Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image In Samsung’s ad, the robots are desperate to please. Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Can humans and robots happily co-exist? Ultimately, I suspect not. The robots will be too clever, humans will be too insulted and the robots …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Hello, indeed. Sonos/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When someone steps on your toes, do you scream with anger? Or do you make a sarcastic comment, along the lines of: “Gee, thanks for landing on my bunion?” I only ask because Sonos took the latter approach …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Can they explode? Sarah Tew/CNET We’re quite used to tales of phones exploding. Lithium ion batteries can be volatile. After all, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was withdrawn — twice — because too many of them kept blowing up. A man from Tampa, …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Does online advertising not work as well as it might? Chris Matyszczyk/CNET My mailbox isn’t what it used to be. These days, I wander out to it, believing that it will likely contain some magazines I forgot to cancel, a book from Amazon that the …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. He just can’t help sniping at Verizon. CNBC I wanted to believe in a hopeful new world. The one T-Mobile presented during the Super Bowl, that is. There, the company ran an ad expressing hope we can change. The company wants babies born today to grow …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Ah, la vie off-road. Be careful, monsieur. Getty Images The definition of driving a car is beginning to change. Soon, it will be: “Sitting in a car, while the car drives you.” For now, however, France has decided to redefine what driving means, in order …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Modern technology at work for the common good. KSL5TV/Craig Milligan/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Did you see Justin Timberlake shriek at the Super Bowl crowd to turn on their phone lights during the halftime show? Isn’t this by now a touch passé? Oh, apparently it …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. T-Moble wants them to love who they want. T-Mobile/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET T-Mobile has rather taken on the personality of its CEO, John Legere. Rarely slow to lambaste the competition, its personality doesn’t quite reflect the innocent pinky magenta color of its logo. Yet …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Not a flamethrower after all? Screenshot by Mike Sorrentino/CNET It was the must-have gadget of, well, last week. Elon Musk’s Boring Company flamethrower, retailing at $500, sold out within days of its launch. All 20,000 were gone. Everyone wanted one, it seemed. Musk …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Confused by Twitter on the iPhone X? Gene Sweeney Jr. / Getty Images Let he who is without sending a public tweet instead of a direct message cast the first stone. The latest to fall foul of this common twittering failing is Golden State Warriors …
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