Tech News Archives

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...

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...

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,...

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...

AirPods Max 2, 20 tiny gadgets, privacy tool, raw cheese, Ask Maps, NVIDIA DLSS, Galaxy Z TriFold, Donut Lab’s charge and St Patrick’s Day blue. I ran into a weird issue this week with my WiFi Mesh Router. One of the two units had somehow disconnected from...

MacBook Neo, tax scams, blood sugar, AI coding, balcony solar, Arrow Lake, Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, Chevy Bolt, earthquake fish and camel pageant. I was in a meeting with some fellow Web designers a few days ago and we spent a fair amount of time talking about...

Tiny gadgets, MacBook Neo, AirSnitch, smart pills, NanoClaw, Starlink Mobile, iPhone 17e, Artemis II launch, stunt bikers and Southern sayings. My current laptop is more than five years old and typically that means it is time for me to get a new one. For now,...

Earbud reviews, ATM jackpotting, genetic testing, Gemini 3.1 Pro, gaming chair, Samsung Galaxy S26 phones, Wayve and the FBI’s secret weapon. This week Samsung announced a number of new products and Apple will be announcing theirs in the near future. My current...

Sony earbuds, phishing lures, flu vaccine, Android 17, AI prompts, OpenClaw, wedding gifts, Google Pixel 10a, Rivian software and pop culture holidays. The last week has been a whirlwind for me. One of the biggest reasons is that I brought home a new dog. Bailey had...

Motherboard and laptop reviews, Valentine’s scam, flu vaccine, AI.com, upcoming Apple products, Starlink phone, moon focus and unusual sports. Spam filters are awful. Most of them let a large amount of really spammy and scammy stuff through and yet they block...

Retro PC, DJI RS 5, passwords, Guinea worm, raw milk, Windows 11 flaws, space data centers, T-Mobile speed, Candela hydrofoil and Grammys. My week started with Web site outages that I couldn’t control which still caused major problems. My own Web sites...

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, food hackers, cholesterol edit, Windows cleanup, Apple AirTag update, 10,000 mAh phone battery, heroic landing and Grammy winners. The past week has featured a lot of screen time in meetings for me and I’ve done my best to spend time...

DJI Air 3S, polymarket fears, hygiene habits, Windows 11 fix, RAM shortage, Verizon outage, battery-powered motorcyle and flight upgrade hacks. With the increased costs and shortages of various computer components at present, I’m thankful that I got set up with...

New webcams, ragebait, BTC theft, AI drugs, Gemini and Siri, Chinese drones, Honor Magic8 Pro, Vaporware car, Victorian workouts and moon hotel. CES is over and now we wait for all of the new products to hit the market. Meanwhile we have quite a few reviews of gadgets...

Pebble return, keychain tool, Bitcoin ATM fraud, senior airbag, vibe coding, new tech, Galaxy Z Trifold, supersonic jets and RadioShack. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is in full swing and you’ll find a long list of products debuting at the show. Some of...

Bluetooth trackers, Spotify theft, radio quackery, AI predictions, robot skin, foldable iPhone, door closers and Stephen King movies. We start off 2026 with a really packed week of tech news since it is actually news from the past two weeks. Unleashed had some big...