| October 11, 2022. On this day in 1958, NASA launched Pioneer 1. It only made it to a ballistic trajectory and fell back to Earth after 43 hours, but the agency got useful data from its first launch. It took another 11 years to get to the moon. | | | ⏰ Today's Big Stories... in 30 Seconds | | | Today We Watched, Read, and Listened to (so you don't have to): | | 451 articles, 9 podcasts, 12 press releases, 356 tweets, and 8 YouTube videos | | | 1. Acer's Latest Swift Laptop Will Keep You Secure but Won't Weigh You Down | | Acer's newest 16-inch OLED laptop promises performance and security while staying pretty lightweight in comparison to other similar notebooks. It's a little over half an inch thick and weighs just over two and a half pounds. It's also rocking a 4K display and a Ryzen 6000 processor, so yay! | | 2. This New Portable Gaming Console Also Wants to Be Your Best Friend | | We're suckers for new portable gaming consoles, and this TRDR Series II has us super excited, what with its AI-driven "personality" that the developers promise is capable of human-like conversation. Here's hoping it doesn't just say, "git gud" when you have a hard time beating one of its games. | | 3. Apple Starts Changing Notebook Wording to Laptop | | | The others have it goin' on | | | Data: Counterpoint Research | | | PC shipments have gone down for pretty much all the bigger players since last year, with HP, Dell, Acer and Apple all moving down in the number of computers they've shipped. Good for the Other, category, though, as it seems to have gone up a bit. Bravo. | | | 🔥 Today's Hot Deal | | Save $100 on these lovely Beats Solo wireless headphones, now down to a delicious $99 on Amazon, as part of the Prime Early Access Sale. They've got Apple's W1 headphone chip, class 1 Bluetooth, 40 hours of listening time, and a built-in microphone. What's not to like? | | | | | "Take that, Barsoom!" —Rob LeFebvre, Associate Editorial Director, News | | | Amazon announced its first Prime Early Access Sale, a shopping event on October 11 and 12, 2022. The event features discounts on smart home tech, electronics, and more. You need an Amazon Prime membership to get the deals. We'll keep the deals updated today and tomorrow so you can always find the best stuff for the best price. | | | From providing programming classes to underprivileged youth and internet for rural communities to services for homeless individuals, Tech For Good has several projects aimed at making the world a better place. Read more about this organization here. | | |
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