More than at any time since the invention of the pocket watch, modern timepieces are less about telling time — after all, there’s a clock on your phone — than the joy of wearing finely engineered and impeccably styled watches. If you are looking to replace your aging watch or want to find the perfect …
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Future former camera manufacturer Olympus announced (PDF) Wednesday it has agreed to sell its imaging business to private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners. The deal will be complete by the end of the year. JIP bought Olympus’ telecom business in 2012 and snapped up Sony’s Vaio computers in 2014, to name a couple investments. Though cameras is the best known area …
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Modern phones can capture gorgeous-looking video, but they’re not too great at audio. That’s because built-in microphones are tiny and tend to pick up lots of ambient noise, rather than just your voice. That’s not ideal if you’re on a Zoom call or trying to become a TikTok star. An easy, inexpensive solution: A lavalier microphone, one that clips to …
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If you own an iPad ($170 at Amazon) that’s more than three or four years old, you might find it getting a little sluggish. Maybe you’ve run out of storage space, or the processor won’t support the latest versions of Apple’s operating system. Whatever the case, you’re thinking it’s time to sell. (Another option: repurpose that old iPad.) Whatever money …
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Mobile chargers, a.k.a. power banks, come in all shapes and sizes. But not many can actually recharge themselves by harnessing the power of the sun. This one can, and it’s pretty awesome in other ways, too — starting with the price. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Amazon seller Oreato has the Oryto 26,800-mAh Qi wireless solar power …
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Ready to sell your old Apple Watch so you can buy the Apple Watch Series 5? Or maybe you’ve just decided this wearable isn’t the right one for you. (Amazfit Bip S, anyone?) Whatever the case, there are a few important steps to take when selling an Apple Watch. The first is to make sure you’ve wiped everything. The second: …
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Ben & Jerry’s has become the latest company to join an advertising boycott against Facebook, saying it stands with groups and other companies calling on the social network to do more to remove abusive content from the social-networking giant’s platform The boycott, which also applies to ads placed on Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram, begins on July 1, the ice cream …
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In a development that oddly enough bodes well for Apple Macs, a Fujitsu machine has been named fastest in the world. The system, called Fugaku and installed at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan, features processors that are members of the Arm family that Apple will use in its Mac personal computers later this year. Fugaku uses Fujitsu …
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This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. For the last few months of the pandemic, time may have seemed to have stopped moving, but your kids can tell you most assuredly that they’ve spent an entire semester at home, social distancing. Now it’s graduation season, and many schools across …
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Does your desk have so many gadgets that you have a power strip plugged into a different power strip? If so, that’s ugly, disorganized and dangerous. Perhaps what you need is a mega-size surge suppressor that can accommodate all your gear. Something like this Aukey power strip tower, which has a solid dozen outlets and six USB ports. Right now, …
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