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Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The ...

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As locked-down as the Amazon Echo Show line of devices are, they’re still just ARM-based Android devices, which makes ...