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• Sathnam Sangher‪a discusses Empireland

  By Shaun on February 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  This is an excellent episode in which James O’Brien talks to Sathnam Sangher‪a about his new book Empireland. I am currently reading this book and it is absolutely fascinating just how much we in the UK have tried to keep… Read More ›

• The $2,800 Foldable ‘Mate X2’ Smartphone

  By Shaun on February 23, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  The successor to 2019’s Mate X, the phone has received a radical redesign and now features a large uninterrupted 8-inch screen that folds inwards, rather than having the main display on the exterior, as with the original device. The main… Read More ›

• 15/05/21 120 days to inactivity

  By Shaun on February 23, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  WhatsApp users who do not accept its updated terms and conditions by the 15 May deadline will be unable to receive or send messages until they do so. Their account will be listed as “inactive”. And inactive accounts can be… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 47 (Relationships, sex and being suitable)

  By Shaun on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  An unplanned episode where Jo and I discuss relationships and how people’s expectations have changed over time. We come to some unexpected conclusions about how such things could actually be better today that they ever have been. Music by Tom… Read More ›

• I miss seeing random strangers do random things

  By Shaun on February 22, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  As lockdown continues and we all get more and more solitary and down about the situation I have continued to try to pin point what exactly are the things I miss the most, and then something came to me that… Read More ›

• Bugs in M1 Macs

  By Shaun on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The new M1 chip is certainly one of the most exciting things to happen in the consumer electronics space in a long time. Though it’s tempting to let our fanfare get the better of us, the M1 does have its… Read More ›

• Omega in the 1970’s

  By Shaun on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  As a fan of watch design, I have developed a healthy obsession with the first generation Omega Constellation Manhattan. The Constellation Manhattan is Omega’s biggest icon introduced in the 1980s. But it’s also one of the few introduced in the… Read More ›

• It’s not the object, it’s where it has been and who it was with

  By Shaun on February 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  A friend of mine, Russ, recently inherited his Dad’s Tudor watch. It is a 1958 Tudor Oyster Prince 7909, the ‘Prince’ word denotes that it is self-winding. This is of course a fairly common occurrence, but it highlights just what… Read More ›

• The Mars Rover has less computing power than the original Apple Watch

  By Shaun on February 21, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed successfully on Mars Thursday, is powered by an old chipset that gives it about the same processing power as an iMac from 1998, according to PCMag‘s breakdown. More specifically, it’s packing 256MB of RAM and… Read More ›

• Xiaomi has fingers in hundreds of pies

  By Shaun on February 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Xiaomi has fingers in hundreds of pies. During the November 2020 Cyber Weekend, roughly 10 per cent of search results for ‘fitness tracker’ in the UK were Xiaomi-related. Xiaomi also accounted for 22 per cent of the wearables market in… Read More ›