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What Not to Buy Your Loved Ones If You Care About Their Privacy

What Not to Buy Your Loved Ones If You Care About Their Privacy

A guide to avoiding surveillance tech
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Will Oremus
Nov 24, 2020
Forget Dark Sky — Build Your Own DIY Weather App

Forget Dark Sky — Build Your Own DIY Weather App

For $180, I built my own personal weather station on my porch
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Owen Williams
Aug 28, 2020
Apple’s Latest Power Move Steals Web Traffic From Publishers

Apple’s Latest Power Move Steals Web Traffic From Publishers

An upcoming change to Apple News+ ‘cannibalizes’ clicks
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Owen Williams
Aug 14, 2020
New Zealand Has a Radical Idea for Fighting Algorithmic Bias: Transparency

New Zealand Has a Radical Idea for Fighting Algorithmic Bias: Transparency

The ‘world’s first’ algorithm charter is meant to inform citizens and fight against systemic issues in A.I.
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Owen Williams
Aug 3, 2020
OnePlus Is Launching an Ecosystem to Compete With Apple’s

OnePlus Is Launching an Ecosystem to Compete With Apple’s

Why pay more than $1,000 for a phone and earbuds?
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Owen Williams
Jul 26, 2020
Zoom Just Launched a New Device for Your WFH Battle Station

Zoom Just Launched a New Device for Your WFH Battle Station

Zoom’s DTEN ME is a $600 tablet designed specifically for video conferencing
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Owen Williams
Jul 21, 2020
Apple Ripped Off Android — and Made Its Features Much Better

Apple Ripped Off Android — and Made Its Features Much Better

‘The list of reasons to stay with Android has grown ever shorter’
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Owen Williams
Jul 9, 2020
Why Your Laptop Webcam Is Still a Piece of Junk

Why Your Laptop Webcam Is Still a Piece of Junk

Thinner isn’t always better for computers
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Owen Williams
Jul 6, 2020
Apple’s Brilliant Plan to Dominate Without Intel Processors

Apple’s Brilliant Plan to Dominate Without Intel Processors

The company solved the chicken-or-egg problem that haunts its rivals
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Owen Williams
Jun 23, 2020
Apple May Finally Have to Answer for Its Unfair App Store Policies

Apple May Finally Have to Answer for Its Unfair App Store Policies

An antitrust investigation in the EU combined with controversy over a new email app spell trouble for the tech giant
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Owen Williams
Jun 18, 2020
It’s Time to Rebrand ‘Cookies’

It’s Time to Rebrand ‘Cookies’

Call them what they are: tracking beacons
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Owen Williams
Jun 15, 2020
Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 Is an Ideal Machine for Light Work

Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 Is an Ideal Machine for Light Work

While it’s still not for gaming, the Surface Go 2 it can handle coding, Photoshop, and more
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Owen Williams
May 28, 2020
Microsoft Finally Made a Perfect Laptop for Coding, Gaming, and Zooming

Microsoft Finally Made a Perfect Laptop for Coding, Gaming, and Zooming

The Surface Book 3 is a true powerhouse
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Owen Williams
May 20, 2020
The Future of Code Is in Your Browser

The Future of Code Is in Your Browser

Cloud-based coding environments like GitHub’s new Codespaces make programming more accessible
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Owen Williams
May 13, 2020
Be a Good Neighbor: Share Your Wi-Fi

Be a Good Neighbor: Share Your Wi-Fi

With a few steps, you can help someone in need access your connection
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Owen Williams
May 6, 2020
We’re All Early Adopters Now

We’re All Early Adopters Now

With billions of people staying home, the innovation adoption curve looks more like a spike
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Owen Williams
Apr 20, 2020
Apple and Google Could Be Better at Tracking the Coronavirus Than a Government

Apple and Google Could Be Better at Tracking the Coronavirus Than a Government

With access to just about every phone on the planet, the companies could give coronavirus containment efforts much-needed scale
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Owen Williams
Apr 13, 2020
The Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Is Hard to Fault

The Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Is Hard to Fault

Unless you’re comparing it to the Surface Pro X
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Owen Williams
Apr 6, 2020
How to Turn Your TV Into a Remote Meeting Paradise

How to Turn Your TV Into a Remote Meeting Paradise

There is no good device for turning your living room into a video conferencing room, but here’s how to hack together a solution
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Owen Williams
Mar 31, 2020
The Surface Pro X Should Scare Apple

The Surface Pro X Should Scare Apple

There’s finally competition for Apple in a space where for a long time there weren’t any good alternatives
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Owen Williams
Mar 29, 2020
How to Prepare Your Wi-Fi for a Self-Quarantine

How to Prepare Your Wi-Fi for a Self-Quarantine

With a little tinkering, you can make bad Wi-Fi work a little better
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Owen Williams
Mar 18, 2020
How to Build the Speedy Home Wi-Fi Network of Your Dreams

How to Build the Speedy Home Wi-Fi Network of Your Dreams

You might even have some fun while you’re at it
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Owen Williams
Mar 10, 2020
How to Stop ‘God Mode’ Abuse

How to Stop ‘God Mode’ Abuse

Making ‘ghost user’ tools safer for customers starts with changing the frameworks that most apps and services are built on
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Owen Williams
Mar 4, 2020
The Internet of Things Almost Starved My Cat

The Internet of Things Almost Starved My Cat

And other perils of the digital age
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Owen Williams
Feb 26, 2020
The Future of Coding Is ‘No Code’

The Future of Coding Is ‘No Code’

Drag-and-drop tools make anyone a maker
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Owen Williams
Feb 17, 2020
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