Apple
The "essential" iPhone
Today marks day 13 of using the iPhone 16e as my primary phone, and after this review goes live, I&
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Apple might be cooking this fall
Tim Hardwick reporting on Gurman’s reporting in Bloomberg, which I don’t have access to, so I’m quoting the MacRumors article:
While specific details are scarce, it's supposedly the biggest update to iOS since iOS 7, and the biggest update to macOS since Big Sur.
Honestly, bring it on! I know
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+ iPhone 16e review in progress: battery life
You can never do too much battery testing, but after a week with this phone I've got some impressions to share.
Watch me write a task manager in 30 minutes
A core tenet of A Better Computer is showing, not telling. I don’t use a lot of press kit
Comfort Zone
I'm Sick, I Have a Sickness
Niléane has entered her keyboard era, Chris has a consumer warning as well as a really good macropad, and then
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I'm setting the bar too low
I've been a proponent of high-refresh rate displays for years now, and I think it's pretty ridiculous that Apple doesn't put these displays in their sub-$1,000 iPhones. I think if you're just keeping up with the Apple ecosystem then you probably don't
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+ iPhone 16e review in progress: photography
Here's a peek behind the scenes as I work on my iPhone 16e review.
Politics
Wow, what courage
Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House Republicans
The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump's administration.
There’
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NVIDIA finally gets some competition
Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks
The RX 9070 is around 17 percent faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 in 4K without upscaling enabled, cruising past Nvidia’s card for the same price. The RX 9070 XT is as fast as the RTX 5070 Ti for $150
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The releases keep on coming! New MacBook Air and Mac Studio
Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook Airs and Mac Studios.
My MacBook Air predictions
The Air will likely get a bump to the M4 chip and I’m not totally sure what will happen to the $999 model. as far as I see it, there
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So much time and money for a minor vibe shift
Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger
Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no viable business model, profits are modest at best for everyone except Nvidia and some consulting forms, there’s still basically no moat, and still no GPT-5. Any reasonable person with a scientific mind would
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Apple’s new iPads are here, let’s break them down
Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions!
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Here’s what I predicted would happen with the
The battle of the budget phones
Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out here
Birchtree's new look
Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh?
Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided
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+ Who cares about smartphone design?
Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many things, it depends who you ask.
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Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone?
Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution
I kept coming back to one thought: where's the money?
No, really, where is it? Where is the money that this supposedly revolutionary, world-changing industry is making, and will make?
The answer is simple: I do
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+ How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post)
What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
Now I love Pedro Pascal even more
Seemingly lovely actor Pedro Pascal posted this photo to Instagram a few days ago (via Kottke):
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In response to a transphobic comment someone left, he said this:
I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing