What You Need to Know About Roblox—and Why Kids Are Obsessed
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Tag: Gear / Trends
Everyone on Twitter Needs an Etiquette Manual
There’s no getting around it: Quarantine is making us weird. Humans did not evolve as social animals for thousands of years to […]
A New Lens Technology Is Primed to Jump-Start Phone Cameras
Phone makers like Apple have increased the number of lens elements over time, and while some, like Samsung, are now folding optics […]
Amazon’s Fitness Tracker Teaches You How to Be Nicer (Kinda)
I was expecting Real to be extremely skeptical about newfangled devices that use cloud-based AI to interpret biodata. After all, human relationships […]
Pet Prosthetics Get a Boost From 3D Printing
Consider the three-legged dog. Maybe you own one, or have seen them in the park or in any of the billions of […]
Free, Unlimited Google Photos Storage Will End Next Year
For well over five years, Google Photos has been one of the easiest recommendations in tech. It’s feature-filled, ubiquitous, whip-smart, easy to […]
The iPhone 12 Finally Gets Magnets Right
Avi Greengart, consumer technology analyst at Techsponential says that modular designs appeal to engineers more than the typical consumer. “You start with […]
Next-Gen Gaming Is an Environmental Nightmare
It’s a sad truth that escapist pursuits are not truly separate from real life, and some even have a nasty tendency to […]
Robots Are Stringing Together These Adidas Running Shoes
For the past three years, the world of running has been obsessed with one technology: carbon-fiber plates. The springy plates that help […]
My Doomed Search for a Bedside Wireless Phone Charger
Smartphones have advanced in so many ways over the past half decade—but battery life isn’t one of them. Most phones still need […]