Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives “Stranger Things” has nothing on this. screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Ads are like phones. They come, they go and they affect the world not in the slightest. Then there’s this insanely twisted, artistic oeuvre on behalf of the AGM …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Don’t worry, FKA Twigs. HomePod will change your life. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Do you come home at night and stare into a gray, messy living room? Do you sometimes stay out late, drinking with lonely strangers, so that you don’t have to go …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Oldman: Worried about the kids. Daniel Leal-olivas / AFP/Getty Images Who can dispute that technology has, um, disrupted our lives? Taken them over, even. We’re buried in our gadgets to an extreme level. Actor Gary Oldman believes this a threat to our future civilization. As …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Humans, stupefied, need Google’s Assistant to make them whole. Google/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET What kind of world does Google want to create? One in which talking to machines is as natural — or even more natural — than talking to, well, humans. During the …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image It seems that not everyone craves Animojis. Óscar Gutiérrez/CNET Not everyone loves the iPhone X. Not everyone thinks it’s the smartphone of the future. Many, as I’ve discovered wandering around America asking real people what they think, believe it’s a good phone. A …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Making things awkward. Samsung; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Here’s to the crazy ones. Again. Or, rather, the new crazy ones. At least, that’s a little of the feeling I get watching a new Samsung Galaxy S9 ad, released to coincide with Sunday’s Oscars ceremony. …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image How long will this relationship last? Jason Cipriani/CNET How long does it take before you look at your phone, tablet or laptop and whisper: “I’m sorry, my love. We’re done”? How does that moment arrive? Is it because the device starts to slow? …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Who doesn’t want a friend like this? Nokia/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET In 1996, I sat in a meeting in Warsaw, Poland, as American ad execs presented what they called the phone of the future. It was a vast, expensive thing called Iridium. We texted …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Apple wants you to know it’s better. Because it says so. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET They like to play aloof in Cupertino. No, no, insisted Apple CEO Tim Cook last week, his company doesn’t follow its rivals. You’d think Apple doesn’t even bother to …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Remind you of any Apple ads you’ve seen lately? Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Do you feel uplifted? Has the reveal of Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus brought you closer to telephonic rapture? Or does it look and feel like the S8 with a …
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