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Rob Pegoraro

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(He/Him)
  • Journalist, Freelance
  • None, PC Mag
  • None, Fast Company
  • None, Fast Company/PC Mag/Freelance
  • None, Fast Company, Freelance
Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Fast Company, CNN, CNN Underscored, MSN, MSN Ireland, Wirecutter, Bloomberg CityLab, Bloomberg News, Forbes, Post Outlook, The Washington Post and
Covers:  digital culture, telecom, gadgets, tech policy, smartphones, consumer electronics, computers, social media, internet
Doesn't Cover: enterprise computing, startup funding rounds
Journalist covering/vexed by computers, gadgets, other things that beep. He/him. Read: @pcmag, @fastcompany, etc. Write: rob@robpegoraro.com.

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Rob Pegoraro tries to make sense of computers, consumer electronics, telecom services, the Internet, software and other things that beep or blink through reporting, reviewing and analysis. You can find him at PCMag, Fast Company, Wirecutter and many other outlets; from 1999 to 2011, he was the Washington Post’s tech columnist. He once received a single-word e-mail from Steve Jobs and may be the only person to have written for both Reader's Digest and Boing Boing.

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Comcast's 1.2 TB data cap seems like a ton of data-until you factor in remote work

Comcast's 1.2 TB data cap seems like a ton of data-until you factor in remote work

A less frequent reaction: "How could you?" As in, how could any one person possibly burn through that much da…

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What the hell happened to Mint?

What the hell happened to Mint?

Intuit's Mint personal-finance service wants me to know it's sorry. Again. "We're sorry!" its investments pag…

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Apple and Google remind you about location privacy, but don't forget your wireless carrier

Apple and Google remind you about location privacy, but don't forget your wireless carrier

The latest smartphone operating systems from Apple and Google want you to think more about what other compani…

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Tech Companies Are Quietly Phasing Out a Major Privacy Safeguard

Tech Companies Are Quietly Phasing Out a Major Privacy Safeguard

Read: What transparency reports don't tell us Digital-rights advocates routinely point to transparency report…

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SpaceX successfully launches the world's most powerful rocket

SpaceX successfully launches the world's most powerful rocket

Seconds later, the sound of 5 million pounds of thrust arrived-an avalanche of noise that raced across the wa…

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Analysis | The Trump administration gets the history of Internet regulations all wrong

Analysis | The Trump administration gets the history of Internet regulations all wrong

Nostalgia for the Clinton administration may not be what you'd expect from a prominent Trump appointee. But t…

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Articles

Weekly output: not-so-independent agencies, location privacy, Virginia’s data-center tax, Blue Origin’s return-to-flight plans, civil supersonic flight, astronomy in VR, Backblaze

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| robpegoraro.com
The list below would be a lot of published work for a five-workday week, and yet I didn’t write any of those things or deal with edits to them on Friday. The Supreme Court bears much of the responsibility for this pace, the aerospace-industry news cycle did its own part, and then I had two pieces that I’d started weeks before finally get published on the one day that I gave this keyboard a decent rest.
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A subdued semiquincentennial

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By Rob Pegoraro Verified
| robpegoraro.com
It’s the 250th birthday of the United States, but the mood around the nation can seem distinctly sub-celebratory. It’s definitely less than joyful around the nation’s capital, where months of seeing armed troops from other states on our streets and watching buildings transformed into billboards for the 47th president have now been followed by a Trumpified version of the national holiday.
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Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR

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By Rob Pegoraro Verified
| Ars Technica Verified
Walkthrough experience includes visits to stars, exoplanets, and observatories. Having a computer strapped to my face for 40 minutes was one reason to feel a little sweaty. But the tour of the Universe I had just received in virtual reality—including visits to the near vicinity of the Sun, the giant black hole at the center of our galaxy, and a hellscape of an exoplanet 41 light-years distant—provided another excuse for sensing some heat.
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The first keyboard I used was on a manual typewriter, and now I own one myself... largely for ironic purposes.

How is social media changing news?

The conversation with readers about a story no longer starts after you publish that piece; it's now a continuum.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

You're curious, you're in perpetual beta, and your first instinct when something's wrong is to reach for a keyboard (or touchscreen).
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