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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.

Good thing I don’t have any of those things. Discord, Xbox, or friends.  Read more

Ultimately, anyone publishing any material, even if generated by AI, is personally responsibility for its contents. Read more

Muskrat has the right audience for this feature. Vile fascists who knowingly spread hate and stoke fear typically like to hide their intentions and identities. Hide the checkmark, wear masks, put on white hoods, etc. Read more

Buy the fur coat and leave it in the closet. Read more

Too bad they decided to use window instead of linux/steamos... Read more

This is probably going to be great, as Lenovo is making it. My two worries are battery life and price. As to the latter, I'd say 150 dollars more than the Deck.
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Didn’t read the article, had to click it to say just that. Read more

Pearson is the “EVIL EMPIRE” in the educational world. As a 25 year teacher with 14 of those either teaching online or as a educational technology integrationist, Pearson is a garbage scow suckling from the teat of taxpayer education money AND online textbooks are terrible, unwieldy, unusable, overly protected, Read more

I bet the repair shops are going to be so sad that they’ll no longer be able to charge people to clean out the charging port anymore... Because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a phone with a Type-C port clogged with dust/lent when I was repairing phones. Read more

Federal research funding actually requires that publications from any work it supports be made freely available now (with temporary exceptions for embargo periods), but it didn’t for a long time. Sci-Hub helped make this issue more visible and helped motivate that turnaround.
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This is what can happen when you meet the manatee of your dreams. Read more

I’m more than a little disappointed that the headline wasn’t “Oh the Hugh Manatee!” Read more

Ain’t nothing like witness intimidation while on bail to earn you revocation and an extended stay in the crossbar hotel ... Read more