Category: Technology

  • Jeff Bezos: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker.

    Amazon.com founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was investigating how The National Enquirer got ahold of the steamy text messages he sent to his mistress. The National Enquirer, you might imagine, wasn’t keen on that: Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Actually, for me it wasn’t just unusual — it was a first. I was made…

  • Mat Honan’s Review of the Google Pixel 3 is Very Good

    We are captives to our phones, they are having a deleterious effect on society, and no one is coming to help us. On the upside, this is a great phone. It’s a month old, so you probably already read this but, if you hadn’t, it’s worth a look.

  • Movies! But, Like, Anywhere!

    Since 2014, if you had purchased a digital copy of a movie from Disney (or one of their studios, like Pixar or Marvel), you redeemed the code at Disney Movies Anywhere. This unlocked the movie not only on their app, but added it to your iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, and Amazon accounts as well, making…

  • Nearly Coherent 037: The Kimmy Gibbler of Worlds

    This episode is proof-positive we’re in the Darkest Timeline. Sorry! Trump v. Sportsball No one is more upset than I am at Trump’s feud with the NFL and Stephan Curry, both because I’m a hard-line supporter of the First Amendment and because now I know things about sports, which is the last thing in the…

  • WIRED: Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits

    Jigsaw, Google’s think-tank, has used Google’s search advertising algorithms to help dissuade people searching for information on joining ISIS to, y’know, not join. The program, which Jigsaw calls the Redirect Method and plans to launch in a new phase this month, places advertising alongside results for any keywords and phrases that Jigsaw has determined people…

  • GoPro View of Cheetah Run

    If you’ve ever wanted to see what it would look like if you were shrunken down and riding on the back of a cheetah while they were running, the Cincinnati Zoo has you covered. Spoiler: It’s awesome.

  • Twitter Announces New Features!

    Twitter has announced new enhancements to its service in a blog post today: In the coming months we’ll make changes to simplify Tweets including what counts toward your 140 characters, so for instance, @names in replies and media attachments (like photos, GIFs, videos, and polls) will no longer “use up” valuable characters. It’s great that…

  • Alfred 3

    Alfred, which is more or less OS X’s Spotlight on steroids, released a new version today. Whenever I’m setting up a new Mac for myself, Alfred is the second application I’ll install.1 It’s free to use the basic functionality, so you have nothing to lose by giving it a shot. Live a little, would’ja? In…

  • Should All Locks Have Keys

    Given the hullaballoo over the idiotically-dangerous “Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016” that was released in draft form today, I thought it might be wise to remind people why strong encryption is a good and necessary thing. Fortunately, this video does all the legwork for me, which is really rather considerate of it.

  • Lowercase ‘i’ Internet

    The AP Stylebook announced that “internet” will be spelled with a lowercase “i” starting on June 1st. While this apparently caused some people to have weird panic attacks, it is met with great relief and celebration here at Nearly Coherent Industries HQ, because capitalizing internet was a stupid-ass thing to begin with.