Sony delivers new head units with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibilituy

The marriage of in-car infotainment systems and smartphones is inevitable as more car manufacturers are offering their new vehicles with the ability to run either Apple's CarPlay or Google's Android Auto (or both). For those of us who like our older vehicles but who want in on the latest and greatest, there are solutions like Sony's XAV-AX100 in-car audio system.

The XAV-AX100 makes it easy to connect your phone to your car has never been better with the option of Apple CarPlay. CarPlay allows you to use your phone in a safe and smart way whilst staying focused on the road, letting you access Apple Music, Maps, make phone calls, and send messages all through the touchscreen, or vocally with Siri.

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Review: Dyson 360 Eye Robot Vacuum

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The Dyson 360 Eye is an accomplished vacuum cleaner. It dispels many of the issue that have plagued robot vacuums for many years now. Powerful enough to clean as well as larger handheld vacuums it ups the ante by being generally autonomous.

As evidenced by various marquee products in consumer technology, being the first doesn’t always mean the best. There were certainly many smartphones before the Apple iPhone came along but they were swiftly leapfrogged once that device rewrote the rules. Similarly, there have been robot vacuums for a number of years now but no product has challenged the market’s expectations more than Dyson’s first commercial robot vacuum.

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Site turns your words into the ‘Stranger Things’ title card

If you don’t know or at least heard of the Netflix original Stranger Things at this point, we’ll be wondering if you’ve been hiding under a rock someplace. The popularity of the show has reached fever pitch and before the fever breaks, a site is banking on its popularity. Developed by creative studio Nelson Cash, you can now “make stranger” anything you want with Make It Stranger.com. Sarah Gless, a designer and self-proclained Mother of Dragons at Nelson Cash, writes about why she loves the typography on the show.

Twitter helps keep harassment at bay… sort of

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If you want to insulate yourself from the negativity that spawns on Twitter, the social network is offering all its users a way out. Twitter is making available to all its users the ability to limit the notifications you see. You can opt to just see notifications sent by users you follow. Of course, this doesn’t take you entirely out of the conversation, it’s just like putting blinders on to not see distractions. It’ll still be there, though.

Twitter has been trying various means to help lessen incessant abuse and harassment that happens on its platform but we wonder if this is the solution for it. If it’s something you want to try though, then you should be able to make the changes now. Twitter also introduces quality filter setting, which lets you filter out “lower-quality content.” It supposedly improves the quality of tweets you see based on criteria like account origin and behavior.