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  • YouTube’s Advertising Hellhole Urges People to Waste Money on Mystery Boxes

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    Will Sommer for The Daily Beast: Untold riches are promised on Mystery Brand, a website that sells prize-filled “mystery boxes.” If you buy one of the digital boxes, some of which cost hundreds of dollars, you might only get a fidget spinner—or you might get a luxury sports car. For just $100, users can win…

  • The HomePod Situation

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    Apple’s competitor to other standalone high-end speakers came out on Friday. It’s the HomePod. Apple boasts about its higher quality sound that adapt to the room you are in, reviewers agree. Nilay Patel wrote this in his review: All of this means the HomePod sounds noticeably richer and fuller than almost every other speaker we’ve…