Week in Review: Regulation boogaloo

Hello, weekenders. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged…

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Jammy’s digital guitar is a futuristic idea let down by today’s tech

Essentially, Jammy is a MIDI controller with built-in sounds. It's not the first guitar-style MIDI controller, but they're not common. There's a good reason for that: They're very hard to do right. There are a lot of moving parts, and the way in which a guitar is played makes it much harder to track and…

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Watch this ‘Heartman’ cutscene to learn more about ‘Death Stranding’

Hideo Kojima's upcoming "cinematic adventure" game for PlayStation 4 is still quite a mystery, but this Death Stranding trailer that debuted at Comic-Con last week reveals more about it. Leaks of the video appeared online recently, but now you can watch it at home in full quality, as the character "Heartman" -- based on filmmaker…

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It’s time to take Google’s Pixel phones more seriously

Of course, that can't all be attributed to the Pixel 3a and Google hasn't broken down what exactly pushed this growth. The pricier Pixel 3s have gone on sale a few times since their launch, which could have helped drive numbers up. But it's almost a no-brainer: the company is selling more units, simply by…

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14 Awesome Online Co-Op Games

It can be tough to gather all your friends to play couch co-operative games every day, but there are a ton of titles to keep the fun going from a distance. We've whittled down the herd to some of the very best games in all kinds of genres: squad-based ninja brawlers, team-oriented zombie slayers that…

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14 Best Deals this Weekend: Cameras, TVs, and an Instant Pot

Amazon Prime Day is a made up holiday, but its effect on mid-summer sales events is very real. Retailers like Best Buy and Walmart are continuing to roll out hefty price cuts on summer essentials all in the name of a suspiciously generic “Black Friday in July” event that appeared around Prime Day. We all…

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Tour the Factory Where Bentley Handcrafts Its Luxury Rides

Most automotive factories pride themselves on how quickly they can stamp out new cars. Last year, Volkswagen’s massive plant in Wolfsburg, Germany—the largest in the world—stamped out about 3,500 Golfs and Tiguans a day. That’s about two cars a minute, using robots, perpetual shift changes, and precisely choreographed, just-in-time parts delivery strategies from a global…

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Great Stunt, Spider-Man! Now Let’s Fine-Tune the Physics

Check out this awesome stunt by young Spider-Man star Tom Holland. Yes, this is for the new movie Spider-Man: Far From Home, but I really don't think it's a spoiler unless you weren't expecting Spider-Man to jump around.Holland is a former gymnast and dancer (he played Billy Elliot onstage in London as a kid), so…

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