Collaborate Disseminate
As this year’s most influential tech event comes to a close, I’m reflecting on the products that left the biggest impression on me – and that I’d spend my own money on. Continue reading Three CES 2025 products I’d buy as soon as they’d take my money
“JPMorgan Chase shut down comments on an internal webpage announcing the bank’s return-to-office policy,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “after dozens of them criticized the move and at least one suggested that affected employees should unionize, acc… Continue reading JPMorgan Chase Disables Employee Comments After Return-to-Office Backlash
“Nuclear you can trust,” reads the web page promoting “The Egg, an at home nuclear reactor.”
Yes, Enron.com is now announcing “a micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home.” (A quick reminder from CNN in December. “A company that makes T-shirts bou… Continue reading Enron.com Announces Pre-Orders for Egg-Shaped Home Nuclear Reactor
When we reviewed the iFixit FixHub back in September, one of the most interesting features of the portable soldering station was the command line interface that both the iron and …read more Continue reading iFixit Releases Command Line Docs for FixHub Iron
Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation as a nonprofit in 1985 with four other directors (including MIT computer science professor Gerald Jay Sussman). Sussman remains on the Board of directors, along with EFF co-founder John Gilmore and … Continue reading Why the FSF is Structured the Way It Is
WordPress co-creator (and Automattic CEO) Matt Mullenweg “has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members,” reports TechCrunch, “some of whom have been spearheading a push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress projec… Continue reading WordPress.org Accounts Deactivated for Contributors Said to Be Planning a Fork – by Automattic CEO
[Boz] wants to build a retrocomputer, but where to start? You could start with the computery bits, like say the CPU or the bus architecture, but where’s the fun in that? …read more Continue reading Blinkenlights-First Retrocomputer Design
Friday America’s consumer watchdog agency “proposed a rule to give virtual video game currencies protections similar to those of real-world bank accounts…” reports the Washington Post, “so players can receive refunds or compensation for unauthorized … Continue reading Should In-Game Currency Receive Federal Government Banking Protections?
As the ecological disaster continues, CNN reports the Palisades Fire near Malibu, California has burned at least 22,660 acres, left 100,000 peope under evacuation orders, left at least 11 people dead and “destroyed thousands of homes and other structur… Continue reading California’s Wildfires: Livestreams from Burning Homes and Dire Text Messages – Sometimes Erroneous
While CES wraps up this week, “Not all innovation is good innovation,” warns Elizabeth Chamberlain, iFixit’s Director of Sustainability (heading their Right to Repair advocacy team). So this year the group held its fourth annual “anti-awards ceremony” … Continue reading CES ‘Worst In Show’ Devices Mocked In IFixit Video – While YouTube Inserts Ads For Them