Articles from the January 1, 2021 edition


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  • Apple shakeup, smart speakers, wireless chargers

    Robert DeLaurentis, Senior Wire|Jan 1, 2021

    Q. Why should Windows users care about Apple’s new M1 computers? A. When Apple revealed the first iPhone in 2007, there were people who thought the demo must have been fake. Engineers with knowledge of how cell phones work simply could not accept the idea that any company, let alone a company that had never built a cellphone before, could pack so much power into such a tiny device. We all know what happened next. Within a decade Nokia and Blackberry all but disappeared, replaced by iPhone and Android. History is likely to repeat itself in t...

  • Storm New England's Hammond castle

    Dimitra Lavrakas, Senior Voice Travel Correspondent|Jan 1, 2021

    Come the time when we are able to travel freely, consider skipping Disneyland to visit a real castle on Cape Ann, just an hour north of Boston. Rising on the shore of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the first light of day strikes Hammond Castle illuminating its leaded stained glass windows and lighting up nearby Norman's Woe, the scene of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's tragic poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus." The son of John Hays Hammond Sr., who became wealthy as a mining engineer in Cecil Rhodes'...

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