“It wasn’t until the Apple AirPods that Bluetooth headsets became ubiquitous. AR headsets are still waiting for their AirPods.”

Russia has also built the huge datacenter to service their internet near one of their largest nuclear power plants.  Russian submarines have been located near undersea cables that carry data between the U.S. and Europe, presumably to prepare to cut them in a conflict.

It was pretty much stillborn as soon as it became a mass phenomenon. Once corporations piled on and twisted it to their own ends, followed by authoritarian regimes adding their own special sauce, the party was effectively over.

It would be great to see these used by Omaha Steaks and other frozen food shipping companies. 

Trump tweet: See! Fences don’t work. Look what happened in California. A caravan of elephant seals took over a beach. Need a wall... sad!

Oh God, that story about the person staring at the sun is nightmare fuel. 

I’ve known about the development of 8K for well over a decade now, and I’m basically going to sit on my currently eight year-old 1080p TV until 8K becomes as affordable as 4K is now. It certainly won’t happen in 2019.

He already gave us SPACE FORCE. What more do you want?

Daytime, Interior: An elderly MMO sits down to read some articles on its new tablet that its grandkids got it for Christmas. Adjusting the spectacles on its face and loosening the snug robe belt around its paunch, the venerable game settles into a cushy armchair situated near the merrily crackling fireplace of the…

The lamp iMac won me, too; though I’d previously used Macs in an internship. I soon bought an iPod (the weird 3rd gen with the capacitive buttons on top of the wheel), and eventually, PowerBook, MacBook, MacBook Pro and a few iPhones before moving to Windows, since I really thought Windows 8 was more innovative than…

... said every generation ever.

I have a lot of positive expectations for Microsoft, it’s just that most of whatever they’re cooking up isn’t going to appeal to the average or even sort of “techy” consumer. Forever interesting bit of hardware they’ll put out, there will be a slew of infrastructure and development enhancements behind the curtain.

Writing this article only makes it worse.

On one hand, fuck Nazi’s. Obviously.

...after so many phone makers followed Apple’s lead

SMS is a delightfully strange console. Totally overlooked in the US but with a ton of great quirky stuff that all the psuedo-8-bit indies are going for these days.

Bethesda: We turned off a lot of our fans by making ‘76 online only. The backlash won’t get any worse...

“...You then use the AMPLE SUPPLY OF RUNNING WATER THAT FLOWS FROM THE TOP OF THE LAUNDRY MACHINE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOU to rinse the detergent out of the cup...”

“Think about it this way: Laundry is a messy job. We all know how gross and slimy a bottle of Tide can get from everyday use.”