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Dark Sky was Always a Bit of a Weirdo
Russell Jacobs: The World’s Best Terrible Weather App
Indeed, Dark Sky’s big innovation wasn’t simply that its map was gorgeous and user-friendly: The radar map was the forecast. Instead of pulling information about air pressure and humidity and temperature and calculating all of the messy variables that contribute to the weather—
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The Unlikely Rise of Barnes & Noble
Ted Gioia: What Can We Learn From Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
“Staff are now in control of their own shops,” he explained. “Hopefully they’re enjoying their work more. They’re creating something very different in each store.”
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Then it started to happen—book sales at Barnes & Noble began rising
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The Unnamed Baddies
Joshua Rivera: 2022 Was Pop Culture’s Year of Violent Denial
In the final season of The Good Fight, unrest is always present. On one side, there is a crowd protesting. On the other, there is police. Across all 10 episodes, it’s never said what the assembled crowd is angry about. The only thing
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Social Media Companies are Economically Motivated to Make Us Hate Strangers
Sarah Frier: Why Your Friends Are Disappearing From Your Social Feeds
When I accidentally tap on any one of the alerts, I enter apps desperate to guide me to content from people I don’t know — posts that I might be momentarily mesmerized by and never remember, touting gardening hacks or unique pastry designs.
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Miss Anthropocene (365 Albums)
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Rubber Soul (365 Albums)
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Licensed to Ill (365 Albums)
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Benchmarks Need to Represent Actual Usage
DXOMARK: Always-on Display: How Does It Affect Battery Life?
The results of our battery tests revealed that autonomy was largely impacted by this always-on screen feature, draining the battery about 4 times faster! The battery will last roughly 100 hours in idle when activating the feature, instead of 400 if the feature is
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North (365 Albums)
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Viva Las Vengeance (365 Albums)
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The Loneliest Time (365 Albums)
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The Car (365 Albums)
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Expert in a Dying Field (365 Albums)
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Lucifer on the Sofa (365 Albums)
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The Rise - EP (365 Albums)
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Twitter is Allowed to Make Terrible Decisions
Ben Thompson: Twitter’s Link Ban, Network Portability, China and the Trailing Edge
Twitter can, of course, do what it wants: it is a private company. I recognize that is an unsatisfactory answer, but perhaps the degree to which it has always been unsatisfactory will now resonate more broadly. An extension of this argument is
