May, 2017

• 30 May

  Explore the groundbreaking Colossal Cave Adventure, 41 years on

  

  Some of the earliest classic PC games were called “text adventures,” and consisted of little more than text on a screen, with some rudimentary user-input moving the story along. The Zork series is perhaps the best-known example of this nearly extinct genre. Now, the first-ever text adventure computer game, 1976’s Colossal Cave Adventure, has been …

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• 30 May

  DirecTV Now lands on Roku devices

  

  Roku owners who cut the cable TV cord, you now have another live TV option to consider. AT&T’s DirecTV Now service, which offers live TV channels streaming over the internet starting at $35 per month, is now available on Roku devices. Owners of Roku boxes, sticks and TVs can download the DirecTV Now app in Roku’s channel store starting today. …

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• 30 May

  The Essential Phone is almost all screen

  

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• 30 May

  The thinnest convertible laptop, British Airways boss won’t resign

  

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• 30 May

  Broken fridge? Here’s how to get a good repair estimate

  

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• 29 May

  MSI knows that milliseconds matter, unveiling 3 new laptops

  

  In an arena where milliseconds matter, MSI is making a play for gamers at the bleeding edge of competition. The Taiwanese gaming company took to the stage at Computex 2017 in Taipei amid blaring techno music to announce new laptops encased in sports car-inspired chassis. That’s apt, because we’re not on a frontier where astronauts forge out into a cosmos, …

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• 29 May

  Heavy metal can’t break these smart glasses

  

  Now playing: Watch this: We try to destroy $3,500 smart glasses 2:55 My heart skips a beat as I watch $3,500 worth of tech hit the ground with a bang. I’m inside the test labs at Osterhout Design Group (ODG) in San Francisco, California, watching how engineers torture test the company’s R-7 HazLoc smart glasses. ODG’s glasses are used in …

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• 29 May

  Asus goes big on slim laptops at Computex

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Asus finds its Zen with the world’s thinnest convertible… 1:04 There wasn’t a new ZenFone to be seen at Computex and it feels deliberate. Instead of launching a new phone like last year at one of the biggest PC-focused events in the region, the Taiwanese manufacturer is going back to its roots with a launch of …

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• 29 May

  Flashing lights, magnets and pillows at Computex

  

  On the show floor of Computex 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan, I was distracted by flashing lights and magnets. I’m only human. The source of the luminous nerd catnip was the Allocacoc booth, a Netherlands-based design firm, showing off a wide range of… well, the best word for the varied products is a non-descript “stuff”. They were showing off stuff, ranging …

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• 29 May

  This spinning wheel case mod is a fidget spinner deluxe

  

  I’ve seen plenty of case mods in my career covering tech, but this spinning case is pretty much the best I’ve come across. Made by “Modder Crow” from Thailand, the Wheel of Star took first place at CoolerMaster’s Case Mod World Series 2017 and it’s hard not to see why. The inner components are hidden carefully behind the design, but …

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