It’s time to give Watch apps another chance

Oct 7, 2018 | articles, iOS, Watch

I’ve had my Series 4 for all of 48 hours, but I am happy and a little surprised to say: Watch apps finally feel usable. The new power and speed in Series 4 feels like a huge leap forward, which is important because I’m trying to cut down on how often I keep my iPhone...

Wind power makes the ground warmer even as it cools the planet | Ars Technica

Oct 7, 2018 | links

Ars covers an interesting experiment from a “high-resolution” weather mode: if the US switched entirely to wind turbines, what is the...

Google is losing users’ trust – Slate

Oct 6, 2018 | links

Matthew Green at Slate, after Google changed a default Chrome feature to automatically log users into the browser if they log into any Google service. This means all browsing history now gets sent to Google, and at rollout there wasn’t even a way to shut it off:...

On finally understanding The Matrix sequels – Just Write

Oct 1, 2018 | links

To quote this YouTube essayist I just found: Opinions need refreshing every now and then. There are some movies whose reputations are so seemingly universally agreed upon, good or bad, that we stop questioning them. We take it as a given. But the great thing about art...

⌚️ watchOS 5 Tip: Fire, Water faces work on other series, can be cycled

Sep 24, 2018 | Watch

I’m not sure where I got this idea, but I thought the fire and water faces Apple uses to promote the latest Watch Series 4 upgrade were exclusive to that series. But I have a Series 2 and they’re available. I found a few neat extras about them too: Fire...