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• Tesla Model S refreshed

  By Shaun on January 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The overhauled interior is the star of the show, though. It’s been completely redesigned, marking the Model S’ first major update since its debut way back in 2012. There’s a large 17-inch central screen much like that of the Model… Read More ›

• $111.4bn

  By Shaun on January 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Apple finished 2020 with its most profitable quarter ever as sales of its high end iPhones, tablets and laptops soared amid the pandemic. The company announced that sales for the three months ending on 26 December 2020 totalled $111.4bn and… Read More ›

• The 10th Anniversary of the iPad (the Windows Team perspective)

  By Shaun on January 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• A subreddit (wall street bets) taking down a multi-billion dollar hedge fund

  By Shaun on January 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Why iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera

  By Shaun on January 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Amazon Halo review

  By Shaun on January 28, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• He must go

  By Shaun on January 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Do we expect too much from fitness products?

  By Shaun on January 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Ghosts’N DJs

  By Shaun on January 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• The Mysteries Of Time

  By Shaun on January 26, 2021 • ( 1 )

  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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