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Apple’s World Time watch face is a triumph
If you have £7,780 spare and want a world time watch you could go out and buy the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 150m Co-Axial GMT Worldtimer. It’s a fabulous watch and different enough from the usual suspects (Rolex Submariner etc)… Read More ›
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URBAN ARMOR GEAR UAG Apple Watch Silicone Band review
I reviewed the URBAN ARMOR GEAR Active Apple Watch strap recently and it was not good. From the design to the price to the comfort it failed in almost every area for me. And here I am now reviewing another… Read More ›
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Recovering lost software
At the beginning of the home computer revolution, the humble compact cassette was far and away the most popular choice for microcomputer data storage, especially on the European continent. As a volunteer at the Museum of Computing, [Keith] was instrumental… Read More ›
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The UK’s Online Safety Bill
At the draft’s release, British Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden said that the UK was showing “global leadership with our groundbreaking laws to usher in a new age of accountability for tech and bring fairness and accountability to the online world.”… Read More ›
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Emma Raducanu is about to discover she can’t win
Petrifying teenage girls, still in the earliest stages of working out who they might become, stymies their potential for growth. Billie Eilish has always expressed her displeasure with being held up as a “good” example for concealing her body in… Read More ›
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The return of imperial weights and measures
Oh dear god. No one under 60 remembers such units and reintroducing them serves no purpose at all. It’s pure gimmickry, pure theatre and yet more nonsense to cover what Brexit is really doing to our country. EUs trade surplus… Read More ›
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The iPhone 13 and new iPad mini
It was a strange September Apple keynote this year and it felt to me as if it was somewhat light on content. From the Apple TV+ filler segment at the start to the focus on certain new features that would… Read More ›
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Shift happens
Shift happens will tell the story of keyboards like no book ever before: 150 years of keys, from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets. It’ll show the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the awkward,… Read More ›
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A Kindle user interface overhaul
Amazon’s Kindle e-readers get new software updates regularly, and they’re mostly of the nondescript, invisible “performance improvements and bug fixes” variety. But the most recent operating system update (version 5.13.7) is rolling out now, and it refreshes the device’s user… Read More ›
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Did Apple just announce their plan B?
The Apple Watch series 7 was not what we expected. So many recent rumours from trusters rumour rousers were way off the mark and the new devices bear practically no resemblance to what we have available to buy. I say… Read More ›
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