AI: Apple sues OpenAI over theft of intellectual property
This could get very ugly, quickly. Does not look good.
Software: Operating system marketshare, by OS
What marketshare do Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android, iOS, and other OSes have?
Consumer products: The lack of user replaceable batteries
Tons of tech products today are literally disposable - from Bluetooth headphones to cell phones to notebook PCs - because they lack replaceable batteries.
Hardware: Apple NEO based on cell phone CPU
Smartphone CPUs now so powerful they run notebooks at high performance. And its repairable, unlike most recent tech.
When your Bluetooth Headphone’s battery dies
A cheap USB-C to stereo audio jack adapter can let you use traditional wired headphones on smartphones and computers that no longer have an audio jack.
Hardware: 8K TV market is dead
The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K – Ars Technica
Microsoft’s new AI Surface laptops designed for end user repairability
Microsoft's newest hardware is designed for end user repairability.
Environment, Smart phones: Fairphone 5 is a sustainable phone
Fairphone offers a repairable, sustainable, long term usage high end smart phone.
Automation
Emerging Technology
Hardware/Tablets Etc
Innovation
Innovative/Creative
Robotics
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Innovation: Robotics is happening far faster than most realize
We are going to see advanced automation via even humanoid robots. This is an amazing bit of engineering. Last Saturday I stopped in an ordinary Asian Bistro restaurant – and…
Short product life: why I switched from Mac to Windows-based PCs
Over the years I owned an original Mac notebook (1999 time frame), a dual processor G4 desktop, and later 2 Macbooks (first one was stolen), and then a MacPro 1,1…
The end of passwords?
Interesting ideas: Instead of a password, devices could look for your phone over Bluetooth. Source: Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard | Ars Technica
Apple said to intimidate Android users to adopt iPhone, via clever peer pressure propaganda
The use of green and blue to show whether a message to a user is made through iMessage or via other devices has become more than a simple convenience indicator…
Pluton security for future Windows PCs
Pluton is a security tech to be embedded inside future CPUs. A bit like moving the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) into CPU silicon – because someone figured out how to…
Up to half the population may require a VR prescription to use VR
Each user would then need their own VR headset and sharing headsets might be difficult? Virtual-reality headsets tend to leave some space in front of the wearer’s eyes that could…