Thomas Ricker

I’m an avid Starlink RV user and tech journalist and still learned some things from this Washington Post story about the challenges SpaceX faces in putting its 3,500-plus internet-from-space satellites into operational orbit, with thousands more to come. WaPo’s excellent animations and illustrations certainly help.

When Steve Jobs said “We’re introducing three revolutionary products” via stringer (one reporter on the phone with another in the MacWorld audience), our team sequestered in a trailer at CES scrambled into action with three bloggers preparing to publish three stories. We soon realized only one story was needed. That was 16 years ago today.

Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler has again created a fake account for Sen. Ed Markey that was again verified as real by Twitter’s revamped authentication process:

The i Vision Dee is only a concept, but the car shown at CES uses real E Ink Prism 3 tech just announced. It lets product designers choose from eight colors that can be manufactured in any 2D shape to create rich, dynamic surfaces. And because it’s E Ink, it only consumes power when the displays are updated. It’s said to be “rugged” and “durable,” but there’s no mention of “repairable.”

Elon Musk’s $44 billion hobby has been up and down for over 12 hours in Australia and New Zealand, according to Downdetector. Users are reporting slow load times when the site does actually load, causing some to fire up a VPN to access Twitter through the US.

We weren’t impressed by the $900 original, but the 2023 Freestyle has a neat little trick called Smart Edge Blending that automatically stitches the images of two projectors into a single ultra-wide display with a 21:9 aspect ratio.

Six months after Samsung reached 3nm production in June, TSMC says its 3nm process tech offers better performance than its 5nm chips found in the latest Pro iPhone, for example, while requiring about 35 percent less power.