I have to admit it: I backed the wrong horse when it came to driving home automation from a digital assistant and went with Microsoft’s Cortana and its Harmon Kardon Invoke smart speakers.
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I had good enough reason: I trusted Micr…
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Perlow: Install Solar Power and Backup Battery
Last year, I put off our plans to install solar cells and a backup battery for many different reasons. But, this year, I am committed to getting it done be…
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April Fool’s Day is still months away, and 2020 is not exactly the year for elaborate hoaxes on an exhausted public, so it’s hard to imagine that the KFConsole is big joke on chicken-loving gamers. Then again, a collaboration between fast-fo…
Season 2 of The Mandalorian is over. It’s time to move on from Baby Yoda and spider swarms to new forms of entertainment. But if you’re a Star Wars fan, it really never ends. This is a franchise that has been monetizing merch for more than 40 years and…
Last week, WarnerMedia, the AT&T-owned parent company of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., announced that it would release all of its 2021 first-run movies to its streaming service, HBO Max, at the same time it releases them to theaters.
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James Bond has had many cars over the years, but no vehicle is more iconic to the franchise than the Aston Martin DB5, which Sean Connery drove in Goldfinger. This car was outfitted with many technical defensive gadgets, including twin .50 caliber…
After getting my Raspberry Pi-based ADS-B receiver up and running earlier in the summer, I’ve been taking things a bit further with it. Some of the changes I’ve made have been hardware upgrades designed to improve both the range and reliability of th…
There’s a woman in my area named Deb Peterson (not her real name). She is running for some local office. But this isn’t a politics story. It’s a mental health story.
Deb spent most of August and September running pre-roll ads on my YouTube about how ni…
The COVID-19 pandemic has been brutal in its economic effects on America’s entertainment industry. Theaters were closed for nearly five months and then reopened, only to close again. Many feature films, such as the latest James Bond installment No Time…
Last week, in two separate events, Amazon and Google announced their competing video content streaming devices, the Fire TV Stick and the Chromecast with Google TV.
ZDNet Top Picks: Streaming services
In a previous post, I discussed the implications…