Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives Tiffany Haddish. Helping Groupon defend your neighborhood. Ray Tamarra Look around you. Things aren’t the same, are they? The online world has changed the atmosphere in the neighborhood. People are ordering in. They’re Netflixing. They’re chilling. And they’re unwilling …
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Principal sends poop emoji to worried mom
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Perhaps the emoji should’ve been singing. After all, the school does focus on the arts. Apple Technology has created the possibility for new forms of communication. Some of those forms, though, can border on rudeness. The one-word text, for example. Or the smiley face with …
Read More »Nicolas Cage: ‘I hate social media’
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. “What are you looking at, Twitterface?” John Parra Does anyone like social media anymore? Former Facebook President Sean Parker is worried about what social media does to children’s brains. Apple CEO Tim Cook won’t let his tween nephew near it. And now there’s an even more …
Read More »FCC net neutrality repeal amusingly mocked in Burger King ad
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. The pain that comes with paying regular prices. Burger King/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It’s an emotional issue. Critics fear that the Federal Communications Commission’s recent repeal of net neutrality will cause the internet to have several speeds, with the fastest being reserved for the …
Read More »Regulate Facebook like tobacco, says Salesforce CEO
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Scorning lesser tech souls? Kimberly White And now they turn on their own. It used to be that Silicon Valley was one vast love-in, with so many of its senior figures believing they were angels brought together to deliver the world to a better place. …
Read More »Man bites battery. Battery bites back
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image This surely caused a gnashing of teeth, if it really happened as reported. Miaopai screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Some things might seem obvious. But even these things are worth mentioning occasionally. Please, therefore, allow me to say these words: Don’t bite your phone …
Read More »How Google showed Apple that HomePod can succeed
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Can Apple’s HomePod capture emotions? James Martin/CNET If you’re only moved by the displays at CES, Google and Amazon have this smart speaker thing sewn up. They’re infiltrating every product they can, while Apple can’t even get its HomePod launched. Yet, as Apple’s …
Read More »Apple gets Muhammad Ali to sell you on iPhone X selfies
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. The many facets of your greatness. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET We’re all secretly in love with ourselves. Selfies merely give us permission to express that love and demonstrate it to the world. So Apple wants you to know that the iPhone X’s camera will …
Read More »Patriots’ Tom Brady dons Beats headphones in new ad
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. He can’t hear you. Beats/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I fancy that many who aren’t New England Patriots fans will be rooting against Tom Brady and his cohorts during Sunday’s AFC championship game. Somehow, the quarterback’s slight smugness and aloofness — and his infernal penchant …
Read More »Zuckerberg shirks responsibility, says experts can’t be trusted
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. An expert in responsibility avoidance? Paul Marotta/Getty Images The man whose mission it is, this year, to fix Facebook would prefer you to do it for him. All of you. All of you who can be bothered to answer surveys on Facebook, that is. This …
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