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Me and My Apple Toys by Ron McElfresh

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A Few Words On Email Options

Thursday, October 12, 2017
If there is an application on our Macs or iPhones (and iPads) that we love to hate, it's Mail. Apple provides customers with a decent email app, packed with more features on the Mac than iOS, but it works well enough despite the lack of a good spam filter on iPhone and iPad.The problem with email... Read More »
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

What If There Was No iPhone X

Apple's promise for iPhone X has yet to be fulfilled but it is on the way. David Farrington asks, "What If There Was No iPhone X?"Don’t these class leading smartphones look about the same? Rounded corners. Flat body. Big screen. Case. Other than the coming trend of micro-bezel designs evidenced... Read More »
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Sony Aibo And Amazon Alexa

Brian heater on what's old is what's new again.Sony’s getting the old crew back together for one more job... the electronics giant is reuniting the team between its beloved, bygone robotic dog Aibo, in order to develop a new version of the bot for the age of smart assistants.Don't we have those... Read More »

Cowboys’ Laterals

The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Green Bay Packers Sunday because they left too much time on the clock for Aaron Rogers. That happens. What happened at the end of the game almost never works but is a delight to watch. Michael David Smith:With the ball on their own 25-yard line and five seconds left... Read More »

Apple’s Problem With Parts

Thursday, October 5, 2017
Think of what it means to sell 200-million of anything. Apple sells on the order of 240-million iPhones each year, and each one is packed with technology components from displays to cameras, from SSD storage to CPUs to RAM, from various sensor, antennas, and buttons to cameras. With one obvious exception*,... Read More »
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

‘Stop Whining About The Notch’

What Steve Jobs would have said to those criticizing the notch in iPhone X. Jeffrey Mincey sums it up:iPhone X dispensed with the chin altogether, and the edge is almost bezel-less, but even at the top of the device, Apple managed to squeeze in more technology– that’s where the camera and TrueDepth... Read More »

The Illusion Of Space, Time, And Gravity

Everyday science seems to change what we know about science. Ethan Siegel:The Universe, as we know it, has a fundamental flaw staring us right in our faces, letting us know that our knowledge is incomplete. The four fundamental forces are described by two different and mutually incompatible frameworks:... Read More »

Hyperloops Are Coming

They won't go everywhere but they will go faster than trains, busses, and planes (avoiding the wait at the airport). John Fingas on a plan to run a hyper loop from St. Louis to Kansas City:In theory, the pod-based system would shuttle you between the cities in under half an hour, instead of the nearly... Read More »

When Technology Writers ‘Lie’ About Apple

Thursday, September 28, 2017
Everyone lies. We know we shouldn't but sometimes it's just too convenient. Politicians lie. Children lie. Even writers lie, and these days, Apple is a good target for lies, exaggerations, tall tales, or whatever it takes to capture a few eyeballs that roam the interwebs looking for something to read.Technology... Read More »

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Profit Per iPhone: $511

Jeffrey Mincey simply destroys the typical iPhone profit model. The setup:IHS Markit did a teardown of all the parts inside an iPhone 8 Plus, ran a few estimates on the cost of each component, visited a pharmacy to obtain a suppository, and then came out with a bill of materials cost of $288. That’s... Read More »

The Pescetarian

What's it called when all you want to eat is fish? Emma Bleznak knows:As an active adult, I didn’t feel I could sacrifice the protein and energy that I’d been convinced meat gave me. My brother, six years into a pescetarian diet, dared me to try and source my protein from fish. It was this dare... Read More »

The Grocery List

My job is to drive and carry heavy stuff. Grocery lists for men? Bah humbug. Era Gowalkar gave her husband a list and it got 15-minutes of fame. Sahil Rizwan explains:Like any busy couple, the duo have divided their household chores between them, with Era handing off the grocery shopping duties to... Read More »

Why Apple Won’t Make A TV

Tuesday, September 26, 2017
For many years market analysts Gene Munster predicted Apple would make their own brand television. Nilay Patel says there is a case for Apple to make a television.Gene Munster:We have been talking about an Apple television for the better part of the last decade... While it is a small consolation... Read More »
Monday, September 25, 2017

Facebook Knew About Russia’s Meddling

Steve Dent:Despite once saying that it was "crazy" to believe Russians influenced the 2016 election, Facebook knew about a possible operation as early as June, 2016.Really? How so?It only started taking it seriously after President Obama met privately with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ahead of Trump's... Read More »

More ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Secrets

I love these. Michelle Regalado: When The Big Bang Theory first premiered in 2007, no one could have predicted it would become the massive pop culture phenomenon that it is today. Almost a decade later, the hit CBS sitcom remains the top-rated comedy currently on TV. And what don't you know about the... Read More »