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Why Japanese Websites Look Different Than You May Expect
Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different – Cultural, Linguistic & Technical Factors – Randomwire
In the mind’s eye of many
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Stretching the Limits of “Ownership” and Stadia
You're wrong about Stadia — Debunking the biggest myths - 9to5Google
Myth: You don’t own your games on Stadia
On Stadia, your purchase of a game is a license to play that game on Stadia. You can compare that to buying a game on Steam or a digital purchase on PlayStation or Xbox. The
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Helvetica Is Actually a Display Typeface
Gramatika: On Type Measurements, Hyphen Spacings and Other Minor Considerations
The truth is: Helvetica is actually a display font. It
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Rage Against the Facts
Right-Wing Social Media Had to Divorce Reality - The Atlantic
In the hours following the Arizona call, a paranoid conspiracy theory spread rapidly on Parler and in other right-wing online forums: Voters in conservative counties had been given felt-tip pens that supposedly made vote-counting machines reject the ballots that they marked for
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Be Kind to Retail Workers this this Holiday Season, All Holiday Seasons, and Frankly All the Time
This Thanksgiving, stay home. Grocery store workers will thank you. - Vox
If you’ve ever worked in retail, you already know what I’m about to tell you: Around the end of October, a sense of horror begins to build that has nothing to do with Halloween. […] I’m not sure what it is about
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Another Take on the HomePod Mini Sound Quality
HomePod Mini First Impressions - Chris Hannah
Obviously, the main part of the HomePod is what it sounds like. The original HomePod has an incredible set of speakers and can be pretty loud. With that in mind, I was expecting a speaker the size of the Mini would sound drastically different. I mean, still Apple quality,
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The New iPad Air and the 2008 MacBook
2020 iPad Air 4th Gen review: Pro in all but name - MSPoweruser
The 2020 iPad Air 4th Gen is the perfect option for those who can’t quite get together the cash for a Pro device. In fact, with only minor caveats compared to Apple’s more expensive offering, there’s very little reason not
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Converting to ARM Tepidly or Boldly
PC Life After Apple Silicon. by Jean-Louis Gassée | by Jean-Louis Gassée | Nov, 2020 | Monday Note
Over the years, Microsoft’s adoption of ARM has been tentative.Windows RT, a version of Windows 8 running on 32-bit ARM hardware introduced in 2011, didn’t “take”. In 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with Qualcomm
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Uninstall Go SMS Pro Today
From Lifehacker:
The Go SMS Pro texting app has over 100 million installations from the Google Play Store, but popularity
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And the Entire PC Market Went, “Oh Shit”
Daring Fireball: The M1 Macs
What you need to understand is that the best aspects of these Macs aren’t
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Those Geekbench Scores Don’t Tell the Full Story
Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro | Hacker News
I’m not sure what to make of these scores, but it seems wrong that the Mini and Pro significantly underperform the Air in multi core. I find it hard to imagine this benchmark is going to be representative
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Finding Your Safe Space
Daring Fireball: Petulant Wingnuts Push Parler
This is what puts the lie to claims that Twitter and Facebook moderating and labeling content is an infringement on free speech. Don’t like Twitter or Facebook’s rules? Use something else.
That said, I have my doubts that Parler, in particular, is going to work very well.
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The Value of the iPhone’s Telephoto Lens
Neglecting The Telephoto Lens
Yet in stark contrast to my thoughts a few years ago, I thought the telephoto lens
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Bad Marketing Data
Jacques Corby-Tuech - Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data
The numbers are often all we have to prove our case, to get more budget and in extreme cases, to continue to stay employed. We'll remain in this mess until we can separate marketing from short sighted and poorly informed decision making.
It really
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Bug Prevents Third Party Apps from Opening on macOS
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application | Hacker News
And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple is the
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We Did it While This Country was Trying to Kill Us
Joe Biden Was Elected By Black People
And we did it while this country was trying to kill us. Even though a deadly pathogen—police brutality, voter suppression, the coronavirus, white supremacy—take your pick) disproportionately attacked our communities. We did it because they were trying to kill us with knees on our necks, no-
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Empty Stands, iPads, and MLB The Show Sound Effects
Fake crowd noise in MLB created from 30 iPads - Sports Illustrated
The dozens of sounds that came loaded on the tablet for each team were originally made for the PlayStation game MLB: The Show. Each noise has three levels—small, medium, and large—and layering can create additional ones. (An extra-loud cheer can be
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What the Hell Happened with the Pixel 5?
Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budget unwisely | Ars Technica
With so many of Google's "premium" changes being a wash, there are not many obvious reasons to pick the Pixel 5 for $350 more than the Pixel 4a. The most obvious improvement is the 90Hz display and bigger