Ray Wong

@raywong.bsky.social

Senior Editor, Consumer Tech @gizmodo.com 📧ray.wong@gizmodo.com • Prevs: Deputy Tech Editor @ Inverse • Founding Editor @ Input • Senior Tech Correspondent @ Mashable | My ❤️: 📸🎮📝👨🏻‍💻

Galaxy Z Fold 8 vs. iPad mini 5th gen The 7.6” 4:3 aspect ratio screen is exactly the same size as the iPad mini’s But only the Samsung folds in half to fit in your pocket

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I'm launching a newsletter! Observation Deck (real ones know) is home to my thoughts about all sorts of nerdy pop culture and entertainment journalism. My first blog is about the new Ghost in the Shell, and how its reverence for the original manga lets it play with some boundary-breaking ideas.

The Digital Boundaries of the New 'Ghost in the Shell'

Science Saru's spin on 'Ghost in the Shell' goes straight back to the manga—and celebrates the digital borders it frequently crosses.

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Steam Machine pricing revealed: 512GB: $1,049 512GB with Steam Controller: $1,128 2TB: $1,349 2TB with Steam Controller: $1,428 The early supply will sell out, but Valve fumbled the Steam Machine hard. Again.

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I demoed Gemini Intelligence on Google's prototype, screen-equipped smart glasses. I was told to ask Google Nano Banana to take my selfie and then "put me on the moon" The AI put me on the moon and also made me look more white Just look at my face. It's completely different

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The most genius thing about calling them Googlebooks is that Google is getting other laptop to give them free brand marketing/placement HP Googlebook Acer Googlebook Asus Goooglebook Lenovo Googlebook

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I'm hiring an Associate Editor for my team (Consumer Tech) at @gizmodo.com. The job is hybrid (mostly in office, with six WFH days a month) based in New York City Apply if you: -Live and breathe the whole spectrum of consumer tech, and put care into packaging stories (news, product reviews, guides)

Just logged into my Soundcloud for the first time in like a year and it says I've been blocked I have done... none of this stuff that would have caused my very boring account to be blocked Adblock is off. Refreshed cache and did just about everything from Google and Reddit comments.

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If Apple calls the foldable iPhone the "iPhone Duo" it'll have robbed Microsoft of both the Duo and Neo names Imagine what could have been if the Surface Duo didn't flop and the Surface Neo wasn't canceled

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I'm hiring an Associate Editor for my team (Consumer Tech) at @gizmodo.com. The job is hybrid (mostly in office, with six WFH days a month) based in New York City Apply if you: -Live and breathe the whole spectrum of consumer tech, and put care into packaging stories (news, product reviews, guides)

Found these two photos dated 8/8/2010 Appears to be an Internet/telephone kiosk booth I came across in NYC $1 for 4 minutes of internet access is wild to even imagine $0.50 to send a “picture postcard” $1 per “video email” was “coming soon”

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