Month: September 2023
‘The Android of agriculture’: Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on the future of farming
We spend a lot of time here on Decoder talking about electric vehicles and the future of cars, and we’re usually talking about passenger vehicles or maybe cargo vans. But there’s another huge industry that can also reap the benefits of electrified transportation: agriculture. I co-hosted the Code Conference this…
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The Pixel 8 is Google’s best opportunity to bring its AI ideas together under one roof
If there’s one job I’d like AI to take from me, it’s my daily email deleting ritual. Every morning at 8:30AM, Google Calendar pings me with a reminder containing just one word: EMAILS. Thus, my formal workday begins as I speed-delete nearly every email that landed in my inbox overnight.…
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Lego Is a Company Haunted by Its Own Plastic
While the toy brand kills its plans for an oil-free plastic alternative, it’s still pumping out billions of non-biodegradable bricks a year. Can Lego ever be sustainable? Source
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House of Marley Stir It Up Lux Review (2023): Made for Beginners
The Stir It Up Lux turntable was (mostly) easy for a vinyl newbie to set up—and it’s a beauty to look at. Source
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Apple’s dark sci-fi comedy Fingernails turns love into science
Fingernails, a sci-fi romcom coming to Apple TV Plus from director Christos Nikou, imagines a future where one very specific technology has changed the world. In this timeline, scientists have figured out how to conclusively determine if two people are in love. This upends relationships as we know them, with…
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Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck (2023)
The DIY days of making gadgets better and longer-lasting are long past—and possibly, hopefully, in the future. Source
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