Whether you’re sitting at the gate in the airport for your long-awaited trip or just relaxing in your backyard, it’s a great time of year to read a book. The team at gothamCulture has some interesting summer book choices to keep your attention and stretch your thinking. Partner, Tim Bowden, is reading Loonshots: How to…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
The Atari 2600 Lego model. | Image: Lego The Atari 2600 is getting the Lego treatment. The Danish toy company’s latest model is based on the 1980 revision of the iconic console rather than its 1977 debut and consists of a meaty 2,532 pieces (which seems like a missed opportunity to offer 2,600 pieces, but…
Image: Alienware Not content with settling for meeting the industry’s best refresh rates in a laptop at an already high 360Hz, Alienware is going for broke with 480Hz screens (3ms, 300-nit, 100 percent sRGB color gamut) in the M17 R5 and X17 R2. While each model can be configured with up to 4K displays, this…
Trust us, 16:10 aspect ratio is just better. | Image: Dell Dell heard our call in 2021 for more laptops with tall displays and finally answered it a year later. It’s launching the Dell G16 (model 7620) on July 21st, starting at $1,399.99 and going up, and the display seems to be most of the…
The HomePod Mini is a Thread border router. With the launch of the new Thread specification, border routers from different manufacturers can now be part of a single Thread network. | Photo by Jennifer Tuohy / The Verge Matter is getting closer. The new smart home standard promising to make setting up a smart home…
Audrey Malo ON ANY GIVEN WEEKDAY, the United States Mint can churn out almost 126.4 million pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, 50-cent pieces, and gold dollars from its presses in Denver and Philadelphia. Giant “cookie cutters” punch blanks out of 1,500-foot-long sheets of copper, nickel, and other metals. The discs are then heated, washed with citric acid…
Stack Commerce They say that data scientist remains the “sexiest” job of the 21st century. But what’s ironic is that there’s nothing inherently sexy about making meaning out of seemingly incomprehensible mounds of raw data. If anything, the job is incredibly laborious, as it requires gathering, organizing, processing, analyzing, and visualizing information. If there’s a…
The FBI has issued a public warning about fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps after hackers posing as legitimate services stole tens of millions of dollars from U.S. investors. In an advisory published on Monday, the law enforcement agency said hackers have been posing as legitimate cryptocurrency investment organizations in an effort to convince investors to download fraudulent…
YouTube announced today that it’s launching several new shopping features for both viewers and creators. Most notably, YouTube is partnering with Shopify to allow creators and merchants to feature their products on their channels. Eligible creators can now link their Shopify store to their YouTube channel. With this partnership, creators who link their stores can…
Increasingly, absent a federal framework, U.S. states are passing privacy and security laws aimed at protecting people’s data. The California Consumer Privacy Act is perhaps the best known, followed by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the New York Privacy Act and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act. While the laws are a step in…