Time changes are an awful idea — I hate Daylight Saving Time. I hate Standard Time. To be more specific, I hate the change between the two. One hour of change to the structure of our days is something that messes with our body clocks. In the words of The Doctor: I don’t like it. It was…

Don’t be fooled by its perceived “power” — I’m going to talk about ChatGPT this week. But not in the “OMG it’s going to replace writers” sense or even the “It’s a sentient AI” way (because it’s not), but today I need to address the elephant in the room: AI’s reliability and trustworthiness. A friend on Mastodon shared…

In this ever-evolving world of AI drawing and chat and who knows what else, we find a new realm for computer-generated text-to-voice to apply its skills: audiobook narration. Leyland Cecco at The Guardian has more about how Apple is playing with fire in this experiment. The popularity of the audiobook…

Battling through formulas and pivot tables for cash — Forget about eSports and Pay-Per-View boxing. If you’re craving THE thrilling event of the 21st century, look no further than the Microsoft Excel World Championship. Yes, you read that right. Competitors from across the world compete against each other for who can be the winner in a knockout bracket challenge…

Apple’s Useful Way to Start Your Day — I don’t mean to brag, but I consider myself an iPhone expert. Being a fan of Apple and a user of their computers from about 1986 until today, it’s rare for a useful feature to get past me. But, I can’t claim to know it all and in one of…

A duo working to save gaming’s past from evaporating — We tend to think that in this age of digital entertainment, things will always be accessible. But what about things such as video games that were all created before the internet? That’s where two ambitious people come in. Kelsey Lewin and Frank Cifaldi are the heads of the Video Game…

When The King of Pop was all in on SEGA — One oddity of 90s video gaming is Sega’s clandestine work with Michael Jackson. It was rumored for many years that Jackson composed the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3 along with Sonic & Knuckles. Even more incredible is recently-found footage of Jackson’s work with an unknown Sega simulator game where…

Mastodon. You may have heard of it. In the era of Elon Musk’s deliberate-or-not work to burn Twitter to the ground, people are looking at alternatives. On the surface, Mastodon may look like Twitter, but there’s a lot under the hood that makes it better. A lot better. Mastodon is…

Tech’s 2021 Hiring Bonanza Was a Bad Idea — If you’ve taken even a cursory look at the news in the last week, you have likely seen the headlines. Talk about a bloodbath in tech lately. What do we name this? The Great Backlash? The Great Hiring Miscalculation? …