Month: June 2022
Browser wars veteran accuses Apple of ‘sabotaging the web’
Audio player loading… An engineer who has spent the last decade working across web browser projects at Google and Microsoft has ridiculed the characterization of Apple as a champion of choice. In a new blog post (opens in new tab), Alex Russell argues that in reality the opposite is true;…
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Apple MacBook Pro 13 (2022) review: new chip, old threads
I don’t really care what the M2 MacBook Pro gets on benchmarks. I know that sounds like an odd statement coming from someone who runs benchmarks for a living, but this is not a device where they matter all that much because, if you’re the kind of person running benchmarks…
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Netflix’s ‘dreadfully unfunny’ new buddy comedy trashed by critics and audiences
Audio player loading… Netflix can’t seem to catch a break from critics these days, with its new buddy comedy film The Man From Toronto only the latest Netflix Original movie to be certified ‘Rotten’ (opens in new tab) on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes (opens in new tab). As…
Read MoreMeet the Viking merchants of the internet
The bloody battle between kings Harold and Harald at Stamford Bridge is often considered the unofficially official “end” of the Viking Age. By that benchmark, it has been approximately 956 years since the era of longships, warhammers (not that type), and wolfish drengs. So why, in 2022, are we witnessing…
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AMD’s new 64-core Threadripper Pro CPU is now on sale – but you may need to take out a loan to afford it
Audio player loading… With AMD recently confirming wider availability of the Threadripper Pro, distributors have rushed to start selling the first Threadripper 5995WX online. The 64-core monster CPU was unveiled back in March 2022, alongside a 32-core and a 24-core part with Lenovo and Dell having announced workstations based on…
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The Morning After: Nothing’s Carl Pei wants to make smartphones exciting again
Carl Pei thinks there’s something wrong with the smartphone industry. Like a lot of us, Pei has started feeling like new phones just aren’t as special as the devices of five or 10 years ago. He thinks the big players are all circling the same ideas in smartphone design. (Something…
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