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• The quest to save Stephen Hawking’s voice

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Starting around 2009, Wood and several others at Cambridge began trying to separate Hawking’s voice from the failing CallText hardware. The group would include Peter Benie, a computer guru at the university; Paweł Wozniak, a local engineering student; and Mark… Read More ›

• The Phonographic Perambulator Turntable

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The latest creation from Kostas Metaxas is another daring piece of design. The Phonographic Perambulator Turntable is machined from a solid block of aircraft grade aluminum and titanium and features a lathe-turned aluminum platter base… More at uncrate. Sort of… Read More ›

• CDs and vinyl are beating digital downloads again

  By Shaun on March 24, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Streaming music is taking over the recording industry, and there’s no clearer sign of it than this: digital download sales have fallen so much in the past few years that they’re now smaller than sales of CDs, vinyl, and other… Read More ›

• The Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight

  By Shaun on March 24, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  On the wrist, the Black Bay Fifty-Eight is simply superior to most other sports watches within the Rolex family, save perhaps the Explorer I or the Daytona. It is svelte and subtle, and the proper design elements have been brought… Read More ›

• Our mission to buy a fake Rolex on Facebook

  By Shaun on March 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Facebook has a major problem with scammers and fake designer goods on its popular Marketplace platform, contributing to a global counterfeiting industry that is worth an estimated half a trillion dollars a year, or around £358 billion. Marketplace lets users… Read More ›

• If you are serious about fitness

  By Shaun on March 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  As a follow up to my Apple Watch article yesterday, the stats below (which I receive from Fitbit each week) are quite powerful to me in their ability to display just what has been achieved in the previous 7 days…. Read More ›

• “I have yet to meet anyone who owns an Apple Watch who’s passionate about the product.”

  By Shaun on March 18, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  “I have yet to meet anyone who owns an Apple Watch who’s passionate about the product,” Zerella said, adding that Watch sales mainly piggybacked off iPhones sales. Ouch. Apple doesn’t spill the beans on sales figures of its smartwatch, but… Read More ›

• A New View of the Moon

  By Shaun on March 17, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  We took a telescope around the streets of Los Angeles to give passersby an up-close look at a familiar object: a new view of the moon. Great to see.

• You’re probably watching Netflix on a TV

  By Shaun on March 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Netflix says 70 percent of its streams end up on connected TVs instead of phones, tablets or PCs. That number isn’t a shock — Netflix has been clear about the importance of TVs for a long time, and it’s why… Read More ›

• I downloaded all my Facebook data

  By Shaun on March 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Downloading your Facebook history is easy. Just go to settings and select the option to get your data. It took Facebook a few minutes to prepare my information, and then my entire history was neatly archived in four folders. Looking… Read More ›

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