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Review: Silo Series
There are a lot of reasonably good sci-fi shows available for streaming nowadays. Two factors contribute to the abundance: a rich vein of science fiction stories can be tapped for source material, and special effects have gotten cheap and easy…
Asian-American Cinema
A couple of months back, we turned on the Oscar awards, I think for the first time in well over a decade, mostly to see how Everything Everywhere All at Once would fare that evening. Given that the movie had…
The Folly of Custom Syncing
I just spent about 4 hours trying to debug Day One's syncing system. Day One is the journaling app, built primarily for iOS but eventually made its way to the Mac, Android, and web. I've been…
Verification in an Age of Automation
I just saw that Gmail is starting to implement its own identity verification and validation system. This comes at a time when Twitter's "blue check" system has undergone product changes that make it much less valuable,…
Review: Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly is a tech-focused author and writer, the first executive editor of Wired , and is known for being an optimistic and enthusiastic futurist. His latest book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier , is…
An E-Ink Kitchen Calendar
I've always liked E-ink as a display technology, particularly as an alternative to LCDs. They'll never be as popular , due to the inherent limitations of low refresh rates and low color saturation. In turn, they'…
