I made my dumb appliances smarter with the Internet of Things Sometimes I forget things. In particular, I forget to transfer my clean but wet laundry from the washing machine to the dryer. When this happens,... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Networking |
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The Tech Report attends Silicon Valley Virtual Reality 2016 I spent a few days last week at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Expo in San Jose. SVVR is a fairly small convention that... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Finally light bulb's Tesla tech gives LEDs a worthy rival Ever since I improbably started blogging occasionally about light bulbs, I've been waiting impatiently to get a look at the first product from The... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Cree raises its game, lowers prices with 4Flow bulb Since I posted my Friday night topic and then a blog post about LED light bulbs, I've been quietly waiting for another chance... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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More light bulbs? Yep, more light bulbs The Internet is a strange and wonderful place. A couple of months ago, I posted a Friday night topic on light bulbs that incited... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Google, I love you, but you're bringing me down I was listening to LCD Soundsystem the other day, and New York, I love you, but you're bringing me down somehow coalesced my feelings... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Internet Operating systems Personal tech |
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My Steelcase Leap chair fixed my crappy posture I do a lot of sitting. Like, a lot. I sit in my home office for eight to nine hours every day doing TR-related work. Once... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Papa's got a brand-new, undead-proof European carryall So iPhone 5S and 5C mania has died down (although someone needs to tell the entrepreneurs on eBay), OS X Mavericks has yet to go... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Mobile computing Personal tech |
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That's not a Steam console; it's a Steam PC Slowly but surely, Valve's plans for Steam in the living room are coming into focus. On Monday, we learned about SteamOS, a Linux-based... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Gaming Operating systems |
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The desktop PC needs a makeover My PC is too big. Much too big. I'd always vaguely suspected it,... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Cases Cooling Storage |
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I choose to be spied on I choose to trust Google. I choose to trust Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. I choose to give those companies access to all my data—every picture I... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Dispatches from the Nexus This past summer, the power button my Palm Pre started misbehaving. At last, I had an excuse to replace the aging handset with something... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Personal tech |
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Gadgets on the piste Warning: The following is by no means an in-depth review or related to PC hardware. I used a recent ski trip as an opportunity to... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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The obligatory Super Hole VII – Creative Director edition Jason Fox, our resident Mac fan, spends his days working in advertising as a copywriter and all-around creative guy. He has an annual tradition of... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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I wrote a novella! Here are some things I learned Fluke: Langara's Prize will be free to download on Amazon.com (and... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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A tale of tablet flashing About a year and a half ago, I picked up Asus' original Eee Pad Transformer tablet. This precursor to the growing crop of Win8 convertibles... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems |
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My six days with Windows 8 So, I installed Windows 8 on my desktop PC last week. It was late on the eve of the launch. The download link for the $39.99... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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At last, Microsoft may have copied Apple properly Okay, I apologize for the shameful, troll-bait headline. I realize it's easy to misinterpret, so let me qualify with a statement: Microsoft didn't get where it... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Windows |
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