year in review 2017
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New Technology We’re Actually Excited About For 2018
Yes, 2017’s biggest tech story was probably about the ways in which social media forced us to rehash old culture wars and question who was guiding our political discourse. Rather than seeing technology facilitate greater communication, economic opportunity, and leisure, it seemed that it was exacerbating our differences, concentrating wealth, and threatening all livelihoods. But…
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Google’s Whole Hardware Thing Is Confusing The Hell Out Of Me
Compiling the best and worst gadgets list this year I took note of a very sad fact: Google was on both lists. In its second year thoroughly devoted to the hardware game, Google managed to create earbuds so bad that storing them in their charging case requires a video explanation, and a laptop so fantastic…
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The Shows And Movies We Are Mad Didn’t Make It Onto Our Best Of 2017 Lists
Did you agree with every single entry and ranking on our best films and TV series of the year lists? We doubt it. After all, even we didn’t agree on everything in there, so why would you? To give these aggrieved souls a chance to speak their mind, here are some of the shows and…
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The Worst Gadgets Of 2017
This was a bad year, and these gadgets made it worse. Some were epic disappointments. Others were just ill conceived from the very beginning. These are the worst.