More than six years after residents of Flint, Michigan, suffered widespread lead poisoning from their drinking water, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to improve water quality and bolster the city’s economy. But residents still report a type of community PTSD, waiting in long grocery store lines to stock up on bottled water …
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Experience premium headphones without paying top dollar Noise-canceling headphones have tons of advantages. The main one is meant to contribute to building your own personal peace-and-quiet bubble. If I were a doctor, I’d say it’s therapeutic. There is a major setback, though – ANC headphones by leading companies are likely to cost you a lot. …
Cowin SE7 ANC Headphones: Lose Noise, Lose Wires Read More »
It was clear pretty early on that 2020 was going to be a big year for Steam. When February began, Valve’s client saw its first record-breaking user count of the year – and it would go on to break that record almost every subsequent week for nearly two months after that. Thanks to players around …
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When the pandemic hit the US last spring, and states went into lockdown, policymakers and experts wondered about the trade-offs. Which would end up worse: damage to the economy from lingering restrictions, or the unchecked spread of a new and dangerous disease? “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,” tweeted President …
Crime Rates Dropped in 2020—Just as They Did in 1918 Read More »
Janzel Went to the DXRacer Land to Find the Chair Fit to Grace Your Gaming Hall I have been on a quest to find the perfect chair for ages. My throne should be super comfy, not too pricey, and awe-inspiring. Eventually, I came across DXRacer with its overwhelming variety of categories and possible selections. “Wait, …
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Yesterday marked the end of an era for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. The action-adventure game’s online servers shut down January 12, and for many games, that’s the end of the line – once the servers are off, there’s no more game. That’s not the case with Shadow of Mordor, however: thanks to a final update, you’ll …
It’s not Halo 6, though. Developer 343 Industries ditched the numbering convention (due to Microsoft’s wishes) for the latest entry. It’s still the continuation of Master Chief’s labyrinthine story and sequel to the (admittedly bizarre) events of Halo 5. This “entirely new chapter,” according to Xbox general manager Aaron Greenberg, will follow John-119 and his …
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The Certified Traveling Buddy There is this massive group of people with specific routine and demands. Guys who travel frequently and are in a constant state of hunting plane ticket promos and the like. Understandably these people have a standard set of things they carry with them. One of them is headphones. The word ‘promos’ …
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At Samsung’s Exynos On keynote, its latest mobile chipset was announced and is set to appear in its smartphones launching later this year – nothing special here, the company is still using ARM’s own Mali GPUs. AMD and Samsung announced a partnership back in 2019, and now it’s been confirmed that its next chipset will …
In many ways, CES 2021 was different than any we on the Gear team have attended before. Instead of running around Las Vegas poking all the things and becoming seriously dehydrated, we sat at home and watched briefing after briefing on Zoom. But CES is still the festival of spending money. It’s designed to invoke …
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