Boone Ashworth

Things Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai Pin

It has not been a great year for the Humane Ai pin. Pitched to the world as an AI-infused hologram-projecting phone replacement you could stick on your lapel, the wearable pin instead turned out to be a sad, bad little device. After months of hype, the Pin was finally released …

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Some Cheap Wired Headphones Are Actually Using Bluetooth

Buy a pair of wired headphones, and you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re just plug and play. Stick them into your phone, and out goes the audio up copper cables into your earholes. Simple as that. Trouble is, that straightforward mechanism has gotten more complicated, and in recent years there …

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Android Now Lets You Edit Text Messages

Hey u up? I miss u babbe. That’s the kind of immediately regrettable text you’ll now be able to salvage on Android Messages. This week, Google announced a bunch of new features coming to its Android mobile platform, and perhaps most useful among them is the ability to edit messages …

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Apple Makes It Easier to Stare at Your Phone in the Car

You’ve been there, sitting in the passenger seat of a car, trying to focus intently on your phone as a way to ignore all your karaoke-belting seatmates. And then there’s a lurch, or a buildup of motion that causes a swirl of unease in your gut. What you’re feeling is …

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Everything Google Announced at I/O 2024

Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference today. The company typically uses the Google I/O keynote to announce an array of new software updates and the occasional hunk of hardware. There was no hardware at this year’s I/O—Google had already announced its new Pixel 8A phone—but today’s presentation was …

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Many People Do Not Like the New Sonos App

Sonos launched a new version of its app this week, altering the software experience that tens of millions of users rely on to control the company’s premium home wireless home speaker systems. Turns out, people really hate it! The response from users on Reddit, on audio forums, and on social …

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How to Follow the Boeing Starliner Mission

It’s been a rough few years for Boeing, but now the company is about to fly closer to the sun than ever before. After nearly a decade of development and delays, the first crewed launch of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft finally has liftoff. Here’s how to follow its journey live. …

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LinkedIn Has Games Now

LinkedIn, the social network that is ostensibly about work, now has a space just for playing games. The company launched LinkedIn Games this week after testing the gaming waters earlier this year. The new puzzle and logic games are free, straightforward, and only a little bit of a ripoff of …

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