If there’s one thing that bitcoin enthusiasts are a mite touchy about, it’s people pointing out that their favoured product uses a colossal amount of electricity every day in the pursuit of printing a winning lottery ticket. (That is the essential boiled-down version of what bitcoin mining is; part of…

It’s always fun taking someone as a passenger in a modern electric car for the first time, because you know they’ll be surprised by two things. First: the lack of engine noise, so when you manoeuvre at low speeds, there’s no sound. Second: wild acceleration. Pressing the accelerator is like…

Let me admit: Ted Lasso puzzles me. In case you don’t know, it’s a new series on Apple TV+ (Apple’s paid streaming service), starring Jason Sudeikis as an American football (ie gridiron) coach who is hired to coach a Premier League football (soccer) team in the UK. When I say…

There’s a surely apocryphal story about George Best, the legendary soccer player whose Irish good looks were the perfect counterpoint to his flashing foot skills. As Best’s skills are beginning to wane, he is still a huge hit with the opposite sex. And so it is one morning that he’s…

U.S. Intelligence’s aversion to Huawei could help China win the 5G race — The smartphone revolution, now 12 years old, has seen some clunkers in its time. But the newest one is very different from its predecessors. The Huawei Mate 30 launched this month with all the media fanfare that a multibillion-dollar company can achieve. On the surface, the device should be a…

The original iPhone was the consumer tech equivalent of the Apollo mission — but you can’t just keep going back to the moon — Did you enjoy the iPhone launch event? Or did you perhaps feel that it was kinda more of the same — a story we’ve heard before about faster processors, better (and now more!) cameras, smarter things, new colors, and fresh software (apparently hurried along by threatened Trump tariffs).

Apple may have rushed to get its new iPhones shipped to beat Trump tariffs that didn’t come — A little over a week ago, Apple surprised developers by issuing a new beta of its iOS 13 operating system, which will run on the upcoming iPhones expected in September. Every year, Apple releases iOS developer betas for its x.0 version: The process starts in early June, when the features…

It’s past time for a new era at Apple — I interviewed Jony Ive twice: once in 2002, immediately after the launch of the “sunflower” iMac (which looked, at first glance, like an Anglepoise lamp with a screen) and then again in 2014, at the launch of the Apple Watch. Both times, the tricky thing was maneuvering the ebb and…