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BlackBerry phones are surprisingly, amazingly, still a thing

The Blackberry Key2 has been officially revealed. And yes, it has a physical keyboard. I miss the resiliency of old-school BlackBerry phones. My old BlackBerry 6220, complete with a track wheel and dorky holster, was built like a tank. I dropped it. I flung it in anger. When I was bored, I tried juggling it (and I’m a terrible juggler). It still …

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Underwear to protect your private parts from your smartphone

Throughout the years that I’ve written about the potential health hazards of cell phone radiation, I’ve seen a lot of products promise protection from the radiofrequency (RF) signals that our wireless devices emit. They’ve ranged from the useless gold-lined radiation “shields” to Pong’s more respectable line of phones cases that promise to refocus RF energy away from your head. At CES 2018, a …

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Apple Store reportedly evacuated after iPhone battery overheats

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. The Apple Store on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, Switzerland, was evacuated Tuesday.  Apple We’ve become used to stories of phone batteries overheating and even exploding. Less common are tales of batteries causing consternation inside phone stores. However, as Reuters reports, the Apple Store on Bahnhofstrasse in …

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Klipsch’s The Three ain’t your grandma’s smart speaker

Klipsch has one of the freshest takes on what constitutes a “smart speaker” at CES 2018 with a pair of resolutely old-school tabletop systems. The Klipsch Heritage Wireless speakers The Three and The One offer the use of Google Assistant with their built-in microphone arrays. The speakers are modeled after the company’s Heritage range, which includes the Forte III, and …

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Samsung’s The Wall makes massive, 146

“Micro”LED is kind of a misleading name, because this new TV technology from Samsung can create truly gigantic screens. The name of the TV itself, however, is entirely appropriate: The Wall. MicroLED is based on Samsung’s Cinema Screen technology, designed for movie theaters. The Wall is the house-size version, a mere 146 inches diagonal. That’s a TV over 10 feet …

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Kodak cryptocurrency technology sends stock price soaring

The demise of the film camera industry didn’t work out well at Kodak, but so far things are working out better with an effort to capitalize on another digital revolution: cryptocurrency. On Tuesday, Kodak announced the KodakOne service, a technology based on the KodakCoin cryptocurrency and designed to let photographers get paid when their photos are used without a license. …

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