Category: Tech Talk

Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology

How Christopher Nolan’s #Interstellar unified all time travel movies for me

November 18, 2014July 17, 2015 Kate Natividad 4 Comments

I finally got around to seeing Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. It’s alright, I guess. I liked the way they turned these complex relativity principles into visual eye candy, specially that part about how time (the fourth dimension in spacetime) was turned into a kind of a physical coordinate that Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey) could navigate…

Film Review, Science, Tech Talk

Should Clash of Clans be banned in the Philippines?

November 15, 2014 benign0 42 Comments

I’ve been hearing about this petition to ban the popular game Clash of Clans in the Philippines. The petition seems to have been instigated by a troop of parents long frustrated by how it has hijacked the lives of their kids. The thinking there, as I understand, is that if addictive narcotics are banned, then…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Facebook apologises for crackdown on drag queens and LGBT community

October 2, 2014 benign0 5 Comments

The community of “drag queens, drag kings, transgender, and extensive community of our friends, neighbors, and members of the LGBT community” can now rest easy after Facebook promised to improve its system for verifying accounts flagged as “fake” by other users. The social media firm also apologised for what many perceived to be an unwarranted…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society, Tech Talk

Why ‘Facebook-killer’ #Ello is not the Next Big Thing

September 30, 2014 benign0 3 Comments

A new “anti-Facebook” social networking site has been making waves lately with some tech pundits going as far as asserting that it is going to be the “Facebook killer”. Billed, “the second coming of Facebook”, Ello.co pitches among its supposed key differentiating features its being ad-free and a network that allows its users to name…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

#Bendgate debunked: Force to ‘break 3 pencils’ will not bend iPhone 6 Plus

September 28, 2014 benign0 2 Comments

Week 2 into the Apple iPhone 6 Plus “bendgate” controversy and a couple of independent parties have now weighed in on the issue of whether or not Apple’s new phablet is prone to bending under normal use. “Normal” use here is defined as something like stowing a big phone in the pocket of your tight…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Apple breaks silence on iPhone 6 Plus #bendgate

September 26, 2014 benign0 5 Comments

Following the brouhaha over “bending” iPhone 6 Plus phablets rippling across social media, Apple Inc has finally spoken up. The Wall Street Journal reports Apple’s claim that “only nine customers have contacted the company about a bent iPhone 6 Plus.” The following is the full statement issued by Apple on “bendgate” published by The Huffington…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

We are all still waiting for technology to make our lives better

September 17, 2014 benign0 5 Comments

You gotta give credit to those who cheer on the inroads technology is relentlessly making into people’s personal lives. Technology, they say, is “making lives better” by “empowering” ordinary people to take greater “control over their lives”. The nebulous banter seems to resonate with consumers who remain wide-eyed in anticipation for the coming of the…

Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

iPhone 6 and iWatch debut: Apple back to its Jobs-less style of thinking

September 11, 2014 benign0 16 Comments

Apple product announcements used to command a wide-eyed audience across the spectrum of tech savviness. But from my own personal take on what just happened yesterday and some of the stuff people wrote following the hoo-ha around the debut of the iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch, it seems to me Apple has just turned…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Tech Talk