The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

The other hindrance is the 16:9 aspect ratio, which makes multitasking a pain. percent screen-to-body ratio. I got between six and a half and seven hours driving the Swift 3 through my workday, on the Better Battery profile with the screen around 200 nits of brightness. Note: The arrow keys are tiny. Acer claims an 82.73

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Aspect ratio aside, the screen on this device is quite good. USB-A, lock slot, audio jack on the right. The X1 Carbon Gen 9 also has an improved Dolby Atmos audio system. I didn’t see any performance penalty from the Battery Saver profile, so I’d use that if you need all-day juice.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

But there’s one area where it’s far ahead of the pack — the audio. There’s actually a 14-inch laptop out there with very good audio. I’m not exaggerating when I say this is the best audio I’ve ever heard from a laptop of this size. Type-A Gen 2, two Thunderbolt 4, and an audio combo jack. Yes, you read that correctly.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

These are Sony’s first 360-degree audio speakers. I also wonder just how much content is really going to support 360-degree audio. ? Sony’s 360-degree audio is coming to streaming video. ? Sony is going to start selling its Mandalorian-like virtual set displays. I’ll take two. These speakers look really interesting! We’ll see.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2021

The Xperia 1 III’s screen stands out among its fellow flagships both in terms of its slimmer 21:9 aspect ratio and its higher 1644 x 3840 resolution, which Sony calls 4K (it’s close). I both like and dislike the phone’s unique tall-and-slim profile. I both like and dislike the phone’s unique tall-and-slim profile.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2021

Its 16:9 aspect ratio display feels cramped, and its keys are spaced a little too far apart. Both of these models also have displays with a more generous aspect ratio than the Element Lite, which is a boon for productivity work. inch, 1080p touchscreen with a 60Hz refresh rate and a 16:9 aspect ratio. It’s also too expensive.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

That was with an office workload (around a dozen Chrome tabs and Slack), a couple Zoom calls, and some Spotify and YouTube streaming, with the screen at 200 nits of brightness, the Quiet thermal profile selected, and Dell’s Battery Extender on. Another unusual point of praise: The audio was good.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Note, though, that the ScreenPad is small and has a very narrow aspect ratio, making it best suited to running streams in the background or stealing a glance at Twitter here and there; reading in depth or doing any actual work on it is pretty cramped. I’m sure you can see your own uses for this; it’s like having a miniature, built-in monitor.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

3.5mm audio / microphone jack, two USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports. Lenovo has adopted the roomier 16:10 and 3:2 aspect ratios on a number of its premium ThinkPads, and HP should do the same with the Dragonfly. That result was remarkably consistent within 20 or so minutes, regardless of battery profile or what I did with Sure View.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

There are a few different fan profiles that you can swap between with F8. Even when I wasn’t doing anything, the GS76 sounded like a box fan whenever this profile was on and was very audible from other rooms. Ethernet, audio jack, two USB-A, and power port on the left. Either way, it’s a pain not to have Fn accessible.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Asus has managed to work the display into a chassis that doesn’t feel too much larger than that of most 13-inch rigs — there’s a 90 percent screen-to-body ratio, thanks to the thin (2.5mm) bezels on the sides of the display. Yep, there’s no audio jack; Asus nixed that for the UX425. The UX425 is light for a 14-inch laptop at 2.49

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2021

Starting with what’s new: the 16:10 aspect ratio is here. Performance does depend somewhat on your battery profile more than with other Windows laptops — I had to switch off of Battery Saver when I was trying to run a Zoom call on top of a heap of tabs and apps because everything started freezing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Users on those products are only exposed to those that have a similar yes-swipe-to-no-swipe ratio to themselves,” Kazemian said. A recent Crunchbase report highlights the growth of audio-based, video-based and even meme-based social apps, which have collectively raised tens of millions in capital from VCs over the past two years.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

If you’re looking for a QHD 165Hz display with a 16:10 aspect ratio (which allows Asus to cram a 16-incher into a chassis that’s not much bigger than most 15-inch gaming laptops), the Zephyrus M16 is one of few places you’ll find it. On the right: power port, HDMI 2.0b, RJ45, USB-A, Type-C with Thunderbolt 4, Type-C, combo audio jack.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I also ran into a strange bug where sending audio out over HDMI resulted in stuttering video and glitchy audio, which Apple says it is looking into. That means blacks can get really black on this display — up to a million to one contrast ratio, just like an OLED screen. The MagSafe 3 connector is great, a true classic.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

one microSD slot, and one combo audio jack. Aspect ratio aside, the 1920 x 1200 display on our review unit was quite bright, maxing out at 494 nits in my testing. This was in the Battery Saver profile, which you can toggle in Razer’s Synapse software.) It’s slightly lighter than the Blade Stealth , at 0.6 inches thick and 3.09

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

They include calendar and reminders (you can import calendars from Google, Apple, and Microsoft), shopping list, sticky notes, smart home controls, a to-do list (Alexa only), weather, your commute, photos, maps, music and audio, reorder suggestions, Alexa suggestions, and your Amazon deliveries.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 9, 2023

If employees or retirees who serve on a nonprofit board make contributions, they could receive higher matching ratios or limits on their matching gifts. If a skills assessment feels too formal, simply ask them what they do for a living, or look at their LinkedIn profiles. You may be surprised by what you find!

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

A USB-C port is for charging, and there’s a 3.5mm headphone jack for audio. The tablet’s relatively small screen and widescreen aspect ratio also make things quite small to work with when you have two apps open. Apps that aren’t available in Amazon’s Kids Plus library can be selectively requested and enabled for the kids’ profiles.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

QLED TVs aren’t quite as feature-packed as competing OLED models, but they come closer to reaching parity with their brightness and contrast ratios than cheaper LED TVs. This 48-inch soundbar from the audio experts at Klipsch is currently enjoying a deep discount at Woot. Normally $300, they’re $200 for now.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

After a year of reporting on the lives of these moderators — I also profiled people who do the work for Google and YouTube — it seemed clear to me that some percentage of people who work as moderators will suffer long-term mental health consequences. But what is that percentage? But the risk to human lives is real, and it’s not going away.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Zuckerberg had been criticized for personally talking to the subject of a high-profile decision on the day he made it — a privilege granted to exceedingly few subjects of content moderation on Facebook, and a decision that disappointed some employees I know. Only one black employee was involved in the final Trump decision. Talk to us.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Last year, I traveled to Austin and to Washington, DC to profile current and former moderators for YouTube and Google. officials in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election,” which he did by releasing edited audio tapes and other unsupported information that were then pushed in Western media. ? Charlie Warzel / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

On Wednesday, Twitter had the worst security incident in company history , with a coordinated attack resulting in the takeover of more than a dozen high-profile accounts including President Obama, Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. Williams is a dynamo; I hope you’ll enjoy our chat. * * *. On Thursday, the fallout began.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Twitter started rolling out audio tweets on iOS. The feature lets users record audio snippets and attach them to tweets. Each voice tweet captures up to 140 seconds of audio. Audio can only be added to original tweets, according to this help page , so you can’t include them in replies or retweets with a comment.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. Thanks to everyone who read and wrote in with their thoughts on “Mark in the Middle,” the long feature we published yesterday based on listening to a summer’s worth of audio recording from inside Facebook.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

In audio of the meeting that I obtained, Zuckerberg said that he had agonized over the decision. The Google walkout over sexual harassment kicked open the doors in 2018 , and has been followed by high-profile protests at Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce, among others. Congratulations you have successfully made it to the end of May.

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