Brief - The Hustle | Personal Tech (5)

Forget DIY crafts. Rural Colorado is trying out DIY broadband

Michael Waters
Updated 4/21/20
The internet’s battle against bots is heating up

Michael Waters
Updated 4/20/20
Faster than a speeding supercomputer: Volunteers amp up a disease-fighting project

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/15/20
5 things to know about the Apple-Google collab on contact tracing

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/13/20
The strange case of a disappearing ‘internet food court’

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/10/20
Can a pair of headphones help you focus?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 7/22/25
Mental health apps are changing strategies

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/2/22
What AirPods say about the future of Apple

Jacob Cohen
Updated 9/29/22
Digits: Bill Gates, Prime Day, and more

Jacob Cohen
Updated 7/18/22
Will the US switch to USB-C?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 7/11/22
Digits: Taser drones, Domino’s woes, and charging cables

Jacob Cohen
Updated 6/13/22
Are wearables the future of health care?

Rob Litterst
Updated 5/10/22
Where do keyboard shortcuts come from?

Rob Litterst
Updated 4/21/22
Why Canon is telling people to ignore its warnings

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 1/19/22
How did BlackBerry fail?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/3/22
We asked readers: ‘iPhone or Android, and why?’ They had a lot to say.

Jacob Cohen
Updated 9/17/21
Smart glasses: A brief history

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/10/21
‘Right to Repair’ legislation could make it easier and cheaper to fix your devices

Rob Litterst
Updated 9/2/21
How PCs became giant smartphones

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/22/21
Apple rolls out sharing tools for FaceTime, new health features, and Siri for home hardware

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/9/21
How Apple built a 10-year lead in wearables technology

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/3/21
Apple’s latest hardware push, explained

Jacob Cohen
Updated 4/22/21
This health tech startup just added 100+ celebrities to its cap table

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/24/21
Better late than never: America is speeding up its broadband strategy

Jacob Cohen
Updated 2/24/21
The iPhone has wiped out the digital camera market

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/8/21
Pela Case, the $100m sustainable phone case startup that created a category

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/19/21
CES 2021: AI butlers, connected toilets, instant at-home ice cream, and more

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/18/21
The FCC’s 5G auctions are out of control: ~$70B and counting

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/28/20
Venmo and Cash App are disrupting the charity industry

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/4/20
For the very first time, Reddit revealed its user numbers

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/3/20
How Apple built its own chip empire and gave Intel the boot

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/10/20
India’s making a big play for China’s iPhone production

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/12/20
Apple’s rotten iPhone sales are stinking up the whole economy

Conor Grant
Updated 10/3/20
Return of the Razr: Motorola will try to make more magic with a $1,500, foldable Razr

Conor Grant
Updated 10/3/20
The future is calling, and it dialed in on a landline

Conor Grant
Updated 10/3/20
After months of hype, Samsung wins the race to unfold a pricey new phone category

Conor Grant
Updated 9/29/20
A visit from the ghost of dumb phones past

Conor Grant
Updated 9/23/20
Surprise: apps are still dead in the water

Zachary Crockett
Updated 9/21/20
Dyson is getting into the electric car game

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/21/20
We’re addicted to our phones and it might not be our fault

The Hustle
Updated 9/21/20
Foldable screens are here. What’s next for ‘-able’ tech?

Bobby Durben
Updated 9/21/20
AI vacuums? Why Roombas are getting smart

Michael Waters
Updated 8/26/20
Guess who’s judging your drunken shenanigans?

Caroline Dohack
Updated 8/20/20
Mozilla’s layoffs are bad news for a more competitive browser war

Trung T. Phan
Updated 8/13/20
This under-the-radar streaming service might be the next big thing

Belle Long
Updated 8/11/20
A private-equity firm bought Ancestry.com for $4.7B. Here’s what they might do with it.

Nick DeSantis
Updated 8/7/20
What happens when Google barges in on your territory, in 2 charts

Nick DeSantis
Updated 8/4/20
Jaeson Ma: ‘I woke up to Triller being the #1 app in the world’

Trung T. Phan
Updated 8/3/20
We looked for love in all the wrong places

Caroline Dohack
Updated 7/30/20
Can Google searches predict a pandemic?

Michael Waters
Updated 7/16/20
This app is sending people on blind scavenger hunts

Belle Long
Updated 7/10/20
The UK government is taking a $500m stake in a bankrupt satellite company

Nick DeSantis
Updated 7/6/20
The criminal underworld just lost its favorite messaging app

Michael Waters
Updated 7/3/20
A new meme-making matrix could take your mashup game to the next level

Belle Long
Updated 7/2/20
Pandemic-era Roomba sales prove it: Success doesn’t happen in a vacuum

Caroline Dohack
Updated 6/26/20
Google vs. Photoshop: Fact-checking for images arrives

Belle Long
Updated 6/24/20
Human IPO wants you to buy shares in regular people

Michael Waters
Updated 6/24/20
This portable urinal company is flush with demand

Michael Waters
Updated 6/23/20
Sharing is caring: These startups are streamlining knowledge-sharing

Belle Long
Updated 6/23/20
Meet the new upstart in the world of high-priced art sales

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/22/20
Long-distance relationships only work if they’re with a dog

Michael Waters
Updated 6/19/20
These startups want to make your Zoomin’ a little more human

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/19/20
TikTok creators’ new dance move: flipping China censorship on its head

Belle Long
Updated 6/18/20
A new player in email knocked over a bushel of debate about Apple’s App Store

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/18/20
Some companies filed for bankruptcy, but their stocks are going bonkers anyway

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/15/20
Twitter’s experiments try to make your timeline a little less awful

Belle Long
Updated 6/12/20
YouTube creators are turning clicks into charity

Belle Long
Updated 6/11/20
Reebok and partner gyms walk away from CrossFit after CEO’s ‘FLOYD-19’ tweet

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/9/20
Tech is shaping the protests, from police scanner apps to Google Docs

Belle Long
Updated 6/9/20
India’s potential is irresistible for tech’s bigwigs

Belle Long
Updated 6/5/20
For better or worse, social media makes it impossible to look away

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/2/20
Scooter companies hope for a 2-wheeled revival — if they can survive long enough

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/18/20
The market for refurbished tech is shining like new

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/14/20
Virtual reality can’t catch a break

Michael Waters
Updated 5/14/20
The contactless takeover: No-touch tech will be key to reopening businesses

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/14/20
The microbe emoji is more popular than ever, and scientists hate it

Michael Waters
Updated 5/8/20
Wink’s pivot to subscriptions leaves users feeling poked in the eye

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/8/20
Sorry Comcast: School buses are internet providers now

Michael Waters
Updated 5/8/20
It’s not just you: Every website looks the same now

Michael Waters
Updated 5/7/20
One of America’s most technophobic institutions took a step out of the dark ages

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/5/20
Get ready for a wave of returning-to-work tools

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/5/20
The company keeping your YouTube streams from crashing

Michael Waters
Updated 5/1/20
A new Shopify app is here to connect you with local small businesses

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/29/20
The nostalgia economy is keeping high school prom alive

Michael Waters
Updated 4/28/20
Trouble nabbing that grocery delivery slot? A bot may be the culprit

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/23/20
Forget DIY crafts. Rural Colorado is trying out DIY broadband

Michael Waters
Updated 4/21/20
The internet’s battle against bots is heating up

Michael Waters
Updated 4/20/20
Faster than a speeding supercomputer: Volunteers amp up a disease-fighting project

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/15/20
5 things to know about the Apple-Google collab on contact tracing

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/13/20
The strange case of a disappearing ‘internet food court’

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/10/20

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