Telecom companies tend not to be particularly good at anything, including running their own businesses. They never seem to learn — only to spend incompetently on expansions into new markets involvi… | Continue reading
Telecom companies tend not to be particularly good at anything, including running their own businesses. They never seem to learn — only to spend incompetently on expansions into new markets involvi… | Continue reading
It is too cold (relatively speaking) and gray to go out — a perfect day for either reading a whodunnit or watching an excellent crime flick. Thankfully, folks from CrimeReads created a l… | Continue reading
Through most of the pandemic lockdown, I was religious about my morning walks. It was the only time of the day I felt comfortable going out for a walk without a mask. Lately, that habit of going ou… | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Michel Every photo tells a story. And there is a story behind every image. As a writer, I found myself restricted by the social platforms when it came to telling that story. I believ… | Continue reading
The last time I bought a new iPad Pro was at the end of 2018, and I have been patiently waiting to order the new model with the M1 chip. Despite waking up very early on the April 30th morning to bu… | Continue reading
My order of AirTags arrived this morning. I got a four-pack, because, why not. I got them engraved because, again, why not. At first blush, they are much larger than I thought they would be, though… | Continue reading
In an interview with Hodinkee, Patek Philippe’s Thierry Stern explains why his mega-luxury brand won’t bother making a smart watch, unlike other watch brands such as Montblanc and TAG Heuer. … | Continue reading
“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches,” Andy Warhol. Today, he would have measured everything in the number of tweets, re-tweets, shares… | Continue reading
A visual journey through Northern California’s Coastal Redwoods and its wild coastline. The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts. — J… | Continue reading
Twitter is going the way of subscriptions in 2021 — after buying Revue, the company today snapped up Scroll for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is a smart move — it all… | Continue reading
Twitter is going the way of subscriptions in 2021 — after buying Revue, the company today snapped up Scroll for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is a smart move — it all… | Continue reading
It has been a rough few days for the citizens of India, who have been struggling with the rampaging COVID-19 virus. The pandemic is more widespread than either media or official figures seem to ind… | Continue reading
I have made notes when reporting news, interviewing people, or drafting outlines for most of my life. In the early days, it would be shorthand. Later it would be a weird blend of English, symbols, … | Continue reading
Over the last two days, I have been talking to old friends and family members, and no matter how you put it, the situation is grim. Except for my parents, the virus has impacted many extended famil… | Continue reading
Over the last two days, I have been talking to old friends and family members, and no matter how you put it, the situation is grim. Except for my parents, the virus has impacted many extended famil… | Continue reading
Okay, I admit that is a bit sensationalistic subject line, but I wanted to have something catchy to get your attention for this story about the future of food. A group of researchers is working on … | Continue reading
Walking Among The Giants A visual journey through Northern California’s Coastal Redwoods and it’s wild coastline. The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not… | Continue reading
Two decades into the new millennium, it is pretty apparent: hardware without software and smarts is nothing more than a gimmick. Apple’s product launch event today was a timely reminder of th… | Continue reading
In December 2020, with the release of the iOS 14.3, the owners of iPhone 12 Pro (and ProMax), got to experience Apple’s new photo format, ProRAW. In simplest terms, the iPhone camera captures… | Continue reading
What do Nils Frahm, Anne Mueller, Jeannie Schulz, Mary Lattimore and Atli Örvarsson have in common? They are among three dozen artists whose albums I bought last year from Bandcamp, an Oakland, CA-… | Continue reading
Knowing of my growing distaste for the Facebookization of Instagram, Evgeny Tchebotarev, the co-founder of 500px, sent me an email about a new project from Crew, a freelancer-focused design company… | Continue reading
We take the Internet for granted. We take the commercial Internet for granted. What we don’t appreciate is how far we have come from where it all started. Here is a long watch — a video… | Continue reading
Photo by Mikaela Shannon on Unsplash From the day I first laid eyes on the M1-based Apple’s MacBook Pro, I have been a massive fan of the machine. It is fast. It is powerful. It runs cool. An… | Continue reading
I just finished reading Mick Herron’s Slough House. It is the latest in his Slow Horses series. It didn’t disappoint, though it took me a while to finish the book. Herron is widely viewed as … | Continue reading
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash The EVs — electric vehicles are everywhere. More SPACs are touting their fantastic future where they sell millions of vehicles. Elon Musk is the wealthiest g… | Continue reading
For a long time, Nitin Sawhney has occupied a prime slot on my very short bucket list of people to interview. I first encountered his music in the early 1990s, and to a great extent, he has provide… | Continue reading
As you might (or might not know), I have a particular predilection for mechanical watches. I have always been fascinated by watch faces and the design philosophies behind those dials. And that is w… | Continue reading
Leica M10 Monochrome & Leica f2/50 Summicron lens, ISO 160, f4, infinity focus, and 1/4000th of a second A few weeks back, I visited Bolinas. It was one of those bucolic days that we often take… | Continue reading
This week, Tim O’Reilly provided much-needed perspective in his essay “The End of Silicon Valley As We Know It.” If you can overlook the clickbait title, this essay is among the m… | Continue reading
About a month ago, I wrote about the state of Starlink, the satellite broadband division of SpaceX, and speculated that I won’t be surprised if “the Starlink network evolves i… | Continue reading
Lately, I find myself admiring HEY World, a new tool from the makers of the collaboration platform Basecamp. Here’s how it works: If you use HEY, their (paid) email service, you can write an email,… | Continue reading
Not every brick and mortar retail chain selling goods that people can get more easily — even instantly — online gets the GameStop treatment. Some of them (most of them) just quietly fade. But that … | Continue reading
I can across an article about a Rado watch designed by British-born and London-based designer Tej Chauhan. Rado watches are not to my taste. But his approach to design caught my eye. It combines ou… | Continue reading
I can across an article about a Rado watch designed by British-born and London-based designer Tej Chauhan. Rado watches are not to my taste. But his approach to design caught my eye. It combines ou… | Continue reading
Photo by Christiann Koepke on Unsplash Christmas came in March for Tidal, the increasingly irrelevant, money-losing music streaming service, and Jay-Z misadventure. Square, the digital finance comp… | Continue reading
Photo by Christiann Koepke on Unsplash Christmas came in March for Tidal, the increasingly irrelevant, money-losing music streaming service, and Jay-Z misadventure. Square, the digital finance comp… | Continue reading
Photo by Sahand Hoseini on Unsplash The news of Indie.vc shutting down keeps popping up in my news feeds, social media feeds, and email newsletters. All of them talk about how it didn’t work out, b… | Continue reading
M.J. Tsai, who curates a great mac blog, pointed to a story with a clever headline — The Mac Price Crash of 2021. “The new M1 Macs have cratered MacBook resale values,” notes Robi… | Continue reading
Not every brick and mortar retail chain selling goods that people can get more easily — even instantly — online gets the GameStop treatment. Some of them (most of them) just quietly fade. But that … | Continue reading
Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash “The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change… and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher … | Continue reading
We photographers are an odd bunch. When the weather is bad, we decide to leave our dwellings and go out in search of photos. Last week, after hiding in my cave for over a week, a rainy day allowed … | Continue reading
Photo by Jukka Aalho on Unsplash From a billion-dollar valuation for social Internet’s “it” startup, Clubhouse to billionaire Mark Cuban co-founding his own version of a live “fir… | Continue reading
According to an FCC filing (PDF) submitted as per the requirements that come with the $885 million subsidy SpaceX received as part of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, the company’s Starlink ha… | Continue reading
In his newsletter, Matt Stoller takes an in-depth look at the Solarwinds hack and how it will impact the US and its citizens. Solarwinds is the result of a private-equity ethos applied to critical … | Continue reading
You might have heard: Amazon’s co-founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos is leaving the building. He is handing the company’s reins to Andy Jassy, the current head of the fast-growing a… | Continue reading
As the air was leaking out of the dot-com bubble, I remember reading about the news around human genome sequencing and its future impact. Today direct-to-consumer companies offer us our DNA details… | Continue reading
Just over five years ago, I made the argument that the iPhone (and its smartphone cousins) were killing the camera business. I occasionally update the data that shows the widening gap. With 2020 in… | Continue reading