Life is full of unavoidable annoyances: aging knees, complicated tax codes, and Pete Davidson. Yet, some annoyances are deliberately imposed by corporations seeking to exploit their market power for financial gain. The iPhone cord falls into the latter category. For over a decade, Apple’s Lightning cable has been synonymous with consumer electronics. It’s both exorbitantly …
This article originally appeared in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter that features must-read articles from The Atlantic. If you’re interested, you can sign up for the newsletter here. Up until last month, I hadn’t had a landline phone at home since 2004. I viewed it as pointless, to the point where I even …
<h1>How German Hackers Jailbreak Teslas to Access Heated Seats for Free</h1> <p>When a group of German hackers accessed a Tesla vehicle, their intention was not to gain remote control of the car or steal personal information. Instead, they targeted the car’s heated seats. These seats are available only after paying a $300 fee. To bypass …
The burning question that perplexes content-hungry individuals with a spare hour or two is this: What should I watch? However, in recent years, another question has overshadowed our evening streaming rituals: How do I watch it? Partaking in the delightful act of binging television shows can be surprisingly challenging, requiring some degree of research to …
In the debut season of HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” it took five episodes before any professional basketball game was played. The show, created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, focuses on the dominant “Showtime” Los Angeles Lakers team of the 1980s, led by Magic Johnson. While the first season delved …
The astronauts arrived at the Mars base individually, clad in faded orange spacesuits. Once inside, they passed through a pressurized chamber and removed their helmets, only to be greeted with a decontaminating mist that was sprayed onto their faces. When cyclist Lance Armstrong entered the base, one of his comrades was amazed. Ariel Winter, an …
In 2019, a seasoned Russian diplomat informed me that Russia’s involvement in Syria, particularly in support of President Bashar al-Assad, was driven by a “pedagogical” motive. According to him, Putin observed the flawed interventions by the Bush and Obama administrations in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, which only resulted in chaotic situations. With his own intervention, …
Last week, I had a conversation with my wife about the possibility of Bandit and Chilli, characters from the popular Australian children’s show Bluey, having another baby. It was interesting to see how we were discussing these animated dogs as if they were real people we knew. Bluey has become a significant part of our …
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A few weeks ago, Dan Afergan, a software engineer, gathered with some friends at 540 Rogues, a bar in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond neighborhood. As they enjoyed their drinks, they heard news of a peculiar incident involving a self-driving cab from Cruise, a majority-owned company by General Motors. The cab was stuck with a cone …