★ Nokia’s Next-Day Internal Competitive Analysis of the Original iPhone Largely Got It Right

Tom Warren, The Verge: Earlier this month you could search for “Google” on Bing and get a page that looked a lot like Google, complete with a special search bar, an image resembling a Google Doodle, and even some small text under the search bar just like Google search. The misleading UI no longer appears on the Google search result of Bing this...

Tim Hardwick, last week for MacRumors, “Apple Smart Home Hub Launch Possibly Delayed Until Later in Year”: Apple’s long-rumoured smart home hub or “command center” may not arrive in the spring as previously expected, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. [...] Apple originally planned to introduce the home hub in March 2025. However, writing in...

Joanna Stern, in her weekly Tech Things newsletter for the WSJ: Despite what my iPhone’s frequent notification summaries report, my husband isn’t messy, he isn’t sad and he definitely didn’t take out the garbage — because, again, I don’t have one. Wife? Yes. Husband? No. As part of Apple Intelligence, the company rolled out these AI-powered...

Kyle Wiggers, writing at TechCrunch: Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious...

Parker Ortolani works near Grand Central and wrote a great post about the in-character Severance experience on Wednesday, replete with photos, both early in the day when the diorama was largely empty and Parker Ortolani works nearby, and wrote a great post about the experience, replete with photos, both early in the day when the diorama was...