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Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’ Gives Alexa the Touchscreen It Needed May 12, 2017

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The Amazon Echo is a stupendously powerful device. It can control your lights, play Ed Sheeran jams, keep a to-do list, check the weather, order pizza, tell guests your Wi-Fi password, and so much more. But as you embrace this chatty-computer future, you begin to see its limitations. Sure, you can book a flight with your voice, but it’s so mucheasier when you can see the price chart.

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Q&A: David Lynch on Twin Peaks and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance May 11, 2017

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Frank Ockenfels 3 In 1990, American TV viewers were introduced to the bucolic town of Twin Peaks, Washington—and to creator David Lynch's creepy-campy propensity for distorting the mundane. In its short two-season run, the neonoir series netted a pile of awards, earned a cult following, and reset expectations for what a TV show could be, from the cinematography and music to the pervasive sense of dread.

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George R. R. Martin Doesn’t Need to Finish Writing the Game of Thrones Books May 10, 2017

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In the beginning, George R. R. Martin created A Game of Thrones—words printed on paper and bound into books sold in shops around the world, to be read by a moderate-but-mighty number of fantasy fans. That was 1996. Fourteen years and four books later, HBO said “Let there be a TV series!” And nothing was ever the same. Since Game of Thrones began, Martin has published just one new book: A Dance with Dragons, the fifth in the Song of Ice and Fire series.

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Review: Apple iPad (2017) May 09, 2017

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A few minutes after the Eurostar train pulled out of King’s Cross station in London and began its two-hour journey to Brussels, I grabbed my iPad out of my bag. I opened the Kindle app and read a few chapters of Call for the Dead, John le Carré’s first novel. Then I switched to Netflix and watched the new Louis CK special I’d downloaded. I flipped to the camera and took a photo, because I mean, the countryside, it’s so quaint.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Is Great—But All Too Familiar May 08, 2017

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If there’s one truism in comic-book moviemaking, it’s that giant superhero team-ups are almost always sure-fire hits. (And then there’sFantastic Four;there are some things reshoots and wigs just can’t cover up.) What’s less true is that superhero team-up sequels will have the same good fortune.

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Huzzah! 360 Cameras You Can Snap on Your Phone May 05, 2017

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360 cameras can be daunting. They look weird, they’re difficult to use, and most are really expensive. But they don’t have to be, as Insta360 proves with two 360 cameras you can snap onto your phone. Insta360 makes the Nano, for iOS (Rating: 6 out of 10), and the more recently introduced Air, for Android (Rating: 4). After testing both, it’s clear that Android users get the short end of the stick here.

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Wonder Woman Is Awesome—But We Still Need a Black Superhero May 04, 2017

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Wonder Woman hasn’t been my thing since the last time Lynda Carter laced up those high-heeled red-and-white boots, back in 1979. (I know they didn’t actually have laces, comic book nerds. It’s just an expression.) But the trailer came out for the new movie starring Gal Gadot, and I clicked on it. I agree with most people. She is Wonder Woman. Gadot looks like she could kick my ass without even noticing that she had. But I kept asking myself The Question.

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What Remains of Edith Finch Is a Great Game—if You See Yourself in It May 03, 2017

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I lived in the same house until I was 18. The same house with its faded blue garage door and thedining room window that facedthe sun atthe hottest part of the day. My family history feels like it’s collected inside that house, worn into the walls like dirt. If I inherited that house tomorrow, I would sell it. Given the chance, memories can overwhelm a place and become invisible barriers hemming you in.

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Elon Musk Layers on the Crazy With His Plan for Traffic-Killing Tunnels May 02, 2017

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For a reporter, trying to wrap your head around TED can be difficult. Famous people stride by everywhere. The sessions come in a deluge of sweeping, world-consequential themes: artificial intelligence, climate change, “the future you.” By day three, the number of noteworthy events has grown so large that trying to cram them into some kind of overarching narrative becomes a kind of journalistic overreach. The Pope gave a TED talk! Al Gore showed up.

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Vignettes Invents a New Game Genre By Enchanting Your Phone May 01, 2017

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It might begin with a table lamp. Tap the shade, give it a spin. Turn the entirelamp, watchingthe red of its body blot out the yellow of the shade—and then the other way arounduntil all the red disappears, drowned in yellow. Keep turning, and you have a lightbulb. Tap it, and it blazes with green light. Turn it just right, until the green becomes just a formless circle, and you have a bowl. Or a guitar! Or, really, it could be anything at all.

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