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Living La VR Loca
Apple began delivering Vision Pro headsets to reviewers and customers last week. By all accounts, they’re quite nice VR devices. Oops! Apple doesn’t want Vision Pro to be called a “virtual reality” device. It’s trying to kickstart a new market and leave old baggage...
Facebook And Fake Accounts: A Miscalculation Of Scale
Douglas Adams tells this story in his classic novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. After waging frightful war against each other for centuries, two alien civilizations...
How To Fix Low Disk Space Notifications After Installing Windows 10 April 2018 Update
This is why Microsoft doesn’t have any friends. If you start seeing a barrage of notifications about “low disk space” on your Windows 10 computer, it is likely to be the result...
Google Performs An Amazing Magic Trick With Artificial Intelligence
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke Google gave one of the all-time great technology demos on stage this week at Google...
Beware Of The Scary Button! Microsoft Mucks Up Another Update
Let’s start with the thrilling conclusion for readers with limited attention spans. • There are some problems with the latest major Windows 10 update. Don’t panic –...
Don’t Want To Live On The Edge? How To Change The Default PDF Viewer In Windows 10
The first thing everyone does with a new computer is install Google Chrome. That’s the last time we want to see Microsoft Edge, the uninspiring Windows 10 web browser. At some...
How To Use Google To Change Your Image
If you’re looking for a picture to use in a project - a Powerpoint presentation, Word document, blog post, whatever – you probably do a Google image search. Google has made that...
How Microsoft Became Uncool And Lost Touch With Consumers
There was a time when Windows was cool. A long time ago, people lined up to get new versions of Windows when they went on sale. Maybe not quite the numbers of people outside of...
Could Microsoft Have Kept Windows Relevant?
We have arrived at a point where Microsoft no longer has a Windows division. To a generation of computer users, Windows was the product that defined Microsoft and defined our own...
Microsoft Acknowledges The Inevitable: Windows Is Sailing Into The Sunset
Microsoft announced an internal reorganization last week and raised the profile of its cloud, artificial intelligence, and enterprise teams. This would not normally be an...
Box Drive Hits A Milestone
Box Drive has been declared to be generally available, instead of being labeled a “beta.” Box Drive users will be prompted to install an update – more about that below. Need a...
Another Season, Another Windows Update
Microsoft will soon begin distributing the Spring Creators Update for Windows 10, likely starting on Patch Tuesday, April 10. The update will bring Windows 10 to version 1803....
Net Neutrality & SESTA: The Big Will Grow Bigger
Previously: Tech Giants And World Domination The repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules by the Federal Communications Commission will take effect on April 23. This week the...
Tech Giants And World Domination
Five companies – Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft – dominate everything that happens in technology. They arguably wield more power than many governments and they...
Around The World In 80 Taps: Google Pay, Apple Pay, And Contactless Payments
I never used a credit card in Australia. I bought coffee and sandwiches and souvenirs and dinners and clothing, but I never pulled out my wallet. I never used cash, either. I...
Visiting The Land Down Under, Returning To The Upside Down World
We’re safely back from a trip to Australia – walking on the beach on the Bay of Fires in Tasmania, shopping at Salamanca Market in Hobart, exploring lanes and arcades and alleys...