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As Bombich points out, this is a fairly specific issue that may not affect many of you but it could be catastrophic to those of you it does affect.

We Canadians love our curling. It helps that we are a “world power” of the sport.

Bottom line? Bigger is not always better. But I still wish I had the scratch for either of those machines.

Facebook once again goes above and beyond to prove they are one of the sleaziest companies in America.

I saw this video yesterday. This is just a horror movie waiting to be filmed. So creepy.

This story pops up every Olympics and every Olympics, I marvel at the incredible amount of hardware the big boys of DSLR bring to support their shooters.

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I had so much fun with Dave Hamilton this week. Dave is a gigging drummer and really knows his music. We talked about live setups, different bands, recording, and tell a couple of drummer jokes.

Great video on the creation of a great song.

That was incredible.

Well played, Sonos.

This week Rene Ritchie and I talk about our experiences with Apple’s HomePod, due to be released this week.

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After his report on his “Inside Apple’s HomePod Audio Lab” tour, several commenters asked Jim what it sounded like inside the anechoic chamber. This video may help.

Hyperbole aside, (no Ars Technica – this wasn’t “the moment SpaceX opened the cosmos to the masses”), it was still a pretty cool launch and the simultaneous landings of the two outer cores (the third middle core was lost at sea) was incredible.

Like most of us, I thought the statues and monuments we saw of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and others were a dull white or a boring sandy brown colour.

As Ben Bajarin said on Twitter, “The Bank of Apple is coming.”

Maybe if Apple had called the HomePod a “super speaker” or something else and more directly avoided the comparison to “smart” devices like the Echo and the Home, they wouldn’t be having so many tech reviewers reviewing a Ferrari as if it were a Corolla.

This guy is a mad genius. I hope he continues to use his powers for good and never evil.

This is a great series of videos explaining the differences between sound mixing vs sound editing by Oscar winner Walter Murch. I don’t know much about sound but I know I’d watch Murch explain the phone book. Always an interesting guy to listen to.

I’ve been using the HomePod for almost a week now. The device is part technological marvel with a little bit of magic thrown in to make it a really compelling device for every home. […]

Apple didn’t build its audio products by choosing off-the-shelf components that any other company can use—it designed and built them from scratch. The testing for all its products happens in the company’s audio lab in Cupertino, Calif. Last week, they took me on a tour of the lab to show me what’s involved in making an audio product at Apple. […]

Good review of the pros and cons. I’d love to have a “quickie” printer for on the go prints but the downsides of the low picture quality and hugely expensive paper make these kinds of printers a no buy for me.

Good explanation of what happened and why. There’s good and bad in Apple’s reasoning for doing it but, as I’ve often said, their lack of explanation and “full disclosure” can sometimes bite them in the ass.

It would be really interesting to see how this works in the hands of the police and the backend data management would be an immense challenge.

The annual Chinese New Year migration is the largest in the world. This story of just one small piece of it is lovely and poignant.

The site is unabashed watch porn.

Holy crap. This is brilliant. I often wondered as a kid why this happened. I haven’t seen one of these drinking birds in years.

I can’t decide whether this is creepy or cool….maybe creepycool?

All those stories about “Apple Watch isn’t selling” can stop now.

Who knew it was so easy?

I don’t know enough motorcycle history to really appreciate some of these bikes but I bet some of you are old enough to have owned them and will weep silent tears when you see what they went for at auction.