Hi, folks. I’m sad this week because Michael Hawley died of cancer at 58. He was a key figure at MIT’s Media Lab, a world-class pianist, an amazing conference impresario, collaborator on Steve Jobs’ famous commencement speech, and a terrific person. What a crappy year this is.The Plain ViewRather than going the Zoom route, Tim…
DetailsThe world figured out how to make a good insulated water bottle a long time ago. It’s rare for me to find one that just sucks at keeping cold drinks cold or warm drinks warm, and it’s equally rare for me to find one that does either for significantly longer than the others. What sets…
DetailsApple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is normally an energetic, bustling affair. This year, of course, things are anything but normal. Instead of live talks in front of full crowds and attendees mingling face to face, WWDC was a virtual-only experience. During the keynote address, execs rattled off their announcements in pre-recorded video segments filmed on…
DetailsThere’s a small airfield about a two-hour drive north of Los Angeles that sits on the edge of a vast expanse of desert and attracts aerospace mavericks like moths to a flame. The Mojave Air & Space Port is home to companies like Scaled Composites, the first to send a private astronaut to space, and…
DetailsSome of the most shocking stories of coronavirus come from one particular setting: nursing homes. People unable to contact their parents or loved ones; bodies piled up in makeshift morgues; nurses without protective equipment abandoning their posts; those who are still alive left alone in squalor for days. It’s not hard to see why the…
DetailsThe WWDC20 keynote included the official announcements of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS Big Sur, watchOS 7, the move to custom ARM silicon for Macs, and much more. However, there are a number of things Apple didn’t unveil. Let’s take a look at everything Apple didn’t announce at WWDC. It was a busy week with…
DetailsA new update has just begun rolling out on the Samsung Galaxy S20 in Korea. The update arrives with the July 1 security patch from Google which is quite a surprise considering Samsung is normally one of the worst when it comes to getting updates delivered on time. The update has a build number…
DetailsIf our calculations are correct, it’s even faster than Ferrari claims. The Ferrari SF90 Stradale is a fantastic machine. Some would argue it’s better than that, and with a powertrain developing 986 horsepower (735 kilowatts), they would be well-supported. Others might argue it’s worse because, in the quest for speed, the SF90 Stradale utilizes prolific…
DetailsYou are definitely not allowed into the remote office of Luiz Rocha, curator of fishes at the California Academy of Sciences. Using special scuba equipment and techniques, he dives 200, 300, even 400 feet deep in waters off the coast of the Philippines to an ecosystem that few people have laid eyes on, one that…
DetailsIn early 2017, WikiLeaks began publishing details of top-secret CIA hacking tools that researchers soon confirmed were part of a large tranche of confidential documents stolen from one of the agency’s isolated, high-security networks. The leak—comprising as much as 34 terabytes of information and representing the CIA’s biggest data loss in history—was the result of…
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