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If Boeing learns anything from today’s maiden flight of the 787-10 Dreamliner today, it means something has gone wrong. That’s because the planemaker has left the Wright brothers’ system—build something, throw it off a sand dune, observe—far in the past. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apple’s AirPods aren’t the only wireless earbud game in town. If the idea of earplugs as audio gear entices you, another option on the market arrives from Swedish startup Earin and its M-1 earbuds. Look ma, no wires, and no golf clubs dangling from my ears! Better audio quality than expected. Massive connectivity issues. No microphone/phone features at all (not even incoming audio). Very weak battery life. Charging system is underbaked and needs a complete overhaul. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After four months off, the best drivers on the planet line up for the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne this weekend. Fans hoping to see something more than yet another processional behind reigning champs Mercedes might just see some excitement this year. A raft of new rules designed to mix things up will make for faster lap times and, with luck, more overtaking. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

People always askme to recommend a portable Bluetooth speaker, and I reflexively mention the same one every time: the UE Boom. The latestversion of this portable powerhouse, the UE Boom 2, provides damn near everything most peoplewant in a speaker. It sounds great, the battery lasts half a day, and you can bring it anywhere. It’s even waterproof and mudproof, so you can take it rafting. All that for $200. But that’s still too much Bitcoin for most people. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The sun has long since set by the time the cars and RVs ramble back into Alexandria to find a somber Rosita at the gate. She says nothing about Sasha's whereabouts, but instead tells Rick, Michonne, Tara and the rest that they have company. That company turns out to be the man in the shadows in last week's episode: Dwight. He wants to help, he says. While he may be Negan's bootleg version of Daryl, Dwight has never been the duplicitous type. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

For all its virtues, Facebook Messenger works more like email than a group messaging app like GroupMe orTango. If you want to talk with someone directly, no problem. But it hasn’t handled large groups effectively because it lacked some of the key elements that make group messaging fun. It was too simple. A pair of new features, called Reactions and Mentions, constitute part of Facebook’s bid to make Messenger more inclusive. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Science fiction cinema has a longstanding problem:Good ideas abound, butgreat ones are in short supply. (And most of the good ones have been used.) After decades of drought, 2001: A Space Odyssey spawned Solaris andStar Wars and Alien, and the genre became popular, but pulpily so; parades of familiartropes spackled over withterrible visual effects. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Let’s clear this up right from the start:Paul Budnitz does not want to take over the world. He didn’t createEllo to disrupt Facebook, even if the media sayshe did. And he definitely didn’t launchWuu, an app that looks like Snapchat and Instagram yet stands firmly opposed to so much about them, in a bidto kill them. Really. He swears. No, Budnitz sees Wuu creating aspace beyond those global town squares. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some mornings-not many, but some-you wake up to a new iPhone. Surprise! This is one of those mornings. And while today's new iPhone acts just like the old one, it adds a certain special something. It's red. Yes, red, a bright, brilliant, gleaming red, a shade so bright it makes rose gold blush. The case is read. The buttons are red. The fiddly little nano-SIM tray? It's red, too. The Apple logo? Not red. Sorry! But it really pops against all the rest of the red. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

First of all, everyone needs to know that there will be AT-AT Walkers at the Star Wars land currently under construction at Walt Disney World in Orlando. Now that that's out of the way, what else is going on in a galaxy far, far away? Oh, nothing much, just teases for what's going to happen in this December's Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Why aren't you reading ahead already? Move along. Move along. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices