As a precaution, he reported the reviews to Amazon. Most of them vanished days later — problem solved — and Plansky reimmersed himself in the work of running a six-employee, multimillion-dollar weapons accessory business on Amazon. Then, two weeks later,… Read More ›
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Apple Services are way behind
It’s interesting how many commentators are looking at services as Apple’s next big thing in light of recent announcements. The fact that Apple Music works on Alexa is an indicator as is iTunes coming to Samsung and other TVs which… Read More ›
Timeline Your Life
I wanted to get a more concrete feel for the time I’ve enjoyed – and to answer questions like “what was I doing in 2013?” so I decided to create a timeline. It’s a design challenge, On my devblog I… Read More ›
‘What’ is next
The title is not a question. It is a statement that ‘how’ should not be the priority for the bigger tech companies over the next couple of years. Look at what you do with your phone today; photography, organisation, games,… Read More ›
A human in the land of the Gods
Murray wasn’t a freak of technique like Roger Federer, nor a freak of endurance like Rafa Nadal, nor a freak of physics like Novak Djokovic. In many ways, he was all too human. He didn’t have an earth-shattering serve or… Read More ›
Take fitness away from the Apple Watch and it becomes annoying
I have managed to hurt my Achilles tendon which means I cannot run and so my fitness regime has taken a serious knock over the past two weeks. A bit of weight training does not feel like fitness to me… Read More ›
What is the worst pain?
Some people say that life is pain. Those people are optimistic: life isn’t pain, it’s pains, plural—tooth pain, back pain, breakup-pain, the pain of watching your parents grow old and die, the pain of downwardly adjusting your expectations for life,… Read More ›
1 Woman, 12 Months, 52 Places
When I started this harebrained experiment in January, to visit and report on the Times’s entire 52 Places to Go in 2018 list, I thought that by stop 48, for sure, I’d be the Wonder Woman of travel: blocking mishaps… Read More ›
1 iPhone X, 15 months, 94%
I received my iPhone X on 7th November 2017 and have used it extensively since. I consider myself a power user who uses it for a variety of tasks and who consistently does the following each day- Approx one hour… Read More ›
“Give me back your Twitter, bitch”
I wasn’t. I felt violated – and furious. As someone who writes a lot on feminism and racism, I’m sadly used to being trolled. I’m often told to go and kill myself, and am frequently told how ‘ugly’ and ‘worthless’… Read More ›
