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Decrypted: Path Rights Its Course
It’s entirely possible that you have no idea what Path is. Until recently it had been floundering mightily.
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TechWith Zwift, Cycling Meets Video Game
Zwift is the marriage of video games and cycling trainers.
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TechDecrypted: Caution in the Age of the Quantified Self
Tracking your health and fitness with the help of smartphone apps and wearables is fun and motivating; auto insurers are now allowing drivers tracking options to prove their safety and save money.
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TechThe State of Wearables, 2014
Wearable tech is a growing and increasingly diverse market; they all track distance and calories, and most tell time. They all have their pitfalls — battery life, compatibility, reliability, size, price — but what determines the best device is your individual needs.
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TechWho Needs Wearables? These Smartphones and Apps Might Be All You Need
The ostensible benefit of smart watches and health trackers, as far as health goes, is that they allow you to monitor your calories, heart rate, and step count with previously unmatched accuracy.
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TechMeet the iBuckle, This Autumn’s Must-Have Wearable
With the release of the Apple Watch, wrist wearables may finally be finding their stride. But who cares?
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TechMeet the Only Smartphone with Dynamic Perspective
Sci-fi movies have teased us with the power and convenience of 3D interfaces for years. But Amazon’s newly launched Fire Phone, available exclusively at AT&T, proves that the wait for an advanced smartphone interface that harnesses the full potential of 3D is finally over.
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TechDecrypted: Apple Pay Will Kill the Wallet — Eventually
With the debut of the iPhone 6 (and 6 Plus) came a nugget so substantial that it deserved its own introduction: Apple Pay.
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TechThe Apple Watch Is Here. Now What?
Back in August, we argued that smartwatches simply weren’t worth the investment (yet, anyway) for most people. The question, of course, was whether or not Apple’s entry into the space would break away from that mold in any significant manner.
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TechAdventurer or Assassin, GoTenna Takes Peer-to-Peer Communication Off the Grid
What do hikers, disaster survivors and Walter White have in common? They all need to communicate without a cell tower.
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Decrypted: The State of Drones in America, Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
Drones both commercial and noncommercial face a slew of bureaucratic challenges in the near future.
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TechTested: Slingbox M1
It’s easy to think that the ground made up by “TV Anywhere” streaming services from television providers as well as on demand resources like Netflix, Hulu Plus and HBO GO have made owning a dedicated device like the Slingbox M1 irrelevant. But is that really the case?
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TechFashion Brands Bank on Wearables, Starting at the U.S. Open
Buff male models and scrawny U.S. Open ball boys strolled silently around Ralph Lauren HQ on Monday, standing on platforms and lifting their arms and turning slowly when asked; they were showing off the latest wearable fitness technology, though it was hard to tell.
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TechDecrypted: A Guide to Avoiding Data Throttling
Throttling is a term that has snuck up on laypeople all of a sudden, particularly applying to how mobile data is delivered. Rather than just cutting users off altogether once a certain usage level is reached, carriers far and wide are instead putting a chokehold on the speed at which data is delivered.
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TechDecrypted: Are Wearables Worth It?
In a sense, producers of wearables are trying to convince you that they’re something you can’t possibly live without…. something like your smartphone.
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TechIn Distiller, a Whiskey App Aimed at Educating the Masses
Brent Stiefel and Mikael Mossberg didn’t know much about whiskey when they met up for drinks in May of 2011. Like many people navigating an ocean of Scotch and bourbon, they “were intimidated by folks with mustaches”, Stiefel says, but didn’t want to drain their bank accounts by buying every bottle to learn more about what they liked and what they didn’t.
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TechTested: Sound Blaster Roar SR20
Creative’s new Sound Blaster Roar SR20 boasts improved Bluetooth pairing, a sound-boosting “Roar” mode, and half the price of its Bose competitor.
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TechSound and Fury: The Best Sports Headphones
We put over a dozen headphones through their paces on long runs, bike rides and bodyweight exercises to find the best sports headphones for every budget.
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TechSeneca vs Social Media: Dumping the Smartphone for Idle Thought
I recently started reading Seneca’s Letters to a Stoic and was surprised by the content of his first letter: “Nothing, to my way of thinking, is better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.” This has some real clout. And it also started me worrying.
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TechInside Google’s World Cup War Room
If the World Cup isn’t about triumph or tragedy as eleven countrymen fight for national pride with illustrious skill, then dammit, it’s about data. And where there is data, there is Google.