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17 Jul

The best Prime Day deals on bluetooth speakers we’ve tested and reviewed in 2024

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We now face the second (and last) day of Amazon’s Prime Day sale. It's still a good time to buy a new speaker as all of the deals we've highlighted are still live. Sure, we all carry around tiny sound emitters in our pocket, but a smartphone can't beat the output of a portable . (Or a for that matter, but that’s a more personal and in-depth purchase beyond the scope of this roundup). So if you're ready to snag a new speaker that can bring the noise to your living room or back yard, check out the best Prime…

17 Jul

My anxious generation: The unforeseen toll of a digital childhood

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Sign up for the Freethink Weekly newsletter! A collection of our favorite stories straight to your inbox Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. To grow up online is to be an experimental guinea pig, modified with a digital appendage.For those of us raised with iPads in our grubby toddler grasp and iPhones in our middle-school backpacks, a childhood without our devices is unimaginable. A tiny six-inch screen redefined what it means to grow up, hit milestones, and pass time, so much so that this generation’s upbringing is entirely alien even to that of our parents.Algorithmic feeds took over much…

17 Jul

This Samsung Frame TV deal is still 39 percent off for Amazon Prime Day

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Samsung's 55-inch The Frame with white bezel is down to $998 from $1,646 for Amazon Prime Day. If you're not keen on staring at a black box when you're not watching TV, this is the Prime Day TV deal you should seriously consider. While it's still a high price tag for a TV, the 39 percent discount is the best we've seen for this particular bundle.This Samsung 55-inch The Frame TV model offers a QLED 4K screen with a billion shades in full Color Volume. It also has an anti-reflection and matte display so that you can watch TV without…

17 Jul

Another great neovim smooth scroll plugin

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The missing smooth scroll As far as I know neovim does not have a decent scroll feaure, the jumps are so fast you can become confused. I have being using neoscroll for a while, but now I am using cinnamon: -- File: ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/cinnamon.lua -- Last Change: Wed, Jul 2024/07/17 - 08:38:44 -- Author: Sergio Araujo-- -- -- This plugin is for animated scrolling return { "declancm/cinnamon.nvim", version = "*", -- use latest release opts = { -- change default options here -- Enable all provided keymaps keymaps = { basic = true, extra = true, }, -- Custom scroll options…

17 Jul

The next big tech trend will start out looking like a toy

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Sign up for the Freethink Weekly newsletter! A collection of our favorite stories straight to your inbox Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. This article was adapted from Read, Write, Own: Building The Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon with permission from Cornerstone Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.One of the amazing things about the technology industry is how often tech giants miss major new trends and allow startups to rise up as challengers.Take short-form video. TikTok mastered the format before anyone else, catching tech giants like Meta and Twitter off guard. It wasn’t as if these incumbents were being complacent;…

17 Jul

Amazon Prime Day is still going strong and this is what our tech-obsessed readers have bought so far

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Amazon Prime Day deals continue today during the second day of the sale, and our Engadget readers have not slept on any of the best tech discounts this year. While our staff can usually anticipate which items will be most popular with our readers during sales like this (looking at you, Apple gear), there are always a few things that surprise us.Below, we've gathered all of the gadgets our readers have bought in droves so far for Amazon Prime Day 2024 — there are the usual suspects here, as well as a few unlikely additions. If you're even remotely interested…

17 Jul

Viewport height and width units in modern CSS

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As I keep encountering CSS codebases and theme definitions that solely use the traditional viewport units vh and vw, I thought about writing a blog post about the powerful tools we have on our disposal nowadays, that can make our lives easier and our CSS code better. The good old viewport units Long story short, for many years we've been using vh and vw to define something as percentage of the initial viewport height and width. For example, if we wanted to fill the entire viewport of all devices with green, we could do the following: .big-fat-green-element { background: green;…

17 Jul

Enerpoly acquires Nilar’s production line and dry electrode tech to boost zinc-ion battery manufacturing

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Stockholm-based zinc-ion battery company Enerpoly has acquired former competitor Nilar’s end-to-end battery production line and process development capabilities, further enhancing its industrial competencies and promoting European-led innovation. In December Enerpoly was awarded an $8.4 million three-year grant from the Swedish Energy Agency, to establish the world's first megafactory to manufacture zinc-ion batteries. Enerpoly uses patented technology to develop and produce zinc-ion battery cells and packs. Enerpoly’s zinc-ion batteries are suitable for grid or large-scale storage, backup power, and safety-critical applications of energy storage including for maritime use, critical infrastructure and densely populated urban areas. Founded in 2012, Nilar developed and…

17 Jul

How the internet changed news, according to The Onion

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Sign up for the Freethink Weekly newsletter! A collection of our favorite stories straight to your inbox Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. When amateur writers pitch headlines to The Onion, their jokes often flop. One reason may surprise you: They use too many funny words that wink at the reader, “wacky” elements that sabotage any chance at good parody, former Onion editor Joe Randazzo told our sister site Big Think in 2012.“It’s counterintuitive, but it’s that dry tone and that straight tone of the newspaper article — of the kind of AP style of writing, or New York…

17 Jul

This Amazon Prime Day deal on a four-pack of Samsung Galaxy SmartTag2 trackers has the best price we’ve seen

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has been dropping hot deals all week and things don’t seem to be slowing down. One of today’s best deals is for a , which are down to $65. That’s a and a discount of $35. You get two black trackers and two white trackers, so they can sub in during a game of backgammon. We tested and reviewed this product so we know these tags are the real deal.Samsung’s tracking tags are extremely reliable and easy to use, and both are reasons why they made our list of the . This is obviously the best choice for those already…