Author: Zach_Wilson
The Kobo Elipsa 2E, our favorite ebook reader for taking notes, is $50 off
As much as I like physical books, I’m planning a move and considering consolidating my collection to make that process more painless. You might be in the same boat, or perhaps you want a more convenient way to knock out your beefy reading list for the new year. If that…
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Apple’s poison-pill approach to EU regulation might be the right thing to do
What if Apple is right about the App Store and its control of it? I’ve never wanted an open App Store. Side-loading apps onto my best iPhone struck me as the perfect way to infect or ruin them. Granted, I was not an iPhone jailbreak kind of guy. I’ve also…
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GM should just bring back the Chevy Volt
General Motors’ shift from an internal combustion engine-producing company to one that makes electric motors is sputtering. EV sales are up, but growing slower than expected. The company’s next-generation Ultium platform, in particular, isn’t meeting expectations. GM’s new electric trucks and SUVs seem perennially delayed — or full of buggy…
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Galaxy S24 Ultra review: Samsung’s AI reinforcements have arrived
For nearly a decade the Galaxy Note was the undisputed king of Android phones. But when the OG phablet line was retired in 2020, that title passed on to the Ultra. While the hardware inside the most expensive Galaxy S model is as dominant as ever, over the past few…
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A video of GitHub’s extraordinary deep-freeze archiving project has emerged — millions of projects were saved on 02/02/2020 and there’s a good reason why that date was chosen
The idea of preserving Earth’s most essential elements to keep them safe in the event of a catastrophe is not new – the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, for example, serves as a backup for over a million seeds to prevent their extinction. Not far from there, another crucial backup…
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The $10 trillion benefits of overhauling our food system
One of the most ambitious assessments yet of our global food system calculates the health, environmental, and economic losses of business as usual. It also outlines what governments can do to reap trillions of dollars’ worth of benefits by producing food more sustainably. All in all, the damages caused by…
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