William Joel

How artificial intelligence and machine learning are affecting technology right now.

The famous typeface has been re-drawn for the modern era

How to remove faces and metadata from your protest photos.

You could change it to any font you have locally.

The reference companion is a huge help

Making it work

It’s rough out there — here’s how to protect yourself.

Every couple seconds we’re transported to another artist’s take.

Roku has made my TV unusable. On June 6th, my TCL TV’s Roku OS was updated to version 13.0.0. Ever since, on everything I watch, there is motion smoothing — a TV and film purists’ deepest nightmare. There is no way to turn it off. In the updated OS, Roku added a feature called Roku Smart Picture, which, according to its release notes, “automatically improves picture quality dynamically as users stream.” While Roku doesn’t explicitly mention motion smoothing, or what Roku calls “action smoothin…

Some of the biggest error messages we’ve ever seen.