Gaming's Next Frontier
Last month, a series of corporate maneuvers shook up the world of gaming. First, the mobile gaming pioneer Zynga announced that they were getting acquired by Take-Two Interactive, a major gaming publisher, for $17 billion....
Hardware
Fitness Tracker Endgame
For the past 2 months or so, I've been trying out a new fitness tracker, the Oura ring. As the name suggests, it's a titanium ring embedded with a bunch of...
The Smart Home Sweet Spot
A couple years back, I was checking out the initial hardware products from a nascent startup called Wyze. Compared to other smart home manufacturers, Wyze’s unique business model is to sell reasonably sturdy hardware...
Impressions of the Remarkable 2 Tablet
A year or so ago, I transitioned some of my notetaking to simple pen and paper, on the idea that it's an inherently less distracting medium, and that writing stuff down by hand...
Buying into Network Attached Storage
Recently, I recycled a decade-old Mac Mini. It was my first personal Mac, after owning and building my own PCs for years. It was cheap but somewhat underpowered, and eventually it got too slow to...
The Difference Between Prosumer and Professional
The new Mac Pro is a good reminder of the capabilities, and cost, of professional hardware. In a time when most of the attention in computing has been around miniaturization and portability, the average user—...