Aaron Pressman

Tech reporter at the Boston Globe (former Fortune, Yahoo, Reuters, BBN, BW, TIS, BB, IDD). Cyclist, Celtics fan, turn-the-lights-off dad. Signal @ampressman.76 He/Him. #tech #news #journalist

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2024-10-11 14:04:05

Tesla's robotaxi event looked pretty underwhelming, when what the company and the whole EV market really need is a lower-priced but more ordinary car. A two seater with no steering wheel? And it's hard to take Elon's timelines seriously at this point...as the saying goes, fooled me once, shame on you, fooled me six hundred and thirty seven times, shame on me... https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/10/24265530/tesla-robotaxi-elon-musk-features-range-price-release-date

2024-10-01 14:43:49

I had a “Back to the Future” sort of adventure this summer with one of the latest electric vehicles on the market, the Rivian R1S three-row SUV. It gave me — mostly — a glimpse of a more perfect, more climate-friendly transportation future, though with one glitch at the end that may be cropping up more frequently with all of our increasingly computerized cars. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/01/business/luxury-ev-rivian-suv-range-anxiety/

2024-09-28 16:54:11

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@npub1hlh…kcp0 @npub1p2n…nsfk not sure I follow

2024-09-28 16:09:25

Got caught up on all the Wordpress drama with this excellent explainer by Emma Roth @npub1p2n…nsfk, now I just have to form my opinion. Thoughts? - The messy WordPress drama, explained / WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg is going after a rival hosting firm he says is ‘strip-mining the WordPress ecosystem.’ https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/27/24256361/wordpress-wp-engine-drama-explained-matt-mullenweg

2024-09-24 21:00:17

Kia electric vehicles sold in the United States will gain access to the Tesla Supercharger network on January 15, 2025, the company said in a statement released today. The South Korean automaker will follow in the footsteps of Ford, Rivian and General Motors by striking a deal with Tesla to use its expansive DC fast-charging network that has over 16,500 stalls in the U.S. https://insideevs.com/news/734928/kia-ev-tesla-supercharger-2025-adapter/

2024-09-24 11:49:46

Painful take on Apple from Needham & Co analyst Laura Martin: “We worry that AAPL is a hardware company, in an era of software disruption. GOOGL, META, MSFT all have software as their core DNA, and we aren't surprised that they have adopted GenAI innovations faster than AAPL. We worry that hardware introductions like the Vision Pro are evidence that AAPL feels more comfortable solving difficult hardware problems, even if they are irrelevant.”

2024-09-20 16:10:14

Major improvement on the #applewatch with WatchOS 11 is the watchface when media is playing on your phone. Previously the whole watch screen was about the media, with time in the corner in a tiny font. This is a huge improvement.
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2024-09-19 18:13:29

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.
The US Board of Geographic Names voted on Wednesday in favor of a request from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to officially change the name Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi, according to a news release from the park. The Cherokee name for the mountain translates to “mulberry place.” https://www.cnn.com/travel/clingmans-dome-tennessee-kuwohi-name-change/index.html

2024-09-18 20:44:50

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Unlike Ford and Rivian, GM drivers have to pay $225 for an adapter. And on a recent Globe EV charging road trip, at the same Supercharger station, it was 39 cents kWh for Teslas and 53 cents for a Rivian.

2024-09-18 20:42:58

Great for ending range anxiety, but tough on your wallet -- GM electric vehicles can finally access Tesla Superchargers https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24247122/gm-ev-tesla-supercharger-access-adapter-price

2024-09-17 14:33:00

UPenn professor Ethan Mollick is playing around with OpenAI's new o1 problem solving AI tool (code named "Strawberry"). Crazy smart how it can iterate to reach a solution but still has issues with hallucinations. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/something-new-on-openais-strawberry

2024-09-16 20:08:35

Gutsy to go first among big tech cos. Some already wondering if this is being done to induce turnover -
Amazon Tells Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week https://www.wsj.com/business/amazon-tells-workers-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week-42a32ec8

2024-09-16 12:22:09

Interesting to see North Carolina hand out its first round of federal NEVI money to build EV charging stations at 9 locations and not a Tesla station among them. https://www.ncdot.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/2024/2024-09-11-cooper-announces-first-awards-electric-vehicle-charging-program.aspx

2024-09-12 18:10:56

GE, GE, General Electric, remind me how did that one go again? --
Microsoft hires former GE CFO Carolina Dybeck Happe as new operating chief https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/12/microsoft-hires-former-ge-cfo-carolina-dybeck-happe-as-new-operating-chief.html

2024-09-10 20:43:54

AI for drug discovery, AI for customer service, AI for video editing. How about Ai for geese? Or more like Ai against geese: So long, plastic coyotes: AI keeps geese off Charles River docks https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/10/business/ai-riverside-boat-club-geese-poop/

2024-09-10 18:26:47

Surprise sherlocking for Amplifon, Demant, and GN Store Nord -- Apple sends hearing aid stocks lower on AirPods upgrade https://seekingalpha.com/news/4148446-apple-hurts-hearing-aid-stocks-airpods-upgrade

2024-09-05 18:50:24

Spent some time @npub167r…hmvn today talking about my latest EV charging story, with an ice cream bonus https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2024/09/05/ev-charging-massachusetts-tech-talk

2024-09-03 19:58:32

Mobile phones are not linked to brain and head cancers, a comprehensive review of the highest quality evidence available commissioned by the World Health Organization has found. Led by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (Arpansa), the systematic review examined more than 5,000 studies from which the most scientifically rigorous were identified and weak studies were excluded. https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/04/mobile-phones-not-linked-to-brain-cancer-biggest-study-to-date-finds

2024-09-01 13:40:25

We did it again and things were different this time — How much has EV charging improved in New England? We hit the road to find out (and try the best ice cream shops). https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/01/business/ev-roadtrip-tesla-cybertruck-charging-ice-cream/

2024-08-28 18:09:44

This will be their new, most popular ever content: ESPN’s new ‘Where to Watch’ service is a TV Guide for sports streaming
/ Finding a game online is a big mess, but ESPN’s new app looks pretty handy. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/28/24230579/espn-where-to-watch-sports-streaming-guide

2024-08-28 14:21:39

Another solid study on the potential savings from drivers switching to an EV, with state-by-state data. You'll never guess which state, err, commonwealth, came in dead last... https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/27/business/ev-drivers-save-money-drivers-electric-vehicles/

2024-08-19 10:32:22

This is such a deeply wrong headed lede on the bananas story of lawyers for Disney trying to use a mandatory arbitration clause in a Disney+ streaming service agreement to get a wrongful death on a Disney restaurant thrown out. Read the fine print? Even if you read it, you would never imagine this clause could be used this way. And it’s not like you can negotiate the terms before you sign up for Disney+. And I’d be surprised if the judge goes for it…
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2024-08-13 14:49:58

I have interviewed a lot of CEOs, politicians, and other bigwigs in my many years as a business reporter. One person who stood out was former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who died of cancer last week at age 56. When I interviewed Susan three years ago, for a Fortune story about YouTube, she was quite different, down to earth, listening, empathetic. By the end of the interview, I confessed a secret about my family and YouTube. It was a unique moment in all my career. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/13/business/susan-wojcicki/

2024-08-13 01:10:11

Bad look, bad policy from Apple (trying to grab 30% of creators take): Apple says Patreon must switch to its billing system or risk removal from App Store
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/12/apple-says-patreon-must-switch-to-its-billing-system-or-risk-removal-from-app-store/

2024-08-09 13:05:08

Kind of can’t wait for Celtics first game against Golden State next season. We’ve got greviences.
Why doesn’t Jayson Tatum have a role with Team USA? Steve Kerr says ‘it’s just a math problem.’ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/09/sports/jayson-tatum-olympics/

2024-08-08 15:17:59

False or misleading claims about the U.S. election posted this year to X by Elon Musk have generated nearly 1.2 billion views, according to an analysis published Thursday by the nonprofit organization Center for Countering Digital Hate. None of the 50 posts by Musk displayed a “Community Note” to correct his claims or add context, calling into question the effectiveness of X’s user-driven fact-checking system, the center said. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/elon-musk-misleading-election-claims-x-views-report-rcna165599

2024-08-02 18:38:57

To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/to-preserve-their-work-and-drafts-of-history-journalists-take-archiving-into-their-own-hands/

2024-07-31 13:18:22

Headline of the day, Boston Herald edition:
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2024-07-30 19:38:26

What could possibly go wrong?
California DMV puts 42 million car titles on blockchain to fight fraud https://www.reuters.com/technology/california-dmv-puts-42-million-car-titles-blockchain-fight-fraud-2024-07-30/

2024-07-29 15:25:35

How does a story this stunningly wrong and counter factual get published? Insane. (His ‘take the red pill’ post was before the 2020 election, and all his crazy so called anti woke posts have nothing to do with Biden but with his own child he rejected for being trans).
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2024-07-25 17:49:56

And while we're reading @npub1p67…xh53, they also have the best headline of the week: "The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch" https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24206088/jd-vance-fact-check-sex-couch-rumor-associated-press-retraction

2024-07-25 17:47:56

Somewhere, I still have the little pins Microsoft gave out at its antitrust trial in 1998 that said "free the snippets." Now it's Adobe's turn...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205774/adobe-ftc-lawsuit-creative-cloud-cancellation-fees-heroin
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2024-07-18 15:12:07

Recycling EV batteries is one of the most important things for the next decade… facilities which "receive lithium-ion batteries and battery manufacturing scrap to process into materials that can be reintegrated into the battery supply chain" reclaimed nearly 175,000 tons of materials in 2023. This segment is expected to expand by an additional 198,000 tons in the next few years to a total of close to 400,000 tons. https://insideevs.com/news/726941/us-battery-recycling-capacity-forecast/

2024-07-18 04:03:56

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@npub1ppz…l932 gotcha.

2024-07-18 03:56:47

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@npub1ppz…l932 what are you talking about? The article was not changed.

2024-07-16 21:47:44

Great point by @npub1p2n…nsfk: The watchOS 11 beta slowed me down, in a good way / Fitness tracking on the Apple Watch is finally moving away from the blanket approach of ‘always do more.’ https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/15/24195983/watchos-11-preview-training-load-vitals-fitness

2024-07-12 15:03:57

Over at WBUR’s Radio Boston show this morning to talk about the risks of EV batteries catching fire versus the risk in a gas-powered vehicle, with some research I’ve done into Massachusetts stats https://www.wbur.org/radio/programs/radioboston

2024-07-11 16:05:38

Electric vehicle sales in the U.S. grew by 11.3% year over year in the second quarter, reaching a record-high volume of 330,4631 units, according to Kelley Blue Book. This growth was driven partly by improved availability, higher discounts and elevated levels of leasing. Tesla sales volume declined by 6.3% year over year and Tesla’s share of EV sales fell below 50% for the first time https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q2-2024-ev-sales/

2024-07-03 15:23:22

Writing is fun but talking is another way to convey the news and I always have a blast talking with Segun Oduolowu on Boston Globe Media's daily TV show. For a slow summer week, we put together a "greatest hits" show of three segments about electric vehicles and EV charging challenges. And I even got to cohost. The segment airs today on NESN or you can see it online here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/video/2024/07/03/multimedia/video/boston-globe-today/bgt-full-episodes/boston-globe-today-july-3-2024/

2024-07-03 14:23:12

All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second https://qntm.org/leap

2024-06-25 12:52:37

Link rot strikes again...
More than two decades’ worth of content published on MTVNews.com is no longer available...Perhaps the most significant loss is MTV News’ vast hip-hop-related archives, particularly its weekly “Mixtape Monday” column, which ran for nearly a decade in the 2000s and 2010s and featured interviews, reviews and more with many artists, producers and others early in their careers. https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/

2024-06-25 12:33:32

“The good news and the bad news in women’s health is that there are so many underserved areas,” said Elizabeth Bailey, co-founder of venture capital fund RH Capital. “Pretty much everywhere you look in women’s health there has been under-investment and under-innovation so there are huge opportunities.” https://www.ft.com/content/56585c50-7608-49f3-998d-a7e100e0ddc7

2024-06-24 20:37:12

“Ninjago” Ultra Violet (Oni Mask of Hatred). Percival Graves (“Harry Potter” Series 1). Velociraptor with Sand Green Back (“Jurassic World” Blue). Those sought-after Lego mini-figures were among 600 or more stolen on May 3. In a predawn spree that lasted little more than a minute, the thief stuffed a garbage bag with about $10,000 worth of figurines before sprinting to a waiting car and speeding off. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-20/black-market-lego

2024-06-18 03:13:31

What are they going to say now? What are they going to say now? #Celtics NBA champs
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2024-06-14 16:09:52

This reminds me of @npub1utv…87lr collection of failed tech merch (or is it swag?) - Corporate failure has its own "museum" https://www.axios.com/2024/06/14/failure-meseum-sean-jacobsohn-venture-capital

2024-06-10 18:27:15

Watching Apple‘s WWDC keynote about how it is deeply integrating generative AI into writing emails and other documents and feeling a little nauseous about how inauthentic the world is about to become

2024-06-07 15:05:08

Over at WBUR this morning to talk about AI and music and new apps like Suno on Radio Boston. Listen live around 11:30am https://www.wbur.org/radio/programs/radioboston

2024-06-05 12:02:24

We will see if this is the start of a trend in climate tech companies or just articles about climate tech companies, but noting that the WSJ had a story about bad feels in the sector on Monday and today The Infomation reports battery developer Ionic Materials shutting down. https://www.wsj.com/business/climate-change-startups-investment-business-8f5c83be https://www.theinformation.com/articles/next-gen-battery-developer-ionic-materials-closes-down

2024-06-04 13:00:23

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@npub1t7r…557y when I saw the subsequent press release from the telecom industry lobbying group calling for imposing the universal service tax on broadband as “new” way to fund the subsidy, it all made sense

2024-06-03 14:40:00

Not quite a tale of two cities, but an odyssey of where we are now in EV charging:
There’s a two-year backlog for some electrical gear. But a new EV charging station in Weymouth found a way around it. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/03/business/ev-chargers-batteries-weymouth/

2024-05-24 16:44:08

Massachusetts slow progress toward using federal NEVI funds to build dozens of EV DC fast charging stations along highways moved ahead today, but Tesla is out for now. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/24/business/ev-charging-highways-massachusetts-tesla/#bgmp-comments

2024-05-21 16:28:34

So dumb
Scarlett Johansson says she was 'shocked, angered' when she heard OpenAI's voice that sounded like her. The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-voice-rcna153180

2024-05-16 13:27:02

Join me at 10:00 am today for an online discussion of the promise and perils of AI with an esteemed panel of Massachusetts experts, part of the Boston Globe's Tech Week. I'll be speaking with PathAI CEO and cofounder Andy Beck, Secretary of Economic Development Yvonne Hao, and Whoop's senior vice president for research, algorithms, and data Emily Capodilupo. http://globe.com/techweek

2024-05-15 12:51:06

Depressing and important read from Reuters, which just won a Pulitzer for coverage of Elon Musk. The inside story of Musk firing the entire Supercharger team is as bad as it seemed and the implications for the EV transition and fighting climate change are worse. Ugh. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside-story-elon-musks-mass-firings-tesla-supercharger-staff-2024-05-15/

2024-02-23 19:38:15

Oh gawd
The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won’t help publishers sleep any easier...Google confirmed some users were not seeing the News filter as part of ongoing testing. “We’re testing different ways to show filters on Search and as a result, a small subset of users were temporarily unable to access some of them,” a Google spokesperson confirmed https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/why-is-the-news-tab-missing-from-some-google-search-results/