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• 100 movies on Netflix that everyone needs to watch

  By Shaun on March 23, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Netflix has no shortage of titles to choose from. By combining its original content, movies, and TV shows, you could go on an endless binge and never crack the surface. But narrowing it down to just movies, you can put… Read More ›

• Amazon just killed Pocket and Instapaper

  By Shaun on March 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The quiet update that Amazon made to its iOS Kindle app took me by surprise because it is a feature I have wanted for a long time. Pocket and Instapaper make great jobs of presenting long articles on phones and… Read More ›

• Say hello to today’s facial recognition tech

  By Shaun on March 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Facial recognition technology represents a valuable, and likely inevitable, method of identification for cops and Feds. Unfortunately, it’s largely unregulated, error prone, and insecure. During a hearing held by the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday,… Read More ›

• Wooden Surrealist Sculptures

  By Shaun on March 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The sculptor Willy Veginer has just made a series of wooden sculptures. Visually his works give the feeling of carved stones. When the sculpture is finished, the Italian artist adds to his works blocks of geometric colors… More at fubiz…. Read More ›

• The truth about a teenager’s bedroom

  By Shaun on March 23, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The mess has a purpose. It says “I have chosen my environment to be deliberately different from yours”. Interestingly, frequently adolescents living in chaotic homes will have very tidy rooms, and the reverse is also true. Whatever you’re doing, it’s… Read More ›

• The Whisky Watch

  By Shaun on March 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Swiss watchmaker Louis Moinet has partnered with Wealth Solutions, a Polish company that specialized in luxury collectibles to add a drop of Old Vatted Glenlivet 1862 — the oldest whiskey in the world — into a glass chamber in 50… Read More ›

• The Lomo’Instant Automat Glass

  By Shaun on March 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Lomography has announced a new camera called the Lomo’Instant Automat Glass. It’s the world’s first instant camera with a wide-angle glass lens. The 38mm lens (21mm equivalent in 35mm terms) on the front of the camera features 6 elements in… Read More ›

• Subscriptions are amazing value in the grand scheme of things

  By Shaun on March 22, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  Netflix £7.49 / month Amazon Prime £79 / year Dropbox £79 / year Amazon Prime Music £7.99 / month When I work out the above, I pay £28.65 per month for thousands of films and TV shows, unlimited music streaming,… Read More ›

• Apple’s surprising(ish) updates

  By Shaun on March 22, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  I’m not sure that the title is correct, but I would be interested to know what you thought of Apple’s hardware updates yesterday. The fact that there was no event is understandable because these were relatively minor changes, but just… Read More ›

• Which of these computers did you own?

  By Shaun on March 22, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  This advert really takes me back, but I didn’t own any of them. I had a Vic 20 followed by a Spectrum (squishy keys) 48k followed by an Atari STE. via Russ.