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Dominic Preston
Single-use tech.

Pebble’s new smart-ish Index 01 ring looks pretty neat. Less neat? The fact that the battery is neither replaceable nor rechargeable, giving this a finite lifespan.

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I’m sure it probably wouldn’t last much longer than a few years anyway, but not being able to charge it and having it just randomly become e-waste one day is a deal breaker for me

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RAM is ruining everything

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A first look at Google’s Project Aura glasses built with Xreal

It’s kinda like a pair of chunky sunglasses that runs Android apps.

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HP OmniBook 5 14 review: an OLED is almost enough

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A $700 laptop with a great screen and fantastic battery life? What’s the catch?

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Apple hardware vp Johny Srouji reportedly tells staff “I don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.”

After a string of exec departures from Apple, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported a few days ago that Srouji, who oversees the chips that have helped iPhones, Macs, and other devices lead their categories, had discussed leaving for another company.

Today, Gurman reports the exec sought to calm employees, sending a message to his division that said “I love my team, and I love my job at Apple, and I don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.”

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Jess Weatherbed
Power to the pivot.

If you’re hesitant to wrestle a restrictive power supply into your next PC build, then Lian Li may have an ideal solution. Its new RS Series PSU features a rotating AC inlet and dual-sided 24-pin motherboard outputs, allowing it to be installed in a variety of orientations.

The Lian Li RS Series PSU in white and black.
The Lian Li RS Series is available in 1000W and 1200W models, and could make cable management less of an ordeal.
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Meta is reportedly delaying its Phoenix mixed reality glasses until 2027.

The company formerly known as Facebook has had some trouble making its namesake metaverse become a thing. And rumors are that division of the company is facing massive budget cuts. But things aren’t going so smoothly elsewhere, either. Now word is that the company’s next-gen Phoenix mixed reality glasses are being delayed until 2027, according to Business Insider.

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Glasses aren’t the only AI wearable that Meta’s after.

Reuters reports that Meta just bought Limitless, an AI pendant that listens to and summarizes your conversations. It’s a burgeoning category of wearables (see: Bee AI which was bought by Amazon) and hints that like Google, Meta’s interested in perhaps building its own ecosystem of AI-powered gadgets.

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Kohler’s stopped claming its Dekoda toilet camera uses end-to-end encryption.

After Simon Fondrie-Teitler called out the Dekoda health tracker’s incorrect use of the term end-to-end encryption because Kohler does have access to the data it collects, the company has updated the toilet cam’s product pages to now say that user data is “encrypted in transit and at rest.”

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