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You’ll Be Able Buy Cars on Amazon Next Year

Need a new Hyundai? Just ask Alexa. This week, the Korean automaker announced it will start working with Amazon to sell some of its vehicles on the gargantuan ecommerce site. The Hyundais purchased on Amazon will not, in fact, come in a very big box, but buyers will have the …

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How to Put Your Driver’s License on Your Phone

How nice would it be to never again realize that you forgot your driver’s license in your other pants? Well, if you have a smartphone—and if you live in one of the US states that supports it—you can start carrying a digital version of your ID with you everywhere. A …

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The Whole of the 'Whole Earth Catalog' Is Now Online

A nearly complete digital library of Whole Earth publications—including the famed Whole Earth Catalog founded 55 years ago by counterculture icon Stewart Brand—has been made available online for the first time. A curious reader can now flip through all the old catalogs, magazines, and journals right in their web browser, …

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Apple Bids Goodbye to the iPhone Mini

In case you missed it, there was an Apple event on Tuesday. The company announced its usual fall slate of new products, including four new iPhones that have one very big thing in common: USB-C ports, which is a big move. But also, these new phones are all quite large. …

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Everything Apple Announced Today

Apple showed off an assortment of devices and software today during a media event at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. The new devices are the ones that typically show up in the fall: phones and watches. For the most part, we saw what we were expecting, though a couple features …

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Nintendo Reportedly Gave Private Switch 2 Demos to Developers

The Nintendo Switch 2 is near, at least if reports about some backroom shenanigans are to be believed. This week, news broke that Nintendo gave private demonstrations of the alleged Switch 2 hardware to developers at the Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany, at the end of August. The news was …

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