5 songs you need to stream this week: Grizzly Bear, Wavves, and more

Every week, there are thousands of new songs hitting the airwaves — and it’s just too much for your two ears to handle. With all those options, you can’t be wasting your time on tracks that deserve a thumbs-down click.

But don’t worry, we’re going to save you the hassle. We listen to some of the most-hyped and interesting songs each week, and tell you which are worthy of your precious listening time.

Here are our top five songs to stream this week. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to our Spotify page for a playlist of our weekly picks, which can also be found at the bottom of this post.

Grizzly Bear — Three Rings

A slow ambient electronic intro is met by layered vocals and clean drum beats that channel Radiohead percussion on Three Rings, the first new single from acclaimed indie rockers Grizzly Bear since the band’s 2012 album Shields. The song is full of rhythmic overlaps, a three-over-four feel that pervades its entire second half, creating a smooth and rolling sensation in your eardrums.

Wavves — No Shade

Those looking for a warm-weather rock ‘n’ roll single need look no further than Wavves’ latest jam, No Shade, which starts with fuzzed-out guitar and ends with a speedy drum fill. “I’m by my pool/I’m drinking lemonade/No shame,” sings songwriter Nathan Williams on the short and sweet track, which can’t help but transport you to the raucous, action-packed summers of your youth.

Ryan Adams — Outbound Train

Ryan Adams brought a wall of video screens to his recent performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, pulling out all the stops for a live take of Outbound Train from his latest record Prisoner. The nostalgic song begins with just voice and guitar, before being joined by a heavy-hitting drum groove and ’80s-influenced backing guitar, grabbing hold of you in multiple ways during its 4-minute runtime.

Waxahatchee — Shaking Through

Fans get a cool behind-the-scenes view of Alabama power-punk band Waxahatchee in the new video for the band’s recently released single Shaking Through, with various studio performances cut together to form the visual accompaniment for the four-minute track. The band brings an immense amount of energy to the song, with various vocal and guitar layers that form a massive wall of sound throughout.

Heaven— Lonesome Town

Lonesome Town is a powerful and introspective electronic song that would be at home in the credit sequence of David Fincher’s next drama. The first single from new group Heaven, this will also serve as the title track to the band’s first EP.

That’s it for now, but tune in next week for more tunes — and check out the playlist loaded with our recent selections below:

The best robot vacuums

By Liam McCabe

This post was done in partnership with The Sweethome, a buyer’s guide to the best homewares. When readers choose to buy The Sweethome’s independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commissions that support its work. Read the full article here.

After running more than 70 cleaning cycles over 10 weeks with eight of the most promising robot vacuums, we think the Eufy RoboVac 11 is the right choice for most people who want an automated, affordable helper to keep their floors tidy. It’s not the most powerful or cleverest bot available. But it’s nimble enough to navigate through most homes without getting stuck—and that’s what makes most bot owners happy. It also costs less than other comparable bots.

Who should get this

A robot vacuum can do a great job keeping your floors tidy with very little effort on your part. You’ll still need a human-operated vacuum for tough jobs like deep-cleaning dust out of plush carpet, but a bot lets you wait longer between those big cleanings. And a bot that runs 90 minutes a day, three times per week, will always keep your home much tidier than 10 minutes of half-assed human-driven vacuuming a few times per month.

How we picked and tested

Our 2017 finalists. Photo: Liam McCabe

We started by making a list of all the cordless vacuums we could find. Since 2013, we’ve tracked 98 models (though many are now discontinued). Then we prioritized some baseline specs: a brush roll, functional customer support in the US, and an average customer rating of four out of five stars or better. For more on our criteria, see our full guide.

The least you can pay for a decent bot (at the time of writing, at least) is about $180. Most bots below that price don’t meet our baseline specs, and tend to have low user ratings due to dumb navigation and poor cleaning ability. At the other extreme, full-featured robots start at about $600.

Among our finalists, the most important trait we looked for was continuous navigation, without getting stuck or otherwise quitting mid-cleaning. We also looked for the finalists that pick up as much debris as possible.

To test, we mostly used the bots for around-the-house cleaning. We ran most of the cycles in a condo with roughly 1,000 square feet of robot-accessible floor space, divided into several small rooms, with tall thresholds and about a half-dozen area rugs. That’s a challenging environment for most bots. For variety, we also did some testing in a 1,300-square-foot condo with an open floor plan and a mix of wood, rugs, and permanent carpeting. This is one of the easier types of layouts for a bot to handle.

We also stress-tested the robots in an area cluttered with several chairs, stray USB cables, a sock, a medium-lightweight area rug with tassels, and a tall threshold, plus ¼ cup of all-purpose flour and ⅛ cup ground coffee spread across the floor and rug, including along a baseboard. For more on how we tested, see our full guide.

Our pick

RoboVac 11 is our favorite robot vacuum because it’s relatively cheap, smart enough, strong enough, and rarely gets stuck. Photo: Liam McCabe

The Eufy RoboVac 11 is the smart-money pick for most people who want a robot vacuum cleaner. In our testing and research, the RoboVac 11 was the most likely to complete a cleaning cycle on its own, without getting stuck and waiting for a human to rescue it. That’s the most important part of a robot vacuum’s job, and the Eufy 11 does it better than almost any other model we’ve seen, even those that cost hundreds more. It’s also quieter than most other bots, is one of the lower-cost models to come with a remote control, and the brand (an offshoot of Anker) has a good track record for customer service. Its cleaning power is not particularly strong, and its semi-random navigation system may miss patches of floor. But the 2.5-hour battery life (among the longest we’ve seen) helps to offset those limitations. Overall, it’s good enough to keep the floors tidy in just about any home if you run it at a few times per week, yet costs much less and comes with fewer caveats than any other robot vacuums that can say the same.

Runner-up: iRobot Roomba 650

Photo: Liam McCabe

If the price jumps on the Eufy RoboVac 11, or you’d rather pay a little extra to buy from a brand with an established reputation, the iRobot Roomba 650 is another effective, relatively affordable robot vacuum that works well in most homes.

The main argument in favor of the Roomba 650 is its reputation. It has been available since 2012 and was our top recommendation for a robot vacuum from 2013 through early 2017. It has an average Amazon customer rating of 4.5 stars out of five, based on more than 4,000 reviews. That’s an enormous number of ratings over many years, and it suggests that people are happy with what they paid for. The ratings have stayed high over time. Within the reviews, we have not found any indications of long-term reliability problems, outside of the typical wear-and-tear that iRobot tells owners to expect. For what it’s worth, we’ve long-term tested it on and off for more than three years (about 120 cleaning cycles, we’re estimating) and apart from having to replace the brushes and filters, it has not given us any trouble.

Upgrade pick: iRobot Roomba 960

The Roomba 960 has more cleaning power and much smarter navigation than the lower-cost bots we recommend. Photo: Liam McCabe

If you want the best of what robot vacuums have to offer, check out the iRobot Roomba 960. Its nav system can clean an entire level of a house, no matter how large or small, without missing any spots. It still has all the trap-escaping agility of the lower-priced Roomba models, and its brush rolls are even less likely to get tangled on hazards. It’s a strong cleaner, even on carpet, and it can be controlled with a smartphone app. Plenty of other high-end bots have similar features, but the Roomba 960 runs more reliably in more homes with less fuss than just about all of them, and actually costs hundreds of dollars less than many.

This guide may have been updated by The Sweethome. To see the current recommendation, please go here.

Note from The Sweethome: When readers choose to buy our independently chosen editorial picks, we may earn affiliate commissions that support our work.

Netflix renews controversial ’13 Reasons Why’ for second season

Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why has drawn plenty of attention, and not necessarily for good reasons. Critics, mental health experts and politicians have attacked it for its portrayals of suicide, bullying and sexual assault. However, Netflix is apparently willing to push forward — the streaming service has renewed 13 Reasons Why for a second season. It’s too early for a release date or plot, but the new episodes will be venturing into uncharted territory given that the first run ends where the original novel does.

A renewal isn’t completely surprising given the buzz, both good and bad. Hollywood Reporter sources understand that writers have already been tackling new episodes despite a lack of confirmation until today. However, this is an unusual position for Netflix to be in. It had to make a judgment call on a show that many are concerned might be inspiring copycat incidents and failing to present a full picture of both the motivations behind self-harm and the ways of preventing it. Also, others are worried that a continuation of the story might water down the significance of the suicide at its heart.

However, writer Nic Sheff has argued that the show (including a 30-minute suicide prevention program attached to it) is helpful in prompting a discussion of a taboo but important subject. And Netflix, unlike most conventional TV networks, has a lot of room to take risks on shows like this. It doesn’t have to worry about pleasing the widest possible audience in a given time slot. As long as a show has a good-enough viewership and doesn’t completely cross the line, it’s free to pursue its creative path.

The one certainty: both Netflix and 13 Reasons’ producers will have to tread more carefully than they have with other shows. The first season prompted additional content warnings in response to the outcry. This time, it seems likely that the showrunners will take extra care to notify viewers about particularly disturbing themes.

Their story isn’t over. Season 2 of #13ReasonsWhy is coming. pic.twitter.com/nY5vTUfXdo

— 13 Reasons Why (@13ReasonsWhy) May 7, 2017

Via: Slashfilm

Source: 13 Reasons Why (Twitter)

Tesla collects videos from cars to improve its self-driving tech

If Tesla is going to fulfill its ambitions of making practical self-driving cars, it’s going to need a lot of real-world data to teach its cars what to look for — and that includes your own car. Tesla has pushed an Autopilot update that, in addition to bringing newer vehicles up to snuff (more on that later), includes a new data policy that mentions collecting “short video clips” from external cameras in the name of autonomous driving upgrades. The footage will help Tesla’s systems learn how to recognize lanes, signs and other visual cues that cars need to get around. We won’t blame you if that has you feeling nervous, but Tesla is quick to head off at least some privacy concerns.

Release notes passed on to Electrek stress that Tesla doesn’t tie the videos to your car’s vehicle identification number, and that it would be impossible to search Tesla’s system for videos linked to a particular car. Even if hackers compromised the company, they probably wouldn’t find footage of your drive home. Our main questions surround how the video sharing works. How often is it transmitting videos, for example? We’ve asked Tesla for more details and will let you know if it can share more.

The Autopilot update itself is big news, at least if you own a recent (October 2016 or later) Model S or Model X. In many ways, these newer vehicles finally have Autopilot limits on par with earlier cars. Autosteer now works up to the same speed limits (90MPH on the highway, 45MPH on signless off-highway roads) as with the original Autopilot system. About the only major speed restriction remaining is with automatic emergency braking, which is limited to 28MPH or lower until Tesla finishes the feature for its newer EVs.

You’ll also get active avoidance for side collisions at speeds between 30MPH and 85MPH, and an automatic high beam mode that can briefly turn off these lights to avoid blinding other drivers. It’s not a revolutionary upgrade for most people, but it could make you feel better about buying a later car.

Source: Electrek (1), (2)

Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Art lenses, tankless diving, Shazam for birds

At any given moment, there are approximately a zillion crowdfunding campaigns on the web. Take a stroll through Kickstarter or Indiegogo and you’ll find no shortage of weird, useless, and downright stupid projects out there — alongside some real gems. In this column, we cut through all the worthless wearables and Oculus Rift ripoffs to round up the week’s most unusual, ambitious, and exciting projects. But don’t grab your wallet just yet. Keep in mind that any crowdfunded project can fail — even the most well-intentioned. Do your homework before cutting a check for the gadget of your dreams.

MC Hammie — 3-in-1 hammock/tent/blanket

Over the past few years, many backpackers have taken to replacing their traditional tents with a hammock, and it’s easy to see why. Hammocks are often lighter to carry, faster and less complex to set up, and offer better all-around comfort to boot.

Hammocks are not without their drawbacks, however. For starters, they require properly spaced and sized trees to be useful, and most can only hold one or two people. Additionally, they tend not to be especially adaptable, mainly serving only one purpose. But a company called Wildish is looking to change that with the introduction of the M.C. Hammie: a hammock it promises will be the most versatile ever made.

The M.C. Hammie launched on Kickstarter last week. It’s made from rugged ripstop nylon that has been treated with a durable water-resistant coating. It functions just like a standard hammock, allowing users to sling it up between a pair of trees and relax in comfort both at home or while in the backcountry.

But, unlike most other hammocks, M.C. Hammie can also serve as a waterproof ground blanket with enough room for up to eight people. In a pinch, it can also be converted into an emergency shelter, not unlike a traditional tent.

Read more here

AirBuddy — tank-free diving apparatus

If you’ve always wanted to try scuba diving but have been scared off by the high cost of gear and the prolonged certification process, this new Kickstarter gizmo just might be your dream come true. The AirBuddy promises to deliver a full diving experience that offers the ease and simplicity of snorkeling. It’s a diving apparatus that doesn’t use a tank, thereby making it easier and more accessible for beginners and pros alike.

Weighing in at just 17.2 pounds, the AirBuddy is allegedly the smallest and lightest diving device ever created. The unit is able to cut a considerable amount of weight by doing away with the traditional scuba tank. Instead, it employs a unique design, which includes an air compressor that floats on the surface above the diver, pumping fresh air through a flexible tube that’s connected to a mouthpiece regulator.

The device can reportedly run for up to 45 minutes on a rechargeable battery, allowing the diver to descend as far as 40 feet below the surface without being encumbered by heavy equipment in any way.

Read more here

WarblrGA — Shazam for birds

Ever found yourself wondering what bird you just heard on your morning stroll through the park? There’s an app for that — or at least there will be soon. Recently launched on Indiegogo, the Warblr app can identify bird species by listening to their chirps.

Similar to song-identifying apps like Shazam and SoundHound, Warblr uses your smartphone to record a nearby bird song and then analyze it in real time with sophisticated machine learning algorithms to determine the species of the performer.

That might sound fairly straightforward, but deciphering bird chirps is a bit more complicated than identifying a song. Unlike a song you hear on the radio, bird songs aren’t sung by just one artist. Tweets and chirps are sung with varying speeds and cadences, so even among birds of the exact same species, identifying a particular song can be tricky.

Warblr’s algorithms have to account for all this — not to mention the fact that individual birds often have large repertoires of different songs and calls — an impressive feat.

Read more here

NeoLucida XL — tracing tool

Ever heard of the camera lucida? It’s an old 19th century optical tool that artists utilized to help them draw things that they saw — kind of like tracing an object in the real world. It’s centuries old, but has now been updated for the modern age by two university art professors.

Pablo Garcia, an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Golan Levin, an associate professor at Carnegie Melon, devised an inexpensive, portable version of the camera lucida, which allows the user to “draw from life,” as the creators put it.

The NeoLucida XL is “ … a prism on an adjustable stand. When an artist looks down through the prism, they see the world in front of them, plus their hand on the page, combined in perfect superimposition. In short, a camera lucida allows you to trace what you see.”

Highly popular in the 1800s, it’s an effective method in portraitures. In Garcia and Levin’s modern version (shown above), the NeoLucida XL is highly portable, with a large prism attached to flexible stand with clamp. There’s no electricity required, nor are there any computer components reproducing the image, so you can take it anywhere and use it without any prior experience.

Read more here

Neptune — swappable art lens system

Interchangeable lens cameras offer incredible versatility, but what if you could also swap out the individual pieces inside that lens? What kind of crazy, beautiful, and outrageous photos could you create? If you want to find out, we highly suggest you check out the Neptune from Lomography: a convertible art lens system that’s essentially three prime lenses in one. Both launched and fully funded on Kickstarter last week, the system uses an unusual but historically inspired modular design.

The Neptune consists of three parts. The first is the lens base or mount. Most photographers will only need one, but creatives that shoot with multiple brands can use the same lens on their Canon, their Nikon or their Pentax by swapping out the base.

The second piece is a swappable aperture plate. As an art lens, the plate sits inside the camera’s usual diaphragm to alter the shape of the background bokeh from stars to teardrops.  The final piece is the front lens, the section that determines the lens’ focal length.

The project is expected to launch with a 35mm f/3.5, a 50mm f/2.8, and an 80mm f/4, though Lomography is already designing additional parts to expand the system from 15mm to 400mm.

Read more here

Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Art lenses, tankless diving, Shazam for birds

At any given moment, there are approximately a zillion crowdfunding campaigns on the web. Take a stroll through Kickstarter or Indiegogo and you’ll find no shortage of weird, useless, and downright stupid projects out there — alongside some real gems. In this column, we cut through all the worthless wearables and Oculus Rift ripoffs to round up the week’s most unusual, ambitious, and exciting projects. But don’t grab your wallet just yet. Keep in mind that any crowdfunded project can fail — even the most well-intentioned. Do your homework before cutting a check for the gadget of your dreams.

MC Hammie — 3-in-1 hammock/tent/blanket

Over the past few years, many backpackers have taken to replacing their traditional tents with a hammock, and it’s easy to see why. Hammocks are often lighter to carry, faster and less complex to set up, and offer better all-around comfort to boot.

Hammocks are not without their drawbacks, however. For starters, they require properly spaced and sized trees to be useful, and most can only hold one or two people. Additionally, they tend not to be especially adaptable, mainly serving only one purpose. But a company called Wildish is looking to change that with the introduction of the M.C. Hammie: a hammock it promises will be the most versatile ever made.

The M.C. Hammie launched on Kickstarter last week. It’s made from rugged ripstop nylon that has been treated with a durable water-resistant coating. It functions just like a standard hammock, allowing users to sling it up between a pair of trees and relax in comfort both at home or while in the backcountry.

But, unlike most other hammocks, M.C. Hammie can also serve as a waterproof ground blanket with enough room for up to eight people. In a pinch, it can also be converted into an emergency shelter, not unlike a traditional tent.

Read more here

AirBuddy — tank-free diving apparatus

If you’ve always wanted to try scuba diving but have been scared off by the high cost of gear and the prolonged certification process, this new Kickstarter gizmo just might be your dream come true. The AirBuddy promises to deliver a full diving experience that offers the ease and simplicity of snorkeling. It’s a diving apparatus that doesn’t use a tank, thereby making it easier and more accessible for beginners and pros alike.

Weighing in at just 17.2 pounds, the AirBuddy is allegedly the smallest and lightest diving device ever created. The unit is able to cut a considerable amount of weight by doing away with the traditional scuba tank. Instead, it employs a unique design, which includes an air compressor that floats on the surface above the diver, pumping fresh air through a flexible tube that’s connected to a mouthpiece regulator.

The device can reportedly run for up to 45 minutes on a rechargeable battery, allowing the diver to descend as far as 40 feet below the surface without being encumbered by heavy equipment in any way.

Read more here

WarblrGA — Shazam for birds

Ever found yourself wondering what bird you just heard on your morning stroll through the park? There’s an app for that — or at least there will be soon. Recently launched on Indiegogo, the Warblr app can identify bird species by listening to their chirps.

Similar to song-identifying apps like Shazam and SoundHound, Warblr uses your smartphone to record a nearby bird song and then analyze it in real time with sophisticated machine learning algorithms to determine the species of the performer.

That might sound fairly straightforward, but deciphering bird chirps is a bit more complicated than identifying a song. Unlike a song you hear on the radio, bird songs aren’t sung by just one artist. Tweets and chirps are sung with varying speeds and cadences, so even among birds of the exact same species, identifying a particular song can be tricky.

Warblr’s algorithms have to account for all this — not to mention the fact that individual birds often have large repertoires of different songs and calls — an impressive feat.

Read more here

NeoLucida XL — tracing tool

Ever heard of the camera lucida? It’s an old 19th century optical tool that artists utilized to help them draw things that they saw — kind of like tracing an object in the real world. It’s centuries old, but has now been updated for the modern age by two university art professors.

Pablo Garcia, an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Golan Levin, an associate professor at Carnegie Melon, devised an inexpensive, portable version of the camera lucida, which allows the user to “draw from life,” as the creators put it.

The NeoLucida XL is “ … a prism on an adjustable stand. When an artist looks down through the prism, they see the world in front of them, plus their hand on the page, combined in perfect superimposition. In short, a camera lucida allows you to trace what you see.”

Highly popular in the 1800s, it’s an effective method in portraitures. In Garcia and Levin’s modern version (shown above), the NeoLucida XL is highly portable, with a large prism attached to flexible stand with clamp. There’s no electricity required, nor are there any computer components reproducing the image, so you can take it anywhere and use it without any prior experience.

Read more here

Neptune — swappable art lens system

Interchangeable lens cameras offer incredible versatility, but what if you could also swap out the individual pieces inside that lens? What kind of crazy, beautiful, and outrageous photos could you create? If you want to find out, we highly suggest you check out the Neptune from Lomography: a convertible art lens system that’s essentially three prime lenses in one. Both launched and fully funded on Kickstarter last week, the system uses an unusual but historically inspired modular design.

The Neptune consists of three parts. The first is the lens base or mount. Most photographers will only need one, but creatives that shoot with multiple brands can use the same lens on their Canon, their Nikon or their Pentax by swapping out the base.

The second piece is a swappable aperture plate. As an art lens, the plate sits inside the camera’s usual diaphragm to alter the shape of the background bokeh from stars to teardrops.  The final piece is the front lens, the section that determines the lens’ focal length.

The project is expected to launch with a 35mm f/3.5, a 50mm f/2.8, and an 80mm f/4, though Lomography is already designing additional parts to expand the system from 15mm to 400mm.

Read more here

From the Editor’s Desk: Google I/O 2017 and beyond

Get ready for the most interesting I/O in years.

In just over a week’s time, we’ll be heading out to Mountain View for Google I/O, the annual developer conference where we’ll see, in broad terms, what’s next from Google. At its core, I/O is a developer conference, but it’s also been a platform for other major announcements from the firm, and sometimes the occasional product launch. Looking back at last May’s conference, Google foreshadowed its big push into consumer hardware with Google Home and Daydream, showed us the next evolution of Android Wear (which, incidentally wouldn’t actually be ready until the following February), and laid the foundations for Android apps on Chrome OS and Instant Apps across all Android devices.

As Google retains the same venue — Shoreline Amphitheater, a short walk from its headquarters — expect a similarly eclectic mix of consumer announcements and big important strategic things, alongside the all-important developer sessions. (Hopefully without many of the logistical issues that dogged last year’s I/O. Looks like it’s gonna be another sunny I/O.)

On the Android side, Google has been very clear that new Android O goodies will be coming, besides everything we’ve seen in the current alpha release. Expect O’s feature set to become more fleshed out with the release of the second developer preview, which should shed more light on what kind of a release cycle this will be for the OS.

It’ll be interesting to see if wearables are mentioned at all — or whether, after the launch of Android Wear 2.0, we’ll see more conservative upgrades to Wear on Android O, as the emphasis shifts to new hardware from manufacturer partners. (And the new, more efficient Snapdragon Wear SoCs you’d hope Qualcomm would be working on.)

I/O would be as good a place as any to pull back the curtain on Andromeda and Fuchsia.

More importantly, Google has to address tablets and convertibles. Despite some decent efforts of late from the likes of Samsung, the Android tablet space is essentially a wasteland. The new multitasking features recently ported to the Pixel C, together with Android O’s picture-in-picture mode, suggest Google is still serious about Android as we know it today continuing to exist on tablets.

Yet if parts of Android and Chrome OS are going to slowly start merging into one another, as very smart people seem to think will happen, devices in the tablet/convertible space will be where we see this first. And developers will need to be part of that conversation. Also: with the Pixel C almost certain to be retired this year, Google needs to release a new tablet in 2017 — if nothing else, there needs to be some kind of current reference tablet for developers. Whatever software debuts on that tablet will be in the late stages of development now, and thus likely to appear in some form at I/O. Maybe it’ll be Android for tablets, as it exists on the Pixel C with the current O preview. Maybe it’ll be something closer to Andromeda.

More: Let’s talk about Andromeda

If, as rumored, there’s an Andromeda-powered laptop coming later this year, developers would need to see the software it’ll be running ahead of time. Thus, I/O 2017 would be as good a place as any to finally pull back the curtain on Andromeda and Fucshia, and show Google’s vision for the future of the desktop. If the big reveal does happen at Shoreline later this month, one major question will be how this “new” OS relates to “legacy” Android on current phones and tablets. That’s going to be a blurry line for a while.

Of course, it’s equally possible we might hear nothing at all about Andromeda.

Anyway — some other goings-on this week:

• If you’re mulling a Galaxy S8 purchase, we’ve got some new videos for you to check out, including why it’s the best Android phone you can buy, how it still has some maddening flaws and what to do when you first get yours. More to come in the next week!
• We’re also gearing up for the HTC U 11 launch, which overlaps with I/O week. The leaked specs look legit, but I’m not convinced on the name or the prospect of “edge sense” as a meaningful differentiator.
• And the OnePlus 5 hype train has just departed the station, so expect to be drip-fed details over the next few weeks, as the manufacturer tends to do. Important details this time around: The prospect of a QHD display, dual cameras and maybe even water resistance to bring some heat to the Galaxy S8.
• Congrats to Modern Dad (aka Phil Nickinson) on being a YouTube creator on the rise this past week. Go subscribe to his stuff!