The Verge's Installer No. 150 Recommends Tech, TV, and Travel Picks

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This edition of The Verge's Installer newsletter is a guide to the publication's favorite products and content, released on Halloween. The author writes that they spent a family vacation in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, which shortened this week's issue. Recent reading and viewing include job-hunting advice, the sitcom 30 Rock, and crypto detective stories. The author also tested the DuckDuckGo browser at reader request, and mentions a new Pixar short and the Pebble Index device.

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