D.C.-based freelance technology journalist covering, and often vexed by, computers, gadgets, and other things that beep. May or may not be notable. He/him. Read: PCMag, Fast Company, etc. Write: [email protected]
Rob Pegoraro
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"The resources at his disposal should make him one of history’s great builders. Instead, he behaves like a man permanently trapped in the reply section of the worst corners of the internet."
👍 to panel moderator Juan Pablo Silva of Diario Financiero for following up on an eVTOL sales pitch from Eve Air Mobility CEO Johann Bordais and Omni Helicopters CEO Jeremy Akel that only compared air taxis to cars by asking how eVTOLs would compare to trains for stress-free rides to airports.
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Fourth of four panels is in the books--always an exciting point to reach at a conference.
This would address one use case that Twitter attempted to cover and then gave up on: having conversations that aren't in front of the entire internet.
Shout-out to Azul Brazilian Airlines for having the jankiest country-code-picker UI that I have ever seen. If you were about ask: No, type-ahead does not do anything.
(Also bad: The "Finish Check-in" box remains grayed-out and unavailable at the end of the check-in flow in Chrome and Firefox.)
Yet another data point for the "Matt Taibbi: dumbass" file.
Enlightening banter on a Web Summit shuttle van about Brazil's paperless voting and digital ID system. If Americans whining about voter ID were sincere in their concerns, they might ask for a federal ID mechanism, but you know they'd denounce a national ID app like Brazil's as Orwellian tyranny.
