want to see your face at the concert, not a blurry silhouette.

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Review: BlackBerry Keyone May 16, 2017

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For the better part of a decade, there was nothing more impressive than owning a BlackBerry. Walking down the street, both hands on the soft-touch sides of the handset, thumbs flying around the keyboard as you plowed through emails, BBMs, and texts. You could wear ripped jeans and a paint-stained shirt, but your BlackBerry still told the world you were a Very Important Person.

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Sorry, But the Guardians of the Galaxy Are No Fleetwood Mac May 15, 2017

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The song most indicative of the motley crew in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2—you know this because you hear it once in the trailer, twice in the film, and becauseEntertainment Weeklymentioned it in a cover story—is “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac.

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