Rubicon Solutions

25/08/2018

This looks like an incredibly cool winner

Order yours at remarkable.com. The paper tablet for people who prefer paper. Here to replace your notebooks, sketchbooks and printouts. Paper-like reading, w...

24/08/2018

When the reality is sufficiently crazy that you have to double check if it's satire.

"P-- lea-- se st--o-p u-s-in--g t-the in-tern--et." begged the CEO via Skype

07/06/2018

If you have a router on this list update it's firmware right now, or consider replacing it. If you have any SOHO router check for a firmware update. This VPNfilter infection is no joke, and does not get detected by your normal anti-virus/anti malware software because it lives on your router.

More affected devices. More damage. And what looks like an escalation in attacks

24/05/2018

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/03/25/google-pixel-2-long-term-review-pixel-2xl-review-best-smartphone-camera/

iPhone X or Galaxy S9? Google's Pixel 2 smartphones beat them both, and this is why...

22/05/2018

Basically a scaled up lilium electric jet, but using ground based energy. Just one energy storage breakthrough away from looking like a dumb idea.

13/05/2018

The lede here is misleading, Google is not making any secret at all that it collects your data to improve its ad business. In return it provides useful services to it's users. This has been the google business model since inception, and long before smart phones. Billions of people moved to Gmail despite knowing that Google ran a logarithms over their mail to deliver targeted ads. If anything the move to smartphones has given consumers more, not less control over their data, they can explicitly turn off location services and the like.

What is missing from this story is why it is that Data (in the sense of how much bandwidth is used per month) remains so expensive and why Australians are still having to budget data usage and why it's capped and metered. In other words this article entirely misses the real scandal that Telcos and ISP's have engineered artificial scarcity to gouge Australians on data costs.

THE ACCC is investigating accusations Google is using as much as $580 million worth of Australians’ phone plan data annually to secretly track their movements.

13/05/2018

When VW signs contracts equal to Tesla market cap for li-ion batteries I think it's safe to say that the transition away from ICE vehicles is definitively under way.

The Volkswagen Group has doubled its anticipated order for lithium-ion batteries to €30 billion ($64 billion).These batteries will be used by Volkswagen and its various brands to aggressively push in...

23/01/2018

This verge article tries to hedge, and I can understand why, given their track record you shouldn't count Apple out, but the ipod was a long time ago, in a very different market. The homepod is a very expensive speaker that is saddled with Siri (the dumb blonde of voice assistants) and hard linked to Apple Music (as in you don't have any option to use a different music service) . So a speaker marketed as music focused (an admission that it doesn't have the smarts to compete with Google or Amazon as a smart speaker) is anchored to the worst Music service.
To call it the Apple Maps of home speakers is too kind - Apple Maps was and is crappy, but it is free, the Homepod seems almost designed to test just how much money Apple can extract from it's most clueless fans.

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

23/01/2018

This Verge survey on (American) attitudes to tech companies is fascinating, with Amazon just launching in Australia what is especially notable is how positive it's ratings are. Google also does very well. Despite (or possibly because?) it's giant cash pile Apple does quite poorly overall.

The Verge Survey

11/01/2018

This is shameful, but hardly surprising. It's scarcely surprising that so many are opting to use Mobile data packages instead.

Australia’s fixed broadband has fallen below Kazakhstan on a global ranking of internet speeds, with performance below the global average.

19/12/2017

Cheaper than Sonos, and smarter too,

This oversized speaker gives your smart home some bump.

14/12/2017

Is this what will be carting grain and cotton in 10 years time? (Wait to see what was inside the truck)

Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's new Semi truck and (in a surprise) a second-generation Roadster. The truck is supposed to get 500 miles per charge, while the Road...