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• A round Apple Watch with unlimited faces?

  By Shaun on August 6, 2021

  Titled the Apple Watch Loop, this concept by Felipe Duarte does two things – it brings variety to Apple’s smartwatch offering and adds a beautifully-basic ‘Air’ variant in Apple’s watch lineup, just like with their other products like the iPhone… Read More ›

• $649 Dyson Fan vs. $15 Walmart Fan

  By Shaun on August 6, 2021

  When I was young, I was a little obsessed with how cool Dyson fans were. But are they actually worth that amount of money? In this relatively silly video, I’m going to compare it to my $15 Walmart fan with… Read More ›

• The Trump Card

  By Shaun on August 6, 2021

  “The card you select will be carried by Patriots all around the Country,” the first email said. “They will be a sign of your dedicated support to our movement to SAVE AMERICA, and I’m putting my full trust in you.”… Read More ›

• Apple planning to scan U.S. iPhones for child abuse imagery (surely not!)

  By Shaun on August 5, 2021

  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is planning to install a software on U.S. iPhones that will scan for child abuse imagery, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter… More here. This cannot be happening. Surely it can’t…. Read More ›

• McGST Episode 73 (is competition good or bad?)

  By Shaun on August 5, 2021

  

  I started off by talking about competition, with myself, while waiting for my daughter in the car. Excuse the sound quality, but I only had my iPhone handy at the time. When I got home the conversation continued with my… Read More ›

• The problem is not that our politicians are more devious but that we have stopped caring

  By Shaun on August 5, 2021

  As a man of tremendous integrity, humanity and constitutional understanding, Hennessy is the embodiment of what a “good chap” might look like. But the theory itself is more doubtful, either as an account of the past or an explanation for… Read More ›

• How The Left Wrist Became The Right Wrist

  By Shaun on August 5, 2021

  And what happened next? You know what happened next. The pocket watch faded into oblivion, except as an object of fascination for the few, and the wristwatch became the ubiquitous and universal tool for portable timekeeping. And most of the… Read More ›

• How does this person get through the day?

  By Shaun on August 4, 2021

  This tweet struck me in so many different ways, and few of them are positive. It would appear that the word Pfizer = 666 if you discount the letters P, Z and E, and if you turn the 9 upside… Read More ›

• What if the Olympic Games never come back?

  By Shaun on August 4, 2021

  Eight months after these two very different gatherings in Tokyo, the IOC announced that the 2020 Olympics were going to be postponed by a full year due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. By the time they made the announcement, most… Read More ›

• Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking

  By Shaun on August 4, 2021

  In this wise and very funny journey into the outrage industry, Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles explores how by shouting about everything, we have lost sight of the fights that actually matter – and created a world where our outrage feels with… Read More ›

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