The Apple Watch’s journey has been one of constant evolution. Originally positioned as an extension of your iPhone, putting apps and notifications on your wrist has slowly morphed into a full-out fitness device. Not only does it count your steps, but it can detect if you fall then call for help, monitor how noisy your …
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16 March
Apple Maps can help you find a COVID
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The latest update to Apple Maps could make it easier to find a COVID-19 vaccine. The tech giant partnered with VaccineFinder, a free service developed by Boston Children’s Hospital, to add 20,000 vaccine locations to Apple Maps. You can find locations near you …
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16 March
Elon Musk decides not to sell his techno song about NFTs as an NFT
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has changed his mind about selling a song about NFTs — short for “nonfungible tokens,” basically digital certificates of authenticity — as an NFT. “Actually, doesn’t feel quite right selling this. Will pass,” he tweeted Tuesday afternoon. Selling the song would have given the buyer the digital rights to ownership of the song. On Monday, he had tweeted …
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16 March
LastPass review: A leading password manager with a changing value proposition
“‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ is all wrong. I tell you ‘put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'” — Andrew Carnegie, 1885 When it comes to privacy tools, Andrew Carnegie is usually dead wrong. In the case of password managers, however, Carnegie is usually more dead than wrong. So much of our online privacy and …
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16 March
Intel Core i9
Laptops may be getting most of the attention these days, but us power users still won’t relinquish our desktops. When you need speed and connections, there’s something to be said for a full-size graphics card, a multitude of USB ports and more space for memory and storage. So even though Intel only briefly floated its 11th-generation desktop CPUs at CES …
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16 March
Corsair K65 RGB Mini gaming keyboard hands
Maybe it’s the increase in people working from home. Or maybe gamers are just growing tired of large, command-center-style keyboards. Whatever the reason, 60% gaming keyboards — a subcategory with a footprint about, you guessed it, 60% as big as a full-size keyboard — are more plentiful than they were last year. That’s why Corsair adding the compact K65 RGB …
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16 March
Hitchhiker, a road trip into your own mysterious past, is cruising into Apple Arcade soon
Hitchhiker — a new mystery game from Versus Evil and Mad About Pandas — is coming soon to Apple Arcade. In the game, you play as a hitchhiker with no memory of your past or your destination. By catching rides with five strangers across a landscape of rolling hills, you must try and figure out who you are as well as …
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16 March
Uber drivers in the UK to be reclassified as workers following court ruling
Uber drivers in the UK will soon be considered workers for the company, as reported earlier by Bloomberg on Tuesday. They’ll receive minimum wage, vacation pay and other benefits starting Wednesday. More than 70,000 drivers will become Uber workers this week after the UK Supreme Court ruled in February against the company for how it designated its drivers. Along with minimum wage and …
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16 March
Nubia brings a 165Hz display to its RedMagic 6 Series gaming phones
The past few years have seen smartphone displays gain increasingly faster refresh rates that allow smoother scrolling and better handling of tasks like gaming. After Nubia’s RedMagic 5G featured a 144Hz refresh rate last year, the company is once again pushing the limits with a new 165Hz display on its RedMagic 6 Series. The new 6.8-inch FHD Plus display will …
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16 March
Facebook finds that half of most vaccine
Facebook has been working on removing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories from its platform, having banned false and misleading statements since December. However, some posts that aren’t factually wrong but could cause “vaccine hesitancy” aren’t necessarily violating any policies — and Facebook has reportedly found that half of most of this gray-area content has been contributed by just over 100 accounts. Facebook …
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