- Virtual CES 2021 – Part 3
Consumer Hardware Needs Content Quantity, Variety
Since the earliest CES, the OMG of the show has always been the screen … bigger, better, brighter, more immersive, more versatile, less expensive. That’s a good thing because this year’s virtual event (and our locked at home lives) would have been terribly dull without the screen … and ...
- Virtual CES 2021 – Part 2
The Tech Event that Mixes Business and Pleasure
Chips are important…DUH, but there’s more to CES than present/future technology. There’s also the practical side for home and the office. While chips are in everything today, most of us feel the first place to experience them is in productivity, personal tools.
At CES, the work/play/communicate device makers were at ...
- Virtual CES 2021 – Part 1
A Technology Event So Big You Can’t See It All in One Seating
After years of working the floor at CES, it’s easy to summarize … dumb from the neck up, numb from the neck down. This year was worse.
You couldn’t “miss” a keynote, press event, panel session – seven days of pre and CES press events, ...
- Use a VPN for Safer Online Shopping
Most people are led to believe — or want to believe — that all e-commerce sites are secure.Read more…
- Building Blocks
Being the head of an organization sounds like a cool position to most people, especially when you barely graduated from college, nabbed your first position and are faced with a mountain of debt. The best decisions the boss makes is to let qualified people develop their plans, carry them out and make the decisions. They ...
- Childs Play
IoT is going to be big…huge even. It’s important that you prepare your kids for the world they’ll inherit, be connected into. You might as well start them out in a small, innocent way by getting them toys that connect and do more than just sit there waiting for him/her to play with them. Sounds ...
- Deadly Silence
The toughest thing for people to do today is to have a conversation. You know meaningful conversation. Sure you talk to people but every minute you glance at your smartphone. Or you say uh huh, yes, yep and text someone. You see people walking down the street with their head down reading emails, texts or ...
- HDR 4K
There wasn’t a filmmaker at Sundance that hadn’t shot in 4K. The stuff that got scooped up the quickest was done in HDR too. The differences in films, shows, content is obvious. And because it’s so good some of the best indie filmmakers are coming into their own…really shining. The creative talent is outstanding. The ...
- You’re Good
Communication people – like myself – like to think that everything we touch was designed just for us to pitch a story, an idea, a product for people to buy into (actually to buy). Google’s and Facebook’s latest financials though showed they aren’t there to let people talk to each other, assist each other but ...
- More Instruments
PC sales are flat to down, tablet sales are off, smartphones are flat all except for Apple but since they aren’t having eye-popping growth all their sales don’t count. But all of the devices look/act about the same so why buy new every time they decide they need some more profit? We’re not abandoning them. ...
- How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
That is the title of an IEEE Spectrum “Opinion” article that I found via Metafilter. In addition to reading the article, I suggest you read the comments on both sites.
- File or Path Name Too Long? Find out before you do your backup
Those of us who back up our devices sometimes get a message that some file couldn’t be backed up because its name — more likely its file path name — is too long. Lim Electronics‘ website offers a free, small, easy-to-use program called, appropriately enough, FindLongNames, that lets you check your Windows machine for ...
- Learn and see some Internet history
“The million dollar homepage is still online, a snapshot of the internet circa 2005, but many of its links are dead, or point to different websites, their owners reaping the rewards of prior investments. Archive.org captured some iterations of the website, and the linked sites from there, and Web Archive.org.uk has been ...
- It’s Your iPhone. Why Can’t You Fix It Yourself?
Excerpted from www.nytimes.com. Go there to read the whole article, and comments.
“A giant John Deere tractor and a pocket-size Apple iPhone have something important in common: The cost of repairing either one is too high.
The
two companies, and many of their peers, use a variety of aggressive
tactics, including electronic locks and restrictive warranties, ...
- Zooming In on Petra
How digital archaeologists are using drones and cutting-edge cameras to recreate the spectacular 2,000-year-old ruins in Jordan.
Read the article from the October 2018 Smithsonian Magazine here: www.smithsonianmag.com.
- “Thank You, Beep …”: a 1979 look at personal technology
“Thank You, Beep …” has been part of me since the first time I read it, in an hp publication forty years ago. I’ve been wanting to read it again, and, finally, I can, thanks to someone wanting to sell a copy of that publication on ebay today (3/18/19). ...
- ‘Right to Repair’ Movement Fights Back Against Unfixable Devices
An interesting discussion on Michael Krasney’s Forum program.
” The “right to repair” movement is growing. A range of D.I.Y. groups offer classes and online instructions for how to fix everything from discarded clothing steamers to iPhones and Wi-Fi enabled refrigerators. But technology companies have resisted consumer efforts to repair increasingly software-dependent ...
- From the mines to your mobile: the questionable lithium battery supply chain
“Laptops, smartphones and tablets are all powered by rechargeable batteries – and lithium-ion is the market choice. Aside from portable devices, these batteries are also crucial to the growth of the electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage industry, both key elements of the transition towards a greener economy.
The growth of ...
- 100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It
” will be the 30th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s first proposal to CERN outlining what he originally called the “WorldWideWeb” (one word). Since then, Berners-Lee has had a few regrets about what’s become a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster, and who knows what the future holds. [In the linked article ...
- How a Bunch of Lava Lamps Protect Us From Hackers
Remember lava lamps? turns out, they’re like tiny universes. After the bulb’s heat distributes fully throughout the lamp’s interior fluids, spherical globules in various pastel colors and sizes begin to move slowly and silently about exactly as the natural laws of physics and fluid behavior require. Smaller globules coalesce into larger ones, then disassemble and ...
