A few days ago, I watched a retro buyers’ guide for iPods. I was considering an iPod Nano 7 as an offline music player with Bluetooth capabilities with no internet access. Only problem is, these…

this week, i took my 5-year-old iPad pro in to the local tech repair shop to get a new battery, because its original battery was draining too fast for my liking. if i'm going to use it for work, it…

Exciting news for Mac users: the excellent Gmail client Mimestream is now in a private iOS beta version : We’re sending invites every week, starting with our earliest customers first and working our…

LG's OLED evo W6 is the world's thinnest true wireless OLED TV, with a 9mm body, Zero Connect Box, 4x brighter display, and gaming features like 165Hz and G-Sync.

Do you want to block ads and trackers across all apps on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV — not just in Safari? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. The new App Ad…

Robert Stephens started making computer tech-support house calls on his dirt bike while he was a college student at the University of Minnesota in 1994. He’d arrive to a customer’s house…

And it could be getting a mega swimming pool The BT Tower will remain a London landmark after MCR Hotels and BT Group agreed to a £275 million sale in 2024 as part of BT's cost-cutting measures,…

The terminal's return as a serious surface for new tools (Claude Code, Codex, Omarchy) has mostly been read as a developer aesthetic story. Alcides Fonseca reads it as the receipt for thirty…

Manchmal sind es die kleinen Dinge, die mich erfreuen. Hier zum Beispiel der zweite Lautsprecher, der den am unteren Ende spiegelt. Motorola benutzt hier nicht die kleine Tröte, die normalerweise…

Last month, LEGO and BrickLink updated their terms and conditions impacting resellers and they received some backlash from it. They have recently sent out another email clarifying their stance. You…

Apple introduced the HomePod mini six years ago, in 2020. I'm not one into smart speakers, but the feature that made me take a closer look was their ability to form stereo pairs, without any direct…

[Images: Adobe Stock, Mitchell Luo/Unsplash] By Chris Stokel-Walker Twenty years ago, if you asked the average person what Google was, they’d tell you it was a search engine. The company became…

Elon Musk Summoned to France to Face Criminal Charges – Wall Street Journal Toyota Issues Gloomy Guidance on Iran War – Wall Street Journal Tesla China posts 36% sales rise, as local…

Google just announced updates to AI Mode and AI Overviews that promise to surface more original content and drive traffic back to publishers. The company is adding direct links within AI responses,…

Claude for Microsoft 365 embeds AI into Office apps to connect email, docs, models, and presentations with query-aware workflows and enterprise governance.

Companies like Anthropic have one advantage in the world of SaaS. They're developing a product that serves their own Industry sector. This is a very rare situation and it's why most SaaS products…

Perhaps one of the best Apple Intelligence decisions I've ever heard, the company announced this week that users will be able to swap Apple's AI model to a rival's to control the new AI system. That…

I ran across a reference to Moore’s Law the other day. This was named after Gordon Moore, an engineer who later became one of the founders of Intel. In 1965, Moore observed that the number of…

The average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded is now about $4.50 – so up about 30 cents per gallon since the last War Tax Report, which was published on April 28 – about one week ago.…

Arm FQ4 26 – RSI curse. CoreWeave Q1 26 – Revenue per GW bomb

Perfect strawberries. Real or completely AI generated? What's your guess? The answer is at the end of this post. (click to enlarge) I can't help but notice. What in the world is going on with Adobe…

The animated television show South Park has satirized many things over the years, but none more effectively than its creators' take on corporate business plans. Yes, we're talking about the…

Gunpei Yokoi, inventor of the gameboy, came up with a concept called Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology. The concept is simple, use very well understood technology and combine it in novel…

AirPods with cameras aren't to take pictures, but to let Siri "see"...

This time it's Coinbase, PayPal, and Cloudflare who all cite AI as a primary driver. These companies are hurting real people....

In a new report by Boston Consulting Group, they conclude that the CIO is now the most important role in a bank. Not long ago, the CIO was the person who kept the lights on and kept core systems…

Switching from an Intel iMac to Apple Silicon felt like a hardware upgrade. It turned out to be an architecture story, and that story is now reshaping the cloud.

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eBay has updated how it charges Australian sellers. tl;dr: you can’t sell on eBay for free, despite their claims. “Free selling” announced eBay Australia sent an email back in…

Since the Chinese are coming – more finely, Chinese EVs are coming – some are arguing for an American “industrial policy” that would include resurrecting federal tax credits…

The most exciting bit of news this week is that I bought myself a new phone. It's not brand new; it's a refurbished Samsung A23 which is a huge leap from my old phone and it will hopefully make my…

Intel and discrete gaming graphics cards — that remains one of those stories where you never quite know whether a comeback is being prepared or the escape route is already being measured. Based on…

Sometimes the most important driver changes are exactly the ones that never make it onto a product slide. AMD is preparing a new power module in the AMDGPU driver for Linux 7.2. This is not about a…

Roche is buying Boston-based PathAI for $750M upfront plus milestones, and yes, this is exactly the kind of hard-tech, health-AI win Boston should be insufferably proud of.

A reflection on joining Vercel, leading Community through an AI-first era, and the people, systems, and lessons I’ll carry from this chapter.

Ted Turner, who built WTBS into a superstation and founded Turner Classic Movies, TNT, Cartoon Network, and CNN, died yesterday, May 6, at the age of 87. He had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia…

Akademy 2026 (the annual world summit for KDE) is happening in Graz. Austria, Saturday 19th – Thursday 24th September. First of all, if you're reading this and thinking, "Should i go to Akademy?" The…

You type "good" and macOS helpfully pops up a thumbs-up emoji suggestion. You type "love" and a heart appears, uninvited, hovering over your cursor. Trying to get to the actual emoji you want to use…

I ran across this article written by Bob Metcalfe in 1991 about 3Com’s losing bets against Novell. This contained an important fact in our research about Ethernet development in the 1980s. To…

The Commerce Commission will investigate deregulating PSTN interconnection. Ventia plan to grow beyond telecoms with datacentre builds. One NZ builds 29 new cell sites

https://granda.org/en/2026/03/13/your-parked-tesla-is-a-data-center/Really interesting idea. I love this way of thinking… how can we utilise what we already haveYou're getting this because you follow…

ZenLake OS 26.04 is now available based on Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon). ZenLake is a remix of Debian/Ubuntu LTS with GNOME desktop that is configured to be user-friendly. It is minimal and…

Omarchy is an amazing distro for “computer dads” like me, and if you’re a computer dad, I’d highly recommend giving Omarchy a try. What, you might be wondering, is a computer dad? A computer dad is a…

GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.

The problem is not that Google wants more AI inside Chrome. The problem is that Chrome appears willing to treat users’ computers like rollout infrastructure. There is a version of this story that is…

Mark Zuckerberg had his hands full last week trying to calm the storm at his company. In an employee conference call, he had to quell a great deal of panic over the company’s performance.…

Rooted Android phone Disabled IMS (VoLTE, VoWIFI) Lock the LTE band to the lowest band available No voice calls SMS via SGd

IndieGameJoe is the only person I know who can actually make twitter work. Nobody else can tweet once and earn a game thousands of wishlists. 4 Years ago I talked to him about going Viral on Twitter…

Tim Culpan, reporting at Culpium: This renewed commitment to meeting demand means Apple must also ask TSMC for a hot lot of A18 Pro chips, the same processor used in the iPhone 16 Pro. The…