Chris Matyszczyk

Mark Zuckerberg savaged by ‘South Park’

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Not a nice man. I mean, of course, the cartoon version. Comedy Central screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Mark Zuckerberg has become something of a target lately. Which is odd for someone who runs a social network that has so much …

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My next phone will be iPhone, say more teens than ever

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. As the launch of iPhone X gets closer, it’s fair to ask: “Is anyone really excited?” At the time of its unveiling, I talked to real people who mostly felt very meh about Apple’s so-called “smartphone of the future.” Yet along comes investment bank Piper …

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Scorching PSA acts out online hate in real life

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Online hate brought offline. In Real Life/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET What’s the worst thing anyone’s ever said to you online? One of my favorites was a person who told me that every day he wished I’d never been born. He managed to time it …

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Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual Puerto Rico jaunt misses the mark

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Now playing: Watch this: Zuckerberg blasted for tone-deaf ‘magical’ VR tour of… 1:47 Enlarge Image They’re really suffering. Let’s high-five. screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The streets behind him were flooded.  Residents had likely lost everything they owned.  So it was time for a high-five between …

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Carl’s Jr. begs Amazon to buy it on Twitter

People don’t think about us so much since we stopped featuring sexy women eating our big, fat burgers sexily. I know. But what are you going to do? Everything’s so PC these days. How about we give up? We’re marketing people. We never give up.  No, give up the company and make money. How about we beg Amazon to buy …

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Facebook ‘like’ designer puts parental controls on own iPhone

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Once upon a time, there was a world beyond the screen … Getty Images Taking responsibility for what you’ve gone and done is hard. Especially when you’re in the tech industry and insist you’re making the world a better place. Yet some, at …

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Sonos fights Apple, Amazon and Google with tears

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. She’s left him. But there’s solace in Sonos.  Sonos/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Sonos executives must be looking at vast tech companies making smart speakers and resisting the urge to hum a dirge. Amazon launched its latest Echos last week. Google on Wednesday presented its new …

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Google dials up the creepy factor and targets families

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A touch on the creepy side? Google/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Lifelogging, surveillance and self-obsession walk into a bar…. Oh, you watched the Google show on Wednesday too, did you? I was moved by many things in …

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Amazon Echo users prefer iPhone to Android, study claims

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Their owners prefer iPhones? Ry Crist/CNET What does your choice of smart speaker say about you?  Other than you have little regard for your own privacy, that is. If you choose a Google Home speaker, does that mean you drift Android-ward? And what …

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This is how Google wants you to switch from iPhone to Pixel 2

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Does it call to you? Do you have clothes to model? CNET Did you, an iPhone aficionado, look at the Pixel 2 and salivate? Please don’t worry. There’s an ad for that. No sooner had Google released its new Pixel 2 phone than it uploaded …

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