Chinchilla Squeaks - Kin Lane of Postman, announcearama, and tech loses its shine

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A weekly podcast from Chris Chinchilla covering technology, board and role play games, history, current affairs, and frankly whatever I feel like covering. Show notes can be found at - chrischinchilla.com/podcast

Cool Tech!

These initial notes on macOS Ventura are aimed at those considering updating to it in the coming days, and cover the process of updating, and how it’s going. If you’re upgrading from macOS Monterey 12.3 or later, Ventura doesn’t come as an upgrade, but a smaller update instead.

When Aaron Drake flew from Arizona to the Yinfeng Biological Group in China’s eastern Jinan province in 2016, he was whisked into a state-of-the-art biotech hub.

Update (Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 1pm ET): We have updated the article and headline to clarify the context in which DaVinci Resolve for iPad was announced. Apple has confirmed Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve video editing and color grading application is coming to iPad.

At Adobe MAX, Adobe has introduced a wide range of updates to its Creative Cloud software. We're focused on the changes to Adobe's photo editing software, so let's start with the new additions in Adobe Lightroom.

We are overjoyed and proud to announce that the Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source! We’ve been eager to take this step since we joined Automattic last year — after all, the company’s creed includes the phrase “I know that open source is the most powerful idea of our generation.

This piece is from our forthcoming mortality-themed issue, available from 26 October. If you want to read it when it comes out, you can subscribe to MIT Technology Review for as little as $80 a year.

The shaky economic outlook is spurring belt-tightening in Silicon Valley, and the number of billion-dollar start-ups has dived. The age of the tech unicorn may be over.

My two young daughters are both crying as I tell my husband that he’s on his own because I’m going to the metaverse. Shutting myself in my home office at 7 p.m.

And Finally…

Just a statue on a walking path