Day: June 3, 2013

Entertainment

Ecstasy for my eardrums: tripping through the addictive psychedelia of million-dollar hi-fi

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As reported on The Verge. By Trent Wolbe I had a fever, and the only solution was more high end Yesterday I chronicled a skeptical vision quest through the realm of high-end audio appreciation. It brought me to one of the darkest corners of the High End hi-fi trade show in Munich. I found myself in a room surrounded by silver-haired purists in front of a bespoke rig by Pioneer subsidiary TAD Labs. I took a seat near…

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Business Culture

How Samsung Got Big

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO The cellphones were stacked up high in the Gumi factory yard and more were coming out every minute. Phones, TVs, fax machines, and other gear shattered as it hit the concrete and Samsung CEO Kun-hee Lee and his board cracked the screens and cases with heavy hammers. Then they lit a bonfire and threw everything in. The 2,000 workers began to cry. And still the hardware kept coming. The…

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Article

The Sisyphean Problem Of Email

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEXIA TSOTSIS Advice that should be given to modern people considering marriage: “Before you marry, consider this, ‘Is this the person I’d like to watch stare at their phone for the rest of my and their life?” In the Greek myth of Sisyphus, Sisyphus, as punishment for aspiring to immortality, is given the task to roll a boulder up a hill every morning only to have it roll back down every night. A grisly…

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Business Tablet

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8- and 10.1-inch versions to launch worldwide early June

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As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg In addition to the Galaxy Tab 3 with a 7-inch display we’ve known about for a while, Samsung’s announced the slate will come in 8- and 10.1-inch varieties, too — something rumors and FCC filings have long suggested. The 8-inch model has a TFT display sporting a 1,280 x 800 (WXGA) resolution (189 ppi), a 5-megapixel rear camera and 1.3-megapixel front-facing shooter. It’s got vaguely respectable internals: a 1.5GHz dual-core processor (no word on the manufacturer),…

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Business Hardware Dev

Hands-on with the Dell XPS 11: meet Dell’s answer to the Lenovo Yoga (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman  Just a short while ago we brought word that Dell had quietly announced the Dell XPS 11, an 11.6-inch Ultrabook with a hinge that folds all the way back into tablet mode, with the keyboard disabled after it passes 180 degrees. Yep, it is what it sounds like: a direct strike at Lenovo’s Yoga convertibles. As we said in our earlier report, it won’t actually be available until the holiday season,…

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Mobile

ASUS FonePad Note hands-on at Computex 2013 (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith ASUS is joining the big smartphone / tablet / don’t call it a phablet fight, and its first salvo is the 6-inch FonePad Note. We don’t have to tell you that it’s big, and that it stretched the limits of our hands when we briefly played with it. The 1080p display is suitably crisp enough, although this early demo unit was unable to be steered any further than the lock screen. However,…

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