The New Mac Mini's Power Button Is On the Bottom and I Have Thoughts
Apple redesigned the Mac mini and it looks great, runs fast for $599 - but they put the power button on the bottom of the thing, and I cannot get over it.
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Amazon's Color Kindle Is Late to a Party Kobo Already Started
Amazon's new Colorsoft Kindle ships October 30th at $279.99, but Kobo's Libra Colour beat it to shelves a month ago for less money.
Giving an AI the Mouse
Anthropic's new "computer use" beta lets an AI move your mouse and click around your actual desktop, and it's giving me flashbacks to a very bad AutoHotkey script from 2013.
Geoffrey Hinton Won a Nobel and It's Weirder Than It Sounds
Geoffrey Hinton just won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the neural network work he now spends most of his public life warning people about, and that contradiction is the whole story.
The Booster Catch, Watched Through a Buffering Stream
Watching SpaceX catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower's arms yesterday, buffering livestream and all, and why the no-legs decision is the sane engineering call, not the crazy one.
Watching a Rocket Get Caught by Chopsticks Before My Coffee Went Cold
I watched SpaceX catch a Starship booster with giant mechanical arms this morning and let my coffee go stone cold in the process.
Talking to My Phone Like It's a Person Now
Advanced Voice Mode finally hit my ChatGPT app this week — first impressions from a morning of talking to it while making coffee, plus the one big thing it still can't do.
iOS 18's Photos App Redesign Is Not It
A few days into iOS 18, the new Photos app redesign is driving me up the wall even though RCS finally showing up for green-bubble texts almost makes up for it.
The Spacewalk Nobody Built An Airlock For
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew did the first commercial spacewalk today, and Crew Dragon doesn't even have an airlock. Some notes from watching the livestream instead of working.
The Ad Tech Trial Nobody Watched This Week
While everyone was watching Apple's iPhone 16 event, the DOJ's ad tech antitrust trial against Google quietly opened in a Virginia courtroom, and the plumbing it's exposing is wilder than another camera bump.
The AirPods Feature Nobody's Talking About
Apple's September 9th event invite dropped this week, but the part actually worth talking about is the AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid feature buried underneath it.
A $30 Billion Quarter and My Sad Little 3060
Nvidia posted a $30 billion quarter this week, and all it did was make me feel worse about the frame rate on my three-year-old GPU while playing Black Myth: Wukong.