Gadgets, apps, services and tech news
Samsung finally swapped the chip in the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2 — and raised the price with it. I added up only the published numbers to see which model actually earns the upgrade.
If you're spending your night mashing enter on "Want me to do this?" prompts, the problem isn't the model — it's your setup. Context, handoffs, and guardrails are the whole game.
Reading notes on the Korean book Where Humans Belong (인간의 자리): the four human skills worth protecting in the AI era, two hard truths about how AI actually behaves, and a five-minute exercise you can do today. Read July 2026.
Four chatbots, one question, four wildly different answers. Here's what each of the big AI assistants is actually good at, which one to pay for, and the hidden features most people never touch.
Spec sheets make AI laptops look impossible to compare. Check them in one order — VRAM, RAM, storage, CPU, cooling — and the decision mostly makes itself. Here's the priority list that keeps you from overpaying for the wrong part.
I ran the same prompts through Opus 5, Fable 5, and Sol, then priced out token costs and usage limits alongside the results. Not a leaderboard — just where each one actually earns its keep.
Base model or Ultra? A hands-on look at the new 16:10 cover screen, the hinge, low-light camera gaps, and heat under load — everything worth knowing before you tap Pre-order.
If AI only lives in your chat window, your repetitive work never actually shrinks. Here are the six levels — from chat to full automation — and the three questions that tell you exactly where each of your tasks belongs.
A free, downloadable open-weight model just outscored a paid frontier model at coding for the first time. I dug into whether it's actually usable — hardware, API pricing, and the security tradeoffs.
Smart glasses that float green text right in your field of view. From nose-pad fit to battery life and eye strain, here are the 8 pros and cons that keep showing up in real-world use.
If your AI-generated mockups swing from gorgeous to generic, the culprit usually isn't your prompt or your eye — it's which model tier you're running. Here's how to pick using the intelligence-speed-cost triangle.
The 2026 Zenbook Duo UX8407 comes with three different Core Ultra chips. Here's the spec-by-spec comparison, and the math that convinced me to stop waiting on the flagship X9 and buy the X7 358H instead.
Same prompt, one shot each, five rounds — a 3D city, an original RPG, a Canva clone, a pitch deck, and a website. Claude won on craft, ChatGPT won on price. Here's how to pick.
Samsung's first AI smart glasses finally showed up in the flesh at Google I/O 2026. Here's the real hardware, what Gemini can actually do on your face, the Sony camera specs, the privacy LED, and the $379–$499 price with a fall launch.
