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Sony's Q2 2016 Results: A Merely Acceptable Pre-Holiday Quarter
Sony announced their 2016 Q2 results today and they were honestly a kind of boring release. Their revenues were technically up year over year in Q2, but this was ultimately a down quarter for the company due to currency fluctuations.
But what I really care about with Sony is their gaming division, so let'
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Sometimes the Apple Watch is Absolutely Essential
This Reddit user just got an Apple Watch and needless to say it's made a good first impression.
Why I love Apple from AppleWatch
It's a very quick read, so check out his story.
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Google's AMP Pages are a Raw Deal for Publishers
The Wall Street Journal reports publishers are finding their return on investment in Google's AMP pages a bit lacking.
For some publishers that is a problem, since their AMP pages do not currently generate advertising revenue at the same rate as their full mobile sites. Multiple publishers said an AMP pageview currently generates
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Insane Double Standards in the Republican Party
Did you know George W. Bush ran a private email server from 2003 through 2009? Did you know that his administration and the Republican National Committee have lost track of 22 million emails?
Clinton’s email habits look positively transparent when compared with the subpoena-dodging, email-hiding, private-server-using George W. Bush administration.
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Apple Missing the Boat on Macs?
Owen Williams wrote this piece with a headline designed to rile people up, Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for.
The Mac made its name because it embraced the creative industry where Microsoft missed the boat, but in 2016, it seems like it’s going to miss out
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Maybe Apple's Right and Security IS Important
Remember when this story was making the rounds back in July?
So far, only five companies have launched HomeKit-certified smart home devices. What’s the hold up? Apple has thrown a plethora of challenges at hardware makers, and some developers say one of the biggest is complying with Apple’s strict security requirements on
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Grading the Pixel on a Curve
Rene Ritchie on iMore:
Google made a point of how they controlled the hardware this time, from design to features. Google could have made the Pixel look like anything — like a Galaxy S7 Edge, like an LG G5, like a Moto X, or like something completely new and refreshing. Google carefully, deliberately, chose to make
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Looking Back with Rose Colored Glasses
Check out the opening line from Engadget's review of the ASUS ZenBook 3:
Apple's tiny MacBook was a revelation when it debuted last year. It was thinner and lighter than most ultraportables on the market, and its refined design brought over some cues from Apple's mobile hardware.
You often
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No One Wants to Buy Twitter
The Verge is reporting (via Financial Times) that Salesforce has backed off on trying to buy Twitter.
The emotional roller coaster that is Twitter’s future seems to have hit a new low today as Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells the Financial Times his company has “walked away” from making a bid to buy it.
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The Apple Watch Needs Cellular
Bradley Chambers:
After thinking through the watch's role in our lives, I've finally settled on the fact that the Apple Watch needs cellular. iPhones are fantastic. They are great cameras, and they allow us to carry extremely powerful computer in your pocket. I do see a day coming when I would
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What Is a "Video Game" Again?
This is a fascinating read by Jesse Singal on some people's aversion to the "walking simulator" genre of games. The entire piece is quite lengthy, but it's worth your time.
The video-game culture wars seem to be flaring up a bit. Wednesday, Heat Street ran not one but
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Criticizing the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Screens is a Fools Errand
I was reading The Verge's review of the Moto Z Play, Lenovo's latest phone in the Moto line, and got this this bit about how the phone was able to achieve such impressive battery life:
Lenovo found an approach that allowed the company to make a phone you can charge up
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What Happens When You Accidentally Create a "-gate"
Stephen Hackett on his recent run in with a viral video:
By Saturday night and into Sunday, I felt completely overwhelmed. A 13-second video that I recorded and uploaded in just a few minutes was suddenly bigger than any other single piece of content I’d ever created.
As a writer, I totally appreciate
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Criticizing the Things You Love
Timothy Huneycutt on what it means to love something:
Contrary to popular belief, you can enjoy something and be critical of it – whether it’s a movie or a TV show or a video game or a piece of literature. As fans, we don’t have to divorce enjoyment and critical thinking.
I really enjoy
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On Charging Your iPhone and Listening to Music Simultaneously
The Verge is really not happy about this whole headphone jack removal from the latest iPhones. I know they have smart people working there, and I honestly think they do a lot of good work, but their near-daily pieces on how this decision by Apple is an affront to simple human decency is getting
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Josh Ginter on the Apple Watch Series 2
Josh Ginter is a great writer, and I always enjoy reading his thoughts on Apple's mobile devices (see here, here, and here). Today he shared some first impressions of the Apple Watch Series 2, so of course I rushed to check them out. I agree with him on almost every point.
Originally, I
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MotionMark: The New Browser Benchmark in Town
Well there's a new tool out there for pitting our browsers against each other, and this one comes from the WebKit team. It's called Motion Mark and it's definitely the best looking speed test I've ever used.
We all know that every benchmarking tool has it'