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The wait was worth it thanks to a host of smart updates to sound and fit. I guess heart rate monitoring is there, too.
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After three years, the hunt for my perfect foundation shade is finally over.
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The company goes legit with a European lineup that can’t be hacked.
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Can Framework fix budget laptops next? That’s the goal, and Framework CEO Nirav Patel says he’ll be dogfooding it himself, making this 12-inch laptop his daily driver for the foreseeable future. He wouldn’t tell me just how budget it’ll go yet.
It’s a watch. It’s a ring. It’s more jewelry than either, and that’s what makes it special.
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Wrong price, wrong guts.
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A giant battery-powered dual-zone refrigerator / freezer on wheels.
Right after I published this review, the price increased to $79 from $39. That’s a big jump. While optional, the subscription adds the Sidekick feature, which I found very useful, so I’ve updated the review with my thoughts.
The company says it will honor the old price for current users, that the new price “reflects the full suite of new features” it has added to Plus, and that it will “continue investing in Plus through new features and expanding Sidekick.”
It’s the DJI Osmo Mobile 7 Pro. Personally, I prefer the Osmo Pocket 3’s dedicated camera instead of slapping my smartphone on a stick, but these hidden legs, arm, and snap-on eye are all pretty cool!
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An AI-powered Sidekick kicks this smart calendar display up a gear.
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The thinnest foldable in the world might mark the start of diminishing returns.
0The RTX 5070 Ti delivers almost identical performance to the RTX 4080 with slightly less power draw.
Amazon’s now rolling out all the latest Kindle Scribe AI features to 2024 and 2022 Scribe owners in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. As I wrote in my review, the AI features are the 2024 Scribe’s most notable upgrade as they let you directly annotate a wider range of Kindle ebook pages.
The news comes a couple of weeks after Amazon also started letting users scribble down notes in expandable margins.
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Three-way multipoint, even better sound, and a more comfortable design make these appealing if you’re willing to splurge.
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A capable Lunar Lake chipset and great screen would have made this a killer laptop, if it weren’t for several unforced errors on Dell’s part.
There’s something very familiar about this year’s S-series phones.
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Basically a Teenage Engineering greatest hits compilation.
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Anytime I felt irked by the Active 2’s quirks, I’d remind myself that the watch on my wrist only cost $130.
Clean water for the end of the world and the roads that go there.
The Classic-GLO is an $89 glow-in-the-dark mechanical keyboard kit from Novelkeys. It’s just as fun to build and nice to type on as the Classic-TKL I tested and really liked last year, and now it glows in the dark. You know, just in case you need a little more joy on your desk. It comes in three colors, and I tried them all. Check it out:
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The Helio has a lot of features for a good price, but battery life needs to improve if it’s going to stand out.
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Still big. Still great. But Samsung is losing the plot on what makes the Ultra so extra.
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The RTX 5080 is smaller and a little faster than the RTX 4080 Super — and still $999.
Live AI is neat, but the problem is knowing when (and why) you’d want to use it.
0The $150 RGB laptop stand can keep any laptop cool, and on a few Razer Blade 16 gaming laptops, it can even improve 1080p performance.
The RTX 5090 fits in an Ncase M1, with a few caveats.
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The next-gen GPU battle begins with Nvidia alone at the top.
