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• Extra floors, extra steps…

  By Shaun on March 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  After much negotiation I obtained a new fitbit device and unfortunately it is exactly the same as the first one. Continues to count floors which I have not climbed. This is a hardware problem and therefore cannot be fixed by… Read More ›

• Generation Snowflake (is older than you may think)

  By Shaun on March 28, 2019 • ( 1 )

  The two most important things to know about the snowflakes of popular journalism are that they are a) easily offended and b) young. They are po-faced undergraduates at Sussex and SOAS, the new Red Guards who live to tear down… Read More ›

• The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May’s resignation

  By Shaun on March 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  What an abominable circus. It’s hard to know where the greater blame should be put. On the prime minister who has made her own eradication a bribe to force through the product of her failure? Or the great defenders of… Read More ›

• Jabra Elite 65t In-Ear True Wireless Headphones review

  By Shaun on March 26, 2019 • ( 2 )

  AirPods AirPods AirPods! Sometimes it feels as though there are AirPods and a tiny selection of competitors that make up a slither of the market. When I go to the gym I see AirPods, on the train there are AirPods… Read More ›

• Citizen Brycen (AW1590-55E) review

  By Shaun on March 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  So, I finally got my grail watch, a Tudor Black Bay, and was happy. I wasn’t 100% happy because it was the GMT rather than the Black Bay Black, but because the waiting lists are so long to get the… Read More ›

• The Apple TV 4K is bad, really bad

  By Shaun on March 22, 2019 • ( 3 )

  I purchased an Apple TV 4K last week as I needed one for a freelance article and was expecting an experience that was better than the previous Apple TV or my smart TV, because after all I spent £179 on… Read More ›

• The Bulova Computron

  By Shaun on March 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  It was a real surprise to see Bulova bring back the Computron in a form that is not dissimilar to the original from the 1970’s. If you want a timepiece that is unique, this would be a good way to… Read More ›

• Inside the big, twisted industry of neighborhood data collection

  By Shaun on March 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  It was late spring in Buffalo, New York, in 2015 — a season that was unusually hot that year, and heated. The wood-paneled meeting room at Gethsemane Grape Street Baptist Church hummed with anxious homeowners from Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood, where a… Read More ›

• New stuff: AirPods, Kindle and Watches

  By Shaun on March 20, 2019 • ( 1 )

  Apple today announced new AirPods, the second generation of the world’s most popular wireless headphones. AirPods revolutionized the wireless audio experience with a breakthrough design and the new AirPods build on the magical experience customers love. The new Apple-designed H1… Read More ›

• It would take 332,064 years to say the 31.4 trillion digit number

  By Shaun on March 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The value of the number pi has been calculated to a new world record length of 31 trillion digits, far past the previous record of 22 trillion. Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee from Japan, found the new digits with… Read More ›

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