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The 10th Anniversary of the iPad (the Windows Team perspective)
The announcement 10 years ago today of the “magical” iPad was clearly a milestone in computing. It was billed to be the “next” computer. For me, managing Windows, just weeks after the launch of Microsoft’s “latest creation” Windows 7, it… Read More ›
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A subreddit (wall street bets) taking down a multi-billion dollar hedge fund
The hero of our story: a user named DeepFuckingValue bought $50k of call options in Gamestop ($GME) that has turned into a $13M+ win in ~3 months. He’s a part of the subreddit r/WallStreetBets, a group of degenerate gamblers that… Read More ›
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Why iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera
Photography as we know it has been around for about 150 years, though its origins can be traced to earlier civilizations. But it has never been so visceral, and so much a part of our daily lives, as it is… Read More ›
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Amazon Halo review
Throughout the day, the Halo automatically tracks the intensity and duration of your movement, as well as your sedentary time. Taking these factors into account, it gives you an Activity Score. Informed by recommendations from the American Heart Association, the… Read More ›
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He must go
The UK government has done everything right in this pandemic. The problem is that the UK government has done everything late as well. Locking down last March: too late and we allowed massive gatherings to take place. Estimates of up… Read More ›
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Do we expect too much from fitness products?
I was reading Shaun’s post about blood oxygenation in the Apple Watch and I was wondering if we simply expect too much? For example, I know that my Fitbit doesn’t count steps accurately – it works fine if I’m marching… Read More ›
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Ghosts’N DJs
In a parallel universe where a life is in a 16-bit pixelated form, the music scene has been dominated by fake artists and DJ’s. They rise to fame and become superstars in the media because of two important tools. The… Read More ›
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The Mysteries Of Time
Physicists in the university’s Research Laboratory of Electronics have developed an atomic clock that takes advantage of the way atoms behave when they’ve been quantumly entangled. A typical atomic clock works by measuring the vibrations at the atomic level of… Read More ›
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Is Apple’s Blood Oxygen solution dangerous?
Initially I found the Blood Oxygen monitor to be a godsend on my Apple Watch at the start of covid, but over time, a short period of time, I found myself relying on it less and less. With a Blood… Read More ›
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Time to Walk
Apple Fitness+ subscribers will be able to open the Workout app on an Apple Watch, select Time to Walk, and choose from one of the audio stories to listen to during their walk. The feature will likely extend to wheelchair… Read More ›
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