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Kyle Barr
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Kyle is a Consumer Tech Reporter for Gizmodo, a longtime player of tabletop games and recent dabbler in historical sword fighting.

Wow! So this is the richest guy in the world who has had unquestionable success transforming industries. Musk has had almost all of his success by identifying big entrenched industries... finance, automobiles, space transport, neurology by doing the risky things that I think that the industry itself and, more Read more

musk is so fucking stupid. Even his diehard cultists have been oddly quiet of late given everything going on. Read more

Twitter’s reputation is so bad that I suspect that Elon hopes new people will sign up for X... not knowing it’s the same old sh*t, just in a different bag. Read more

Good, it should have been rebranded day 1 when he started manipulating the app in his favor. This more menacing, dystopian-like logo suits the app much better now. Read more

Wait, X is supposed the new name? I thought it was going to be a placeholder to build hype (I know...) until Musk could unveil the actual new logo. Read more

YMMV, but it’s completely worth it to me and my family. We have a family premium plan, which includes ad free youtube on all devices, plus unlimited access to YouTube music. Considering how much we all use YouTube (much more than we’d watch TV) and stream music in the car it’s a bargain. Read more

I understand why people got on the Netflix train back in the pre-streaming days when they had a large selection of titles available (provided you were willing to wait forever for many of them) yet it still never appealled to me so I never signed up. I just switched over to my library after all the video stores closed. Read more

Yeah, except that they’re canceling those originals after 1 or 2 seasons and burning good will. The folks love the originals, but then they get canceled. You can only have a rug pulled out from under you so many times before you stop walking on them. Read more

I dumped Netflix in protest, back when the Dave Chappel controversy happened. I’m trans, and there’s too much going on that’s hostile and trying to take my rights away so no way was I going to give more money to this company.

Let them continue to shoot themselves in the foot and lose good will and subscribers as they Read more

One good thing about ad the ad tier as it gets more popular is that writers and actors will be better residual pay from it because it’s paid per view whereas the sub gets split to cover pretty much everything. Read more

Same, I’m just waiting for Stranger Things final season before I sign back up. Read more

Give it a couple years and this might be a finished product. But it's Google so they'll probably just kill the whole thing by then.  Read more

Gotta hand it to the big corporations for getting so many people to go all in on this gimmick. It’s not practical as an every day phone because of how fragile it is by design.   Read more

$1100 is gonna be CLOSE to get you to a good place for viewing the glaciers anymore, sadly... Assume like $600 for airfare to Anchorage (true for most nonstop options by Alaska or Delta, roundtrip, economy), you need to get down to a city like Seward (easier with a buddy, I think there’s buses for like $100), then Read more

I am a big time Gadget Dipshit and pixel user, so I reeeeeeeeeaaally want this, especially for the live translation tool. If my current phone bites it before the Pixel Fold 2 (or god willing, Pixel Flip), I am probably going to make the jump.
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Read the same article. Have no idea if it was a freak occurrence, but thinking that it was as simple as the bezel gap being .03mm versus competitors .08mm, means everyone should get a case on that thing immediately. Read more