Tesla Just Dodged a 2.26 Million-Car Recall, The Next One Could Be Far Worse – Autoblog VW, BMW, Mercedes lost $6 billion to U.S. tariffs in 2025 – Automotive News Tesla, SpaceX Plan to…

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It sounds counterintuitive, but proposals to move away from 400m trains could unlock greater flexibility - and potentially increase overall capacity across the network.Read more ›

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 -…

I recently a bought a Lenovo Chromebook 14, and wanted to run Zed on it. This took me a little while, but I finally figured…

The marketing industry’s obsession with youth is nothing new.  Thinking about what makes the next generation of consumers tick is a perennial activity. Generic one-size-fits-all advice on how to…

Reddit is battling a growing bot and spam crisis, and CEO Steve Huffman is floating some radical solutions. From biometric checks to government ID verification, everything appears to be on the table.

Summary : Why I generate images in 4K resolution | Half of UI academic research fails to reproduce | NotebookLM Cinematic Videos Do Well with Viewers | Midjourney Version 8 Disappoints | New protocol…

This week's topics include:Why Americans are more negative on AI than any other country in the worldWhy DLSS 5 had one of the all-time worst reveals everWhy people are drawn to technically…

An interesting insight into the mentality of the typical car journalist can be found over at Jalopnik. It bemoans Rolls Royce’s decision to walk back its prior commitment to turn its vehicles…

Standing out now takes more than pretty photos; it demands ideas that snap attention, spark conversation, and keep people coming back every day. But good ideas can feel slippery when you’re posting…

Last year, nearly all of the top 50 telecasts in the US were connected to sports. The 97th Oscars, SNL 50th, a 60 mins interview, an episode of The Floor and 67th Grammys were the exception. #27 was…

The technical solution of making mobile phones vibrate to avoid the intrusiveness of ringtones, also called silent mode, was first introduced on pagers in the 1980s and later on mobile phones by…

GrainHeads by Andrei Nevar is a new sequenceable granular sampler/Synthesizer app for iOS and macOS with eight playheads. If there were a Synthesizer word of the year, it was certainly…

The Casio GW-BX5600-1. Growing up, my friends and I all had Casio watches. Johnny had the calculator one, Jason had one that looked a lot like the one here but wasn't a G-SHOCK. At primary school,…

Apple Developer is on LinkedIn now. Nice to see Apple embracing a platform that is not their own. Helps with the latest news and articles from Apple related to development for the Apple platform.

A discussion of the steady erosion of the identity and character of game console interfaces, and a celebration of the excellent original Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, PS Vita,…

In the noughties, Microsoft ruled the world. Even servers across the internet ran Windows Server with ISS (Internet Information Services). macOS only appealed to hipsters, the education market, and…

or, Shipping bugs at scale with AI: 2025 Apr: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI May: Microsoft Update Fails—New Download Breaks Windows Jun: Microsoft Confirms…

The MacBook Neo says ‘Hello’ as Apple celebrates 50 years of existence. What a journey.

Bleass Tides is a new stereo delay plugin for macOS, Windows, and iOS that allows you to manipulate feedback with colorful multi-effects. A year ago, the French company BLEASS released the Tides…

Sean Hollister, reporting for The Verge: Now, Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After doing something similar in its Google Discover…

I thought life was going well with my devices until I experienced inconveniences with the laptop I'm using. I own a MacBook Air M1, which I bought in August of 2023. It's only March of 2026, and I'm…

This past week: postmarketOS introduces Duranium immutable variant, PureOS Crimson beta and Sailfish OS 5.0.0.77 early access released, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, Amazfish 2.9.0 and more! Enjoy! Commentary…

One year after its reveal, the F-47 is no longer just a far-flung concept. Here’s how America’s next air superiority fighter is progressing. On 21 March 2025, the US Air Force introduced the F-47 to…

How about an Apple TV Neo? Over at Stuff, I write about the MacBook Neo, Apple’s previous forays into more affordable hardware, and the possibility of a new telly box. I’m also really chuffed…

AI is writing blogs, NVIDIA is deciding winners, and OpenAI is hiring like crazy—this week in tech proves the future isn’t coming, it’s already replacing you.

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eBay Promoted Listings video ads, C2C & Live pivot; Facebook Marketplace AI listing; Depop junk fee class action; Whatnot legal challenges & more.

It had to happen at some point. On April 1st, that young, brash revolutionary we once knew is going to turn 50. Well … I’m sure a few of us can relate. Aging aside, Apple’s had one…

Human leverage in the AI era - business acumen, cross-functional teams, daily AI practice, real-world connections, and deep curiosity beyond the hype.

I finally got spooked by systemd and upgraded my Debian Trixie desktop to Devuan. Had a few hiccups during the migration and then some problems with bluetooth, but otherwise, working well. Just got…

RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not…

the industrial revolution type of thing once again

Animations… Everybody loves animations. They make your desktop look more eye candy, and they also help with guiding or drawing the user’s attention towards certain elements on the screen,…

Some small utilities become so embedded in my workflow that they start to feel like part of macOS itself. When I sit down at someone else’s Mac or a freshly set-up machine and they aren’t there, it…

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This is a typical iOS Gmail dialog that allows you to snooze an email so it resurfaces later: If you invoke that function on an email that’s an order receipt, a new option appears: It’s great to see…

So, an ongoing background story in this blog has been that I quite like to play pinball. A problem with pinball, though, is that it is an intensely physical game. Video pinball machines, modded or…

“When tech enters education, learning goes down,” neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate subcommittee. His testimony went viral . In The Digital Delusion , Horvath makes the case that…

Telegram, owned by Pavel Durov (the GOAT), will remember 2026. His Telegram Messenger service has faced pressure from the Kremlin in the last few months. Advertising on Telegram was declared illegal.…

The wireless page-turning Kobo Remote is an absolute piece of junk. It’s made of not one but two of the worst kind of plastics you can hold — a sweat-inducing smooth polycarbonate on top and a…

It’s been less than five months since Austrian developer Peter Steinberger pushed a weekend project called “WhatsApp Relay” to GitHub. Since then, that project — renamed from…

Anyone remember where I left off in my blog post about Nyarch Linux? I planned to install Nyarch GNOME on my new Lenovo, using Nyarch Customize and Dash to Panel […]

I already shared this clip on X and Bluesky earlier today, but I wanted to say a little bit more about it. I think that this newly discovered footage of Steve Jobs congratulating Apple employees at…

Let’s talk about Windows.

The radio world is in Rīga, Latvia - including me - for Radiodays Europe. As Nik Goodman said to me yesterday, it’s a feeling of “the band getting back together”, as you bump into…

I’m a Windows guy; I always have been. One of my first programming books was Beginning Visual C++ 6 , which crucially came with a trial version of Visual C++ that my ten-year-old self could install…