Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath
In May 2020, Sacramento, California, resident Alfonso Nguyen was alarmed to find two Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies at his door, accusing him of illegally growing cannabis and demanding entry into…
A popular account on TikTok and Instagram stopped posting suddenly at the end of last year, hit by a lawsuit after garnering millions of views on funny videos using adorable…
We live in the era of the electric car—lightning that can’t be put back in its bottle. This is important to keep in mind when we talk about new cars…
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech…
We’re roughly six months into Donald Trump’s trade war, and tech firms remain in a fog, unsure what tariffs or retaliations could be coming next. To shed light on this…
Google’s search results have undergone a seismic shift over the past year as AI fever has continued to escalate among the tech giants. Nowhere is this change more apparent than…
A California lawmaker halted an effort to pass a law that would force Internet service providers to offer $15 monthly plans to people with low incomes. Assemblymember Tasha Boerner proposed…
MIAMI—We were beginning to run out of bait, and the sharks weren’t cooperating. Everybody aboard the Research Vessel Garvin had come to Miami for the sharks—to catch them, sample them,…
Belief in conspiracy theories is often attributed to some form of motivated reasoning: People want to believe a conspiracy because it reinforces their worldview, for example, or doing so meets…
Apple has released the fourth developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 and its other next-generation software updates today. And along with their other changes and fixes, the…