Derek Kessler is a recovering smartphone and Twitter addict and the Editor-in-Chief of CrackBerry. He is focused on bringing you the latest and greatest takes on the technology news of the day, from breaking news to no-holds-barred savage opinion pieces.
BlackBerry may be gone from most of our pockets, but we can still appreciate the beauty inside and out of one of the best pocket keyboard phones ever made: the Bold 9000.
The US Department of Energy is making $15 billion in grants and loans available to convert American automobile plants from making gas cars to electric ones.
Despite being unveiled back in January, it's taken until the end of summer for the MagSafe-based Qi2 wireless charging standard to show up in products — but now they're here!
Philips Hue is branching out. No more are they just a smart lighting brand — they're becoming a smart home brand with their new Secure cameras and sensors. Just, you know, brace yourself for the price tag.
Google pinned down 4 October 2023 to show off the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, and while we're not expecting anything groundbreaking in the hardware, the real star in the Pixel line has always been the software anyway.
Google's new Duet AI tool can attend a Google Meet call on your behalf — offering notes from you to the other callers, and taking notes for you about what is discussed. And it can also be a modern AI-powered Clippy for Docs, Sheets, and more.
Automobile manufacturing giant General Motors partnered with Google to run basic OnStar help questions, cutting down on wait times for a human assistant.
Apple just announced their next launch event for the middle of September, and it's going to bring some big changes to the venerable iPhone lineup.
OpenAI has a new offering for businesses: pay for the fancier version of ChatGPT with faster responses and better data privacy.
While there's reasonable debate about the safety and reliability of driverless cars roaming the roads today, that ignores the debate over cars vs. public transit — and some advocates are getting devious.
Quarterly earnings reports are usually a bore. But last week NVIDIA blew expectations out of the water with revenue was up almost 90% from the prior quarter. The reason: an epic hunger for chips to power AI.
Robot vacuums aren't new, nor are robot mops. The two combined isn't new. A docking station that drains and refills the mop isn't new. But one you can hook up to your plumbing? Now you have my attention.
Threads is Meta's attempt at a "microblogging" platform, in the vein of Twitt— err, X. It's still pretty new, but has seen decent adoption thanks to being built on the accounts system of Instagram. It's also seen regular updates to add new features like a "following" feed and a full web interface.
I've slowly been withdrawing myself from most social media and I'm feeling happier and healthier for it.
A research study looked at all of the actual scientific material on the fad of "blue-light filtering" to alleviate eye strain and improve sleep quality. Aaaaand… there's no real evidence to support that. Welp.
My first smartphone had a keyboard, and I made a point of sticking with keyboard phones for a long time. I see new designs popping up with keyboards and they stir something inside me. Yet… I still use a slab-of-glass phone. What gives?
The way many of us use modern smartphones is really unhealthy. Can we do better? Can our phones do better for us?
If you were looking to save some money on a new Tesla Model S sedan or Model X crossover, you're in luck — the "Standard Range" models are back with a battery that you cannot charge all the way. But it's $10,000 less, so there's that.
I can't believe that I'm writing this, but here we are. I'm writing this. You're reading this. And we're all worse off for it.
Just because you can use a new technology doesn't mean you need to.