Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Woz not upgrading? What has the world come to? James Martin/CNET Can it be that the world will be deprived of one of the great Apple traditions? It seems that on every launch day, the company’s co-founder Steve Wozniak is …
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Samsung phone reportedly emits smoke on flight
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image The Galaxy J7. Samsung Phones do sometimes explode. Often the cause seems to be the battery. However, on Friday, passengers on a Jet Airways flight from Delhi to Indore in India endured a scare when they say smoke began to billow from a …
Read More »iPhone X: An ugly deception?
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Oh, no it isn’t. screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You must be quite tense. There’s less than a week to go before you must decide whether to part with $999 — or even $1,149 for the 256 GB version — in order to secure an iPhone …
Read More »I went to buy a Pixel 2. Verizon tried to sell me a Galaxy S8
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image A fine camera with a mediocre phone attached? Josh Miller/CNET You might watch a launch event and decide you must have that new phone. You might read a review — they’re very good on CNET, you know — and hope you’ll be influenced. …
Read More »Google’s Pixel 2 gets bent out of shape during torture test
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. That doesn’t look good. JerryRigEverything/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It’s agony releasing a new device. No sooner is it out in the wild than someone takes a scalpel or a sharp knife and tries to wreck it. One of the most renowned wreckers is Zack …
Read More »Verizon talks engineers into becoming Pixel 2 salespeople
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. On the left, a real engineer. On the right, a real actor who plays an engineer. Verizon/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Engineers are the smartest people in the world. I’ve had several explain to me in detail why this is so. How far, though, do …
Read More »Will Ferrell bitingly mocks how much devices control us
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Is this you? Is this at least a little like you? And to think you blame the kids. Common Sense/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Will Ferrell’s family members feel like they’ve lost him. I wish I could help, but I really don’t know what he’s …
Read More »MacBook Pro’s space bar mercilessly mocked in song
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Does that look like 75 degrees to you? Looks like 74 to me. Jonathan Mann/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Works of art can be temperamental. They need the right light, the right temperature, the right atmospheric conditions. So it is with Apple’s lovely MacBook Pro. …
Read More »Apple gets a Harvey Weinstein joke on SNL
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Apple’s new emojis linked to Harvey Weinstein. SNL/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET As film producer Harvey Weinstein became society’s latest scourge, Apple reportedly canceled two series produced by the company that used to employ him. Yet on “Saturday Night Live,” Cupertino couldn’t quite get away …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Just what you’ve always wanted. And needed. Cooler Cannon/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET There I was on a pleasantly warm Saturday, watching the MLB playoffs, when Cheddar tossed me this. It’s a cooler that may well incite tailgaters to raptures they’ll never reach during the …
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