OnePlus knocked it out of the park once again with its latest flagship offering. The OnePlus 6 has everything the company is known for, with premium specifications, design, and software, all available at a price severely undercutting the competition. However, like any current generation smartphone, the phone has some issues — it’s been plagued with bugs and glitches since launch. Here are some of the common OnePlus 6 problems, and some potential solutions.
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There’s a new Kickstarter to clean your filthy earbuds. Dubbed the Cardlax EarBuds Washer, it’s effectively a tiny washing machine for your audio equipment. Cleaning your wax-laden TWS earbuds can be a gross and torrid affair. But there’s a possible solution brought to the table by a new Kickstarter project. The Cardlax Earbuds Washer (via Gizmodo) is an automatic pocket-sized washing machine that promises to polish and clean your buds.
If you’re a runner, odds are you’ve considered buying one of Garmin’s GPS running watches to track your activity. The company already has a wide variety of running watches for just about every budget, and today we’re getting five more.
The all-new Garmin Forerunner 45, 45S, 245, 245 Music, and 945 all feature the same five-button design, always-on displays, heart rate sensors, smartphone notification support, and new safety tracking features we first saw on the Verizon-exclusive Vivoactive 3 Music smartwatch.
Those who need the dual SIMs on their device might have been disappointed with the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. After all, the smartphone really only supports either dual SIMs or expandable storage. Since many regions only received the 32GB version of the Galaxy S7 Edge, with Samsung banking on the microSD slot to assuage the doubts of high-storage users, it’s possible that you might feel a little confined by these restrictions.
The repairability of smartphones has been a hot topic among Android enthusiast for ages. This is why the iFixit team has taken it upon themselves to rate the repairability of most major smartphones over the years. The latest in the line, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus, has earned a lousy three out of ten score.
iFixit get their result by performing phone teardowns — they open the device and inspect where every component is located and how easy parts are to remove and replace.
Imagine you’re listening to your favorite track on Spotify on full blast and browsing Facebook at the same time. Suddenly, you spot a dog video you want to play out, and a shrill barking sound bursts through your ear canal as you frantically press the volume down button to adjust it to acceptable levels. On Windows PCs, you have the ability to customize the volume output for specific apps to avoid something like this from happening.
Learning a new language is one of the most common bucket list tasks for people around the world, and with a multitude of freely available language apps, it should be easy, right? But how effective are free language apps like Duolingo? Can they expand your vocabulary and improve your grammar, or are they only good for learning the conversational basics?
I recently tried using two of them consistently for a month to see if free language apps can really be relied on as a main language learning tool.
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LG Display is showcasing artwork inspired by the Inspiration4 spaceflight. The NFT art collection uses data captured during the spaceflight. The art is displayed on LG’s transparent OLEDs, providing a holographic effect. LG Display is working with Turkish-American new media artist Refik Anadol to display NFT artwork on the company’s transparent OLEDs.
The NFT collection, “An Important Memory for Humanity,” is based on data collected during the all-civilian Inspiration4 spaceflight, the first of its kind.
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Though the company announced four new models — including the Galaxy Book 2 Pro, the Galaxy Book 2 Pro 360, the Book 2 360, and the Book 2 Business — only two were on hand in Barcelona. We were able to spend a little time with the two stylish Pro computers — which have the exact same design save for the rotating screen — and have some initial impressions on the latest from Samsung.
It’s been 10 years this week since Captain America: The First Avenger came out and — more than any other film from the early “Phases” — established the strongest underpinnings of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: namely, a healthy mistrust of large and powerful institutions.
It’s hard to believe that just a decade ago, the now-sprawling, interconnected MCU was still stumbling along as it looked to find its feet. It wasn’t until The First Avenger, the fifth MCU title, that a defining ethos began to emerge.