Tech News Archives

Amazon Alexa tablets, Anthropic worm, acne meds, bloat-free Windows 11, Atari 800XL, Wi-Fi calling, Citroen 2CV and Paul Simon songs. Technology can made a lot of things easier, but it doesn't really help when you're running a fever as I am right now. With any luck,...

New Kindles, tiny gadgets, KillSec, cancer causes, Office 2021, surge protectors, Freckle phone, BMW iX4 and crime-scene dollhouses. My neighborhood is in the middle of hurricane season. A really big one was supposed to hit a couple of weeks ago and I slept right...

Chair, power banks, AI hacks, obesity drug, debloat Windows, Muse Charm, USB-C flash drives, free travel data, Waymo scaling and retirement. AI is all around us, sometimes in places we don't want it. It is definitely something I use more and more with each passing...

New Macs, AirPods, Watch, FBI hacked, Alzheimer's treatment, new AI models, router antennae, Motorola phone, Slate truck and Loretto chapel staircase. A bad storm is expected to hit my neighborhood in the next couple of days. One aspect of technology right now are...

Apple Watch, biological weapons, Dr. Facebook, iOS 27, Windows 11, hard-drive health, iPhone reviews, Tesla Roadster and alien Beatles song. There has been a lot of scary AI news recently. It's going to kill us all in the next few years. It is being used for...

Smart display charger, AI extinction, GPT-6 Astra, Star Trek tech, new phones, Tesla Cybercab and living the Mediterranean dream. Along with those topics, Apple announced a number of new products. You'll find all this and more from this week's news in the stories...

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...