Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits
This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.
7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag
SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.
7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag
If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.
7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag
Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.
7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag
Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.
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