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Video toothbrush, speakers, driver's license leak, measles, Windows taskbar, AI fears, iPhone 18 Pro, Range Rover Electric and Rocky Horror. I've been thinking about changes in communication in my lifetime. It used to be people would write letters that could take days...

Robot mower, AI passwords, motion sickness, Firefox, pervert glasses, Mac Mini, Google Pixel 11 reviews, robotaxis and Norse mythology words. I had a situation recently where AI saved me a ton of time. While the task was fairly simple, it would have taken a long time...

Watch comparisons, Apple spyware fight, cancer vaccine, iOS 26.6.1, camera-equipped AirPods, Google Pixel 11 Pro, electric plane and Beach Boys. I recently was a little scared when I went to bed. There was scheduled maintenance on the fiber optic system that delivers...

Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, hacked WiFi, screwworms, Word 1.1a, OpenClaw, Dolby Vision 2, Google hardware, Jaguar rebrand and Viking household items. Sometimes when tech breaks it drives you a little crazy. A few days ago I found that none of my Alexa devices could connect...

Banned camera, smartwatches, Claude hack, medical hub, annoying Windows, Amazon refund, Galaxy Z Flip 8, headlights and Dolly Parton. My Webcam has been glitching in the last week or so. I don't think anything is wrong with the camera itself, my guess is the driver...

Robot lawn mower, AI image fraud, germ exposure, Geekbench 7, more satellites, Galaxy Z Fold 8, Ford EVs and the third wheel. I recently attended a beach-side party to enjoy the full moon rising. There is one thing that technology couldn't resolve and that was a layer...

Hybrid NAS drive, massive AWS bills, your brain on AI, Windows 11 future, Nova Lake leak, Galaxy Z Fold 8, India's rocket launch and lotto tickets. I've been an AWS user for at least a decade now. Each month I receive a bill and the amount is relatively small and...

Laptop reviews, AI cheating, terminal lucidity, Windows 11 patches, space mirror, Galaxy Unpacked, reusable rocket and the Trojan Horse. Email drives me absolutely crazy. I get a huge amount of very obvious spam every day and all my efforts to slow it feel fruitless....

Computer parts reviews, Windows tracker, hip replacement, junk file cleanup, Leo service, new iPhones, Czinger 21c and I Want to Hold Your Hand. I don't know how it is in your neighborhood, but it has been much hotter than normal in mine recently. The heat definitely...

Desk gadgets, 3D printers, piracy apps, split cells, Anthropic models, Wildcat Lake, SpaceX phone, frankenjet and hunting fireflies. Email has become such an important part of our day-to-day lives. I've been fighting a variety of email issues over the past few months....

Docking station, LastPass, MRI scanner, Claude Tag, Meta Arena, FIFA AI command center, SpeakEasy Mobile, Starfall and Marilyn Monroe. Sometimes it is the simple technology that bites us in the behind. During a grocery shopping trip a few days ago, I got stuck at the...

Plug-in gadgets, Claude Fable 5 suspended, cancer CRISPR, Euro-Office 1.0, Wi-Fi 8, SpaceX buys Cursor, iPhone Ultra and three coins in a fountain. Cameras are everywhere and I have a few in my house. One of them is a doorbell camera that I severely underutilize. A...

Secretlab Atlas, AI kidnapping scam, young cells, AI price war, farm to data center, Moto G Stylus, cheap EV, Bee Gees and futbol. My first exposure to the excitement of the World Cup was in the summer of 1982. I was living as an exchange student in France as they...

Dell XPS 13, Polymarket cheating, Oura Ring 5, screwworms, Euro-Office, Claude AI bill, RTX Spark, Motorola Razr 2026, BYD batteries and 3D Space Cadet pinball. We made some big changes to the infrastructure of this Web site. There may be a few visible changes, but...

Zenbook Duo, ErgoChair Pro, Microsoft SMS, weight loss drug, Ollama, Pope Leo on AI, Ultra Mobile, electric Ferrari and Paris sewers. Thinking back many years, I remember being frustrated by the display on a VCR being on at night. I solved that with some black...

Bose speakers, ShinyHunters, longevity secrets, Android 17, plug-in solar, Android XR glasses, iPhone Ultra, solar drone and snakes on the plains. Sometimes the solution to a tech problem can be an extremely low tech solution. My house uses mini split units for air...

Googlebook, Dirty Frag, digital detox, broken Windows apps, rural AI datacenters, folding iPhone, Waymo recall, mom's lies and Neil Diamond songs. This week's news is a little shorter than normal. I took a mini vacation where I worked a little less than normal this...

Desk accessories, passwords, undruggable, inbox clutter, Oscar criteria, Motorola Razr Fold, Chinese EVs, tiny countries and dental dancing. Staying connected has become so important in our lives that any glitch creates issues. I have a mesh router system in my house...

Soundbar alternative, ShinyHunters, flesh-eating bacteria, open source DOS, home automation, phone charging, Tesla Semi and defunct chain restaurants. In the next week, I'm replacing my low-tech toilets with high-tech variations. The project is a little more...

Smart home gadgets, Google Cloud bill, missing liver, AllBirds AI, Excel tricks, Tim Cook, Huawei foldable, Humble truck and Earth Day. Back when I was in high school, I was an exchange student to France one summer. This was before the Internet hit, before we always...

Numerous reviews, Google payout, GIF gone wild, moon dust, Siri overhaul, teleportation, iPhone Fold, Artemis II and medieval coins. I love "power towers" and already have a few in my home and office. One of them recently had failure of some of its USB ports and that...

Nebula X1 Pro, hackers gone wild, CoPilot only for entertainment, Bitcoin mystery, Moto G Stylus, Artemis II, Rivian R2 and mountain bike race. Not too long ago, the "power tower" on my desk had a partial death. It contains a wireless phone charger, electrical outlets...

Public WiFi, Sonos Play, Iranian hackers, brainless human clones, broken Windows 11 update, Apple at 50, range anxiety and Three Blind Mice. The world of Major League Baseball has seen a new technology introduced this season where pitches can be challenged and...

New Ring doorbells, Meta must pay, Whoop, Windows 11 changes, router ban, night skies, Fire Phone, Tesla SUV and space mysteries. I am very blessed that the night sky where I live is very dark and mostly cloud-free. This gives me the ability to see so many more stars...