A bizarre tale of a tech bro, doomsday bunker and a dead body. It is one of the strangest stories you will read — and no, it is not fiction. [Washingtonian] The daily habits of a latter day dictato… | Continue reading
Snapchat announced that in 2018 an average of 3 billion snaps were sent every day. A single snap produces 0.1g of CO2 meaning that in just 24 hours Snapchat generates the carbon equivalent of 1 car… | Continue reading
“Firms such as Huawei, Tencent, ZTE, Alibaba, and Baidu have no meaningful ability to tell the Chinese Communist Party “no” if officials decide to ask for their assistance,” said Christo… | Continue reading
Remember the original Square Card Reader that would plug into iPhone’s headphone jack? This is how it worked and what has happened to it since. | Continue reading
Sir Jony Ive might be leaving Apple, but he can’t get over his creation, the Apple Watch. Here are three photos of him showing the watch to others at the Apple Event earlier this week. Also, … | Continue reading
“It just ushered in something we take for granted now, which is online gaming, online communities, games as a service, games that you can’t finish because the content keeps coming,” says … | Continue reading
Humans have put 8,378 objects put into space since the first Sputnik in 1957 and at the beginning of 2019 4,987 satellites were still up there, and 1957 are operational. From 1964to 2012 roughly 13… | Continue reading
“If he hadn’t bailed out SolarCity, his whole debt-laden empire might have cracked. Yet without the bailout, Tesla would be far more healthy….In the second quarter of this year, SolarCity ins… | Continue reading
It is almost 5 am. I have been up for an hour. A Kind of Blue is playing on my record player, sipping April Earl Grey Tea sent by Sebastiaan Hooft, a Dutch DJ, and entrepreneur. I am trying to get … | Continue reading
As a fan of photography in general, and a believer in the inevitability of computational photography and its capabilities, today is indeed a red-letter day. Apple has truly delivered a great new ca… | Continue reading
Juul, despite all its protestations and whitewashing in the media, is no better than old fashioned tobacco companies. It is selling addictive products that are killing people and are going to have … | Continue reading
They opened it with Apple Watch so that tells you the primary driver of the growth going forward. Arcade – 100 new exclusive games which are unique to Apple devices. New Arcade App. New Game … | Continue reading
“My sympathies were with people who struggled. There was also my mistrust of people who made the rules.” Robert Frank, documentary photographer of immense influence. He passed away at 94. The… | Continue reading
Alex Honnold is a household name today, thanks to the documentary, Free Solo, about his solo climb of El Capitan. It is what comes after that which is a real challenge for the legendary climber. Th… | Continue reading
Camera sales are continuing to fall off a cliff. And will continue to do so as the capabilities of camera phones keep increasing. Later this week, Apple is likely to announce a three-camera iPhone … | Continue reading
“U.S. sales of smartwatches are booming,” notes Hodinkee. “They rose 24% in value in the U.S. for the first half of 2019 versus the same period in 2018.” NPD estimated 2018 smartwatch s… | Continue reading
Braun Audio, the company that gave us iconic audio gear designed by none other than Dieter Rams has returned to the market — this time with the smart speakers. These speakers are descendants … | Continue reading
“What if, perversely, our own militant sense of humanity explains why our technologies end up dehumanizing us? Remember, the guillotine was an Enlightenment technology that supposedly helped … | Continue reading
I recently wrote about Kickstarter, my once beloved crowdfunding platform, which previously seemed like the future of collaborative creativity. It has now become an engine of disappointment, mostly… | Continue reading
Some mornings I wake up dreaming of what Hiroshi Sugimoto said about our planet — it is unique because it is the only place we know where water, light, and air have helped create life. | Continue reading
The Biggest Art Con? A Dutch gallerist made thousands of forgeries and passed them off as the work of real artists. When he was caught, a new con began. [Atavist] The Ratner Effect: Twitter might b… | Continue reading
A few months ago when Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler wrote a much talked about essay — The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet — I couldn’t stop nodding my head in agreement. After all, his… | Continue reading
One of my favorite things to do is visit the bay by the bridge and wait for fog and light to play footsie. This is such a beautiful sight to behold, and I can’t stop taking photos here. Even if I h… | Continue reading
Only 500 leopard wild cats survive in the almost urban jungle of Taiwan and are on the verge of extinction. In order to protect the endangered species, DT42, a Taiwan-based deep learning startup is… | Continue reading
It is easy to get despondent about the future and its challenges, especially with the massive amount of change ahead due to climate and weather modifications we are continuing to experience. Howeve… | Continue reading
Instead of looking at PCs versus smartphones, a paradigm that worked well for around a decade, the better way for investors to divide the technology-hardware sector is consumer and enterprise. The … | Continue reading
Over the long Labor Day weekend, I visited DeYoung museum along with my good friend Chris Michel to look at their vast collection of artworks. And eventually I ended up making some photos of the bu… | Continue reading
Camera sales are continuing to falling off a cliff. The latest data from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) shows them in a swoon befitting a Bollywood roadside Romeo. All four bi… | Continue reading
In the aftermath of HurricaneDorian, The Bahamas was pretty much underwater, including the Grand Bahama International Airport, Freeport. The yellow line is the coastline which shows so practically … | Continue reading
It is hard not to be overcome by a sense of despair and doom about the world in general, and technology in specific. It doesn’t help that media is dominated by doomsday narratives. We all nee… | Continue reading
Leica Camera featured one of my photos on their Instagram account, alongside my comments about my love for Lecia SL. This photo was made on a typical San Francisco evening – when sunset and f… | Continue reading
“The very last thing I want to watch on Netflix is an ode to Bill Gates. Gates was the Zuck of the 90s. He tried to put our freedom in a Microsoft box and sell it back to us, without the freedom.” … | Continue reading
“We live in a time dedicated to the erasure or denial of all physical signs of age or weakness, as well as to the exaltation of the worth of the individual self. ” from My Venice: And O… | Continue reading
The long not at all hot summer in San Francisco is slowly breathing its last. It is officially the last weekend of the summer of 2019. I am taking the weekend off — and instead of working on my new… | Continue reading
My former colleague, Derrick Harris, wrote more about Hadoop than any other reporter, and today, he wrote a wonderful obituary of Hadoop. He goes step by step, through what has made Hadoop quite ir… | Continue reading
I am happy to finally be able to show off my collaboration with Dsptch SF. I have worked with them to create a special braided camera strap that is made in my favorite shade of blue. Here is h… | Continue reading
It is not uncommon to come across photographs of the magical Italian city of Venice pop-up on my Instagram feed. It is an architectural gem. Canals and bridges criss-cross the city, that is made ev… | Continue reading
In this age of so-called-social media, the word “influencer” seems often to be used where formerly other terms were used, such as “expert,” “teacher,” “role model,” “entertainer,” etc. I believe th… | Continue reading
You might have noticed that things are a little different around here. And you’re right! The blog has been redesigned — in more ways than one. | Continue reading
Leichtman Research Group rolled out their latest consumer research on household viewing habits today, and the results are telling: 74% of all U.S. households have a subscription video on-Demand (SV… | Continue reading
Yesterday, I blogged about Facebook’s desire to manage our WiFi connections and alluded to the need to access our location data for better advertising targeting. Later, I came across this art… | Continue reading
The not-so chill history of the Hawaiian shirt. As someone who has been known to wear these shirts, I say with confidence that this is an excellent read. The amazing hunt for a multi-million-dollar… | Continue reading
Back in 2017, Facebook rolled out the “Find Wi-Fi” feature globally, a feature that lists the nearby Wi-Fi networks that Page owners shared with Facebook. Two years later, Facebook is working to ex… | Continue reading
Each Tesla computer has two AI chips, a redundant design for better safety, Venkataramanan said. There’s redundancy in the chips’ power supplies and data input feeds, too. Even the car&… | Continue reading
A full-fledged quantum computer is still years, if not decades, away. But developers have long thought that its killer app will be decoding encrypted messages on the internet and elsewhere, be they… | Continue reading
I am as shocked as anyone to find Joi Ito, the head of the MIT Media Lab, swept up in the scandal around Jeffrey Epstein’s heinous and criminal web of exploitation. Ito met Epstein in 2013 — about … | Continue reading
Burning Man is at a crossroads. It can continue to educate the public, energize the community, encourage best practices, and protect its intellectual property. But in trying too hard to preserve it… | Continue reading
I am not much for summer vacation, but occasionally I do like to take a couple of days to tune out my work life. All the travel and meetings of my trip made it difficult for me to sit down and writ… | Continue reading