A recently completed standard for interoperable smart home technologies, Matter will roll out in 2023 but dominate in 2024.

More than 115,000 people attended CES 2023 earlier this month, almost 3x more than last year. Reviews were mixed, as usual, since consumer media loves to highlight “concept” products like flying cars, virtual reality, and robots, lots and lots of robots. Example?

If we were characters in a fantasy novel, we’d refer to the era that started Sunday morning at 2:00 a.m.

The baseball playoffs started with the Wild Card games last week, and get underway with the League Division Series games on October 11th.

Did you send George a birthday card? According to exhaustive internet research (no, really), George Jetson was born on July 31, 2022.

We haven’t been there in almost 50 years, but we’ll drive, or fly, by the old neighborhood later this year.

Some people will go anywhere to avoid email, like the four who just returned from two days in orbit.

It’s been a couple of weeks since Hurricane Ida flooded most of Louisiana, so now it’s time for Tropical Storm Nicholas to dump a half-foot or more of rain across parts of Texas and most of The Soaked State. Luckily, these newsbits are waterproof.