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TimeMachiner. Tech, culture, nostalgia. By Aaron Crocco
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I've worked up a couple of medium-sized posts for this issue and that's because two big things happened last week. Apple officially declared the iPod dead and then Google held its annual I/O conference. It's a lot to go through, but I've got you. I've broken down the significance of both these events in true TimeMachiner style. It's a little bit of a departure from other posts, so let me know what you thought by hitting reply to this email.

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Birds Aren’t Real: Satire For A Modern Society
60 Minutes has a great interview with a young fellow named Peter McIndoe. On a whim, during a protest he saw, he decided to start his own movement: Birds Aren’t Real. Sounds crazy? Think again. Birds Aren’t Real is a fun way for McIndoe to show the absurdity of many…
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Google I/O ’22 Breakdown
In a world of Apples, Google wants to be… a Google-type of Apple. That’s my takeaway from the annual Google I/O conference last week. In typical Google fashion, they debuted new hardware, Android updates, and sorta-near-future mind-blowing tech. Let’s dive in. Pixel Watch was not only leaked but something that…
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Mark Rober Gets Scam Call Center Revenge
Scammy call centers in parts of India are notorious for bilking people out of millions of dollars. It’s no secret that people fall victim to these schemes all the time. It makes scammers a lot of money. So it’s not hard to see why they keep doing it. Well, glitter…
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A Farewell to iPod
It’s hard to imagine Apple without the iPod. In the Steve Jobs era, the iPod was the device that took them from “doing okay” to becoming a monumental success of a company. Even if you weren’t (or aren’t) an Apple fan, you had or were surrounded by iPods in the…
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