Technology Commentary

A blinking cursor follows us everywhere in the digital world, but who invented it and why? From block printing to the Apple II, this is the forgotten history of the blinking cursor

Enough of brittle, fragile technologies. Websites should last.

The sabotaged versions produce an endless string of illegible text.

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about

Stock up on schadenfreude, it may be 2022's most popular commodity

Natural scrolling, which appeared in Apple’s Mac OS X a decade into its existence, confused a lot of heavy users at first. In a way, it’s not really for them.

1 of 23) $RNDR or @RenderToken is one of the most intriguing projects I've read about since $SOL. Last week, during @Solana Libson, @JulesUrbach presented about the project and its partnership with @metaplex. After watching, I went down the rabbit hole and here are my thoughts.

McDonald's sells off AI tech company Dynamic Yield to the card giant.

(Updated January 18 and January 20 with more About boxes)   These past three weeks or so, as you know, I’ve been doing a thorough check-up of my vintage Macs. Now that my Macintosh SE/30…

We are moving into a photonic world. Photonics may become more important that electronics. Photons, like electrons, can carry both energy and information. We have heavy wires for electrons carrying big energy, enough to shock or kill you, and we

Posted on Tuesday 21 Dec 2021. 1,438 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

What exactly is Web 3.0? Is it 3.0 all hype or the next big thing in computing? Well to start, I feel that Web 3.0 will completely change…

I've lived the multi-mouse lifestyle, and you can too.

Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world's largest companies -- just by spoofing an email. This is the nature of a threat vector recently removed by a Fortune 500 firm that operates…

Big enterprise clients looking for "lift and shift" are lucrative clients in the cloud market. But there are also millions of independent developers who need cloud tech at their scale.

The technology used to distribute photos through news wire services inspired a whole bunch of innovations with use cases beyond newspapers. Like television.

Unity’s acquisition of Weta digital makes sense for both sides, and positions Unity to be an essential platform for tech’s future.

TVs have processors, and they matter more than you think

Meager counterweight to the growing hype.

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is selling the tech assets of Weta Digital to video game company Unity in a massive $1.625 billion deal.

The social media site is the bane of non-users’ lives, hijacking image search results with a pushy sign-up screen. It needs to stop.

This week Jason and David argue that building products for yourself, addressing your own needs gives you an advantage over building products for other people.

Cassette tapes are audio’s hippest trend. Here’s why music lovers are going back to them, the reasons you might not want to, and how to find the right gear.

When news emerged this week that Apple paid $278 million for microprocessor design firm P.A. Semi, speculation swirled that its chips would soon appear in new mobile products from Cupertino. But in Rik Myslewski’s analysis, Apple may have bought the firm to add its engineering expertise.

"But here we are, Mark Zuckerberg has decided that now is the time..."