Your Smart Home Should Pass the Cancel Test
Home Assistant’s planned cloud-service rename offers a useful test for connected gadgets: what still works after you cancel the subscription?
Your Smart Home Should Pass the Cancel Test
Home Assistant’s planned cloud-service rename offers a useful test for connected gadgets: what still works after you cancel the subscription?
Kindle’s New Buttons Have a Better Job Than Looking Retro
Amazon’s new page-turn accessories raise a useful design question: how much should a reading device ask of the person trying to disappear into a book?
Gears of War: E-Day and the Price of Starting Together
Gears of War: E-Day starts five days earlier for premium players. Beyond the edition chart is a familiar question: when does the whole group get to begin?
The AI Agent Problem Isn’t Intelligence. It’s Permission.
AI agents promise to handle our errands, inboxes and purchases. Their biggest obstacle may be earning permission to touch the parts of life that make them useful.
The Last Print Edition Isn’t the End of the Story
Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día has printed its final paper after 56 years. The real question is not whether news arrives on paper or a screen, but whether the reporting survives the transition.
Onimusha’s Million-Sale Launch Rewards a Patient Revival
Capcom’s first new Onimusha game in more than 20 years sold over one million copies on launch day—an encouraging result for patient franchise revivals.
F-Droid 2.0 Gives Android’s Independent App Store a Modern Reset
F-Droid’s biggest redesign in a decade aims to make privacy-focused, open-source Android software easier to discover and install.
Age Checks Should Prove Eligibility, Not Identity
Discord’s revised age-verification rollout is a reminder that online services should confirm eligibility without building permanent identity files.
Repair Cafés Fix More Than Our Gadgets
Canada is home to the Repair Café network’s 4,000th member. The bigger story is what happens when fixing technology becomes something we learn together.
Your Backup Needs a Different Way to Fail
This week’s air-traffic outage raises a question that reaches far beyond airports: what must still work for your backup to rescue you?
