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  • Apple Music Wrapped

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    I’ve always been annoyed by the lack of a similar feature in Apple Music; I’m surprised that Apple still hasn’t added a native “Year in Review” option – a baffling omission given how the company is already collecting all of… Read More ›

  • 1 Woman, 12 Months, 52 Places

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    When I started this harebrained experiment in January, to visit and report on the Times’s entire 52 Places to Go in 2018 list, I thought that by stop 48, for sure, I’d be the Wonder Woman of travel: blocking mishaps… Read More ›

  • A door mat

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    Heymat recently added the Heymat+collection of doormats to their collection, consisting of a trio of three-dimensional designs in monochromatic hues. The sand, water, and vegetation-inspired motifs bring to mind the calming effects of designs made in soft sand, and add a tranquil… Read More ›

  • The Withings Move (ECG)

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    Withings is launching two models today: the Withings Move and Withings Move ECG. The Move ECG comes with an electrocardiogram (ECG) built in, and it’s limited in color options. Aside from that, these are the same devices… More here. No… Read More ›

  • The PowerWatch 2

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    Instead, the PowerWatch 2 sits in the much more niche field, a third type of smartwatch appealing to those searching for tough devices they don’t want to worry over. Among the first PowerWatch’s more avid users were ex-military and outdoorsy… Read More ›

  • 1 iPhone X, 15 months, 94%

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    I received my iPhone X on 7th November 2017 and have used it extensively since. I consider myself a power user who uses it for a variety of tasks and who consistently does the following each day- Approx one hour… Read More ›

  • The American Classic Intra-Matic collection

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    Inside these Hamilton Intra-Matic 38mm and 42mm models, we find the same mechanical self-winding movement. Strangely enough, the press kit we received nor the website had any mention of the movement caliber inside these Intra-Matic watches. It just informs you… Read More ›

  • The Fitbit Charge 2 has never been beaten

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    The above review popped up in my Flipboard, presumably by accident because it was from 2016. However, it got me to thinking about where Fitbit is heading and more specifically about the devices that came after which I have tried… Read More ›

  • 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview

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    What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect and cognitive dissonance impact what we think we know — and shares ideas for how we can… Read More ›

  • Film photos

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    Fast forward a decade and a half, to an era when film is as nearly extinct as the planet we photograph it with, and I open that box to find twelve rolls of Ilford HP5 black and white negative film:… Read More ›