Well I'm 74 and completely agree with the OP. His user's use case is exactly on point. Nothing could be simpler than dragging a file onto an email. No need to fuss with uploading to a service, copying links, etc. All my sent and received email, more than 20 years worth, and many with very large attachments are stored locally and take up less than 10 GB. Btw, I have owned two Teslas and they are the two best cars ever. Now get off my lawn.

This seems a little glib to me (or perhaps just ignorant) considering how the US did it first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yes, but if you play it this way you won't be able to compare scores with your friends because the word lists are different. And that's one of the big reasons people play it: to compete with their friends.

You can also dial up the audio from WWV (the time and frequency broadcast from the NIST) at 303-499-7111

by the fact that they were doing it 60 years ago. Even before touch-tone phones.

The comments of someone who knows a thing or two about the economics of space transport: "While Musk loves electric cars and spaceflight, there's one thing he hates: space solar power. "You'd have to convert photon to electron to photon back to electron. What's the conversion rate?" he says, getting riled up for the first time during his talk. "Stab that bloody thing in the heart!""

""Atomic" clocks that you can buy in stores synchronize time using the WWVB shortwave band from NIST in Boulder"

WWVB transmits on 60KHz. This is longwave not shortwave - The wavelength is 5 kilometers.

It will be very interesting to see how Apple's intransigence holds up when China goes through with its threat to prevent the sale of phones that don't contain a back door. It seems they could be painting themselves into a corner.

It reads the speed limit signs using the front facing camera.

The linked article contains a misleading statement which is given as a quote: Autosteer is now “restricted to residential roads and roads without a center divider.” which implies that it can only be used on these type roads. Actually, the upgrade restricts driving on residential roads and roads without a center divider by limiting the maximum autopilot speed to 5 mph above the posted speed limit. So, quite a different spin. (Source Ver 7.1 release notes)

Yes, but owners who purchased the autopilot capability when they bought the car (probably most who bought in the last year) don't need to pay anything more to get this feature. I've just been driving around in mine learning how to use it. It's pretty awesome.

The SAGE computer (AN/USQ-7) was truly mind blowing in scope. IBM produced a very cool movie of the system in operation in 1956 (along with some great cold war propaganda) that is a wonderful time capsule to boot. It shows a scale model of the building that housed the system to allow pointing out where all the pieces were located. My father spent some time as an operator of the huge display scopes at the McChord AFB installation.

Movie here: https://archive.org/details/0772_On_Guard_The_Story_of_SAGE_18_48_05_00

Not sure why a new charger from Google is big news. In addition to the original Google 'Orb' charger, the Verizon WCP-300, which is made by LG (who make the Nexus 4 and 5) works great. I've had one of those for months and like it a lot.

Wireless charging is very handy because I can just plop the phone down on it any time I'm at my desk. Without it I'd hesitate before using the normal charging cable, just to save fiddling with it and the wear and tear on the connector. And the phone stays more fully charged that way.

From the company's About page:

Aeros occupies a corporate office in Los Angeles, CA., as well as a historic 500,000 square –foot assembly flight test facility hangar in Tustin, CA.

Yeah, I guess that's near Sand Diego

Is it too much to expect the quotation in the summary to actually come from the linked article? In part it says "Recent upgrades, ... will allow the station to be better received even in large buildings." My curiosity was piqued. What were these upgrades? Not only was there no explanation in the Wired article, none of the text quoted in the summary seems to appear in the article. WTF?