This week in tech history: Apple pulls the plug on the iPod classic

It's been just over five years since Apple killed off the iPod Classic (henceforth known as the iPod, because it is the One True iPod). Its death on September 9th, 2014 was no big surprise: Sales had been declining for years as the iPhone surpassed it in sales and feature set. Indeed, the notion of…

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Amazon’s ‘Undone’ takes rotoscope animation to new heights

Undone's rotoscoped animation style, which was produced by the studio Minnow Mountain and involves drawing over live-action footage, helps it stand out from everything else on TV today. Every second of the show makes it clear how far we've come from Richard Linklater's Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, thanks to lush watercolor backgrounds and…

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Galaxy Tab S6 review: Good notepad, bad notebook

Samsung also made the buttons a little deeper than before and added a function key so you can use it to trigger shortcuts that have been added to the top row. On the old keyboard, this row simply had numbers and symbols that you could trigger by pressing downshift. Now, you can also get Escape,…

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Ex-Donkey Kong Champ Threatens to Sue Over Record Removal

Competitive videogamer Billy Mitchell is threatening "legal recourse" against Guinness World Records and the Twin Galaxies scoreboard if they don't retract "defamatory statements" against him and reinstate his expunged game score world records within the next two weeks.ARS TECHNICAThis story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews,…

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The Best iPad Drawing Apps for Every Kind of Artist (2019)

The iPad Pro and Apple Pencil 2 are my favorite art tools, hands down. (Learn all about iPads here.) They're the only tools that have ever come close to replacing my box of drawing pencils and sketchbook.There's just something uniquely intuitive about the pairing of the Pencil and Pro that makes me want to draw,…

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New Electrics, New Laws, and Other Car News This Week

Revolutions aren’t slow, and they don’t usually involve booths, swag, and lawmakers up late in Sacramento arguing policy. But we saw stages set for two huge shifts this week: One was in Frankfurt, where automakers gathered to show off their latest and greatest concept cars, a melange of hybrid and electric shinies. The other was…

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The Colonel Sanders Dating Sim Tops This Week’s Internet News Roundup

This past week has been a bad one for a lot of people, including YouTube star PewDiePie, who announced he wouldn't give $50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League because of fan backlash. It also wasn't a great week for the Democratic Party, which held a third debate that showed how disunited the party is on a…

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Fitbit’s Versa 2 Is Useful, but Still Not an Apple Watch

We’re only just beginning to discover how sleep can make us happier and healthier. So it makes sense that, in its newest wearable, Fitbit places so much emphasis on its sleep tracking technology. It's an especially shrewd move, since the newest Apple Watch still has no sleep tech baked in.This standout sleep-tracking feature was something…

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