This is the first week of the new year and, given how 2020 and 2021 were, I am feeling a bit of trepidation that 2022 could be worse. The first big consumer event of 2022 is CES, and I still argue it’s way too soon after the holidays for a show that makes you want…
Elon Musk tends to gravitate between brilliant and crazy, making him a lot of fun to watch if you aren’t an investor. Investors have way too many moments where they may regret their stakes in Musk’s companies, given he makes the related securities and several cryptocurrencies far more volatile than they otherwise would be. One…
HP’s Chromebase 22-aa0012 is a unique form factor with a spinning 21.5-inch display, striking performance, and clean aesthetics that make it a game-changing alternative for desktop computers. Launched in July, the HP Chromebase all-in-one desktop is the first and only Chrome OS-powered desktop to feature a fully rotating display. It could also serve as a…
OK, don’t get excited, the death of PCs and smartphones won’t happen tomorrow. Nor did Qualcomm overtly declare their demise at the company’s annual Snapdragon Tech Summit last week in Hawaii. However, it did announce a level of performance that will eventually make current smartphone and PC designs obsolete. Qualcomm’s rollout of its new Snapdragon…
Weight loss and health products are often tied to unfounded hype. Lumen, a high-tech solution to help manage your body’s ability to control weight and nutritional awareness, puts the science backing its metabolism monitoring product up front and center. In 2014 twin sisters Michal and Merav Mor, two Ironman winners, each with a doctorate in…
Thanksgiving has passed, and I’m sure we all had wonderful conversations with our relatives on safe topics like politics and religion and are feeling pretty good about not seeing some of those folks for at least another year. But, good news, our list of folks to buy gifts for likely got significantly shorter! It is…
Nvidia’s big GTC conference took place last week. This event has become more and more interesting over the years, with less and less emphasis on Nvidia’s GPU business — which makes me wonder if it is time to change the name. While Facebook certainly caught much interest with its name change to Meta, Nvidia builds…
Microsoft, on Oct. 29, once again surpassed Apple to take the top spot as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. At its annual Ignite conference last week, the company provided an overview of all things Microsoft, which highlighted why it deserves that top spot. It’s because unlike other companies — Facebook, for…
Qualcomm doesn’t like Apple very much, which is understandable given how Apple tried to put it out of business. Though another reason Qualcomm doesn’t like Apple is that in Apple’s vertically integrated world, Qualcomm is redundant. One of the big problems for Qualcomm is that the Apple Watch remains superior in terms of features and…
We are often faced with similar choices at first glance that later turn out to be very different. Looking at the latest iPhone and Pixel smartphones’ launches on the surface, both products seem to embrace beautiful screens, advanced cameras, and differentiated designs. Still, Apple’s strategy is all about status and making you stand out as…
