Gadgets

As Elon Musk struggles to make people give Twitter $8 a month for a blue check, Tumblr had an idea: what if they offered users $8 for not one, but two blue checks? Yes, you can legitimately buy two blue checks for your Tumblr blog. For the low, low price of $7.99. As Tumblr wrote…

Lorcan Finnegan has a lot to say about the negative effects of capitalism and consumerism. In his 2019 feature VivariumFinnegan uses a young couple buying a house in a suburban neighborhood to represent how capitalism drives people to follow societal norms and get stuck in life’s mundanity. Finnegan explores capitalism once again in his new…

MediaTek is on a roll again with a series of impressive chipsets that promise to revolutionize 5G technology from several angles, including taking it beyond smartphones to devices like fixed wireless 5G routers, mobile hotspots, vehicles, and smart home devices. While the company has already impressed us with some cutting-edge technology in the new Dimensity…

Grab your chili dogs and start blasting some Crush 40 because Sonic is back in action in his latest 3D adventure. When Sonic Frontiers was originally shown off, many people classified it as a Breath of the Wild-like game due to it being set in a massive open world. In some ways, that comparison is…

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week on the podcast, we talked about trouble brewing for bitcoin miners. This week, we had to tear up our plans to cover pretty much anything else and turn our attention to what we think is the biggest story in crypto to unfold this year: the fall from grace…

Greetings on a brisk New England morning. I’m finally here on my long threatened trip to Boston. I was planning to be here in early July ahead of our robotics event, but SARS-CoV-2 and its many variants had different ideas. I narrowly avoided another reschedule on my third time around with COVID, but now I’m…

Yale Assure Lock 2 review: smarter than your average smart lock MSRP $260.00 “The Assure Lock 2 brings tons of features to your front door whether you’re at home or on vacation — but it’s a bit expensive.” Pros Robust smartphone app Multiple available designs Gorgeous touchscreen Highly customizable performance Cons Expensive Entry-level models lack…

Over the course of its fairly lengthy run on Netflix, The Crown has proven to be one of the streamer’s best series. Telling the story of Queen Elizabeth II starting with the earliest days of her reign and continuing as she ages through history, the series has been remarkably successful at melding real-world events with…

Syneroid recently raised a $500,000 round of funding to bring something halfway between microchips and dog collars to market. The company is finding some interesting slices of the market, but the deck, overall, leaves a few things to be desired. We learn more from mistakes than from perfection, so I figured it’d be a great…