There’s an excellent, bluntly titled article in The Verge this week — “Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards” — and if you care about the power Big Tech wields, you should read it. The piece lays out a simple, uncomfortable truth: Apple and Google loudly advertise their values… Read More »An Article Apple and Google Wish You Wouldn’t Read
As I read this headline today, “Google co-founder Larry Page cuts business ties with California as state’s new billionaires’ tax looms,” I felt revulsion as many others should. What is wrong with these people, I thought. For decades, California has been the most productive wealth-creation… Read More »California Made Them Rich. Now They Want to Leave.
Elon Musk has spent years cultivating the image of a once-in-a-generation genius. Tesla’s recent slide suggests something else: a CEO whose instincts are increasingly bad, whose priorities are misaligned, and whose own behavior is actively damaging the company he leads. Tesla didn’t lose the global… Read More »Musk Is Not as Smart as He Seems
As we close out 2025, the tech landscape has been a mix of ambitious breakthroughs and some truly spectacular misfires. While “worst” is a matter of personal opinion, several products this year stood out for failing to meet their massive hype, suffering from critical design… Read More »Some of the worst tech products of 2025
There’s a Verizon scam that’s fooling many, that we should be aware of, because it’s quite clever and initially fooled me. I received this text, supposedly from Verizon, saying I had points that were about to expire and I needed to redeem them soon: I… Read More »Redeem those Verizon points before they expire
More than a year ago we read how ChatGPT would just make things up and how it embarrassed a lawyer who used it by citing court cases that it just made up. After all this time, ChatGLT is no better and maybe worse. At least… Read More »ChatGPT still hallucinates
When a power outage in San Francisco last night caused Waymo’s autonomous cars to stall and snarl traffic, clog streets and blocked emergency vehicles, it felt to me like a paradigm of big tech. It was a predictable failure. The tech industry loves to release… Read More »When Technology Breaks, It Breaks Society
We no longer see the swarm of major new gadgets that we saw earlier in this decade. Instead we’re seeing refinements, improvements, and more miniaturization. I recently looked back on some of the gadgets that I purchased this year and like enough to recommend. Anker… Read More »Favorite gadgets of 2025
There was a time when the under-seat bag barely mattered. It carried a book, a computer, a boarding pass, maybe a sandwich. The real action lived in the overhead bin. That was the focus of interest in the rollerboard bag category, each manufacturer creating a… Read More »Why Under-Seat Bags Became the New Battleground
My phone messages are being filled with a continuous torrent of requests for donations from our politicians. Day and night I receive texts from politicians who insist that I, a stranger they have never met, hold the key to saving their campaign. The tone is… Read More »The great texting onslaught from our politicians