Tilt Apple Watch band review: Off the wrist
Every so often something so original at CES catches my eye, and I have to try it. What could be original about a watch band? Well, Tilt is like no other you've seen before. Is that a good thing?
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SSD reliability in the enterprise: This survey yields a few surprises
Solid state drives (SSDs) have remade the storage industry in the last decade. They're costly, fast, and power efficient, but just how reliable are they? A new study of almost 1.4 million SSDs offers some surprising answers.
Hacking brain-computer interfaces
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are still in their infancy, yet they've already been hacked. As well as the machine learning models they're built on, For once, can we build in security from the ground up, rather than trying to duct tape it on later? What, and overthrow decades of poor security practice? Not likely
The $15 per terabyte hard drive is coming
I just saw a Western Digital external hard drive special: a 12TB desktop drive for $187. How do drive vendors do it?
Did Jony Ive jump or was he pushed?
Jony Ive is a brilliant designer. He helped bring Apple back from a near death experience with the original iMac and iBooks and, later, MacBooks. But he also accounted for a number of costly flops, that, while Apple would never admit it, would have sunk even more accomplished executives.
The coolest thing you didn't see at CES 2020
A stunning 8k, 3D display. And no glasses, thankfully, unlike the failed 3D TVs. Why didn't you see it? It wasn't on the show floor. But I did, high up in the Venetian, and I'm wondering why Apple doesn't buy these guys. Here's some, sorry, not 8K video of the display.
CES 2020 Trend: Onboarding AI
CES didn't have an overarching tech, like 3D or huge flat screens, of past years. As I've reflected on what I saw at the show, what emerged is a new trend: a tech inflection point that will define much of the coming decade's challenges and opportunities. That trend is onboarding Artificial Intelligence.
Why 'Can iPads replace PCs?' is the wrong question
On the 10th anniversary of the iPad, and after years of doubting how it would play out, I now wholeheartedly recommend iPads for most users instead of PCs. It's the tool you'll use, not curse. Here's why.
Forget the $52,000 Mac Pro - the sweet spot is half that
With a fully loaded price exceeding $50,000, the new Mac Pro has polarized tech pundits. But the sweet spot configuration is $25k, not $50k. Is that too much as well? Not compared to past high-end Macs.
The 3 biggest storage trends of the next decade
The 2010s saw massive changes in data storage. But the storing '20s will dwarf that. Here are the three biggest trends that will remake storage in the next decade.
The 3 biggest storage advances of the 2010s
It may be to remember, but 10 years ago our storage options were much less convenient - and way more expensive. Here's my top 3 picks for the most consequential storage of the last decade.
Why clouds will always, eventually, fail
And every other computer will fail too. Is this anyway to run a digital first civilization?
Storage integration in iPadOS
Apple has gradually been adding file management chops to iOS and, now, iPadOS, especially for external storage. Here's how one sophisticated app, video editor Luma Fusion, takes advantage of the new capabilities. And a couple of more features we'd love to see.
'Abandoned sum' email scam goes retro
How many "abandoned sum" emails have you received? Hundreds if not thousands, if you've been online for a couple of decades. But the world must be running out of gullible email users, so the scam has gone retro: snail mail. Here's what it looks like.
Artificially intelligent marketing
While engineers might argue that marketers are already fake intelligence, AI researchers are working to make marketing - and other stakeholders - intelligible to each other, and, incredibly, C-level execs. Here's how.
