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What Founders Can Learn From Topaz Labs
I recently interviewed Eric Yang, the chief executive officer of Dallas, Texas-based visual AI company Topaz Labs, for my newsletter, CrazyStupidTech. His father, Albert, started the business. The company stands...
Mac Finder Redesign? Snooze
The Mac old timers have been up in arms about the beta one of macOS Tahoe switching up the colors of the “Finder” icon. Dark blue on the right side....
Here comes the Internet of “tolls”
The decades-old doctrine of “Web traffic in exchange for permission to crawl” is over, writes Fred Vogelstein in his latest feature for our newsletter, Crazy StupidTech, and as a result,...
My Big Beta WeekendÂ
This weekend I decided to bite the bullet and embrace the “betas” released by Apple at the recent WWDC. I wanted to try out all the new features that Apple...
Back after a breakÂ
If you think it has been quiet around these ramparts, then it is intentional. I decided to take a break from everything,including writing and social media. Instead, I picked up...
Will Apple Stream Live F1 (Racing)?
Tim Cook and Apple are all about Formula 1 these days. As a lead-in to the WWDC keynote, Apple played a short clip of its leading software executive, Craig Federighi, ...
The Material Review Chats with Me
Michael Williams, a friend for a long time and a fellow aficionado of things made well, has a new publication, The Material Review. He recently invited me to chat about...
George Dyson on AI
My good friend Chris Michel recently photographed George Dyson, thinker, historian, and writer. The topic of “AI” came up, and I found this worth noting. He’s less concerned about the...
What’s Half of Nothing?
Camera reviews are not only pointless, but are also kind of rigged. And there is no better testimonial for this camera hype machine than the “review” of Fuji X half...
OpenAI, Jony Ive & the Art of the Deal
My phone has been pinging non-stop since yesterday. Everyone wants to know the backstory of the biggest acquihire in Silicon Valley history: Sam Altman’s OpenAI buying Jony Ive’s io Products...
Why did OpenAI buy Jony Ive & Co
OpenAI, made the biggest acquihire in Silicon Valley’s history. Sam Altman and his crew bought Jony Ive and his coterie of ex-Apple hotshots for a whopping $6.5 billion. It is...
The Method of the Monster
Meet the Monster: a fountain pen so ambitious that it holds enough ink to write a short novel. The pen is a symbiosis of precision engineering, material science, and bold...
Our Dopamine Curse
I think dopamine hits from buying or anticipating the next pen or stationary is a symptom of the world we live in where things are easily available and we are...
The Real Cost of Chinese Open-Source AI
Don’t believe the Chinese AI open-source hype, warns good friend, Pete Warden. Their large language models come at a price — the models are programmed to deliberately obscure historical truths, ...
How iPhone has evolved as a Camera
Given how much I have been using my iPhone as my everyday camera, I decided to put together this blog post to show how far Apple’s smartphone camera technology has...
What an Unusual Week
It has been a week, that at best can be described as deliciously weird. I have neither been inspired to write, nor to indulge my passion for photography. Apart from...
Satellites, Fixed Wireless Reshape Global Broadband Landscape”
A new report by research firm Point Topic says there were more than 1.5 billion global broadband subscribers at the end of the fourth quarter of 2024. The real story,...
R.I.P. Skype!
On May 5, Microsoft retired Skype, the startup that sparked a communication revolution. I won’t repeat myself, as I’ve already published a postmortem analyzing Skype’s decline under Microsoft’s 14-year ownership...
Antidote to modern times
Perhaps this is the antidote to our modern times!
No Gruber, this is why Facebook renamed itself
John Gruber: I’m so old I remember when Facebook renamed itself Meta because the “metaverse” was supposedly the future of the company and, so said Mark Zuckerberg, the future of...