Tech

I have been for years I sat down to work every morning, only to realize a few hours later that I felt exhausted but had… Read More »Technology Addiction Has Created a Self-Help Trap

Your doorbell the camera doesn’t just stream live video from your doorstep to your computer. It also extends your home network to the street, making… Read More »Amazon Sidewalk Releases a Hardware Developer Kit

News: Although we know that tiny pieces of plastic are everywhere, we don’t fully understand what they do to us or other animals. Now, new… Read More »The threat of microplastics, and mitigating AI bias

“I read for years about why people keep so many tabs open in their browsers – digital distraction, FOMO, boredom – and I’ve tried to… Read More »Be Your Own Tab Manager

Hundreds of millions people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, but they are still underdiagnosed or detected… Read More »Your Speech May Reveal Early Signs of Alzheimer’s

The pandemic has sent the live sales industry into overdrive. The Chinese government’s strict “Zero Covid” policy has hit the retail industry hard. Stuck at… Read More »TikTok and Amazon Bet on China’s Ecommerce Model. It’s a Dud

More than it is typical even of tech entrepreneurs, Neha Palmer is all about predicting the future. TeraWatt Infrastructure, a unicorn startup based in San… Read More »The Trans-American Race to Build Chargers for Electric Trucks

A number of open source projects such as LangChain and LLamaIndex are also exploring ways to build applications using the capabilities provided by large language… Read More »Now That ChatGPT Is Plugged In, Things Could Get Weird

No temperature yardstick. It broke several thousand desert miles ago. But you can smell trouble coming, a whiff of radiator fluid sliding in the draft… Read More »When a Vintage RV Is Your Home, Repair Is a Way of Life

Last week I posted a story about new tools developed by researchers at AI startup Hugging Face and the University of Leipzig that let people… Read More »What if we could just ask AI to be less biased?