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Google Home Essentials: SwitchBot offers a slightly inelegant path to Assistant-controlled curtains

June 23, 2021
Google Assistant is capable of controlling literally hundreds of different kinds of devices, but some can get fairly expensive. Smart curtains and blinds, for example, can cost hundreds of dollars and require new hardware to install. SwitchBot, though, has a clever solution to Google Assistant-controlled curtains that’s at least relatively affordable. The SwitchBot Curtain is a little…
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Google offers official instructions on how to know if your Nest Hub is running Fuchsia OS

June 23, 2021
Google has shared official instructions on how to know if your Nest Hub has been updated to run on Fuchsia OS. Last month, Google launched an update for the first-generation Nest Hub, switching it from Cast OS to Fuchsia, an operating system Google built from scratch that is pridefully “not Linux.” This marked the first major debut for Fuchsia OS, having to that point been something of a…
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Sonic dashes into Minecraft

June 22, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Minecraft has added Sonic the Hedgehog DLC today, just in time for the Sega mascot’s 30th birthday tomorrow (June 23). This isn’t just a pack of Sonic cosmetics. The DLC gives you access to what looks like an actual Sonic game. Just, you know, with the trademark Minecraft blocks. Sonic is also bringing his friends, like…
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Lenbaby Launches New ‘Pinhole-Style’ Obscura Lens

June 22, 2021
Lensbaby, a company known for making unconventional lenses and unique optics, has announced its latest lens: a three-in-one Pinhole-type optic called The Obscura. The Obscura lens is based on the camera obscura, “a darkened room with a small hole or lens at one side…
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Beautiful Photos of Rice Fields in India Perfectly Leverage Composition

June 22, 2021
Dibakar Roy, from Kolkata, India, uses the power of remarkable composition thanks to shadows, patterns, subjects, and perspective to take this seemingly ordinary part of everyday life for farmers into the extraordinary. Farming paddy — which is both the term of a field where rice is grown as well as for rice that is in its husk — is of huge importance in rural India, where agriculture is the…
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