Javier Lacort

151 published news

March 2025

1. 25 March
2. The AirPods Max Have Become the Poster Child for Apple’s Contradictions. Consistency Is No Longer a Priority for the Company
3. 22 March
4. Digital Serendipity Is at Risk of Disappearing. The Internet Knows You All Too Well
5. 20 March
6. Pebble’s Resurgence Is a Reminder to the Tech Industry That Greatness Lies in Small Ambitions
7. 11 March
8. DeepSeek Is the Most Popular AI Company in Tech. Unlike Its Peers, It Refuses to Accept External Investments
9. 10 March
10. Japan’s Demographic Crisis Is Causing Serious Labor Shortages. The Solution: Thousands of Cat-Faced Robots
11. 09 March
12. We Have a Lot of Digital Superstitions. They Just Stifle Our Productivity
13. 07 March
14. China and Elon Musk Are Now Competing Over Humanoid Robots. We’re In for a Long Ride

February 2025

1. 28 February
2. There’s a Booming Market Where Meta Is Beating All Its Competitors: Smart Glasses
3. Skype Had Everything It Needed to Dominate Video Calling. Microsoft Just Gave It an Expiration Date
4. 26 February
5. Anthropic May Have the Best Generative AI Product, But Even That Doesn’t Guarantee Its Survival
6. 23 February
7. The Hadfield Method: What an Astronaut’s Obsession With Failure Can Teach Us About Productivity
8. 21 February
9. I’ve Tested Grok 3: It’s a Smart and Fast AI Model, but That’s No Longer Enough
10. 20 February
11. Deep Research Isn’t Just a New AI Function. It’s the Beginning of the End for Intellectual Work as We Know It
12. China Has an Ambitious Plan to Surpass the West in Technology. These Are the 18 Companies It’s Selected to Carry It Out
13. 19 February
14. With the Launch of the C1 Modem in the iPhone 16e, Apple Prepares Its Goodbye to Qualcomm
15. 18 February
16. TikTok Is No Longer Just a Social Media Platform in the U.S. It’s a Retail Empire Growing Six Times Faster Than Shein and Temu
17. 17 February
18. I Switched to a Garmin After Almost a Decade With the Apple Watch. Now I Know What I’ve Been Missing
19. 13 February
20. Apple Believes It Has an Ace up Its Sleeve to Shine in the Saturated Robot Market: ‘Emotional Robotics’
21. 10 February
22. Apple Breaks Its Golden Rule and Shows Off One of Its Secret Projects Before Its Official Launch
23. 09 February
24. The Ultimate Productivity Trick Is a Simple Yet Effective Method: The 2-Minute Rule
25. 05 February
26. Google Has More Money, Users, and Profits Than Ever. Despite This, It’s Shrouded in Fear
27. 04 February
28. Spotify Breaks Its Curse: 2024 Was the First Year It Was Profitable. Now It’s Reinventing the Platform
29. Opera Launches Opera Air, a Browser Designed to Focus on Your Mental Well-Being Rather Than Performance or Productivity
30. 02 February
31. The Industrialization of Hope Is TikTok’s Latest Trend. Welcome to ‘Hopecore’

January 2025

1. 31 January
2. From Algorithmic Trader to AI Innovator: This Is the Story of Liang Wenfeng, the Founder of DeepSeek
3. 30 January
4. Microsoft Needs Time to Balance the Revenue From AI Systems Revenue With Their Immense Costs. The Problem: China Is Already in the Picture
5. 24 January
6. OpenAI’s Curious Move With Operator: Forgoing Quick Cash to Win the War
7. Perplexity Releases an AI Assistant for Android. It Changes Everything
8. 23 January
9. There’s a New Battle Between Apple and Samsung Over Which One of the Two Can Make the Thinnest Phone
10. 22 January
11. The Electric Car Industry Is Stuck in a Valley of Death. Only Tesla Knows How to Get Out
12. 20 January
13. I’ve Been Running With These Glasses That Project Data Into My Field of Vision for Weeks. The Future of Running May Have to Wait
14. 16 January
15. Apple Solves the Biggest Problem Preventing It From Integrating Face ID Under Your Screen. The First Full Screen iPhone May be Closer Than Ever
16. 14 January
17. This Is How TikTok Will Die in the U.S.: No Updates, Removal from Stores, and Eventual Shutdown
18. 09 January
19. Elon Musk Says AI Systems Have Consumed All Human Knowledge. He Has a Plan B: Synthetic Data
20. 07 January
21. Meta to Dismantle Its Anti-Fake News System After Years of Investment
22. Nvidia’s Project Digits is the Start of Something Big: A Desktop Supercomputer for AI Systems
23. This Is How Microsoft Plans to Persuade You to Upgrade to Windows 11: Using the Power of AI
24. 04 January
25. 52 Minutes of Work and 17 Minutes of Rest: This Is the Strange Productivity Routine Everyone Needs to Try in 2025
26. You Have 100 Apps on Your Smartphone, but You Only Need 15: Welcome to Digital Minimalism
27. 03 January
28. The Engineer Who Needs No Limelight: Lisa Su Took AMD From the Brink of Bankruptcy and Turned It Into an Empire

December 2024

1. 29 December
2. The Real Owner of Apple Isn’t Tim Cook or Any Other Executive. The Company Belongs to Three Giants Who Don’t Even Want to Be the Owners
3. 28 December
4. Xiaomi Successfully Mass-Produced a Car in Under Three Years. This Is How It Did It
5. 26 December
6. 99 Pieces of Unsolicited Advice to Be More Productive
7. 25 December
8. The Succession of Tim Cook (IX): Who Will Replace Him as Apple CEO?
9. 20 December
10. Trump and Apple’s Strange Alliance, Explained: It’s About Samsung
11. 18 December
12. The Succession of Tim Cook (VIII): Katherine Adams, the Legal Strategist
13. 11 December
14. From Pandemic Boom to Quiet Decline: Twitch’s Growth Was a Mirage
15. 09 December
16. The Arc Browser Experiment Is Over. Its Creators Now Believe the Future Lies in Transcending Traditional Browsers
17. 04 December
18. The Succession of Tim Cook (VII): Jeff Williams, the Establishment Pick

November 2024

1. 29 November
2. Silicon Valley Has a Problem: Its Engineers Are Starting to Look Across the Pacific—Specifically to China
3. 28 November
4. MagSafe Solved iPhone Charging Issues For Good. Yet, It Still Hasn’t Delivered on Its Initial Promise
5. 27 November
6. The Succession of Tim Cook (VI): Deirdre O’Brien, an All-Round Senior Candidate
7. 26 November
8. Chill Guy Is the Internet’s Latest Viral Meme Because It’s Something More Profound: Everything We Aspire to Be
9. 21 November
10. Nvidia Has Broken Its Revenue Record Once Again. Yet, the Company Is Much Smaller Than It May Seem
11. 15 Years of Systematic Destruction: Google Has Reportedly Been Deleting Anything That Could Compromise It in the Future
12. 20 November
13. The Succession of Tim Cook (V): Eddy Cue, the Services Visionary
14. 13 November
15. The Succession of Tim Cook (IV): Greg Joswiak, the Guardian of the Brand
16. 06 November
17. The Succession of Tim Cook (III): Craig Federighi, the Charismatic Software Leader
18. 04 November
19. I’ve Used the reMarkable Paper Pro for Two Weeks. While It May Seem Incredibly Limited, This Is Actually Its Greatest Strength
20. Apple Reportedly Has a Strategy to Make the Vision Pro More Affordable. It’s the Same One It Used With the Apple Watch
21. 03 November
22. Meredith Whittaker Spent 13 Years at Google Before Becoming One of the Company’s Worst Nightmares. Now, She Has a Plan
23. 02 November
24. In Olden Times, Car Buyers Only Had to Look Under the Hood. Now, They Have to Look at the Processor, Too

October 2024

1. 30 October
2. The Succession of Tim Cook (II): John Ternus, the Leading Candidate
3. 29 October
4. You Still Can’t Use the New Magic Mouse While Charging—And That’s Exactly What Apple Wants
5. 28 October
6. After 14 Years of Secret Research, Apple Is Launching Its Most Ambitious Project to Date to Revolutionize Healthcare
7. 27 October
8. Everyone Uses Notion as a Note-Taking Web, but the Company Has Bigger and Much More Ambitious Plans
9. 26 October
10. Nike Faces the Biggest Crisis in Its History. However, It Has an Ace up Its Sleeve: Tim Cook
11. 25 October
12. Tesla’s Revenue Has Skyrocketed, but It Has Almost Nothing to Do With Selling Cars
13. 24 October
14. 45 Minutes With Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang: The Chinese Company Is Obsessed With Leading the AI Era
15. It’s 2024 and San Francisco’s Muni Metro Is Still Running on 5.25-inch Floppy Disks
16. 23 October
17. The Succession of Tim Cook (I): This Is the Legacy He’ll Leave Behind as Apple’s CEO
18. 14 October
19. I Tested ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode. It’s the Beginning of Something Huge
20. 12 October
21. Tesla’s Latest Event Highlights an Open Secret. Musk Doesn’t Want It to Be a Car Manufacturer, but a Software and AI-Driven Enterprise
22. 10 October
23. SoftBank Invested $500 Million in OpenAI After ChatGPT Comforted Its CEO on Difficult Nights
24. 09 October
25. Two AI Pioneers Won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Here's What They Have to Say About AI and Its Risks
26. 08 October
27. Google’s Former CEO Advocates for More AI Data Centers: ‘We Are Never Going to Meet Climate Goals Anyway’
28. 05 October
29. I Visited the Garage Where Hewlett and Packard Created HP 85 Years Ago. This Is Where Silicon Valley Was Born
30. 03 October
31. The iPhone SE Is Apple’s Missing Link. Keeping This Fossil Around Comes at a Price
32. Everyone Made a Blind Bet in OpenAI’s Investment Round Except for Two Companies: Microsoft and Nvidia
33. HP Is Betting Big on AI in the Workplace. It Wants to Transform Printing and Everything Else

September 2024

1. 30 September
2. Mark Zuckerberg Saw the Future in 2016. His Roadmap for Meta Is Succeeding With Great Accuracy
3. 26 September
4. HP Is Using AI to Try to Transform Printing, a Boring Task, Into Something Fun
5. 24 September
6. Telegram Caves to the Pressure: It Will Provide User Data to Governments That Request It
7. 22 September
8. Introverts of the World, We’re Taking Back the Internet
9. 19 September
10. This Is SocialAI, the Social Media Platform Where You’re the Only Human and All Your Interactions Are With an Army of Bots
11. 17 September
12. The Mass Adoption of Foldable Phones Is Still a Dream. They’re Still Expensive and Fragile
13. 16 September
14. Apple Gives All iPhone 16 Models the Same Amount of RAM. The Standard Unit Gets Closer to the Pro and Is More Future-Proof
15. Apple Will Reportedly Release New M4 Macs and iPads in October, Marking the Beginning of the AI Era in Macs
16. 13 September
17. The Decline of the ‘Apple Culture’: How Blind Devotion Turned Into Critical Enthusiasm
18. 11 September
19. More Than 43,000 People Spent Years Searching the Internet for ‘Celebrity Number 6,’ a Former Model From Spain. She Had No Idea
20. Goodbye, FineWoven Cases. Apple Will Stop Selling Them After Only One Year
21. 10 September
22. The Generation That Was Born Digital Has a Tech Problem. The Culprit: Physical Keyboard
23. Apple Watch Series 10: Thinner Than Ever With a Spectacular Screen and Redesign
24. 09 September
25. The AirPods Max Get a Subtle Makeover: Same Chip, New Port, and New Colors
26. 07 September
27. This Is How NVIDIA Makes Money: A Breakdown of a Company That Began in Gaming and Now Dominates Data Centers in the Era of AI
28. 04 September
29. Elon Musk Has Emerged as an Unpredictable Geopolitical Force, and No One Knows How to Stop Him
30. 03 September
31. Elon Musk Uses Starlink to Bypass Brazil’s X Ban, Pitting Satellite Technology Against Government Orders
32. Beyond the iPhone 16. Everything We Expect (and Don’t Expect) From Apple’s September 9 Event
33. 02 September
34. The New Mac Mini M4 Has Been Leaked. This Release Will Mark Its First Major Update in a Long Time
35. 01 September
36. The Podcasting Crown No Longer Belongs to Apple or Spotify. Google Is Now King, Through YouTube That Is

August 2024

1. 30 August
2. Search Alternative iAsk AI Is the Latest Threat to Google’s Dominance. It Works Surprisingly Well
3. 29 August
4. Nvidia Has Once Again Broken Revenue and Profit Records, But Even That Wasn’t Enough to Satisfy the Market
5. 28 August
6. This Is How Telegram Makes Money: A Look at a Business That Keeps Thinking of Ways to Monetize, But Continues to be Unprofitable

July 2024

1. 14 July
2. I Tried to Replace My MacBook Pro With the New iPad Pro. I Was Stopped by iPadOS
3. 08 July
4. I’ve Been Using Mac and iPad for 15 Years. This Is My Experience With the Surface Pro 11
5. 05 July
6. Moshi, a Real-Time AI Assistant, Is Challenging Silicon Valley From Europe
7. A Hacker Gained Access to OpenAI’s Internal Messaging System, Adding to More Fuel to the Fire About Its Security
8. 02 July
9. OpenAI Is Setting Up the Stage for the Release of GPT-5, With Sam Altman Promising a ‘Significant Leap Forward’
10. The Great 'Fake Meat' Crisis: McDonald’s Has Given Up on McPlant, and Beyond Meat Is Plummeting

June 2024

1. 30 June
2. Bing Has Accomplished What Seemed Impossible for Years: Taking a Bite of Google Search's Market Share
3. 27 June
4. Apple Prioritizes Longevity Over Repairability. It Justified Its Decision in a 24-Page Document
5. OpenAI Is Making It Hard to Identify the Advantages of ChatGPT Plus, a Risky Strategy That Could Be Visionary
6. 22 June
7. AI Isn’t Ready to Understand Our Food Orders Yet. A Giant Like McDonald’s Just Proved It
8. 20 June
9. Ilya Sutskever's New AI Company Was Born After the Crisis That Almost Ended Sam Altman. It Wants to Become What OpenAI Couldn't Be
10. 19 June
11. Meta Is Serious When It Comes to Wearables. Look at What It Just Did With Reality Labs
12. 18 June
13. Officials Used AI Cameras to 'Read' Emotions on UK Subways. The Problem: Passengers Knew Nothing About It
14. 17 June
15. Sam Altman Is Reportedly Considering Transforming OpenAI Into a For-Profit Company. It Would Be the Ultimate Plot Twist
16. 14 June
17. Apple Has Integrated the Reminders App Into Calendar. You'll Need to Know the Difference to Avoid Chaos
18. The Internet Brought Us ‘Spam.’ AI Is Bringing Us 'Slop'
19. 13 June
20. The iOS 18 Customization Controversy Isn’t Just About Aesthetics. It’s a Battle Between Purists and Nonconformists, and There's a Clear Winner
21. An Amazon Tribe That Recently Gained Access to the Internet Has Been Accused Internationally of Being Addicted to Porn. It’s Not True
22. 12 June
23. From Startup to French National Gem in 12 Months: This Is the Meteoric Rise of Mistral, Europe’s Biggest Hope to Break Into AI
24. 11 June
25. Siri Receives a Major Upgrade Courtesy of Apple Intelligence. It’s Finally Making the Leap We’ve Been Anticipating for Years
26. Apple's Historic Partnership With OpenAI Is Now Official. Here's What That Means
27. I’ve Been Using the Ultrahuman Glucose Monitor for Two Weeks Even Though I’m Not Diabetic. While I’ve Learned About My Body, The Device Isn't for Everyone
28. 10 June
29. New Cybertruck Owner Find Out Car Doesn't Fit in His Parking Space. Tesla Is Threatening Him With a $50,000 Fine if He Sells It
30. 06 June
31. Nvidia Has Just Surpassed Apple as the World’s Second Most Valuable Company
32. 04 June
33. This Startup Wanted to Revolutionize Mortgages With AI. Now, It’s Facing a Barrage of Lawsuits
34. Instagram Is Testing Out Ads You Won’t Be Able to Skip
35. Elon Musk's X Is Now Rated 'XXX'. New Twitter Openly Embraces Porn
36. In the AI Era, Microsoft Will Need Those Who Turned Their Backs on It in the Mobile Era: Developers
37. 02 June
38. A Generation That's Eternally Unfocused: 'I Can't Do Anything for 15 Minutes Without Checking My Phone'

May 2024

1. 30 May
2. A Note to My Past Self: Download Everything You Love
3. 29 May
4. Sam Altman Will Lead the OpenAI Security Committee That Oversees Sam Altman’s Work. It Doesn’t Sound Like a Great Idea
5. Elon Musk and Meta AI Chief Yann LeCun Are Openly at War on X: ‘Try Harder!’
6. 28 May
7. The U.S. Government Doesn’t Want China to Conquer Its Electric Car Market. The Reality Is That China Barely Sells Any Cars There
8. 26 May
9. It’s Not Your Imagination: There Are Fewer Smartphones Launched Than Ever Before. We Have the Data to Prove It
10. 25 May
11. My Life Before Smartphones Proves That Memory Can Be Deceiving
12. I Went to an Apple Store at 3 a.m. on a Tuesday to Find Out Who Buys Apple Products at 3 a.m. on a Tuesday
13. 23 May
14. Generative AI Creates a Gap Between Local and Cloud-Based Models. There’s Room for Both
15. 22 May
16. The OpenAI Crisis Six Months Later: The Board May Have Been Right About Sam Altman's Dishonesty
17. The Mac vs. PC War Seemed a Thing of the Past. Now, It’s Coming Back
18. 21 May
19. Copilot Is No Longer Just a Personal Assistant: Now it’s Part of the Team. Specifically, Microsoft Teams
20. OpenAI Thought Using a Scarlett Johansson-like Voice in ChatGPT Was a Great Idea. Scarlett Johansson, Not So Much
21. Microsoft Introduces Copilot+, the Next Generation of AI-Powered PCs
22. 16 May
23. Apple Announces New Accessibility Features for iPhone and iPad. There's Even One to Help Reduce Motion Sickness
24. 14 May
25. Google Injects Generative AI Into Its Search Engine, Which Can Now 'Search For You'
26. Microsoft Pumped $10 Billion Into OpenAI. That Still Wasn't Enough to Get Access to the ChatGPT App for Windows
27. 10 May
28. Who Is John Ternus? Meet One of the Leading Contenders to Succeed Tim Cook as Apple CEO
29. 08 May
30. Apple Announces New Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro and the First Pencil Pro with Haptic Engine

April 2024

1. 19 April
2. Apple Vision Pro Review: Incredible Potential, Imperfect Result