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I love, love, love reading fanfic (McLennon, helllooooo).

Here are 3 ways to make your fanfic reading easier / more enjoyable since it's off the traditional publishing path:

If you love listening to Audiobooks, download NaturalReaders, upload a PDF of a fic & listen like it's on Audible. If you think you'll listen a lot, I highly recommend getting the Plus Subscription ($19/month). This is not an ad, btw, I don't get a kickback for this. But the Plus Subscription AI voices are so insanely realistic & expressive that you'll feel like you're listening to a human narrator. My personal favorite is Andrew (U.S.). If you don't want to pay, their free voices are fine - it just doesn't pass for human. (Bonus: I use this subscription for work & write it off on my taxes. Then I use it to read long/boring work docs. But duh, fanfic is the real reason I pay for it!) NaturalReaders is my favorite way to consume long fics while I'm cleaning/cooking/driving, including and especially my current fav, On Our Way Back Home. One tip, though: If you wanna listen to a particularly long fic, like hundreds of pages long, it's easier if you split it up into a couple of files before you upload it. It will load much faster and it's easier to manage since it won't have chapter markings like on Audible.

Download AO3 files on Kindle. You probably already know this - but I didn't realize, until recently, how incredibly easy this is!! Here's how: - Download the Kindle App on your phone / iPad. - Open AO3 and download any fics to read as an EPUB file. - If you've downloaded these files on your computer, airdrop to your iPhone or iPad. If you've downloaded on your phone you won't have to do this step. - Go to your downloads or whatever folder it’s saved to. - Click the file with a long hold then select to "Share to Kindle." - Make any changes you want to the title / author's name and then click upload! It'll be available on your phone/ipad in a few minutes. Just like a regular Kindle book you can highlight, annotate, change font size / color, etc. 3. Keep your fics organized on Kindle with "Collections." "Collections" are essentially themed folders on your Kindle. I use them to sort fics into categories: unread, currently reading, and favorite fics that I'm excited to re-read! I also sort based on fandom / length. So "Short McLennon Unread" or "Favorite McLennon to Reread." You could use the folders however you want, of course. One advantage of this is that you can batch upload dozens or hundreds of fics on your phone / iPad and then find which one you want more easily. I love, love, love doing this before an international trip so my Kindle is always fully loaded with hours of McLennon entertainment. Sorry, not sorry to anyone reading over my shoulder on a flight. Do you have any fanfic reading tips for me? I'd love to hear them :)

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There are only THREE MORE DAYS left in my Kickstarter for the audiobook of The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

#20yrsago First corporate sponsorship for an MMORPG guild https://web.archive.org/web/20040426073811/https://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_sectionalt.phtml?site=15&id=108&colid=1675

#20yrsago More non-evil social network ideas https://web.archive.org/web/20040217043710/http://www.ambiguous.org/archive.php3/2004/01/30#quinn2004130.1

#20yrsago When spam-filters attack https://web.archive.org/web/20040529003653/https://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2004/01/30#1075490400

#20yrsago Mobile interface myths https://web.archive.org/web/20040205050015/https://www.acm.org/chapters/chi-sqrd/meetings/20040310.html

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#10yrsago Finally, a legal challenge to US warrantless wiretapping that beats the Catch-22 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/in-rare-move-terrorism-suspect-challenges-core-of-warrentless-snooping-law/

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#5yrsago American prisoners coerced or tricked into providing voice-prints for use in eternal, secret, unchecked surveillance https://theintercept.com/2019/01/30/prison-voice-prints-databases-securus/

#5yrsago After $4.1 billion subsidy, Foxconn cancels plan to build Wisconsin “factory,” now proposing a small R&D facility https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203442/foxconn-wisconsin-lcd-factory-over-jobs-louis-woo

#5yrsago Facebook cancels its all-spying, secret “research” program, Apple cancels Facebook’s developer account https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/1/30/18203349/facebook-research-app-apple-shutdown

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#5yrsago Conducting “evil” computer research, in the name of good https://chi4evil.wordpress.com

#5yrsago Discarded smart lightbulbs reveal your wifi passwords, stored in the clear https://limitedresults.com/2019/01/pwn-the-lifx-mini-white/

#5yrsago Project Atlas: Facebook has been secretly paying Iphone users to install an all-surveilling “VPN” app https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

#1yrago The real scandal is overclassification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/30/i-come-to-a-land-downunder/#but-id-have-to-kill-you

Berliners: Otherland has added a second date (Jan 28 - TONIGHT) for my book-talk after the first one sold out - book now!

Back the Kickstarter for the audiobook of The Bezzle here!

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Adding on - for screens, if you have an iphone, there's not much you can do beyond the generic night mode screen dimmer but for android i have an app called Twilight and it lets you customize the color and brightness so like if you need to be on your phone in bed or smth it can be like ridiculously dark. On computer f.lux is not quite as extremely dimmable option, but pretty good for changing the color to be more red. You wanna reduce reduce blue light because it stops u from producing melatonin bc your body thinks it's still daytime out. Eliminating visual stimuli also good like if u need something to keep your brain busy you could go for audiobooks (libby - free library app that has a bunch) or podcasts.

And if you're on a fucked up sleep schedule like me on night shift :( then most people need blackout curtains and i have mine pinned to the walls w/ thumbtacks. I have an extra curtain at the top pinned across the wall w/ thumbtacks because there's too much light getting in with a normal curtain rod, and they're held together with binder clips.

If you do need melatonin and are in the US, try and find a product or at least a brand which has been verified by a third party, since melatonin is not regulated by the FDA so they can kinda just lie about the amount contained as long as it has the right ingredients.

hello frank! my anxiety kept me awake all last night and now im very tired... do you have any tips for getting a good night's sleep?

Not specifically about anxiety, although that might help. I do like melatonin, even though I've found I need very large doses, and try a variety of calming strategies -- e.g. I'll go on a walk, or I'll watch a show, or I'll listen to music that sounds nice to me.

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Just because I love antique and vintage student aesthetics doesn’t mean I don’t make good use of modern technology. Here are some of my favorite apps to use during study. All of these are free or inexpensive, and none of them require a subscription. Please note that I use an iphone, and I do not know how many of these are available for Android.

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myNoise - Everyone needs some ambiance. No ads, customizable sounds, and it’s pretty cheap to pay for mixes you don’t get for free. I personally enjoy “Calm office” for study and “Rain noise” for sleep.

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Labyrinthos - This one’s for the witchy academics. A lovely, free tool for learning the various meanings of tarot cards, and getting digital readings.

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1. I had no other choice, I hacked an old text to speech computer system to read the remaining portion of the book over night into my iPhone and then listen to it on the plane.

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2021 was not a good year for Big Tech: a flaming cocktail of moderation failings, privacy breaches, leaked nefarious plans, illegal collusion and tone-deaf, arrogant pronouncements stoked public anger and fired up the political will to do something about the unaccountable power and reckless self-interest of the tech giants.

We’ve been here before. EFF’s been fighting tech abuses for 30 years, and we’re used to real tech problems giving rise to nonsensical legal “solutions,” that don’t address the problem — or make it worse. There’s been some of that (okay, there’s been a lot of that).

But this year, something new happened: lawmakers, technologists, public interest groups, and regulators around the world converged on an idea we’re very fond of around here: interoperability.

There’s a burgeoning, global understanding that the internet doesn’t have to be five giant websites, each filled with text from the other four. Sure, tech platforms have “network effects” on their side — meaning that the more they grow, the more useful they are. Every iPhone app is a reason to buy an iPhone; every person who buys an iPhone is a reason to create a new iPhone app. Likewise, every Facebook user is a reason to join Facebook (in order to socialize with them) and every time someone joins Facebook, they become a reason for more people to join.

But tech’s had network effects on its side since the earliest days, and yet the web was once a gloriously weird and dynamic place, where today’s giant would become tomorrow’s punchline — when was the last time you asked Jeeves anything, and did you post the results to your Friendster page?

Network effects aren’t anything new in tech. What is new are the legal strictures that prevent interoperability: new ways of applying cybersecurity law, copyright, patents, and other laws and regulations that make it illegal (or legally terrifying) to make new products that plug into existing ones.

That’s why you can’t leave Facebook and still talk to your Facebook friends. It’s why you can’t switch mobile platforms and take your apps with you. It’s why you can’t switch audiobook providers without losing your audiobooks, and why your local merchants don’t just give you a browser plugin that replaces Amazon’s “buy” buttons with information about which store near you has the item you’re looking for on its shelves.

These switching costs are wholly artificial. By their very nature, computers and networks are flexible enough to allow new services to piggyback on existing ones. That’s the secret history of all the tech we love today.

Interoperability — whether through legally mandated standards or guerilla reverse-engineering — is how we can deliver technological self-determination to internet users today. It’s how we can give users the power to leave the walled gardens where they are tormented by the indifference, incompetence, and malice of tech platforms, and relocate to smaller, more responsive alternatives that are operated by co-ops, nonprofits, startups, or hobbyists.

Which is why this year’s progress on interoperability has been so heartening. It represents a break from the dismal policy syllogism of “Something must be done. There, I did something.” It represents a chance to free the hostages of Big Tech’s walled garden.

Here’s the interop news that excited us this year:

The US Congress took up the ACCESS Act, a law that would require the largest platforms to open up APIs to their rivals;;

The EU launched the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a sweeping pro-competition proposal. The initial draft had a lot of stuff we loved on interop, which was removed from subsequent drafts, and then, in a victory for common sense and good policy, the European Parliament put all the interop stuff back in, and more besides!

That’s not all, of course! There’s also pro-interop action that’s more of a mixed bag: for example, China’s new “cyberspace regulations” (which ban Chinese tech giants from blocking interoperability) and the policy recommendations from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority report on ad-tech, which leans heavily on interop to encourage competition (but is intended, in part, to improve the market for commercial surveillance of internet users).

Beyond state action, there are independent interop efforts from big companies and individual tinkerers alike. On the corporate side, Twitter continues to make progress on its “Project Blue Sky,” billed as “an app store for social media algorithms.” On the tinkerer side, we’re delighted to see the guardians of the Public Interest Internet continue to fight for the user by creating DIY glue that sticks together all kinds of messenger apps, like Pidgin and Matterbridge.

Interoperability is a technical solution to a technical problem, but it’s not just a nerdy answer to a social conundrum. By changing the law to make it easier for users to walk away from Big Tech silos, we change what kind of technology can be built, what kinds of businesses can be operated, and what kind of lives digital users can make.

2021 was a landmark year for interoperability — and 2022 is shaping up to be even better.

(Crossposted from here)

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Overdrive For Mac

The USB Overdrive is a device driver for Mac OS X that handles any USB mouse / trackball / joystick / gamepad / media keyboard and any Bluetooth mouse from any manufacturer and lets you configure. From the developer: The USB Overdrive is a driver for Mac OS 9.x or later that handles any USB mouse, trackball, joystick and gamepad from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either. Mac MP3 players NOOK Windows Getting Started; All Files; You are here: Getting started with OverDrive. Use these steps to get started with free ebooks, audiobooks, and more from your library or school: 1. Find your library or school. Find and open your library or school's digital collection using one of. ColorBurst Overdrive for Mac. ColorBurst Overdrive for Mac. Free to try ColorBurst Systems Mac Version 2.7.1 Full Specs. Download Now Secure Download. Publisher's Description. Libby has a ground-breaking built-in ebook reader, and a beautiful audiobook player. If you prefer, you can send books to your Kindle for reading. Libby is the brand new app from OverDrive Labs. We're trying to simplify and bring joy to every aspect of digital borrowing and reading. If you love it, you can use it instead of the OverDrive app.

You can transfer audiobooks from your computer to your iPod using OverDrive for Mac.

Note: OverDrive for Mac is available for macOS versions 10.6 (Snow Leopard) through 10.14 (Mojave). If you have version 10.15 (Catalina) or newer, see this help article for your audiobook options.

Overdrive For Macos

If you have an iOS device (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch), you can borrow and download audiobooks directly using OverDrive for iOS instead.

Transferring audiobooks

Connect your iPod to your computer using a USB cable.

Open iTunes (if it doesn't open automatically).

In iTunes, turn on the Manually manage music setting (or enable disk use if you're using an iPod shuffle). This is a one-time step that is required to transfer audiobooks to your iPod from OverDrive for Mac.

Open OverDrive for Mac.

Select an audiobook, then click the Transfer button.

When the transfer wizard opens, click Next so the program can detect your iPod. Note: If you receive an error that says 'No portable players could be found...,' make sure you enable disk use in iTunes before trying to transfer.

When your iPod is detected, make sure it's selected under 'Player.' Select the part(s) you want to transfer and click Next.

When the transfer is complete, click Finish to close the transfer wizard.

Where to find transferred audiobooks on your iPod

By default, transferred audiobooks are listed under 'Playlists' or 'Music.'

You can follow these instructions to change where transferred audiobooks appear on your device.

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29 Best Websites to Download Free Ebooks 5 Comments Looking for free eBooks? Here’s our list of the 29 best websites for downloading free eBooks for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Google Play, iBooks, and more. You can download free eBooks in PDF, .epub, .mobi, and more file types. Best Websites to Download Ebooks 1. Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg offers more than 57,000 free eBooks from the public domain. It is free to read and redistribute. There are no fees, and no custom apps required. You won’t find the latest bestsellers on Project Gutenberg, but you’ll find plenty of great classic books available 24/7 at no cost. GET FREE EBOOKS STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX! DOWNLOAD NOW 2. Open Library Open Library is a non-profit Internet Archive that is open and an editable library catalog. 3. Google eBookstore Google eBookstore has an option to access free books from the huge collection that features hundreds of classics and contemporary bestsellers. 4. Amazon Free Kindle Books Amazon Free Kindle Books offers top free books for download. 5. Internet Archive Internet Archive offers more than 15,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. They also encourage our global community to contribute physical items, as well as uploading digital materials directly to the Internet Archive. 6. ManyBooks ManyBooks can read on most of the reading platforms like eReaders, Kindle, iPads, and Nooks. 7. BookBoon BookBoon is the world’s largest publisher of online educational literature. They offer over 1000 free eBooks for you to download. 8. LibGen/Library Genesis LibGen is a search engine that helps you download books and articles related to science. 9. FreeBookSpot FreeBookSpot offers lots of links to free ebooks in more than 90 categories. It is where you can find and download free books. 10. Free eBooks Free eBooks offers thousands of free eBooks to use anywhere you want. They feature some of the best categories such as Fiction, Nonfiction, Romance, Sci-Fi, Self-help, and Business. 11. Ebook Bike Ebook Bike features a huge collection of novels and audiobooks for you to read. 12. Issuu Issuu gives anyone the ability to upload and distribute their publications worldwide. It has over 20,000 newly uploaded publications daily. 13. LibriVox LibriVox is a platform that offers a free download of audiobooks all over the world. 14. GetFreeEBooks GetFreeEBooks features different categories such as Fiction, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Short Stories, Horror Fiction, and many more. 15. FreeComputerBooks FreeComputerBooks features eBook categories such as Computer, Lecture Notes, Mathematics, Tutorials, Programming, and Technical books. 16. Baen Baen features categories such as science fiction and fantasy. It can download in a zip file. You need a special application to unzip the folder. 17. Books Pics Books Pics is a site that you can download free eBooks and magazines. 18. FreeTechBooks FreeTechBooks is a site that you can download free computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes. 19. KnowFree KnowFree is the number one resource for professionals to access free research, white papers, reports, case studies, magazines, and eBooks. 20. Open Culture Open Culture is a site that offers 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smartphone or e-reader. It features different categories that include great works of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. 21. OnlineProgrammingBooks OnlineProgrammingBooks is a free site that can download eBooks and online books including mobile app development, programming, computer science, web design, software engineering, information technology, networking, and databases. 22. LeanPub LeanPub features eBooks on programming languages such as JavaScript, C#, PHP or Ruby and guidebooks. 23. BookYards BookYards provides education materials, information, documents, reference materials, and content that is free to anyone who has an internet connection. 24. FeedBooks FeedBooks distributes over millions of books to an increasingly growing community of readers. 25. The Online Books Page The Online Books Page is a website that gives access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It has over 2 million free books on the Web. 26. eBookLobby eBookLobby divided into different categories such as business, art, computing, and education. 27. Myanonamouse Myanonamouse features over 2million torrents and free for all platform. It gives access to its huge database of free eBooks. 28. AvaxHome AvaxHome features an eBooks&eLearning section among many other categories. 29. O’Reilly O’Reilly is a platform to download books, magazines, and tutorials for free. Free Ebook Downloads Once you download your free eBooks from any of these websites, you can read them on your computer, phone, tablet, or eReader device. You can send your free eBooks to your Kindle device using Amazon’s Send to Kindle feature. https://ift.tt/2Q25Ou9

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i generally never back up my phone, except for once in october i Did, trying time do some sort of audiobook crime using a 3rd party app called imazing instead of itunes

and then like 2 weeks later my iphone deleted ALL my messages with absolutely no warning and i was like. KINDA upset, because i reference old conversations all the time, and i'd had this phone since 2017, until i realized i had most of it on the backup

but my computer is a nightmare and it's almost full so i was using windirstat to see what to delete and it turns out those backups are taking up like a shit ton of my computers space

the only part of the backups i care about at all are those messages from that specific october backup and then i could just delete the app

but the imazing version i have is a free trial a will NOT let me export this in any readable fashion and like. has functions to just export messages but it will only let me have. 25 messages unless i buy the whole thing and i really do not want to buy the whole thing just so i can do this one thing and delete the app. augh!!!!

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Here is a list of apps I have that I actually use. I am pretty picky when it comes to iPhone apps because I hate having random stuff I don’t use taking up space. So every app on this list I use and would recommend.

This list is in no particular order. If you know of any other one I haven’t mentioned let me know. I am always searching for great apps. Also one final note, some are paid apps while most are free.

Social Media

- Facebook and Messenger

- Instagram

- SnapChat

- Buffer

- Pinterest

- Twitter

- Tumblr

- WhatsApp

- Skype

(For an all in one you can download friendly)

Health and Motivation

- Moody (keep track of your mood and day)

- Tally (Keeping tally)

- Grateful (What are you greatly for)

- Do (ToDo List)

- Sweatcoin (Walk to earn money)

- Motivation (Great motivating quotes)

Productivity

- 1Password (Password locker room only remember one password)

- OneDrive (Save files and photos)

- 1Blocker (Block ads, websites, adult content and more)

- RemoteMouse (Use your iPhone as a computer/laptop mouse)

- Truecaller (Block unwanted/spam/scam callers and search unknown numbers)

- ExpressVPN (Great for when you want to use websites/apps not available in your country)

- Spark (My so far favourite alternative mail app. I find it is easier to read/organize and delete)

- carrot weather (honestly this weather app is so funny. It makes jokes about the weather but be warned if you turn the personality to overkill it can use inappropriate language and humour)

- Transit (since Codiac Transpo doesn’t have an app for whatever reason this one works pretty great)

- Phone Guardian (good free VPN to protect you on public wifi)

- Qriket (Spin and watch ads to earn money)

- Down Detector (Having any issues with websites or a certain company, like your internet provider? Check down detector to see if your not the only one)

- Temp Mail (ever have a website you need an email to create an account but don’t want annoying spam emails? Use this app for a temporary email account)

- Text Grabber (used for copying text from signs or paperwork so you don’t have to type it out)

- Sign Easy (Sign documents with your iPhone)

- office lens,

- speed test (Test your internet speeds)

- AppAdvice (check for daily free, paid apps. Most companies make their app free for a short time to get more people to purchase and promote their apps)

- Flipboard (great for reading articles and news on basically any topic you can think of. You can add/follow me by using my email)

Shopping/Stores/Purchase

- Amazon

- Kijiji

- SkipTheDishes

- Cineplex

- Indigo (chapters)

- Tim Hortons

- Pc Optimum

- Domino’s

- Tasty (good recipes and you can create a shopping list based on recipes you like)

- Flipp (flyers)

Education

- Audible (AudioBooks)

- Scribd (basically the Netflix of books, audiobooks, newspapers and etc)

- brainyquote (quotes)

- ted

Editing

- Afterlight

- Enlight

- FotoRus

- Retouch

- Facetune

- Snapseed

- cool fonts and good fonts

- PicFrame

Games

- Monument

- love you to bits

- stone flood

- Tetris

- candy crush

- tiny bubbles

- plague inc

- flow free

- don’t starve

- stack jump

- exploding kittens

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Resources for Keeping Current on Emerging Technology

This post is about keeping up-to-date on technology that is coming out or improving. This can be software, apps, hardware (computers, phones, TVs, etc.) and anything else that fits these categories, even appliances. Listed below are five resourceful websites where anyone can find the most recent - or future - technology.

Techmeme

https://techmeme.com/

This website shows a list of articles from different websites. These websites include information about new or changing technology and programs (Techmeme, 2019). For example, one article is from Bloomberg.com and discusses how Apple bought a United Kingdom startup that will enhance the iPhone’s picture-taking ability. The program, called Spectral Edge, uses artificial intelligence to make pictures crisper with improved colors. It takes an infrared picture and blends it with the photo to make it better (Gurman, 2019).

CNET

https://www.cnet.com/

CNET, or CBS Interactive, offers lists of product reviews, best products in many categories, videos, and gift guides, among other things. CNET has been around for quite a while with reviews of technological products like computers, smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and speakers. This is one of the listed Editors’ Choice products. The 2018 Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is an e-book reader. It has 4.5 stars out of 5 stars on CNET. It is ten percent slimmer than its predecessor, is completely waterproof, and has double the storage space at 8 GB. It now has crisper text and Bluetooth audio capability for audiobooks. The only two cons listed are that is a bit more expensive than its forerunner and the ad-free experience costs $20 more (Carnoy, 2019).

Wired Gear

https://www.wired.com/category/gear/

Wired is an online magazine that gives news about tech gear, news, science, and culture. The Gear part of the website lists products that are new to the scene or improved in some way (Wired, 2019). One of the articles listed is about how Google’s Assistant can translate speech through your smartphone. Google has made it possible to translate your or someone else’s speech language without downloading an app. For the Apple iPhone, the Google Assistant will need to be downloaded, but most Android phones already have this installed. All a user must do is say, “Hey, Google, be my (insert language here) translator.” Then they point the phone’s speaker at the person speaking and their speech will be translated. There is a bit of trouble with deep accents, but this is improving every day. It is necessary for the user to be on the internet, though (Chokkattu, 2019).

Engadget Gear

https://www.engadget.com/gear/

Engadget has sections for reviews, gear, gaming, entertainment, tomorrow, audio, video, deals, and a buyer’s guide. In the gear category (https://www.engadget.com/gear/) there are articles about computers, automated lights, and other things like that. One article I found interesting was about a laptop computer. The Pixelbook Go from Google is now available through Amazon or the Google Store. This configuration includes a 4K display, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage, but is $1399. There are lower-priced configurations starting at $649 (Moon, 2019).

Engadget Gaming

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/

The gaming section of engadget shows different articles about new and updated games. The first article on the page discusses how Amazon’s first MMO will be released around May 2020. The game is called New World and is set in a 17th-century supernatural world. It will include zombies and bears, and weapons of spears and bows and arrows. This game has been in development for over three years and contains a classless progression system, the ability to play alone or in groups, and battles of up to 100 players and non-player characters (Conditt, 2019).

References

 Carnoy, D. (2019, March 14). Amazon Kindle  Paperwhite review: Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite is the e-book reader for the masses. Retrieved from C|NET:  https://www.cnet.com/reviews/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-2018-review/

Chokkattu, J. (2019, December 12). Google  Assistant can now translate speech through your phone. Retrieved from  Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-can-now-translate-on-your-phone/

Conditt, J. (2019, December 12). Amazon's supernatural colonialism MMO 'New World' lands in May 2020. Retrieved  from Engadget:  https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/12/amazon-mmo-new-world-release-date-may-2020/

Gurman, M. (2019, December 12). Apple buys U.K.  startup to Improve iPhone picture taking. Retrieved from Bloomberg:  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-12/apple-buys-u-k-startup-to-improve-iphone-picture-taking

Moon, M. (2019, December 13). The $1,399  Pixelbook Go with 4K display is now available. Retrieved from Engadget:  https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/13/pixelbook-go-with-4k-display-now-available/

Techmeme. (2019). Techmeme. Retrieved from  Techmeme: techmeme.com

Wired. (2019). Wired Gear. Retrieved from  Wired Gear: https://www.wired.com/category/gear/