TL;DR Google’s sharing its latest suite of smart home improvements, and they include a ton of updates for the company’s hardware. New software releases target everything from Nest Wifi routers to Chromecast streamers. The majority of the updates are looking to address specific bugs. Google Home can’t seem to go more than a couple weeks…
TL;DR Android 17 QPR3 Beta 3 is out now for Pixel 6a and newer devices in Google’s Pixel Beta program. Like Beta 2 last week, this one is loaded with dozens of bugfixes. It’s only been a little over a week since Google gave us our last peek at the next big upgrade for Android…
Rolfe Winkler, in a crackerjack story for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Blevins, who left Apple in 2022, sometimes set up back-to-back meetings with suppliers so that rival sales teams might run into each other, stoking competitive tension. Sales representatives learned to pack nutrition bars to sustain them through negotiating sessions that Apple executives…
Craig Hockenberry: If you noticed that the Iconfactory sites were kinda broken last week, now you know why. It’s because I was kinda broken last week. Now I’m finishing this post from a comfy chair on our deck. Typing into the latest version of WordPress and PHP. And I couldn’t be happier. No, you teared…