Month: December 2022
10 great shows from 2022 to stream on Netflix
There’s more streaming competition than ever, but even still, Netflix remains on top when it comes to both breadth and scale. Put simply, there is a lot to watch on Netflix, to the point that even seemingly big-name series and films can get buried by the algorithm that’s trying to…
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How Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT
Earlier this year, I wrote about genre-fiction authors using AI in their novels. Most wrote for Amazon’s Kindle platform, where an extremely rapid pace of publishing, as fast as a book a month, is the norm. AI helped them write quickly, but it also raised complex aesthetic and ethical questions.…
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Phone manufacturers: please give us the power button back
Every major phone manufacturer is guilty of a serious crime, and I won’t be quiet about it any longer: they stole the power button from us. Apple, Google, Samsung: guilty, guilty, guilty. Long-pressing the power button used to bring up an option to turn your phone off, but then these…
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Marvel Snap is kind of like a wild comic book story generator
The more time you spend playing Second Dinner’s Marvel Snap, the easier it becomes to see which characters work well together and how knowing the unique abilities of various locations is often key to winning matches. As a competitive game at its core, Marvel Snap is built in a way…
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Mastodon 101: how to follow (and unfollow) other accounts
The torrent of former tweeters streaming toward alternative social networks seems to be ongoing, and the social network that is probably gaining the most attention is Mastodon. This open-source network of independent servers (called “instances”) had jumped to 2.5 million users between October and November — and is continuing its…
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The problem with ‘next-gen’ gadgets
Gadgets, since time in memoriam, have worked a certain way. You, a company, release one. It’s good, but it’s not perfect. No gadget is perfect! So you do market research and focus groups. You figure out who’s buying. You figure out what they like and what they don’t like. You…
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