The Morning After: 20 years of Engadget
This web site first started on March 2, 2004. It’s older than YouTube, the iPhone, Uber, Tesla vehicles, Spotify and an entire lot extra. It’s even roughly a month older than the phrase ‘podcast.’
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Engadget, we’re taking an extended take a look at how the tech business has modified over the previous twenty years. First up: streaming.
We have been going to kick issues off with a letter from the editor, however two weeks in the past, Engadget’s dad or mum firm laid off many editors, writers and videographers from our small group, together with our editor-in-chief, Dana Wollman.
As Aaron Souppouris places in his introduction to the collection, it’s not “enterprise as ordinary,” however we’re dedicated to pushing Engadget ahead. What began as a grass-roots tech weblog has now morphed right into a media group “aiming to interrupt information, give no-BS shopping for recommendation and spotlight the tales in tech that matter.”
Oh, and now we have a podcast.
— Mat Smith
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Meta has hardly ever been in a lot scorching water.
Axios, a web site recognized for political evaluation (and in depth use of bullet factors), has joined the ranks of pundits fawning over Mark Zuckerberg’s PR technique. The Meta CEO, they declare, is (as initially headlined) “having a PR second.” Ought to anybody be praising the PR technique of a huge firm credibly accused of enabling quite a lot of mass-scale hurt? Even when that PR technique was working — which it isn’t.
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No spring occasion?
In Bloomberg’s Energy On publication, Mark Gurman says Apple plans to announce a number of new merchandise in a collection of “on-line movies and advertising campaigns” just about imminently. In that case, that’d be two years in a row Apple has handed on a spring occasion. This 12 months, it might be notably busy: Together with an iPad Professional refresh and a brand new 12.9-inch iPad Air, Gurman reviews that Apple is planning to announce new Apple Pencils and Magic Keyboards. (Probably with USB-C.) It’s additionally anticipated to launch the M3 MacBook Air in 13- and 15-inch fashions.
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Regardless of the corporate getting suspended in February.
The California Public Utilities Fee (CPUC) has permitted Waymo to develop its robotaxi operations to Los Angeles and extra places within the San Francisco Peninsula regardless of opposition from native teams and authorities companies. Within the CPUC’s determination, it admitted receiving letters of protest from the Los Angeles Division of Transportation, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority and the San Francisco Taxi Employees Alliance about Waymo’s growth.
Following an incident the place two of its robotaxis collided with a backward-facing pickup truck, the company suspended Waymo’s growth efforts in February for as much as 120 days. Waymo spokesperson Julia Ilina mentioned in an announcement to Wired that the corporate will take an “incremental method” when deploying the service in LA.
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