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7:37

Microsoft Retools Edge, But Internet Explorer Is Forever

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2018/12/07

In 2015, Microsoft introduced Edge, a homegrown browser it pitched as a modernized successor to Internet Explorer, and capable competitor to Google Chrome. Just three years later, Microsoft has raised a white flag, opting to rebuild Edge on Chromium, the same open-source rendering engine used by Chrome. As for Internet Explorer? Two years after its stopped getting feature updates, it's still more popular than Edge ever was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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12:26

The MoviePass Reboot Is Here. But Will Moviegoers...

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2018/12/07

The year has not been kind to MoviePass, and MoviePass, in turn, has been unkind to its subscribers. Its increasingly precarious financial position—parent company Helios and Matheson, lost $137.2 million last quarter alone—has prompted increasingly onerous restrictions on its service, from draconian anti-fraud measures, to surge pricing, to restricting available movies and showtimes so severely that finding a good one can feel like hunting Bigfoot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:03

Review: BedJet V2

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2018/12/06

According to absolutely legitimate research I read about in the Daily Mail, 55 percent of couples say they argue about the temperature at which their home is maintained. While the whole house is clearly a battleground, certainly it’s the bedroom that is ground zero for such squabbles. Stereotypically, women like things hot, men like them colder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:37

This New Liquid Ski Wax Gives You a Lifetime Speed Boost

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2018/12/06

Skiers and snowboarders love to go fast. They seek the thrill that comes from strapping on a pair of freshly waxed planks (or just one) and gliding down a mountain trail with controlled speed through carved turns. To get that speed, competitive racers spend hours crafting the perfect combination of chemical waxes to reduce friction over changing snow conditions and achieve the slipperiest surface between snow and ski. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:00

Waymo's So-Called Robo-Taxi Launch Reveals a Brutal...

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2018/12/05

Waymo, the frontrunner in the self-driving car industry, today announces the moment everyone has been waiting for: It is officially “launching” a robo-taxi service in Chandler, Arizona, wherein riders will use an app to hail the vehicles to take them anywhere in an 80 to 100 square mile area, for a price. “Today, we're taking the next step in our journey with the introduction of our commercial self-driving service, Waymo One,” Waymo CEO John Krafcik wrote in a blog post. Learn more about your ad

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4:26

Porsche Wants You to Use Maps for Exploration—Not...

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2018/12/05

Wherever the future of driving leads us, Porsche is sure of one thing: We’re going to need some excellent maps. And not just for navigation, either. That’s why Porsche is announcing today a collaboration with open source mapping platform Mapbox. Designers from the two companies are working together to explore new ways of using in-car maps, making them more than tools for getting from one place to another as efficiently as possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:38

GM's Job Cuts Are Another Sign of a Future With Fewer...

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2018/12/04

If America’s biggest automaker’s crystal ball is working, the future of cars has way fewer cars. That’s the thinking driving General Motors’ major internal restructuring announcement, which came Monday. The company plans to stop producing many compact or sedan models, including the Chevrolet Cruze, Volt, and Impala, the Buick LaCrosse, and the Cadillac CT6. It will close at least three assembly plants that build those cars, in Youngstown, Ohio, Oshawa, Ontario, and Detroit. Learn more about your ad

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8:34

I Embraced the PopSocket and It Changed My Damn Life

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2018/12/04

The first PopSockets gripper I plastered to my phone's rear-end was a freebie gift thing I received from some company’s swag bag. Amidst the magnets, notebooks, business cards, and other marketing ephemera, there it was: the circular doodad that has leapfrogged selfie-sticks as the must-have mobile accessory for our smartphone-saturated society. When I fished it out of the tote, I felt secretly delighted. Then I felt sort of dopey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:11

Apple Music Lands on Amazon Echo, as Apple Branches Out

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2018/12/03

In news that might help you make some sense of your fragmented, frustrating device set up, Amazon announced today that its Echo devices will support Apple Music starting December 17. It’s a small breakthrough in the streaming wars, one that should help bring some sense to your streaming strategy. And you’ve got Apple’s increasing need to branch out beyond hardware to thank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:22

Putting Airbags Outside the Car Could Make Crashes...

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2018/12/03

Crash a new car today, and you might be surprised by how many airbags spring to your defense. Passenger cars coming off the assembly line nowadays can have 20 or more safety sacks lying in wait. They’re tucked into the steering wheel and dashboard, of course, but they also pop out of seat belts, doors, rear seats, and the ceiling. And now, they might be headed for the outside of the car. That’s the idea behind the “external side airbag,” the work of auto industry supplier ZF. Learn more about your

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5:13

Instagram Now Lets You Share Pics With Just 'Close...

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2018/11/30

There was a time when social media was just for sharing things with your friends. Then you started looking up your old flames from high school, and you added them to keep tabs on who got engaged or had a baby. Your parents got on social media, so you had to add them too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:27

The iPhone Taps Into Google Fi (With a Catch)

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2018/11/30

Since it launched in 2015, Google's Project Fi has quietly been one of the best deals in tech. An alternative to mainstream carriers, it offers simplified data plans, easy international use, and a slew of other perks. The catch: Only Google's Nexus and Pixel phones—and, more recently, a smattering of third-party Android options—have worked on it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:37

Byeeeee, Logan Paul: Brands Prefer 'Micro...

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2018/11/29

Brand-influencer relationships used to be as simple as a YouTuber standing next to a man dressed as a giant tongue. At the very first Vidcon, in 2010, the tongue-scraper company Orabrush sent a bumpy pink mascot to the convention center to strike up quasi-impromptu interactions with early influencers like iJustine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:55

Locals Kill One of Elon Musk's Plans for a Tunnel...

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2018/11/29

Lawsuits, man. Elon Musk’s Boring Company has abandoned its plans to dig a tunnel under the west side of Los Angeles after it and the city settled a lawsuit brought by two area neighborhood groups who opposed the scheme. The project, announced last spring, had entailed building a 2.7-mile test tunnel under Sepulveda Boulevard, adjacent to the crowded 405 freeway, under public property. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:15

Spotify's Year-End Ads Highlight the Weird and Wonderful

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2018/11/28

For many, the year 2018 has held precious few highlights. There’s Gritty, sure, but what else? Climate change rages. Politics divides. It’s bleak. Into that breach steps Spotify, which on Tuesday continued its now annual tradition of finding some levity among its users’ listening habits. The Spotify Wrapped campaign, in which ubiquitous billboards highlight unusual or unexpected stats from the company's user base, enters its third year with a few adjustments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:37

Stop Worrying About Buying Carbon Offsets for Your...

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2018/11/28

You recycle. You keep your showers short. Maybe you even drive an electric car, powered by the solar panels on your roof. In other words, you do what you can to reduce your carbon footprint and protect the environment for everyone. But you’re hopping a flight this week to chow down in Turkey Town, and your math says that one action could undo all your other good deeds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:46

Creepy or Not, Face Scans Are Speeding up Airport...

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2018/11/27

What many people call airports, you like know as that one huge queue. From curb to gate, zig zagging between retractable barriers, from one pinch point to the next—in industry parlance, this is your travel ribbon, flowing, or jamming, through the terminal. Check in, bag drop, security, the coffee shop, the lounge, the boarding gate, the halting march down the aisle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:57

Nearsighted Neoliberalism Helped Mobilize Today's Far...

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2018/11/27

I recently took a trip to Berlin that sharpened my view of America. It turned out that the blandly named conference I'd been invited to—something about digital markets—was actually a giant collective hand-wringing about the state of German politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:17

I'll Never Apologize for My Air Fryer

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2018/11/26

The air fryer, like some of the more superfluous appliances in my house, was a Black Friday purchase. It arrived on our doorstep on a chilly December evening, part of the parade of questionable decisions that my roommates and I had made on the internet: an egg boiler shaped like a hen, t-shirts I didn’t need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:54

Drop the Batteries—Diamonds and Lasers Could Power...

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2018/11/26

Drones have arrived in US airspace, and now they are multiplying. By 2022, 700,000 of the little unmanned aircraft could be exploring American skies, according to the FAA, delivering packages, monitoring traffic, inspecting bridges, and filling other yet to be discovered niches. To do that work, every last one will need electricity to spin its rotors and run its sensors. Most will get it from batteries they take with them to work. Some might pull from the grid directly, using tethers. Learn more

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