LG Gram 17 review: The oversized thin-and-light no one asked for

I also like that the display was really bright and colorful. Images from a sample 4K video on YouTube looked straight up gorgeous. Plus, I could place the Gram 17 on the table in a hotel room, and still clearly see characters from my favorite TV shows from the bed about six feet away.Keyboard and…

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30 Best Outdoor and Fitness Deals

We get it. It's drizzly out, it's cold, and your couch is warmly inviting you to hibernate until spring. You don't have to go outside to stay active, but if you're someone who braves the early mornings for your daily runs or beelines for snowy slopes on the weekends, you know the importance of good…

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Space Photos of the Week: Eyes in the Sky

NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for short, recently released a new panoramic photo of the arc of our Milky Way surrounded by an endless array of stars.TESS—a successor to the Kepler Space Telescope, which ran out of fuel in 2018 after almost a decade in space—spends its time staring…

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A New Way to Make Comfy, Durable Smart Garments

Some so-called smart garments—clothing and accessories outfitted with sensors, Bluetooth, and other gadgetry—flirt with the absurd. Does anyone need a $1,000 touch-interface backpack that alerts you if you accidentally leave your phone somewhere? Or a (now discontinued) sweatshirt that tracks your movements and awards redeemable ‘points’ you can spend on gift cards and “VIP experiences”?…

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How to Change the Tires on a Race Car—at Zero Gravity

Red Bull’s Formula 1 team may not have won the constructors’ or drivers’ championship this season, but it did prove its mastery of what happens in pit row. At the German Grand Prix in July, its pit crew set a record stop time, swapping out the car’s tires in 1.88 seconds. Then in November in…

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Six-Word Sci-Fi: Predict a Scandal at the 2040 Summer Olympics

PHELPS CLONE SWEEPS ENTIRE SWIMMING EVENT.—@seanmizerski via InstagramHONORABLE MENTIONS: FIVE-YEAR-OLD WINS FORTNITE GOLD. Brendon Hooper via Facebook // NANOBOTS FOUND IN GOLD MEDALIST'S URINE. @abernalestevez via Instagram // TEENAGE GOLD MEDALIST IS ACTUALLY 60. @chloejayneaskew via Instagram // GENETICALLY ENGINEERED OLYMPIANS PROTEST SEGREGATED GAMES. @admbradford via Instagram // REIGNING SCOOTER CHAMPION ADMITS DNA MOD. @matthew.gilson…

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Ockam raises $3.2 million in seed funding to make it easier for developers to secure and scale their IoT apps

Ockam, a two-year-old, Bay Area-based company that’s selling tools to developers so they can establish an “architecture for trust” within their connected device applications, has raised $4.9 million in seed…

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