Epson joins the list of printer manufacturers that have succumbed to the temptation to treating their users like morons, tricking them through fraudulent programmed obsolescence techniques into retiring their printers early, a recurring scam that I first talked about back in 2008 (article in Spanish) and later in 2016. Whatever happened to business ethics? On September 13, thousands of HP inkjet printers stopped working and displayed this error message: “The following ink…medium.com

In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Spanish government has come up with a range of measures to reduce energy use, which is a good thing; what I don’t understand is why there isn’t a greater focus on using a resource for which our country is best…

As energy prices continue to rise, it’s going to be a tough winter around Europe. In the United Kingdom, the Don’t Pay campaign is calling on consumers to stop paying their bills to energy companies, after the Conservative government lifted a price cap that will double energy bills, forcing many…

Amazon has announced the $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, the company that manufactures the Roomba, the leading vacuum cleaner in the home robotics segment. iRobot was founded in 1990 by three MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab alumni, Rodney Brooks, Helen Greiner and Colin Angle, who alone remains at the company and…

TikTok is set to overtake Facebook in terms of influencer marketing spend this year, and then YouTube in 2024, a shameful milestone that reflects companies’ total lack of ethics and their willingness to invest in any medium that delivers their goals, regardless of its harmful influence on their users or…

The theft and sale of a huge police database with very detailed records of over a billion Chinese citizens highlights the intrinsic weakness of regimes based on surveillance of their populations: if you are going to engage in massive and systematic spying on everybody, you are not only going to…

One of the world’s largest and most valuable companies, Amazon, has published its 2021 sustainability report, and its results are hugely revealing: its total greenhouse gas emissions increased by 18% on the previous year, to 71.54 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. Compared to 2019, before the pandemic, the figure…

Photosynthesis is the principle means of converting inorganic matter into organic matter through light. Thanks to this process, plants are able to use carbon dioxide and the energy provided by light to generate biomass, which directly or indirectly constitutes the food we eat. However, their performance is not particularly brilliant…

I’ve been talking to Phil Libin for some time about his policy of eliminating meetings, which began when he was CEO of Evernote and has continued after creating, during the pandemic, a company, mmhmm, who has led by example with his completely distributed company. A zero-meeting policy is based on…