Another trip to Berlin for IFA is in the books, which means I’ve spent another year wondering when Berlin Brandenburg Airport–which was originally scheduled to open before my 2012 introduction to the show–will ever inaugurate scheduled commercial service.
8/28/2018: How to detox from Facebook, Yahoo Finance
I’d had the bones of this piece in mind since sometime after writing a similar how-to on reducing Google’s role in your life. I’m going to guess that most people didn’t install the Facebook Container extension for Firefox (although I am now running that on my Windows laptop), but I do hope that a good fraction of readers opted out of Facebook’s noisier mobile notifications.
9/1/2018: Forget 4K TVs — 8K televisions are already here, Yahoo Finance
If it wasn’t obvious enough the last time I covered this topic: No, I really don’t think anybody should pay extra for 8K resolution, and if this entire format vanishes into consumer irrelevance as 3D TV did, I won’t be too sad. Meanwhile, I appreciated seeing Yahoo give this a little more publicity with a repost on Yahoo Sports.
9/2/2018: What to expect as Google, Facebook and Twitter face Capitol Hill lawmakers, Yahoo Finance
I wrote a curtain-raiser for Wednesday’s grillings of social-media executives in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Based on how prior House interrogations of tech execs have gone, my expectations for the latter hearing are exceedingly low.
Rob Pegoraro 
Should anybody be buying any new TVs now, given the coming incompatible ATSC 3.0 standard which could make current TVs useless? Or will ATSC 3.0 flop because it isn’t a mandatory standard and broadcasters can’t afford to lose existing OTA viewers?
Excellent question! I’m waiting on ATSC 3.0 myself; I doubt it will add much to the price, so the gamble is pretty low. (And since South Korea already has this in service, I’d say it’s off to a decent start.)