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Choosing a Driving Route in CarPlay

Dr. Drang: That the default route’s Go button is gray while the alternates are green is a stupidity addressed by Sage Olson and Joe Rosensteel, so I won’t bother. What I will address is that whichever route you choose, you have to tap its Go button. Even though the full description of each route looks […]

David Rosen, RIP

Keith Stuart (tweet, Hacker News, Reddit, Wikipedia): The co-founder of Sega, who remained a director of the company until 1996, was instrumental in the birth and rise of the video game business in Japan, and in the 1980s and 90s oversaw the establishment of Sega of America and the huge success of the Mega Drive […]

Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true.

How much alcohol should you drink? The US government now vaguely, in effect, says just don’t drink too much. And what qualifies as too much? Well, that’s up to you. As part of the new federal dietary guidelines released this week, the Trump administration eliminated the previous specific recommended limits on alcohol consumption — two […]

The best Game Pass games with amazing intro sequences

We have a variety of Xbox Game Pass recommendations to save you from endlessly searching for something new to play.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple's and Google's app stores. The fact that it hasn't happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley's leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are […]