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<p>About 10 months ago, I was invited down by Samsung KX to have a few hours hands on with their first folding phone. Mere months after it had been recalled due to major issues with the device, it was back with a bang, and already picking up

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><p>Adi Robertson for <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/4/21419993/the-social-dilemma-jeff-orlowski-netflix-movie-review-social-media-algorithms">The Verge</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>WhatsApp works almost nothing like Facebook. It’s a highly private,

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><div> <div> <p>Currently, I am learning front end coding skills, as well as digesting all the information I can find relating to user experience, not just for the web but everywhere else. Part of this is learning the true

<p>I am currently walking a new path of self-discovery. I haven’t disappeared to India or been on any vision quests to find myself (yet), but as a whole, I was simply not happy the way I was going, so I changed direction. The choices I was

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><div> <div> <p>I realised after sending last weeks newsletter that I never completed the story of my lust for a simpler time. It didn’t end as <a href="https://gr36.com/cant-go-back/">far back

<p>You will never in your life posses something that is as important as your attention. The notice you take of someone or something is so craved after that throughout history those that have sought it have performed some of the worst and best acts humankind has ever

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><blockquote><p>social media companies are basically giant behavior-modification systems that use algorithms to relentlessly increase “engagement,” largely by evoking bad feelings in the people who use them.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>the algorithm

<p>Julian Summerhayes <a href="https://jusummerhayes.livejournal.com/724345.html">wrote</a>:</p><blockquote>But it occurred to me, as I lay awake at just after 4.30 am, how little time I’d spent looking at

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><p>Matt Birchler <a href="https://birchtree.me/blog/we-might-be-getting-that-120hz-iphone-12-after-all/">wrote</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Well, just yesterday I was <a href="https://birchtree.me/blog/should-apple-delay-the-iphone-12-for-a-120hz-screen/">weighing

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><p>I take out loads of free trials. What can I say I am a sucker for a freebie and even if I have no intention of paying out any money for an app or service I will sign up and try it for