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  • Teenage couple looking at smartphone and smiling, looking for directions or social media while in the street

    Meta is shutting down its couples messaging app you didn't know existed

    by 
    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    07.26.2022

    Meta is shutting down Tuned, an app that was meant to help couples stay in touch — but it's not clear many people used it.

  • Facebook's couple messaging app Tuned

    Facebook's latest app experiment is a 'private space' for couples

    by 
    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    04.07.2020

    We’ve asked Facebook if there are plans for a wider release.

  • Tascam's TC-1S guitar tuner is solar powered, super tiny

    by 
    Darren Murph
    Darren Murph
    10.06.2010

    We hate to point out the obvious, but it's about time you threw procrastination in the nearest dumpster and started thinking about your holiday shopping duties. For the budding guitarist in everyone's life (admit it, there's always one), Tascam has a cutesy new guitar tuner that's both a) affordable and b) Stocking Stuffer-approved at just 3.77- x 0.71- x 1.57-inches. The TC-1S claims to be the world's first solar-powered tuner, complete with a rugged silicon wrap, a USB port for cloudy days and shadowy clubs, a sweet carrying clip, integrated microphone and a quarter-inch input for guitar and bass tuning. It can even be calibrated to an external source, and it'll be available in a half-dozen hues (black, pink, orange, green, blue, white) later this month.

  • Brabus iBusiness luxury sedan puts an iPad at every seat, a Magic Mouse at every hide-covered armrest

    by 
    Tim Stevens
    Tim Stevens
    08.27.2010

    When it comes to being ushered along to your destination at a high rate of speed within a cocoon of luxury, it's hard to go wrong with the Mercedes S Class. However, if this $90,000 (and way, way up) sedan isn't special enough for you, teutonic tuner Brabus is happy to make some... improvements. The company bumps the power up to 750hp, good for a top speed of 211mph whilst also providing a wealth of iDevices to those being coddled inside. There's an iPad (with keyboard) at each of the rear seats, an entertainment system built into the back of both headrests powered by a 64GB iPod Touch, and a 15.2-inch display that swivels down from the ceiling to expose the output from a tunk-mounted Mac Mini. Even for the most ardent of Mac lovers it's a bit too much, but if it weren't it wouldn't be a Brabus. The cost? Nobody's saying, but don't expect this very special kind of excess to come cheap.