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  • The Silicon Valley diversity problem

    Good thing Elon Musk is African, otherwise Silicon Valley might have a diversity problem. I meant to post this a while back, but GSElevator’s tweet above is telling.

  • The Rule of Thirds

    It is the most ubiquitous rule in all of photography. The rule of thirds can be applied to virtually any type of photo, from a portrait to a landscape to a street scene. What’s more, the rule is more easily… Read More ›

  • 27p per GB

    Storage has never been cheaper. Just £0.27 is the cost per Gigabyte of storage on the Kingston 64GB MicroSD memory card. These are available from Clove Technology today. Memory cards come in a huge variety of size options. You can… Read More ›

  • Send kisses through your phone

    Long-distance relationships are hard, everyone knows that. Now, thanks to a new gadget that connects to your iPhone and allows you to send your kiss to another person, they’re disgusting too! An article on Mashable heralds the arrival of The… Read More ›

  • A new view of the world

    Seeing the world from above is a metamorphic experience. A leafless tree becomes a spider web, a circus transforms into a box of sweets, while a harvest field simplifies into slashes of flaxen and gold. Rarely do we get the… Read More ›

  • Disabling tech by speed

    SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A Texas couple whose 5-year-old daughter died in a crash involving a driver who was allegedly using Apple’s FaceTime video chatting app is suing the tech company. The lawsuit filed this month in Santa Clara… Read More ›

  • 2017

    Well, this is a year I have been looking forward to and not only because it isn’t 2016. My worry is that 2016 is likely just the opening of the toxic bottle and that the real poison will start to… Read More ›

  • Smart watches in 2016

    With so much consolidation in the smartwatch space, the future of the category looks gloomy. Less competition can mean less innovation, which can result in products growing stale and eventually fading altogether. Still, there have been developments in 2016 that… Read More ›

  • Steve Almond and Toto

    Very, very funny.

  • Russian malware found in Vermont utility

    A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials. While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt… Read More ›