Chris Matyszczyk

The best job in America is software developer. Really!

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. The secret code for happiness? / Getty Images There is no perfect job. For joy at work, some merely look for employers who appreciate them, investors who will give them money freely or co-workers who will do most of the …

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Warren Buffett: Tim Cook failed to sell me on iPhone

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A committed Samsung fan. Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images Apple is renowned by some people for its ability to sell what they see as well-designed but technically inferior products. It’s what many used to call, in the Steve Jobs days, Apple’s reality distortion field. There are those, …

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Apple Store reportedly evacuated after iPhone battery overheats

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. The Apple Store on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, Switzerland, was evacuated Tuesday.  Apple We’ve become used to stories of phone batteries overheating and even exploding. Less common are tales of batteries causing consternation inside phone stores. However, as Reuters reports, the Apple Store on Bahnhofstrasse in …

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New Jersey mulls law against operating drone while drunk

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. No more droning under the influence in New Jersey? / Getty Images Do you wonder about some of the people who fly drones in your neighborhood and annoy the living being out of you? Do you feel these people might be not all there — …

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Is iPhone X the best? My search to find Apple store staff who think so

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Do we have a winner? Jason Cipriani/CNET I’d become like Don Quixote. I’d walk into carrier stores, tilt at the windmills of the staff’s expertise and ask whether the iPhone X was the best phone I could buy. In visits to all the …

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Nissan wants to read your mind. What a bad idea

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. So you’re out on a first date and you get into the car…. Nissan/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Please let me tell you what I’m really thinking. Wait, you don’t really want to know all of it, do you?  The human mind can often be …

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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. T-Mobile’s John Legere. Is his company satisfying customers? James Martin/CNET When you’re loved, do you keep it to yourself, for fear the love will wane? Or do you boast about it from the highest mountain top because, well, that’s just who you are? T-Mobile seems …

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OKCupid is DTF (in a manner of speaking)

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A moving come-on? OKCupid Let’s talk abbreviations.  Who doesn’t know what DTF stands for?  Should you be unsure, we need to talk. Or, perhaps, you need to venture into the world of online dating.  OKCupid, a site that seems to have been around since the …

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Your phone really does make you feel good, study says

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image It’s good for you. Really. Jason Cipriani/CNET You clutch it. And when you’re not clutching it, you can feel where it is. And when you can’t actually feel it, you know precisely where you put it and it’ll take only a small stretch …

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Google search glitch says LaVar Ball founded NBA

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. What would a LaVar Ball NBA have looked like?  Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images The machine has replaced the customer in being always right. Except, that is, when it’s flamingly wrong. For a short time on Tuesday, a search for “NBA founder” offered the answer “LaVar Ball” …

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