Southern District of New York judge Victor Marrero is allowing T-Mobile US and Sprint to merge. This is bad for you if you’re a customer of either one. But it’s great for them. Here’s how it happened and why it sucks.
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Samsung Flip comes back
Retro is a thing right now. History isn’t repeating, but it’s trying to rhyme. The Moto Razr returned to so-far disappointing reports. Maybe Samsung Flip can fare better? All these things come down to trying to use a fold-able screen in a flip phone form factor.
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TEMPEST, the personal weather station is better than sticking your head out the window
You have a phone. You have a ridiculous number of weather apps. Why would you want a personalized weather station? For accuracy and personalized automation. TEMPEST, on Indiegogo, gets you this.
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Tesla sucks
Another day, another example shitty behavior from a big, popular company. This time it’s Tesla who basically shut down autopilot for a purchaser who picked up a used car.
Let’s explore what happened and why it sucks.
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Foundations of Rome: the epic board game on Kickstarter
I’m sure someone else has used this line: Rome wasn’t built in a day, but you could build it in 60 minutes. I mean, you could, if you were playing Foundations of Rome, by Emerson Matsuuchi. It looks like a really fun game for 2 to 5 players. Here’s how it’s played:
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Amazon, again: Ring giving away your privacy to third parties
Amazon can’t win. Whether it’s shady deals with law enforcement, trying to create a surveillance network they control, or just plain allowing their developers full access to all users’ videos, Ring continues to give them bad news on the doorstep.
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Hippies lobby to open source Windows 7. It’s never going to happen.
The FSF (Free Software Foundation) has created a petition to open source Windows 7. Windows 7 has reached EOL status, but there are extended support agreements that require Microsoft to continue to provide updates to customers paying for those agreements. So why do the FSF hippies believe now is the time to change license on Windows 7?
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36 years ago, Steve Jobs launched the Macintosh, and changed the course of computers forever
Everyone at a computer uses a mouse (or trackpad) to point an arrow on a screen with icons and windows with applications. It’s easy to forget that the future we got wasn’t the only one, or how much of the paradigm we owe to that first machine.
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Alpine, Pioneer, and JVC want to upgrade your car
Alpine, Pioneer and JVC all introduced new touchscreen car audio at CES. The over-riding themes this year are, ‘larger screens’, and Amazon’s Alexa for Pioneer.
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Ok, but why couldn’t Sony build a car?
I’ve been thinking a lot about this. What are all the reasons Sony could build a car? Because they’re the same reasons Apple could, for that matter.
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