Location
Chicago, Illinois
School
Northwestern University
Expertise
Gaming, Apple hardware, Science and space exploration
- Anna is a frequent volunteer with Games Done Quick and Frame Fatales charity speedrunning events.
- She has attended both a League of Legends World Championship and a Capcom Cup tournament for Street Fighter. One day, she's going to make it out for EVO.
- Anna is a mentor with WriteGirl, an LA-based nonprofit for teens looking to build their writing skills.
Experience
Anna has been a freelance writer for more than a decade. In that time, she's covered everything from electronics to esports, from marketing to magic. Her tech and entertainment reporting has appeared in publications such as Ars Technica, Mashable, Digital Trends, and more. When she is not researching and reporting on the latest gadgets and scientific breakthroughs, Anna loves playing, making, and geeking out over video games (and knows which systems and games are worth her readers' time).
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Accessories
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A USB-C port presents a lot of options for data transfer and connecting to accessories. Let's talk about some of the most useful ways to employ your USB-C port.
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WeatherNext can deliver a 15-day forecast predicting storms’ track and intensity.
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It would be an ambitiously high price for the AI-powered hardware pivot.
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The Dawn of the Machine expansion was made by MachineGames in collaboration with id Software.
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Tahoe, Sequoia and Sonoma operating systems have been patched to address a Screen Sharing vulnerability.
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The state already hosts more than 500 data centers.
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Pavel Durov claims there's “a potential systemic risk” for platforms with user-generated content.
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Xbox's free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars.
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Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions.
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Surely nobody you know will overuse this…
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TV & Movies
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And of course, Henry Cavill is involved.
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Give me a mixtape, and hold the tape.
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Wearables
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At last, a smart ring with some flair.
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Unsurprisingly, it’s likely to focus on AI.
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The company’s tech chief said a fix for the error will be arriving soon.
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Big Tech
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The Age Signals API will be available globally before the end of the year.
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Ina and David Steiner will receive compensation after a 2019 campaign to silence their critiques of the company.
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A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter.
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Double Fine lays off about a third of its staff.
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The free Android app shares knowledge from members of the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community.
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Big Tech
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Only Premium and Premium X subscribers get the privilege of banking with Elon for now.
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Apple's latest software updates are primarily focused on security fixes.
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Streaming
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Gooooooooooool!
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TV & Movies
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Gear up for the Atari Cinematic Universe.
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The fallout from the big Xbox layoffs continues to develop.
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Adding new dimensions to the device.
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Big Tech
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Several federal agencies are contributing toward the interdisciplinary research efforts.
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