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Terrence O'Brien

Terrence O'Brien

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    Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 walks the line between budget and midrange.

    Qualcomm’s new chip brings its 4nm process to the lowest end of its 6 series chips. It packs four Cortex-A78 performance cores at up to 2.4 GHz and four Cortex-A55 efficiency cores clocked at 1.8 GHz, a nice bump from the 2-and-6 arrangement of the 6s Gen 3. You won’t find too many phones out there running the 6s, but maybe a future version of the Moto G Stylus can benefit.

    Terrence O'Brien
    Terrence O'Brien
    You can bid on a piece of music history owned by Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider.

    Browsing through the auction is like a trip through a museum. There are iconic drum machines like the Roland TR-606, legendary synths like the Synthi A (mislabeled as an AKS), and rare vocoders, including the Sennheiser VSM-201. There are also pieces of high-end studio equipment, suits, lots of flutes, and... a dentist’s chair? You can place bids online now, but Julien’s will run the auction live on November 19th, starting at 11AM ET.

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    1930s Telefunken Volks-Trautonium Pre-Synthesizer
    Sennheiser VSM-201 Vocoder used in Kling Klang studios in its original case.
    Korg PS-3200 Polyphonic Synthesizer with PS-3010 Keyboard
    Yamaha CS-30 Synthesizer.
    EMS Synthi A “suitcase” synthesizer.
    1980s Yamaha DD-10 Drum Machine.
    Roland Drumatix TR-606 Drum Machine.
    Two Hand-Built MIDI Devices with Matrix Switches & Phoneme Keyboard with Stand.
    Akai EWI-1000 Breath Controller and EWV-2000 Synthesizer.
    Hohner Guitaret.
    Neumann U47 Tube Condenser Mic with Case and Power Supply
    Vintage Dentist’s Chair because... why not?
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    1930s Telefunken Volks-Trautonium Pre-Synthesizer
    Terrence O'Brien
    Terrence O'Brien
    Pebble is officially back in the App Store and on Google Play.

    Earlier this month, the Pebble app returned to iOS and Android with support not just for the new generation of Pebble smartwatches, but also the original wearables. That means those out there still clinging to their old Pebble 2 from 2016 will no longer have to rely on Rebble.

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    Paramount Skydance is preparing to layoff about 2,000 US employees.

    Paramount president Jeff Shell said that “painful” layoffs would be coming after the merger with Skydance. Now Variety is reporting they’re going to begin the week of October 27th. It’s also expected that this will be just the first round, with layoffs to continue through to the end of the year, according to Deadline.