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
Radios in some Mazda cars bricked by errant broadcast from KUOW-FM
Software in the radio hangs in the radio boot process upon encountered an errant image sent by KUOW-FM. Apparently the only fix is to replace a $1,500 component in each…
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…