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Simon Cohen

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As seen in: Medium, MSN, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo Finance, Digital Trends, Digitaltrends ES, Flipboard, JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), VentureBeat and
Covers:  All things audio and video that everyday folks will care about, whether it's a new set of wireless earbuds or a new way to find streaming media.
Doesn't Cover: Business, investments, M&A, fintech, funding announcements, B2B, healthtech
🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 Freelance tech writer specializing in audio/video Terrible at Wordle authory.com/SimonCohen
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DT10: Artificial Intelligence. Is the AI apocalypse a tired Hollywood trope, or human destiny?

DT10: Artificial Intelligence. Is the AI apocalypse a tired Hollywood trope, or human destiny?

Digital Trends — Why is it that every time humans develop a really clever computer system in the movies, it seems intent on killing every last one of us at its first opportunity? In Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 starts off as an attentive, if somewhat creepy, custodian of the astronauts aboard the USS Discovery One, before famously turning homicidal and trying to kill them all.
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DT10: Cyborgs are already here, but the next steps will make you nauseous

DT10: Cyborgs are already here, but the next steps will make you nauseous

Digital Trends — From bionic limbs to sensors that let you “smell’ color, the body modifications of science fiction are finally coming to fruition, and not all of them are born in squeaky-clean hospital labs.
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Securifi Almond 3 Smart Home Wi-Fi system Review

Securifi Almond 3 Smart Home Wi-Fi system Review

Digital Trends — Banish your home's Wi-Fi black holes with the Almond 3 router and smart hub.
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Transform your Wi-Fi from awful to awesome by moving your router and its antennas

Transform your Wi-Fi from awful to awesome by moving your router and its antennas

Digital Trends — Reviving a Wi-Fi dead zone isn’t easy, but it’s possible given the right equipment, a bit of time, and some experimentation with your router’s position.
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How BuzzFeed infected the Internet with a killer virus

How BuzzFeed infected the Internet with a killer virus

Digital Trends — You've been infected. Just now. This morning, I bet. You've already been exposed to 17 amazing things that you will love, a quiz to find out which of your favorite TV characters you most closely resemble, and the one shocking thing you didn't know about a very famous celebrity.
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It's time we make 'code' an official language, and teach it in every school

It's time we make 'code' an official language, and teach it in every school

Digital Trends — Kids may intuitively master Twitter, Snapchat and Angry Birds, but unless we teach them programming in school, they’ll never have the skills necessary to develop the next generation of software.
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Who certified the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 safe? Samsung did

Who certified the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 safe? Samsung did

Digital Trends — You may assume anything you can buy in a store is safe, but safety certifications like UL are actually totally voluntary, and some of them don't mean nearly as much as you think they do.
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How to keep your gadgets from being part of a botnet

How to keep your gadgets from being part of a botnet

Digital Trends — The recent spike in major DDoS attacks has left many people wondering what, if anything, they can do to stop it. No individual can stop the attacks, or defend against them, but there are ways you can help.
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These $89 AirPods competitors are a bet on the power of branding

These $89 AirPods competitors are a bet on the power of branding

Digital Trends — How do you offer an inexpensive alternative to Apple's AirPods when all you have is a me-too off-the-rack wireless earbud? Make it all about the brand, said Jack Kim.
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Multiroom wireless speaker shootout: Which entry-level Wi-Fi speaker is best?

Multiroom wireless speaker shootout: Which entry-level Wi-Fi speaker is best?

Digital Trends — The Denon HEOS 1, Yamaha WX-010, and Sonos Play:1 are all WiFi speakers that cost $199. But only one of them emerged as the best bang for your audio bucks.
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Portal Wi-Fi router Review

Portal Wi-Fi router Review

Digital Trends — The Portal turbocharges your home Wi-Fi unlike any other router, and it works.
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TomTom Rider 400 review

TomTom Rider 400 review

Digital Trends — We take TomTom's latest motorcycle GPS out for a spin to see how it handles two-wheeled adventures.
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Are you still a Picasa holdout? How to make Google Photos work for you

Are you still a Picasa holdout? How to make Google Photos work for you

Digital Trends — Google's Picasa may be no more, but that doesn't mean your photos are left in the dust. Here is our complete guide to the differences between Picasa and Google Photos.
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Wearing The Future

Wearing The Future

S/Style & Fashion Magazine — Technology takes a back seat as fashionforward wearable devices move from movie screen to reality.
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Watch Your Back

Watch Your Back

S/Style & Fashion Magazine — Normally we’re told to sit down for bad news, but you’re probably already sitting. And that’s the bad news.
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