Inverse - 🥇 The best tech of 2022

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Dec 27 2022

Welcome back to another short week with us. ICYMI, all throughout December, we have been presenting our picks for the best TV, movies, games, gear, and scientific breakthroughs of 2022. You can explore the full hub here.

Thank you for reading Inverse in 2022. We look forward to exploring the universe with you in 2023 — and beyond. Enjoy, and happy holidays.

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The best tech of 2022

Technology is reshaping the world faster and more frenetically than ever.

Our Swiss Army Knife smartphones got more polished. Handheld gaming, largely fueled by the Steam Deck, waltzed into the spotlight. And EVs — be they electric cars or personal mobility like e-bikes and e-scooters — are really starting to redefine the definition of transportation while changing lifestyles in both cities and suburbs.

Even amid significant supply chain issues holding up production, 2022 managed to see some notable tech product releases. Everyone no doubt has their personal "best list" but looking back at the year, these are the ones we strongly feel moved the needle and made a mark on the massive world of consumer tech.

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Gear

Arc is the best web browser to come out in the last decade

Web browsers are more powerful than ever, but using them can be soul-sucking. The Browser Company wants to change that.

"We open our browsers today and we feel nothing," says Josh Miller, co-founder and CEO of The Browser Company, which makes its own browser called Arc. "We just feel absolutely nothing."

Together with co-founder Hursh Agrawal, Miller knows it's the challenge of a lifetime to not only build a modern web browser specifically made for how we connect on the internet in 2022, but also to convince people that there can be an alternative to Google Chrome, and it can be beautiful, and more fun, and more functional — more human.

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Scene Stealers

Meet the Inverse Scene Stealers class of 2022

What do a water-breathing Mutant, a 1980s stoner, a dimension-hopping party girl, and a nightmare made real all have in common? They’re all members of Inverse’s 2022 Scene Stealers.

At the end of every year, we take a minute to look back at the actors who managed to leave a lasting impression despite not having a starring role. In 2022, that included everyone from Tenoch Huerta’s snarling antagonist of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to the latest scream queen in Mike Flanagan’s horror empire.

Check out the full list, along with eight original and illuminating interviews, below.

Horizons

Innovation

Is Planet Nine out there? New telescope could finally settle the long-standing mystery

The camera resting in an impeccably clean, lint-free room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, resembles an extremely oversized version of the SLR lenses for Nikon or Canon cameras. But it won’t snap family holiday cards or pet portraits.

This massive device has a five-and-a-half foot aperture and a length of nearly 10 feet. Called the LSST Camera, which stands for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, it’s destined for the National Science Foundation’s Vera Rubin Observatory, which is now under construction atop Chile’s Cerro Pachón mountain.

By the end of 2024, the observatory is scheduled to kick off a 10-year project that aims to enhance our understanding of the universe.

Back from the dead

Science

9 species rediscovered in 2022

When no one spots a plant or animal for a long time, chances increase that its species has gone extinct. But sometimes, species lost to science unexpectedly reappear.

This year, many critically endangered flora and fauna teetering on the brink of extinction were rediscovered in the wild.

Meanwhile...

Why a book-loving fungus has alien-hunting scientists excited

The 7 best smartwatches of 2022

'Avatar 2' gave me a headache — and there's a scientific reason why

5 years ago, Will Smith made a terrible action-thriller — and changed Netflix forever

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