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The Terrible, Predictable Life Cycle of Every Trump...

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2017/06/05

There is nothing Donald Trump can tweet that people won't lose their minds over. Whether it's amasterpiece of design, a Crooked Hillary throwback, or a typo made while falling asleep with a death-grip on his government-issued iPhone, no tweetis too dumb or tiresome to rule the entirety of our daily lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:00

The Physics of Ramming an Imperial Star Destroyer,...

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2017/06/02

The epic fightover the tropical planet of Scarif in Rogue One remains one of my favorite battles in all of Star Wars. Since there is a small chance you’ve not yet seen the movie, I willgive you a spoiler alert. Still here? Excellent. Let me explain the scene. Two star destroyers wagea pitched battle againsta whole bunch of rebel ships. Several Y-wing starfighters disable one of the star destroyers, and a hammerhead corvette shoves it into the other one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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17:01

While You Were Offline: Mr. Trump Goes to Europe to...

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2017/06/01

It wouldn't be a Thursday on the internet if folks weren't irrationally upset over something. The latest installment? A bunch of dudes who are mad that Austin's Alamo Drafthouse is planning a women-only screening of Wonder Woman on June 6. It shouldn't really be a surprise, because if there's one thing men have proven themselves to be throughout history, it's prone to childish overreactions whenever someone says something isn't for them. But let's not dwell on that ridiculous outcry. Learn more

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6:32

California’s Daunting Plan to Clean Up the Big Sur...

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2017/05/31

Last week, experts with California’s state transportation department, Caltrans, looked up at a looming stretch of earth in Big Sur and thought, uh-oh. The land around a stretch of Highway 1, which winds along the dramatic Pacific Coast, was moving. A lot. The officials immediately barred locals from the area and pulled out the workers and equipment working to prevent a landslide. Just in time. Saturday night, millions of tons of rock and dirt poured down in four separate slides. Learn more about

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4:20

Need a Memorial Day to Remember? Ice-Bike the...

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2017/05/30

When I first mount the bicycle—a sturdy Rocky Mountain Blizzard with 4.8-inch-wide tires—and push, I barely move. I grit my teeth, throw my weight onto the pedal, and the bike ekes forward. We power our way along Polar Bear Point among glistening, 6-foot-thick ice caps and sunning ringed seals. After a short time, my legs wobble like jelly. It took five flights to reach the Arctic Watch Wilderness Lodge on Canada’s Somerset Island, roughly 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Learn more about your

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3:24

Sphero’s New Cars Toy Is the Fanciest RC Car You Ever...

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2017/05/29

In 2015, Sphero convinced you to fork over $200 for a tiny BB-8 that was—even for adults—pretty entertaining. Now it hopes you’ll pay $299 for an app-controlled version of Lightning McQueen, the hero of the Pixar franchise Cars. The toy goes on sale online today, and will hit the shelves of stores like Target and Best Buy on June 15, just before Cars 3 premiers in theaters. Is it cheap? No. But McQueen comes packed with more features than the average action figure. Learn more about your ad choices

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4:50

DJI’s New Palm-Sized Drone Responds To a Wave of Your...

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2017/05/26

Isn’t DJI’s new drone just the cutest little thing? The new DJI Spark is much smaller than other quadcopters on the market; the body is about the size and weight of a can of La Croix. It arrives in mid-June for $500. It shoots HD video, has a 2-axis gimbal stabilizer on the camera, and comes with on-board software that mitigates shake and shutter roll. It tops out at 31 mph and stays aloft for 16 minutes. Not crazy-bonkers specs, but it is just so, so tiny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:48

Suck at Cooking? Pinterest’s Computer Vision Can Help

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2017/05/25

The kitchen of the tomorrow is so tantalizing that it seems everyone in tech wants to build it. In a way, it presents a perfect microcosm of how artificial intelligence and ambient computing could change every aspect of your life. Refrigerators that tell you when your eggs go bad. Augmented-reality cooking tips right there on the counter. Recipe recommendations based on your dietary restrictions, seasonal veggies, and that tuna you really ought to use before it turns. Learn more about your ad

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5:08

‘Things’ Might Be the Prettiest To-Do List App Ever

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2017/05/24

Productivity blogs were one of the first corners of the internet that ever felt like home to me. For a certain set of passionate, persnickety writers and readers, there was nothing so fun as debating the merits of Getting Things Done versus The Eisenhower Method. “Eat the frog!” was an inspirational quote, not worrying nonsense. Merlin Mann, Leo Babauta, and Lifehacker were required reading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:16

I Can Gripe About My Ride-Sharing Company to...

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2017/05/23

I work in a casual tech setting and I’m shocked by how much everyone swears. Should I say something? Imagine what it was like to be a Puritan in 1642. You’ve come to America. The landscape is crude and endless; the soundtrack, all hissing insects and howling wolves. “Everything about the place seemed godforsaken,” writes the natural historian Tim Flannery in his book The Eternal Frontier. That lawless emptiness is why you’re here—it means freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:37

The Maligned Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is...

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2017/05/22

When David Lynch’s neo-noir movieTwin Peaks:Fire Walk with Me premiered 25 years ago at Cannes, the audience, famously, booed.That’s not unheard of, but thereaction probably had less to do with the film than its television predecessor:By 1992,Twin Peakshad gone from critical darling to drag. To many, Fire Walk with Me played like a glorified TV movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:42

Google Assistant Comes to Your iPhone to Take on Siri

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2017/05/19

Virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana, and Google Assistant are only good when they’re nearby. The whole appeal of these services—someday, anyway, once they’re past the phase of only being good for setting timers and listening to NPR—is for them to follow you around, carrying all necessary knowledge about your life and your preferences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:47

HTC’s Squishy New Phone Has All The Things—Even Alexa

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2017/05/18

Imagine you’re HTC. You were once atop the smartphone heap, making some of the best-designed and most impressive Android devices on the planet. Life was so exciting! Then everyone else kept improving, and you didn’t. Samsung, and Apple, and Xiaomi, and Oppo, and, well, just about everybody passed you by. You’re trying to get back into the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:53

The Eye-Popping 8K Madness of Red Camera’s New...

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2017/05/17

Insta-celeb glory requires some deliberate setup. Get more shareable results by putting this photo gear into rotation. The number one rule of influencing is Always Be Gramming. Be ready for the shot anywhere, anytime, by stashing your phonecam accessories in this ruggedly handsome leather bag. That way you won’t be fumbling around in your cluttered backpack the next time llamas escape from the zoo. | $149 Your fans want to see your face at the concert, not a blurry silhouette. Learn more about your

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9:17

Review: BlackBerry Keyone

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2017/05/16

For the better part of a decade, there was nothing more impressive than owning a BlackBerry. Walking down the street, both hands on the soft-touch sides of the handset, thumbs flying around the keyboard as you plowed through emails, BBMs, and texts. You could wear ripped jeans and a paint-stained shirt, but your BlackBerry still told the world you were a Very Important Person. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:14

Sorry, But the Guardians of the Galaxy Are No...

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2017/05/15

The song most indicative of the motley crew in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2—you know this because you hear it once in the trailer, twice in the film, and becauseEntertainment Weeklymentioned it in a cover story—is “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:39

Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’ Gives Alexa the Touchscreen It...

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2017/05/12

The Amazon Echo is a stupendously powerful device. It can control your lights, play Ed Sheeran jams, keep a to-do list, check the weather, order pizza, tell guests your Wi-Fi password, and so much more. But as you embrace this chatty-computer future, you begin to see its limitations. Sure, you can book a flight with your voice, but it’s so mucheasier when you can see the price chart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:10

Q&A: David Lynch on Twin Peaks and the Art of...

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2017/05/11

Frank Ockenfels 3 In 1990, American TV viewers were introduced to the bucolic town of Twin Peaks, Washington—and to creator David Lynch's creepy-campy propensity for distorting the mundane. In its short two-season run, the neonoir series netted a pile of awards, earned a cult following, and reset expectations for what a TV show could be, from the cinematography and music to the pervasive sense of dread. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:52

George R. R. Martin Doesn’t Need to Finish Writing...

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2017/05/10

In the beginning, George R. R. Martin created A Game of Thrones—words printed on paper and bound into books sold in shops around the world, to be read by a moderate-but-mighty number of fantasy fans. That was 1996. Fourteen years and four books later, HBO said “Let there be a TV series!” And nothing was ever the same. Since Game of Thrones began, Martin has published just one new book: A Dance with Dragons, the fifth in the Song of Ice and Fire series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:43

Review: Apple iPad (2017)

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2017/05/09

A few minutes after the Eurostar train pulled out of King’s Cross station in London and began its two-hour journey to Brussels, I grabbed my iPad out of my bag. I opened the Kindle app and read a few chapters of Call for the Dead, John le Carré’s first novel. Then I switched to Netflix and watched the new Louis CK special I’d downloaded. I flipped to the camera and took a photo, because I mean, the countryside, it’s so quaint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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