Later, later, later. That's what we always say to those annoying popups. They hound us. They implore us to act on them. In the end, we find them supremely intrusive and frustrating. But it's the world we now live in.…
The same news comes around every few years: Friends, the TV show that shows no slowing down in popularity, moves to another streaming service. From Netflix to HBO Go Max, this is one show that always makes headlines when it……
When it comes to music in the “before times” prior to the iPod, there was a huge boon when Sony introduced its Walkman portable cassette player. It was the first time someone could go anywhere and hear their music without……
The march of technology is inevitable. As time passes, components get cheaper. Manufacturing costs dwindle as efficiencies get established. What was once an expensive device to build can get lower in price with better ways to do things. From computers……
Clicking around the internet, you may be looking for something new to watch. Some TV shows look interesting while some have run their course, yet continue for another season. But then you spot it. Something familiar. A title that hasn't……
The unveiling of a new product is a milestone for any company. Years of R&D, hundreds of hours in meetings, immense time and money spent, all to coalesce into a single moment: the launch. Every company has high hopes for……
It's a normal Saturday afternoon of browsing shelf after shelf of items for sale. Some displays are elaborately laid out. Other sections have setups that feature wonderful layouts on the walls. In the middle of it all is a jewelry……
We scroll and eventually pause. Is it a funny photo that caught the eye? Perhaps it's a memory that the algorithm has surfaced. Or maybe it's simply some piece of content that's got way too many likes and comments for……
It's a beautiful day in the woods. Far off the grid, away from stores, people, or even shelters more stable than a tent, Jeff Wilson is backpacking through deep woods. It's a return to nature that brings him enjoyment and……
A pizza box sits on a table. Moments later two curious faces enter the frame, excited by its contents. The two keep glancing at each other while building their anticipation for what lays inside. Each speaks in gibberish only the…
In the early 2010s there were two mighty giants in the social media landscape: Facebook and Twitter. One behemoth was scrapping its way in an attempt to be a third. This company was backed by lots of money, a thoughtful……
"Win an iPad!" the flyer said. Quite the prize and one that immediately enticed my kids to read on. In only a few paragraphs it was evident what was being proposed to school-aged children: they draw and design something that……
It's the top of the 5th inning and the NY Mets have a runner on first. I'm sitting with three of my closest friends at Yankee Stadium, enjoying a crisp summer evening when suddenly it hits me: I didn't check……
"What do we do now?" Those were the final words uttered by a character in the final scene of the final episode, The Seer, of the final season of the 90's sci-fi adventure show Sliders. The fate of humanity was……
You log on and check your inbox. A new message has been sitting for a few hours and you anxiously click on it. It begins: Due to a fire at our Anim-X studios, we at Electronic Arts are forced to……
Forget about COVID. This is the real reason I never go to the movies It’s the summer of 2008. I'm sitting in a packed theater waiting for The Dark Knight to begin. Knowing how awesome Batman Begins told the Batman……
Events happen during our lives shaping how we live from that moment on. Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone in 2007 changed everything we do. The Nintendo Entertainment System hitting the US in 1985 revived a dying industry and set off……
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On this anniversary of TimeMachiner, I wanted to highlight a few of my favorite stories of the past year. There have been many random happenings I've written about that I…
There are musicians and then there are musicians. Leave it to the Barcelona Guitar Trio to do something truly spectacular. This group of four men uses a single guitar to…
In a world where there's always enough money to spend and enough companies to buy, leave it to Amazon to buy one of the biggies. News broke late last week…
Animals and internet videos are a great mix. Nothing new there. We've had countless animal videos go viral over the years. This time around we have an unusual species gain…
A terrible loss in the sci-fi world this past weekend as Nichelle Nichols has beamed up to join some of her fellow Enterprise crewmates. Nichols, best known for playing Lieutenant…
The Nissan Leaf was one of the first electric cars to sell en masse. The automaker made a big splash in 2011 with a car that was somewhat affordable, but…
It's no secret that Amazon is pushing hard into grocery. Here on Long Island, there are no less than six Amazon Fresh stores under construction. One innovative aspect of Amazon…
Over in Littleton, Colorado they're doing something I strongly believe should be adopted worldwide: they elect a dog mayor. The winner of this race is a 5-year-old Basset Hound named…
Once considered the future of aviation, the Concorde is now a notable part of flying history. However, it doesn't stop the fascinating impact it had on air travel. Over on…
Sometimes the way the web used to be is something we long for. That looks to be the concept behind Plain Text Sports. This website does one thing and one…
I'm a big fan of electric vehicles (EVs). I used to talk about them extensively in my previous days as a podcaster. With the past decade ushering in actual EVs…
If there was a Dollar Store for the internet, Wish would certainly be it. Cheap, sub-par, sometimes knockoff goods, Wish is the place where you can buy weird stuff and…
One of the most infamous Apple products to hit the market in the first Non-Steve-Jobs Era was the Newton. This PDA (remember those!?!?) was Apple's attempt to make a device…
Spoiler Warning if you're not caught up on Stranger Things 4. If you haven't watched it yet, skip this story. Back in 2016 the kids were doing an interview for…
For the past two decades we've lived cable hell. It's the place where everything we own has a different charger cable and one where there are so many "standards" that…
Leave it to the Wide World of TikTok to showcase Austin & Marideth (@Cost_N_Mayor). This pair has come up with a stellar video of dance moves... set to iPhone text…
One thing I love about retro gaming is the efforts to preserve history. There are many instances where someone stumbles upon a prototype or unfinished game and the community jumps…
Facebook Meta has been hard in their efforts to get you to know about "the metaverse". Basically it's VR. That's it. That's their plan. Yes, this is a simplification of…
I've been saying it for a while now: you never truly own something that is purely digital. We have been sliding into a culture of renting for many years. Now…
Somewhat of a moral dilemma over in Chile wherein a man was paid three hundred times his salary and decided to keep it. This surely takes the "bank error in…
I came across this fun video last week that visualizes the most popular websites using data going back to January 1993. In only two minutes and thirty-seven seconds, James Eagle's…
Stranger Things is all the hype once more. Season 4 has dropped, bringing the next chapter to completion. Two episodes clocking in at 4-hours is certainly a lot of Hawkins…
There is a fascinating time between January 2007 and January 2010 in the world of smartphones. This short 3-year span was one where Apple was blazing a trail with the…
For over a year the production of Back To The Future: The Musical has been running in London's West End. The production, which was written and handled by Bob Gale,…
Leave it to "trends" on TikTok to come up with terrible ideas. The latest viral trend, on the social network that's definitely not funneling data to China (we promise!), is…
One of my favorite parts of writing TimeMachiner is finding things that should be on the internet but aren't. Those little things that fall through the cracks. This video certainly…
In an attempt to combat social isolation amongst the elderly, NY state has decided to begin deploying social robots to people who may be in need. Of course, this program…
It's 2022 and incredibly it is only this year that we see the closure of the final location of Howard Johnson's restaurants. Once sporting a thousand locations, "HoJo's" as many…
Imaginary "currency" that has no intrinsic value, is wildly manipulated, speculated like crazy, that uses more electricity than many nations, turns out to be a bad idea. Shocker, right? But…
Fresh from the sewer and re-emerging from any late-80's / early 90's kid's heart, comes the long-awaited TMNT game for modern game systems. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is…
Tech events unveiling new software, gadgets, and services are pretty common nowadays. However, back in the earlier times of computers, it was still a nerd's paradise. Computers were a niche…
Sharks in ridiculous situations have been a thing for a long time. From B-list films, to Sharknado, to the ever-lovable Blahaj Ikea Shark. Now, we get the real deal holyfield:…
Imagine waking up and feeling your dog in your bed. You roll around a little but when you sit up, you see something really weird: the dog laying next to…
For fans of The Office (a show I'm just now watching for the first time), there's a great interview with Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey. Appearing on Seth Meyer's talkshow,…
Books are in a weird resurgence right now. Barnes & Noble, once the villain of the bookseller world, is seen now as a refuge where books can be given space.…
With little surprise, Apple held its annual developer conference. Everything we knew was coming was announced: iOS 16, iPadOS 16, watchOS9, and macOS 13 (Ventura). There's a bunch to break…
It's impossible to write TimeMachiner and not talk about the reveal of the "New Delorean". For a few months the Delorean Motor Company (no relation to the original DMC) has…
Pianist Glaucio Cristelo, who goes by the name "Piano Rock" worked some magic on a piano at a Brazilian shopping mall. With over half a million views, his rendition of…
Straight from the "How Stupid Can You Be" department is reporting about Chinese company BOE. This supplier for Apple manufactures OLED screens for the iPhone 13. In a massively-dumb move,…
The march of time and technology never stops. The latest item to be reduced to the trash is the final payphone in New York City. In a place where payphones…
Google, whose failure to get people to use its various chat apps is well known, has been pushing an SMS alternative for years. RCS was to bring parity to Apple's…
Microsoft Excel is everywhere these days. It lives on the web via Office 365, in a standalone application since 1992, and has been replicated tons of times. Excel will always…
Last week was a rough week for Netflix. The company that basically invented modern-day streaming, binge-watching, and kicked off the endless rebooting of shows, is in a world of hurt.…
Apple has made some big announcements about providing the parts, tools, and manuals to repair their products. This has been due to pressure from governments and Right To Repair making…
Straight out of "My Time To Shine" or "Oh Crap" depending on your comfort level comes this story about a passenger turned instant pilot. Darren Harrison was on a small…
From the "hell yeah" department, things are looking pretty dire for the town of Passadumkeag, Maine. This small town has had a clerk working in the town's offices. It's now…
In an unstable market comes very unstable times. For the past few weeks, everything in the cryptocurrency world is plummeting back down to earth. People who have been heavily invested…
The internet is an amazing place to mix two separate things together and create comedy. Over on YouTube, someone took a Legend of Zelda animated short and overlaid it with…
Vanity Fair's Anthony Breznican has a huge writeup about the current state of Star Wars, Lucasfilm, and the upcoming Obi Wan Kenobi show on Disney+. It's a lengthy writeup featuring…
60 Minutes has a great interview with a young fellow named Peter McIndoe. On a whim, during a protest he saw, he decided to start his own movement: Birds Aren't…
In a world of Apples, Google wants to be... a Google-type of Apple. That's my takeaway from the annual Google I/O conference last week. In typical Google fashion, they debuted…
Scammy call centers in parts of India are notorious for bilking people out of millions of dollars. It's no secret that people fall victim to these schemes all the time.…
It's hard to imagine Apple without the iPod. In the Steve Jobs era, the iPod was the device that took them from "doing okay" to becoming a monumental success of…
Autocorrect is both an amazing invention and a royal pain in the ass. Since the original iPhone, users have struggled against the "smart" system meant to fix misspellings and tapping…
Apple, who has historically been anti-remote work, has made a lot of headlines in the past months. Their policy has shifted in this COVID reality to one where they will…
Bargain hunters should be on the lookout when rummaging through Goodwill or any other thrift store. You may end up with a rare piece of world history in your living…
Passwords are one of the worst inventions in the modern computing age. They're impossible to remember, places make us change them on a constant basis, and and the requirements get…
Ford's F-100 pickup truck is pretty iconic. The design was one that was around for a long time. It was popular and has a retro-cool look to it that only…
Some friendly competition is happening with multiple stores over in Christiansburg, Virginia. In recent weeks many local shops have begun flinging lighthearted and funny "insults" toward one another. Jen Cardone…
The Kindle is one of the best single-use products on the market. To me, it's everything a dedicated device should be. It does one thing and excels at it. In…
Hotels across the globe provide soap and shampoo to their guests. It's been a mainstay of hotels since the beginning. For years there was an effort to move away from…
Yet again we are seeing a car company look to the world of recurring revenue to help boost sales. A GM subscription looks to be on the horizon. I hope…
Breakfast cereal has been a staple in homes for decades. The marketing for it has been quite clever. Cereal was positioned as something integral for breakfast and by doing this,…
Leave it to Snap, the makers of SnapChat to do something actually interesting with products. Sure, they started the app with disappearing photos, but they branched out with the viral…
Google is finally having their own iPhone 4 moment. The search company, notorious for leaking a lot of their products on their own on purpose is finding themselves in the…
It seems the dam has broken when it comes to retail and warehouse workers for major companies. Not long after Amazon's JFK warehouse location and Starbucks' Buffalo store both successfully…
It's difficult to fully process the landmark news that Elon Musk has successfully purchased Twitter. Was this something we all should've seen coming? Maybe it was naïve of me to…
Get ready Xennials and older folks because I'm about to say something that will make you shudder: Gen Z has deemed Grunge music as Oldies. 😱 I know, right? But…
For all the whiz-bang features Tesla keeps pumping into its cars via software updates, there are many that do not live up to the hype. Full self driving with AutoPilot…
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has been inching closer over time to do more than be a great search. In their newest move, the company has released the first preview version…
One of the greatest things to come out of the TV show Ted Lasso is the character of Roy Kent. The brash, unfiltered, and ornery soccer player is so wonderfully…
Musical mastermind Danny Elfman performed at Coachella this year. And boy did he go all in with some amazing pieces. Bill Pearis at Brooklyn Vegan has more about his legendary…
It's a tale as old as time: books being banned for Reason X that Group Y feels threatened by its contents. However, an idea is something that cannot be contained.…
For all the pomp and circumstance film franchises get, nothing is ever a sure bet. Many films that had humongous budgets flopped while other movies were sleeper hits. Then you…
There are so many gadgets and ecosystems and companies providing services these days and it's inevitable that some (or many) will fail. Going out of business is part of doing…
Twitter. Elon Musk. Insert sigh. Yeah, it's been a lot over the past two weeks with these two. It's difficult to go into the entire Elon / Twitter fiasco because…
A funny thing happened this past week with Bandai / Namco re-releasing the classic game Pac-Land onto the Nintendo Switch. Pac superstar Miss Pac-Man was nowhere to be found. Instead…
Once again we dive into the world of NFTs. As I've talked about, these tokens are a huge deal in crypto circles with many using them as investments, get-rich-quick schemes,…
The HBO program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver covers a wide range of topics. Some are deadly serious while others are quite lighthearted. But regardless of what he talks…
You know you truly live in the future when robots are having encounters with police. Recently a Cruise driverless car was stopped by San Francisco police during the evening. Cue…
It's no secret we all hate cable companies. They are deceitful, money-hungry monopolies that have no interest in serving their customers. So it's no wonder that every time they try…
One staple of the mid-nineties is Mortal Kombat. The arcade game took the world by storm due to its digitized fighters recorded from real actors. Oh, and there was violence…
As mentioned in the previous issue of The Stream, there is a lot of positivity and momentum when it comes to Right to Repair. And sure enough, this past week…
Perennial awesome dude Tony Hawk posted a video back in 2019 of him driving around town. Sounds boring, right? Well in fact he was hauling a bunch of skateboard decks…
A weird story coming out of Ars Technica this past week involves a Washington state man and the lengths to which he went to get Comcast internet at his house.…
Prince is one of the greatest modern musicians. His influence was huge and certainly, he left this planet way too early. But something that can bring a smile to music-lovers…
Leave it to SNL to more succinctly get their point across than I can. You may remember back in February when I talked about movies being too long. It's a…
The Right To Repair movement is gaining steam, but it's been a longstanding problem to overcome. The idea that if you buy something, you should be able to repair it…
Years ago, I don't even know how, I learned about a weird treasure hunting game. Something called "Geocaching" was a game wherein you printed some GPS coordinates out and put…
If you're worried about your job getting taken over by the robot uprising, then today is your day. Over on The Takeout, Dennis Lee reports on how White Castle is…
Pour one out for the death of another long-standing event that is likely never to return. This week it was announced that the E3 video game expo was officially canceled.…
Here in the US, we all jumped our clocks ahead (for perhaps maybe one of the final times) and that event surfaced this interesting deep dive onto my radar: the…
Whether we know what Facebook Meta's "metaverse" is or not, it's impossible to ignore their push into virtual reality. There have been lots of responses to what they're doing, but…
Sunday night's Oscars were... memorable for a big reason. But I'm not here to talk about THAT. Instead, I want to mention CODA. This movie has been on the radar…
Here's an interesting update on the most affordable cities to live in in 2022. This list, courtesy of Living Cozy, shows that Tulsa, Oklahoma is the most affordable place to…
Long ago, an app / service rolled into New York City and declared war on an institution. A scrappy startup called Uber wanted to usurp the sleepy taxi industry that…
Tesla has been applauded for many things. They were the first to make a legit EV that is 'sexy'. They had the foresight to know people wanted a reliable charging…
In 2013 Lego introduced the first Back to the Future kit. This time-traveling Delorean was notable for being the first Lego Cuusoo fan-created set to be sold. Of course I…
New theme park experiences are a big focus at Disney with the Galactic Starcruiser, Galaxy's Edge, and the new Avengers experience. Not to be outdone, Universal Studios opened Super Nintendo…
