Category: 8. Tech

CES is still a couple of weeks away, and yet the announcements continue to arrive early. This time it’s Hisense, which has made a big announcement ahead of the Las Vegas-based technology convention, and it’s great news for projector fans.

The…

In the third season of the hit TV show The White Lotus, the protagonists arrive at an exclusive resort where guests are asked to turn off and turn over their phones; that is, to engage in a digital ‘detox’. For many of us, cutting ourselves…

Cactus, a Y Combinator-backed startup, enables local AI inference to mobile phones, wearables, and other low-power devices through cross-platform, energy-efficient kernels and a native runtime. It delivers sub-50ms time-to-first-token…

It’s one of humanity’s scariest what-ifs – that the technology we develop to make our lives better develops a will of its own.

Early reactions to a September preprint describing AI behavior have already speculated that the technology is…

In the third season of the hit TV show The White Lotus, the protagonists arrive at an exclusive resort where guests are asked to turn off and turn over their phones; that is, to engage in a digital ‘detox’. For many of us, cutting ourselves…

Apple is facing sharply rising costs for memory components in its premium smartphones. According to recent rumors, the company is currently paying a premium of approximately 230 percent for each 12GB LPDDR5X RAM chip used in…

Apple is facing growing pressure from the ongoing global DRAM shortage, and the impact may surface as early as the iPhone 17 lineup. A new report indicates that memory costs have risen sharply, threatening Apple’s ability to absorb…

For five years, Caitlyn Jones has used Pinterest on a weekly basis to find recipes for her son. In September, Jones spotted a creamy chicken and broccoli slow-cooker recipe, sprinkled with golden cheddar and a pop of parsley. She quickly looked…

A new rumor from China claims that Apple plans to begin testing iPhone 18 series devices on its mass production lines in early January.

According to the report, Apple will test the devices one after another during the first days of the month….

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Shalini Aggarwal, a 50-year-old CEO in San Jose, California, and Andy Ratsirason, a 37-year-old CTO. The two left Amazon at different times and reconnected as…