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In a sense, the modularity has just moved to a different level. Jobs gave Apple a yearning for sealed physical computing units, and going back as far as the Jonathan concepts, they fantasized about making it modular with more sealed units connected by universal high speed busses. Which gave us...

Maybe they have their connections and know their audience, but the words and the rendering of their capabilities? says to me that these boys never grew up from GI Joe and a utterly aesthetic reading of sci-fi. The value proposition seems to be putting a millennial veneer on the same old war...

Benn's video showing how easy it is to hack the Flock camera was instrumental in getting my city council to end their ALPR contract. It put the lie to their claims of encryption and the idea that you control your own data, as a source separate from local wild-eyed privacy perverts. And I know...

Hooray for the billion-dollar companies, protecting us from the trillion-dollar companies. Imagine all the new markets that can open if the dominant company doesn’t just take our value for free.

Same with my kids doing reports. Anyone have children using Kagi who can report on their experience?

This will only make my grade-school daughter want to be a lawyer even more.

I get the distaste for some of this article, but I think it’s valuable in understanding the perspective of an actual manufacturer, crude as it is. Maybe Ars even left in the stereotypes to show that this issue transcends the usual politics. <worst_guy_you_know.gif> Manufacturers don’t care...

Nice article. I can believe it; I have an old math book from the 60s that I’ve kept as graphic design inspiration. I didn’t know about either of them. Young, “The Last Man Who Knew Everything,” could get his own write up, but the Wikipedia link is good.

I knew the readings on my Apple Watch were…aspirational when I run around the neighborhood and always find that I gained 30-80ft in altitude when I return home.

You can get adhesive rings meant to replace the one that gave way, on AliExpress.

That’d be great. My two concerns are being able to open files long after, and cost. As a satisfied pro Affinity user, the current prices are so reasonable that I instabuy the whole suite whenever they come out with a new major version, to support the business as much as anything. So I wouldn’t...

I didn’t suggest taking away the walled garden. My suggestion would meet both our needs better, at only the expense of a trillion-dollar company. This sort of flippant response is like telling me I just need to vote and the country’s problems will be solved. When your practical choices are...

The discussion of alternative payment processors is moot, and keeps the focus on developer choice. What I care about is the consumer’s choice to use their hardware how they choose, and therefore we need alternative app stores and sideloading. If you’re scared about what’s outside the walled...

Thanks for noting it’s sarcasm. I don’t care where the article came from, it was interesting to know how heat domes work and give me nothing to look forward in the next weeks. But the big point is that this weather is going to kill from the lower classes up, those who can’t afford the...

Sure it did. Yes, Fort Bend is the wealthiest county in Texas. But the state provides about 40% of public school funding, and mandates “recapture” to fund poorer districts from richer ones’ property taxes. Many districts do turn to bonds, in addition to the property tax (which the state caps)...

I had this idea a while ago. “Eggs-o-matic” involved putting a chicken in the container. Food scraps go in, eggs and fertilizer come out. On the point of giving a bad idea exposure, I don’t totally blame Ars because the guy’s pedigree makes it newsworthy - but i do expect Ars to afflict the...

That’s the premise of Beats. Dr. Dre has a bit more cool than Sir James, though.

Like mass shooters, I wish the name of the school hadn’t been mentioned. They’re a school like Trump University is a school. You’re all obviously not their market, and your derision is their marketing juice.

And he wanted options in Theranos instead! Not the kind of risk profile you want in a lab director.

Here I am on a tech site and reading actual people clinging to gas engines. The reason regulations are coming up a few years before they take effect is to give the market time to adapt, as it always must. As someone else noted, the transition to LED light bulbs was fine, and a big net benefit to...