Mike Isaac, writing for The New York Times:
Apple, Dell, Oracle — which rely on hardware and global supply
chains that are in the direct line of fire from tariffs — saw
their shares go into free-fall. But there was another big tech
company whose stock took a pummeling ev...
Nintendo is pushing back preorders for the Switch 2 due to
concerns about Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs. According
to a statement sent to The Verge by Eddie Garcia on behalf of
Nintendo, it says preorders will no longer begin on April 9th:
Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April
9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and
evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a
later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.
Allison McDaniel, writing for 9to5Mac back in 2022:
Apple Cash is a virtual debit card where you can send and
receive money through iMessage. Stored in your Wallet, you can
make secure and contactless payments with Apple Pay from your
iPhone or Apple Watch. It’s also a w...
I observed yesterday that, in general, Visa and Mastercard credit cards are both accepted at the same locations. The most notable exception is Costco, which, as part of the deal to make its own credit card a Visa (after long partnering with Amex), only accepts Visa credit ca...
Bill Gates, commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary:
The story of how Microsoft came to be begins with, of
all things, a magazine. The January 1975 issue of
Popular Electronics featured an Altair 8800 on the
cover. The Altair 8800, created by a small electronics
compa...
Wonderfully detailed write-up of a perfect prop from Make3:
Repurposed Nagra Knobs & Switches — To ground the device in a
tangible, vintage aesthetic, we salvaged original knobs and
switches from a 1990s Nagra IV-D recorder, seamlessly integrating
them into our desig...
Jason Snell, last month:
The new M4 MacBook Air is the Mac most people should buy. [...]
That’s why perhaps the most important change in the M4 MacBook Air
is its base configuration, which starts at $999. When Apple
introduced a winning new flat-with-rounded-corners Air...
In an episode first aired in 2012, Lulu Miller introduces us to Jeff Lockwood, a professor at the University of Wyoming, who spent a part of his career studying a particularly ferocious set of insects: Gryllacrididae. Or, as Jeff describes them, "crickets on steroids." They ...
Following up on the previous item, here’s a WSJ report from October on Visa’s dominant position in the payments industry:
Visa, based in San Francisco, has built its network over more than
60 years — going back to clunky manual credit-card readers and
carbon-paper copies...
AnnaMaria Andriotis, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+ link):
The Apple card is up for grabs because Goldman Sachs, the bank
behind it, is getting out of the consumer lending world. For
months, big banks including JPMorgan Chase and Synchrony Financial
have be...
Mike Masnick has a great piece at TechDirt running down just how stupid everything about Trump’s tariff trade war is:
Whoever on the Council of Economic Advisers used this formula should turn in their econ degree, because this is not how anything works. Even if they then...
The Economist:
On economics Mr Trump’s assertions are flat-out nonsense. The
president says tariffs are needed to close America’s trade
deficit, which he sees as a transfer of wealth to foreigners. Yet
as any of the president’s economists could have told him, this
overal...
CNBC:
Markets plunged the day after President Donald Trump
imposed a far-reaching “reciprocal tariff” policy, including a
10% baseline tariff on almost every country on earth.
The plan slaps much steeper tariff rates on many countries,
including 34% on China, 20% on th...
Nature poll of 1600 US scientists: 75% are considering leaving the country, “many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada” or “anywhere that supports science”.
