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When I took audio production classes back in high school or when things needed to be done for the radio station, the subject of records didn’t come up all that much. At that time, everything was all about tape, CD and the beginnings of digital. Nobody was really worried about getting something pressed onto vinyl. …
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User demanded a ‘wireless’ computer and was outraged when its battery died This reminds me of a good friend of ours. He loves the idea of new technology, but he has no idea how to use any of it, god bless him. Years ago, when Aftershokz came out with wireless headphones, he excitedly bought a …
There are variations, but generally, an accessible pedestrian street crossing signal sounds something like this: But for a little while in Redwood City, California, some of them sounded like this: Or in Palo Alto, like this: Those are obviously not the real voices of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, but I must say that the …
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I’m worlds better than I used to be, but I’m still not anything close to what you’d call a champion sleeper. Even now, there are nights when it’s just not happening for me no matter what I do. Sometimes the problem is too much noise outside. Sometimes it’s weird dreams. Sometimes it’s headaches or my …
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So…it’s provincial election time…way too soon. And here I am, doing my usual thing where I try to figure out voting details, especially where assistive voting is concerned. Here’s what I have learned. I even hassled some election office people to get some of this info, although I had to do a lot less hassling. …
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Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. Product designers are embracing how users actually feel after years of pushing flat and sleek Man, do I ever hope this guy is right, because I hate touch screens. I say that without the slightest hint of exaggeration. If there was a regular old push …
Reading about a concept called purpose-bound money, a few things come to mind. I’d love to know how much investment cash was fleeced out of people who didn’t realize they were financing the invention of the gift card. It sounds like a privacy nightmare by design. Assuming they haven’t already, how long is it going …
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I haven’t heard anything about how Google and Wendy’s are doing with their AI ordering experiment, but according to this here report from the BBC, IBM and McDonald’s have been trying something similar and it’s gone so well that the system is being removed this summer. It seems that it failed for the very reasons …
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I just got what should have been a very tempting marketing email. “Splash into our summer cocktail menu,” it offered. It also used this emoji. 💦 “What,” you might be asking yourself at this moment, “is the problem there? I assume there’s a problem since you said “should have been tempting”.” The problem, my curious …
If you’re a certain kind of person, the idea of a device that could cut all of the bad words out of movies and TV shows might sound just dandy to you. And if it could also swap those words out of the closed captions and replace them with nicer ones? Even better! But I …
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