Month: April 2024
San Francisco’s Train System Still Uses Floppy Disks—and Will for Years
Three 5.25-inch floppy disks help keep Muni running every morning. A tech upgrade could take until 2030. Source
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Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok
In January, UMG and TikTok’s licensing deal expired, and the companies took turns blaming each other for why fans would no longer be able to use UMG artists’ music on the app. UMG argued that TikTok wasn’t willing to pay what it wanted and that allowing AI-generated content on the…
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Best of Watches and Wonders 2024
The 2024 Watches and Wonders event featured a timepiece as thick as a 25-cent coin, one accurate for 45 millions years, and another with a carbon-sucking case. Source
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Google Cloud Next 2024 — all the news and updates as they happened
Refresh 2024-04-10T23:21:45.571Z And with that, it’s a wrap on day two of Google Cloud Next 24! Stay tuned for the final wrap-ups tomorrow, but also much more news and write-ups to come… 2024-04-10T22:47:39.878Z Finally, it’s a question about Google offering business applications to differentiate? Kurian says it’s not on the…
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Sony’s new ULT Bluetooth speakers are bringing back the ’90s bass boost button
Sony just announced a trio of new speakers in a new line of audio products called the ULT Power Series. This is an attempt by the company to reduce some of the clutter involved with its naming conventions, so say goodbye to the Extra Bass and XE-Series products. Both lines…
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Fallout Pip-Boy review: a wearable fit for the wasteland
It’s hard to say what, precisely, makes a design timeless. Some classic gadgets are simply beautiful, while others remain functional years after they come out. The list of truly timeless products in tech is small, but there’s one name that looms large: RobCo Industries’ Pip-Boy. Sure, it’s relatively simple, and…
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