Month: April 2017

Joe Cieplinski: People argue with me about this, and they’re wrong. Shit, that should have been the tagline for this site.

This is definitely one of the oddest backpacks I have seen hit the market recently. At first I thought it looked great, but then the more I see of it, the less I like it. Going from 25 liters to 40 liters, by expanding the depth of the bag? I mean, I hate falling over […]

Ina Fried: The company declined to say why the voice assistant feature was being delayed. However, in demos for Axios and others, it failed to work properly. Huh, wonder why.

A thing to hold many smaller things, is best kept in a larger thing which holds things like this thing.

Sandi Doughton on a new early warning system for earthquakes: For nearby earthquakes, the warning may be only seconds. But for a quake on the offshore Cascadia Subduction Zone, the Puget Sound region could get as much as two or three minutes’ warning. The technology is widely used in Japan, where people receive warnings on […]

Eli Rosenberg and Maya Salam: Security officials have warned for years about the risks that hacking attacks can pose to infrastructure. The number of attacks on critical infrastructure appears to have risen: to nearly 300 in 2015 from just under 200 in 2012, according to federal data. In 2013, hackers tied to the Iranian military […]

Michelle Castillo: One alternative for tech companies is to build out in other cities like Seattle, Austin or Chicago that offer a fun lifestyle but might not be as expensive. Not only are salaries cheaper, office rent and other expectations are lower as well. (The only exception was New York, which was mostly on par […]

The big ass iPad Pro is the best and only one you need.

A big thanks to Walt Mossberg for his tireless work. Mossberg was one of the reasons I started this site. Both because I loved reading his takes, and because I (naturally) thought I could do it better.

Hey look, it works everywhere and all the time, how novel.

Ulysses has released version 2.8 and it has a feature I have been waiting for: Touch ID support. Now you can secure your entire Ulysses library with Touch ID and keep prying eyes out of your stuff. I feel strongly that every app should have this option, so it’s great to see the best iOS […]

Dan Goodin: TVs and other Internet-connected appliances almost universally lack application sandboxing and other exploit mitigations that are a standard part of computer and mobile operating systems. Even worse, most devices run old versions of Linux and open source browsers that contain critical vulnerabilities. While patches are generally available on the Internet for the individual […]

I don’t often agree with Lifehacker, but they sure got this one right.

Kim Zetter on Samsung’s Tizen OS: But the operating system is riddled with serious security vulnerabilities that make it easy for a hacker to take control of Tizen-powered devices, according to Israeli researcher Amihai Neiderman. “It may be the worst code I’ve ever seen,” he told Motherboard in advance of a talk about his research […]

That thing where someone allows me to be overly specific about what I might want to see in my notebook.

Jean-Louis Gassée: As hoped for in this space, it’s part of a shift that partially explains Cook’s fervor for the iPad: iOS, not macOS, will be the software engine of Apple’s future. Mac fans, I’m one of them, might disagree with Apple’s strategy, but here it is in plain view. Sure is a lot of […]

Steve Kodachrome reporting: “Facial recognition is a convenient action to open your phone – similar to the ‘swipe to unlock’ action,” the spokesperson said. “We offer the highest level of biometric authentication – fingerprint and iris – to lock your phone and authenticate access to Samsung Pay or Secure Folder.” “We know it sounds like […]

I love articles like this, as I keep in mind that as wild as the thoughts are around the future of transportation I remember: What Evans says in this post is likely only scratching the surface. I highly doubt my two kids will ever need to learn to drive.

Web design on an iPad Pro, and maybe two iPad Pros wasn’t the right thinking?