Razer Blade Stealth 13 review (2019): A gamer’s dream, at a steep cost

Razer didn't change much from last year's Blade Stealth on the outside. It still features an all-black aluminum case, measuring 15.3 millimeters thin. Compared to most ultraportables, which are getting more polished every year, it still looks and feels like a high-end device. Unfortunately, because of that sleek black finish, it's also a terrible fingerprint…

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The Morning After: iFixit peeks inside the Mac Pro

It should be.Apple's new Mac Pro is unsurprisingly easy to repairiFixit has torn down the Mac Pro, and it's now clear that many components beyond the memory and PCIe cards are trivial to remove and (if you can track down parts) replace. The SSD is an exception given its ties to the T2 security chip…

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Puma’s first ‘active gaming footwear’ is a sock

Exactly how these socks will improve your gaming performance is unclear, although Puma says the product has been designed for indoor and in-arena use to deliver "seamless comfort, support and grip so gamers can adapt to different active gaming modes and game their best." So they might not make much of a difference if you're…

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The legendary Nintendo PlayStation prototype is up for auction

The console ended up in the hands of Terry Diebold after he discovered it among a bunch of items he'd won in an online bankruptcy auction (for which he paid the ridiculously low price of $75), but it wasn't until his son Dan happened upon a Reddit thread about the system that he realized just…

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What a 5,700-Year-Old Piece of Gum Reveals About Its Chewer

Nearly 6,000 years ago, in a seaside marshland in what is now southern Denmark, a woman with blue eyes and dark hair and skin popped a piece of chewing gum in her mouth. Not spearmint gum, mind you, but a decidedly less palatable chunk of black-brown pitch, boiled down from the bark of the birch…

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The TV Show ‘Survivor’ Can Help Us Understand Impeachment

The reality TV star was accused of repeatedly abusing his position. There were calls that he be voted off, which were pushed aside. At a key moment, he received the backing of two members of his faction, who confessed that they cared more about their own viability as candidates than the truth of the charges.…

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14 Gifts for Teens (2019): Hydro Flasks, Instant Cameras, and More

Teenagers are intimidating. What's a Tik Tok? Who is Billy Eyelash? Are streaks painful? It can be hard to keep up with the coolest kids around, and that's especially true when it comes to holiday gift-giving.We informally polled some of the supercool teens in our lives to find out what they really want for Christmas.…

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The Perils and Promise of Artificial Conscientiousness

We humans are notoriously bad at predicting the consequences of achieving our technological goals. Add seat belts to cars for safety, speeding and accidents can go up. Burn hydrocarbons for cheap energy, warm the planet. Give experts new technologies like surgical robots or predictive policing algorithms to enhance productivity, block apprentices from learning. Still, we're…

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Marvel Conquered Movies. Can It Do the Same With Audiobooks?

Over the past decade, few institutions in the pop culture universe have dominated the conversation as much as Marvel. It wrapped things up in 2019 with Avengers: Endgame, which became the highest-grossing movie of all time. Meanwhile, its publishing arm has spent the past 10 years releasing a raft of new, exciting comic book titles.…

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AeroPress Go Review: Our New Favorite Travel Coffee Maker

I came into one of my favorite new ways to make coffee by accident. My friend Trevor got two AeroPress coffee makers for his birthday last summer and sent me home with one, an act of generosity I appreciate every morning when I turn on the kettle.Many people might confuse the AeroPress for Austin Powers'…

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