[ad_1] Kris Naudus / Engadget Despite the Nano’s diminutive size, the D-pad, thumb sticks and buttons are all the same size as a standard controller, just pushed closer together. This is actually a huge advantage for those like myself with small hands, since a recurring issue I have with both Nintendo’s Pro Controller and PowerA’s […]
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Hitting the Books: America needs a new public data system
[ad_1] MIT Press Excerpted from Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto by Julia Lane. Reprinted with permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020. On sale as an ebook now. On sale in print 9/1/2020. Nowadays when people have an appointment to go to across town, their calendar app obligingly predicts how long it’s going to take […]
How it feels to survive Silicon Valley and a pandemic
[ad_1] If RSA’s attendees were even able to score an Airbnb, it was second to the tech companies who’d, for years, packed employees into expensive rentals that once were on the normal-person market. Companies whose fat salaries also pushed rents out of reach for locals. Both had ensured a steady flow of evictions among artists, […]
Deadpool’s animatronic head haunts my dreams
[ad_1] That creepiness begins when you open the box (which incidentally, is fun to look at thanks to the plethora of jokes printed on it). I reached into the package and lifted the head by its jaw, feeling the mechanical bits shift under my fingers. I briefly thought of Gwyneth Paltrow at the end of […]
Tell us all about your Fitbit Charge 4
[ad_1] Fitbit’s most recent release, the Charge 4, impressed reviewer Valentina Palladino by echoing many of the features that made the company’s Surge model so successful: on-wrist apps, heart rate monitoring and onboard GPS. The Charge 4 also includes Fitbit Pay and Spotify integration, making it a solid upgrade from the Charge 3, as well […]
After Math: Twitter's very bad breach
[ad_1] We’ve got a mixed bag of headlines for you this week, what with everything happening at the same time these days. Let’s take a look at Twitter’s worst Wednesday in living memory, as well as some stellar game sale numbers amid the COVID-19 shutdown an… [ad_2] Source link
Apple fans weigh in with their Watch Series 5 reviews
[ad_1] Chris Velazco/Engadget While Apple says the majority of people who purchase one of its smartwatches are first-timers, most of our user reviewers had experience either with other brands or previous versions of the Apple Watch. Michael, who owned the Series 1, waited five years to upgrade and said he couldn’t be happier with the […]
Hitting the Books: How to huck a human into low Earth orbit
[ad_1] The phrase orbital mechanics—like nuclear particle physics or the theory of relativity—is something that makes many people’s eyes glaze over. The average person thinks that subjects like these are far too complex to understand. But if you strip away all the math and simply try to understand what is going on, they are actually […]
Ask Engadget: What’s the best way to annotate digital textbooks?
[ad_1] I’m assuming (or just hoping) you’ve managed to get some of your textbooks in PDF form — those are the easiest to mark up with the right software. If you get an e-textbook from, say, Amazon’s Kindle platform, expect to work with more limited annotation tools. Meanwhile, textbook vendors like Chegg have their own […]
Disney’s new AI is facial recognition for animation
[ad_1] Engadget “So if an animator working on a new season of Clone Wars wants to find a specific type of explosion that happened three seasons ago or as a reference to make something for this current season, that person had to spend hours on YouTube going through video because you can’t find that by […]