Established players like Netgear and Linksys are in the game, one-upping each other with specs and features because one-upping each other with specs and features is their fundamental purpose on this planet.
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They spent much of their energy one-upping rivals like Lyft.
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So you can be one-upping your boss for years to come.
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Dan Dunn has found a way of one-upping your wildest dreams.
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Or maybe it was a way of one-upping the local white people.
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Women, for example, can be just as vulgar and one-upping as men.
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Just when we thought we'd seen it all, 2017 was continuously one-upping itself.
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However, the researchers didn't pat themselves on the back for totally one-upping Mother Nature.
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In a sense, he was one-upping Charlie Hunnam's bad-boy chic in Sons of Anarchy.
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Kevin Devine seems intent on one-upping himself with each release of his Devinyl Splits series.
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The grab at the Rome airport seemed to be a matter of one-upping his wife.
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Seemingly once a week, Westbrook does something insane like this, continually one-upping already impressive performances.
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They take turns one upping each other about whose pussy is drier from lack of sex.
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Portrait mode could offer extra creative possibilities while one-upping Snapchat, which lacks any similar feature.
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"They're one-upping Khartoum in terms of what they're doing," he said, referring to Sudan's capital.
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Ford, GM and Ram keep one-upping the stratospheric torque levels of the trucks that exist today.
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By one-upping a one-upper, Trump had won the game of chicken -- forcing Kim to blink.
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And now, it's one-upping its own legacy by bringing pro-approved products to the people, too.
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Google is one-upping Amazon by letting the Home dial out to actual landline and mobile phones.
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The update is yet another example of Instagram copying and one-upping Snapchat at the same time.
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In contrast, Wall Street is one-upping themselves trying to be the most bullish firm on Nvidia.
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Facebook is taking a swing at Twitch while also one-upping its mobile live streaming video competitors.
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The family has been creating the cards on and off since the 90s, each one-upping the last.
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Will Coachella just keep growing one-upping itself until it becomes a real-life Penelope or explodes entirely?
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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively keep one-upping each other in the race to see who can roast better!
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But there's one thing that's more important to Blake: one-upping her hubby in their never-ending troll-fest.
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But this year L'Oreal is one-upping itself with a prototype sensor that can measure your skin's pH levels.
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That's a big deal on its own, but the Copa is one-upping itself to celebrate its 22014th anniversary.
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The price spike came in the final hours of bidding, as two Chinese fanciers kept one-upping each other.
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They're seriously one-upping Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp's wide-open mouth pic with some literal tonsil hockey.
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The two campaigns have engaged in a measure of brinkmanship in recent days, with Mr. Sanders's team one-upping Mrs.
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When that happens, it'll be a major turning point in SpaceX's ambitions, and potentially one-upping the achievements of 2018.
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One theory goes that she is one-upping Cyn Santana and her newly betrothed costar on L&HH Joe Budden.
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This world is widely known for its high prices, social one-upping, drop-in celebrities and toxic levels of ego.
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That means trailer makers are constantly one-upping each other to be the most eye-catching and innovative of the bunch.
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The US Bank Tower is one-upping every observation deck on the planet with a soon-to-be-vomit-covered slide.
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And today's voice assistants are engaged in sprints, not marathons, when it comes to one-upping one another by feature set.
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They're going to have to keep one-upping each other with these increasingly elaborate opening credits just to compete at that level.
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The biggest 8K set yet from Samsung, one-upping last year's 85-inch 8K TV, which is now on sale for $15,000.
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It is only human nature to want to emulate our heroes, while one-upping our peers in a tunnel-vision fueled obsession.
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Process-wise, Lucia and Millar work collaboratively with call and response, each one upping the ante as they go back and forth.
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Today, Hasselblad is one-upping Sony with the X1D, the first compact mirrorless camera to come loaded with a medium format sensor.
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Stories are less about character growth than they are about the protagonist (Dracula, in this case) smugly one-upping everyone around them.
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The two have been one-upping each other nonstop in recent months with rider rewards programs, subscription plans, and even customer feedback options.
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Was the creator of the recipe in on the joke, or was just just a case of internet one-upping gone too far?
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Economists largely agree that it's bad economic development policy for communities to give in to this impulse, one-upping one another with handouts.
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I was mesmerized — she was a stunning, powerful black woman going head-to-head against and one-upping the biggest diva on television.
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Patrons can sit and watch as two expert pianists battle it out for better tips by one-upping each other in the lounge.
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A few days later, Nation's Rotten Tomatoes score soared to 94 percent, with 17 festival-going critics one-upping one another with staggering praise.
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Mercury and Saturn will be demanding thoughtful, considerate, and responsible communication — vulnerability earns you more respect than one-upping the person next to you.
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Scorchbeasts are huge bat-like creatures that can destroy settlements, and they are Fallout 76's way of one-upping the already fearsome Deathclaws.
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" But the story mostly focused on F5's battle with a much larger competitor; in fact, the editors titled the story "One-Upping Cisco.
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Microsoft announced Tuesday that Teams, its workplace messaging and collaboration app, has hit 20 million daily active users — again one-upping its rival Slack.
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There's only one way we could see someone one-upping this: As we all know, no grilled cheese is complete without a complimentary soup.
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That's why we're lucky to live in the golden age of gaming mice, with major manufacturers pouring engineering muscle into one-upping each other.
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Minor League Baseball teams have made a kind of deathmatch out of one-upping each other with ridiculous antics in the space between innings.
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Instagram is one-upping Apple with a portrait mode feature that runs on a wider variety of phones and works with video, not just photos.
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Casually mention Jay Z "one-upping" on on the daughter quotient, and people are going to assume you just revealed the sex of Beyoncé's twins.
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And Montana isn't an isolated example of a present-day criminal mimicking and even one-upping the lives of infamous real-life and fictitious gangsters.
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But Helsinki is in the process of one-upping New York with a big idea of its own: The Finnish city wants to make cars obsolete.
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That first scene paints the performers as a bunch of boisterous and unusually flexible teenagers, happily one-upping one another as they demonstrate their best moves.
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At first, it appeared that someone might get upset and that our presence might no longer be appreciated, but Sah stepped in, one-upping Zack's weirdness.
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The Carolina Panthers superstar is one-upping his own holiday tradition this year ... buying a bunch of turkey dinners for 1,200 underprivileged children AND their families!!
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The options extend far beyond the plain, old black yoga pants — and our favorite purveyors of athleisure keep one-upping each other to keep up with demand.
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Nothing was more thrilling than to watch Mr. Carmona and Mr. Grimes trade phrases at the end, one-upping each other's spins and on-the-toes tricks.
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Jada Pinkett Smith says she doesn't try one-upping her husband, Will Smith, and vice versa ... and that, and other stuff, is why their marriage has lasted.
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One-upping Facebook, Twitter doesn't just provide you with a link to tweets that you liked, it also shows you the actual text of each liked tweet.
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Already a paradise for budget-conscious food lovers, Costco is one-upping its abundant free samples and Polish dogs with a new addition to its somewhat-limited menu.
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The two later met up for dinner, so things are seemingly well between the couple — but he'll have a seriously hard time one-upping Chyna's gift to herself.
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But the relationships we built ended up creating a synergy where everybody was coming in a fun, collaborative way, one-upping each other and always pushing for excellence.
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"If the president felt like Putin was one-upping him, not to mention stealing the limelight, then it wouldn't be surprising that he would react," the official said.
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With the exception of a flashback-heavy lull toward the end of the game, this constant one-upping remains intact for the dozen or so hours the game lasts.
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It's funny cause people always ask me about one-upping myself and outdoing the last thing I've done and do I feel that kind of pressure — and I don't.
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While Amazon Music Unlimited's deal is already one-upping its competitors at $7.99/month instead of $9.99/month like most other streaming apps, the $0.99 deal is seriously insane.
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It was also the year of the internet villain, as countless people, businesses, and things spent the year one-upping each other in an unwitting quest for the title.
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Today, the company is one-upping itself with the new Gold Phantom, which has twice the power of the Phantom Silver and eight times the output of the standard Phantom.
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Men who are insecure love to feed into that idea that he has to constantly be one-upping the woman, that you have to keep the woman in her place.
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It is one-upping every other see now/buy now brand by teaming up with Amazon to guarantee delivery of some runway pieces in certain territories in under two hours.
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Each year, Samsung and Apple debut new flagship smartphones designed to compete with one another — packing new technologies and features into each release with the hope of one-upping the other.
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Guests one-upping one another with "hilarious," if sometimes slightly offensive, graphic sweaters or hideous showstopping knits sourced in faraway places or hard-to-find vintage stores can be a nightmare.
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Avengers: Endgame's answer is by turning Thanos' threat to erase the Avengers into a truly monstrous idea, a way of one-upping his previous massacre, and throwing the universe into vicious repetition.
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Normal fashion week events typically involve brands one-upping each other with the fanciest, most gilded cultural landmarks; most of the events' venues are full of people, with hordes of paparazzi outside.
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If Sprave has any plans of one-upping this creation, which seems to be his obsession, he's going to need to switch to something other than lumber for his home brew arsenal.[YouTube]
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"The very nature of that competition where the wealthy are sort of one-upping each other, to have the more perfect college application, leaves the others applicants not looking as good," she says.
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The new Huawei phones come with four Leica cameras on the back of the phone contained in a circular cutout, one-upping the three cameras housed on the back of the iPhone 11.
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Trump is so unnerved by Clinton's popular vote win that, like Kristen Wiig's one-upping character Penelope on "Saturday Night Live," he's claiming that his popular vote win would have been even more popular.
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His shirt is off and he's turning up on horseback, in a stable, and out in the wilderness, one-upping the motocross vibes of the last video by taking us back to simpler times.
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Other labs have taken turns one-upping Lawrence's cyclotron until today, when high energy physics machines are so large and expensive that their labs must compete for money from their primary patron, the DOE.
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To glance at Twitter as the video of the Covington teenagers went viral over the weekend was to see each pundit one-upping the disdain of the pundits who vented before him or her.
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Back in the day, flexing on your peers was more about finding a brand or model they'd never heard of and one-upping them with the diversity of your sneaker knowledge and corresponding collection.
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The Good Place is one-upping itself weekly; Amazon's Forever provided a simple and poignant rumination on love and soulmates; Netflix's Russian Doll just blew the doors off multiple genres with its do-over deaths.
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Sampha kind of stole the show with his solo cut "4422" and he continued one-upping the Boy on his own material by covering "Controlla" in his inimitably crystalline way for BBC Radio's Live Lounge.
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And he said he was glad he had ditched previous Russian ideas of one-upping Disneyland by infusing a park with educational elements: "Not everybody wants to read Tolstoy, especially if you are 8 years old."
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Lately, he's been all about the latter, focusing much of his attention on one-upping Elon Musk promoting his aerospace company's space tourism vehicle, New Shepard, which will carry tourists into suborbital space as early as 2018.
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The fact that no other national teams have consistently reached the North Americans' level of excellence has created an unusual situation in which the United States and Canada always have an eye toward one-upping each other.
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That's how I found out Kate Beckinsale and Sarah Silverman have the truest of all friendships and that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are always one-upping each other (they're not just doing it for the 'gram, guys).
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Not only do you have to come up with an inventive costume that all of your friends will immediately recognize, but you're then faced with the burden of one-upping yourself every year for the rest of your life.
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"It's almost like when teenagers really like each other, they're always trying to impress one another by one-upping each other," said Christian Bovine, a longstanding friend who is the user-experience lead at Omnigon, a digital consulting firm.
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From famously one-upping the first lady in soothing a crying baby, to playing the villain to a tiny Spider-Man, to keeping a completely blasé reaction to temper tantrums, it's tempting to think he missed his true calling.
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Musicians have gone from fashion muses to fashion makers in the turn of a few seasons, one-upping style heroes of yesteryear like Mick Jagger and David Bowie — who nevertheless are routinely name-checked as inspiration in show notes.
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But once Apple released the iPhone, its competition decided to push their wild phone concepts aside to instead focus on one-upping Apple by releasing similarly designed phones, except with incremental improvements, like USB-C, better cameras, and different display sizes.
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Over the last few years, AWS's competitors moved to more flexible billing models (mostly per-minute billing) and now, starting October 2, AWS is one-upping many of them by moving to per-second billing for its Linux-based EC2 instances.
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Aside from one-upping Siri's assistant capabilities (Bixby goes beyond simply answering questions and can assist users in all sorts of phone functionality), Samsung's AI also delivers some secret jabs at Siri ... if you know how to ask for them.
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From one-upping Verizon's unlimited data plan via tweetstorm from CEO John Legere to its BDSM-tinged, slightly NSFW Super Bowl Twitter feud with, again, Verizon, there's not much the self-proclaimed "Un-carrier" won't do to stir up social attention.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday proposed canceling all $2640 trillion of outstanding student loan debt in the United States, one-upping a rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has proposed canceling $640 billion of the debt.
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McDonald's latest menu item may be a jab at Shake Shack's famed cheese fries, but the Golden Arches is one-upping the boutique burger joint by throwing on some bacon...because that may be the only way to make cheese fries better.
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It's a crowd-pleasing, comic-sentimental setup, with the wisecracking but vulnerable child consistently one-upping, and bailing out of trouble, the man who becomes her surrogate father, and Gosselaar does a capable job as a younger version of a Clint Eastwood coot.
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What started with an innocent piece of pepperoni has now grown into a one-upping contest where piles of pasta, buffalo chicken, and now entire hamburgers compromise not just the structural integrity of a single pie, but the whole concept of pizza itself.
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Earlier today, Amazon noted that the Black Friday weekend was its strongest yet, and now eBay's one-upping the site by announcing that yesterday was the biggest sales day in the site's 22-year history — a stat that includes both retail sales and auctions.
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After spending the past several weeks one-upping one another on the campaign trail, the presidential hopefuls—minus the three kiddie-table debaters, and Rand Paul, who boycotted the event—took the main stage ready to claw each other's eyes out with the nearest rusty spoon.
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It will be available from retailers including Best Buy, Amazon, and B&H Photo While companies like Samsung have outfitted their new top-of-the-line smartphones with three rear cameras, HMD Global is one-upping them with a five-camera array on the Nokia 9 PureView.
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One-upping the rumored S210+'s rumored three-rear cameras, the S210 X will supposedly come with four cameras in back along with two on the front, a massive 6.7-inch AMOLED display, 10GB of RAM along with 1TB of storage, and a 5,000 mAh battery.
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Shots had been traded on both sides—most notably in Wayne's case, with the album title 20043 Degreez, a one-upping of Juvie's 22004 Degreez—but Wayne had never seemed as fully angry with his old labelmates as they were with him for remaining with Baby.
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During the event, it was announced that the movie will have its world premiere on July 20th during San Diego Comic-Con, in a outdoor IMAX presentation complete with a live orchestral score, one-upping the surprise Star Wars concert that was the high point of last year's convention.
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Amazon functionality also means that users will be able to order food directly from the front of the device with their device, one-upping the Amazon Dash functionality the company has rolled out past appliances, so you really don't have an excuse to ever leave your fridge's immediate vicinity.
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For Vogue one-upping them all with Best-Dressed of the Week and for Vanity Fair further clouding the issue by continuing to curate its own best-dressed list even after Mr. Carter, Ms. Fine Collins and Ms. Bell left in 2017 and 2018, Ms. Lambert's list in hand.
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That's because after introducing the ZenBook Pro 15 with the first-gen ScreenPad last year, and now one-upping that system with the ZenBook Pro Duo and its Screen Pad Plus, Asus is clearly signaling that its dual-screen Project Precog laptop is way more than just a far-out concept.
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Reeling from her parents' visit and news that Bonnie (Liza Weil) still can't get a bail approval even though the "murder" victim has vanished, Annalise baits her cellmate into pounding her to a pulp (on an insinuation of child molestation, no less) — essentially one-upping Wes' missing body by erasing her face.
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Since the show's midseason finale last month, the only high jinks we've gotten to see from the "Good Place" gang came during the Golden Globes, when Jameela Jamil, who plays Tahani on the show, was hilariously misnamed "Kamilah Al-Jamil," her one-upping onscreen sister, in a title card on the E!
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Captain America (Chris Evans) got some much-needed revenge by one-upping them in a brilliant callback to the Winter Soldier elevator fight scene where he first took down the traitors by whispering "Hail Hydra" in Sitwell's ear, using his future knowledge against them to get Loki's scepter (and the Mind Stone) without having to fight at all.
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At the Hammer, I was struck by the degree to which so much post-post-conceptual art has become a reductio ad absurdum of conceptualism's original impulse, with contemporary artists one-upping each other in how much they can negate any attempt at communication with the viewer and pass on the inconvenient responsibility of generating some coherent meaning to the curators.
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The singer — who perfected the secret album drop in 2013, and has since toyed with the tactic for releases like "Lemonade" and "Everything Is Love," with her husband Jay-Z — did it again in the early morning hours Wednesday, one-upping the arrival of her own Netflix documentary, "Homecoming," with a previously unannounced live-album version of the same concert.
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After Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) dies and spends Season 1 in the Good Place worrying that her heavenly neighborhood's architect Michael (Ted Danson) will find out she doesn't belong, she winds up with a few others who also feel like maybe there's something amiss: Chidi (William Jackson Harper), a stressed-out, overthinking ethicist, Jason (Manny Jacinto), a Jacksonville dirtbag who loves to dance, and Tahani (Jameela Jamil), a British socialite caught up in one-upping everyone, even in the afterlife.
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