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WIRED Book Club: ‘The Story of Your Life’ Is Making Us Weep, Sometimes in Public Feb 17, 2017

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Our language and our conception of time have much in common. Both proceed as a march, one thing after another. (You’re not reading this sentence backward, just as you can’t travel back in time.) From that, well, straightforward observation spring the wondrous complexities of Ted Chiang’s 1998 sci-fi short story, “The Story of Your Life” (the basis for last year’s hit movie Arrival).

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Caavo’s Set-Top Box Fixes Everything You Hate About Watching TV Feb 16, 2017

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In this golden age of TV, when there’s more on offer than you could pack into six lifetimes, it’s still way too difficult to find anything to watch. All your favorite shows and movies residein different apps, on different boxes, plugged into different ports on your TV. And so you end up paralyzed. How many times have you sat in front of your TV, watching a video on your phone? A medium once so blissfully mindless that people called it the Idiot Box has become an unsolvable puzzle.

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Verizon’s Unlimited Data Plan Is Back. Here’s How It Compares to Other Carriers Feb 15, 2017

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Like John Oliver and baseball, unlimited data plans are back! To be fair, they never left for some people. But one of the weekend’s biggest bits of news is that Verizon just reinstated its unlimited monthly data plan. For Verizon customers, an all-you-can-eat data plan hadn’t been available for new subscribers since 2011.

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Review: Samsung Chromebook Pro Feb 14, 2017

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Over the last couple of years, Chromebooks have quietly infiltrated the computer market. Google's affordable "just a browser" devices are the best-selling computers in schools, and they're percolating around boardrooms and cubicles. Last fall, more people bought Chromebooks than Macs-and that's not going to switch back anytime soon. Now Google's out to convince you, regular human, person of sound mind and reasonable budget, that you ought to buy a Chromebook.

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Beoplay’s H4 Wireless Cans Bring Primo Sound at a Bargain. Kinda Feb 13, 2017

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A couple of years ago, the luxurious leather-wrapped Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H7s were our favorite Bluetooth headphones. The over-ear H7s sounded as gorgeous as they looked, and they even smelled great. The problem, if anything, was the price. At $400, the H7s weren’t the cheapest options by any means. And while the new $300 Beoplay H4s aren’t exactly bargain-bin cans either, they offer nearly the same roster of specs as the H7s for $100 less.

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Flipboard’s New App Learns What You Like, Then Crafts You a Zine Feb 10, 2017

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Flipboard exists in stark contrast to your Facebook News Feed or Twitter timeline. It doesn't rely on your high school friends to share whatever junk they're reading, nor does it ask you to follow the right combination of 800 people. Flipboard's always been a quieter place that you can fill with news stories you like. Today, Flipboard is rolling out a brand-new version of its platform that introduces what it calls "Smart Magazines.

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How To Stop Your Smart TV From Spying on You Feb 09, 2017

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This week, Vizio, which makes popular, high-quality, affordable TV sets, agreed to pay a $2.2 million fine to the FTC. As it turns out, those same TVs were also busily tracking what their owners were watching, and shuttling that data back to the company’s servers, where it would be sold to eager advertisers. That’s every bit as gross as it sounds, but Vizio’s offense was one of degree, not of kind.

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Inside the Race to Invent a Fish-Free Fish Food Feb 08, 2017

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What do a Web 1.0 pioneer, a Russian-born fisherman, and a scientist who shoots lasers into poop for a living have in common? America’s first 100 percent vegetarian trout. Bill Foss, Kenny Belov, and Rick Barrows have spent years weaning their farmed fish off of industrial fish food.

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All Gaming PCs Should Look as Gorgeous as the Wooden Volta V Feb 07, 2017

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You know what gaming PCs look like, right? Big, LED-lit cubes that look ready to hatch tiny evil cyborgs. Lesser Doctor Who villains. Mean but tidy igneous rocks. You get the idea. The Volta V, from Computer Direct Outlet, disagrees. It thinks a gaming PC looks like a beautiful, handcrafted wooden box. Thank goodness. The Volta V, which ships this March, provides a high-powered option for people who equally value inner strength and outer tranquility. It’s a 5.

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WIRED Book Club: Loved Arrival? Check Out Ted Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life’ Feb 06, 2017

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Here at WIRED Book Club, we tend to read newer writers. Ted Chiang isn’t exactly that. Since publishing his first short story, “Tower of Babylon,” in 1990, he’s averaged less than a story a year, quietly cultivating a modest but devoted fan base that recognizes his work for what it is: sharp, spare, intensely thought-through science fiction. “Literary,” as some like to call it.

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