
Jonathan Margolis
The original consumer tech journalist, columnist with Air Mail News, New York, features also for Daily Telegraph and Saga.
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1 week ago |
airmail.news | Jonathan Margolis
Take the fear out of flying with a jet that can parachute to safety and land itselfWe all know the saying about the two happiest days in a boat owner’s life being the day they buy the boat and the day they sell it. Well, private jets aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, either. It may seem a little obvious, but jets are … well, expensive. For even a little Cessna or Embraer capable of business flights and family trips, you’re looking at $5 million to $10 million.
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2 weeks ago |
saga.co.uk | Jonathan Margolis
It’s 16 years since mobile phones, smart watches and fitness bands began to measure our movements with such precision that they could sense every step we take and every movement we make – even during our sleep. ‘Wearable technology’ had begun in the 19th century with mechanical wristwatches and evolved to those geeky calculator watches that appeared in the 1970s.
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3 weeks ago |
independent.co.uk | Jonathan Margolis
Inside story‘Life recorders’ are being invested in by all the big AI players, with their champions saying the notes and prompts made from conversations you have will help with everything from studying to remembering your friend’s birthday.
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1 month ago |
airmail.news | Jonathan Margolis
One hundred years ago this month, at a trade fair in Germany, an optical-instrument company from a small town near Frankfurt quietly launched a novel little product that one of its engineers, Oskar Barnack, had been working on for more than a decade. E. Leitz and Co. gave the Leica miniature camera barely any space at its booth alongside its range of serious microscopes and the like.
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independent.co.uk | Jonathan Margolis
The Longer ReadAs the Chinese overtake Tesla for sales and automaker BYD becomes the first in the world to unveil a battery that is capable of charging EV’s in the same amount of time as it takes to fill up a fuel tank, Jonathan Margolis examines the claims that there are other aspects we need to be mindful of. From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.
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My piece in The Independent on Mike Lynch. Although we went to the same school and hung out in a lot of the same places, I didn't know him - but met him in 2016 to discuss a project he wanted to do. Nice, amusing guy from whom I learned a lot. https://t.co/5tD0SEC3oa

Where to imprison this distinguished confederation of village idiots, school bullies and psychopaths? Perhaps the Bibby Stockholm, towed out to sea, so it can bob around in the ocean a bit. Drop in some ready meals once a week and let them get on with it for a few years.

Does anyone have a press contact for Virgin Media, please? @virginmediacorp