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Envoi is a new platform that lets you bring your own AI to a conference. You can try it out first at Startupfest in Montreal this July.

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I’ve done the occasional Tampa-to-St. Pete commute during peak times, and they can easily stretch to over an hour. For those trips, I’ve found a Starbucks “Venti” (Italian for “twenty,” and denoting…

Notion is a beloved tool by many, and while I may have lost my adoration of it. There are still plenty of use cases where it comes in handy. However sometimes you need a bit more features than it…

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Your dashboard isn't lying to you.Your strategy is lying to your dashboard.Most metrics tell you what's happening. They don't tell you whether what's happening is good enough to…

About a hundred senior designers and leaders from AI labs, big tech companies, and startups got together in San Francisco last week for the Design Futures Assembly. The public conversation about AI…

A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism,…

According to shipping manifests, Valve's importing some 50 tons of consoles just one day after the Steam Controller sold out!

Dennard scaling broke twenty years ago. The transistor density curve still has runway. The bill nobody warned us about is the complexity tax, and it is coming due.

The VECS 2026 conference in Gothenburg has made one thing clear: the transition to Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) is no longer a future prediction—it is accelerating rapidly toward total market…

Does Amazon Basics, Amazon's in-house brand, still make everything in China? You might be surprised. The post Best Sellling Amazon Basics Products Not Made in China appeared first on No to China 2026.

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A friend sent me a message at 6:19AM today. It woke me up. I sent her a snarky message back (all in good fun). I went back to sleep. Later that same day, she asked me what I was doing at that time…

Learn how to add or insert page numbers in a document using LibreOffice Writer along with what are page numbers, what is a header/footer and more.

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I got the idea for this text after learning from the channel Fireship about the latest exploit in the Linux kernel that was related to a 2017 commit. And last week, I was discussing with friends who…

Above: the real Brisbane airport, early one morning in August 2024. Welcome to Tapt Media, the new radio company in Australia that owns 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, which came into being on 1 May. They own…

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A weird thing happened to me recently. I was playing around with OpenClaw, and, despite their recommendations, I set up WhatsApp using my own number. When I texted myself for testing purposes, my…

t's a new space race with a number of satellite operators pushing out LEO satellite services that operate directly to hand-held devices, or D2D.

Dia is better than I expected, but with a huge turn-off (or lack thereof).

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Craig Mod: Here is the insane business plan of what I would do, the thoughts of some fool on a hill halfway across the world: No more keyboards or mouse support for iPads. Touch only. Nix half the…

Available now on visionOS, and rolling out slowly for iOS/iPadOS, is Callsheet version 2026.4. The changelist is not long, but it is mighty: New Features All-new iPad landscape layout that makes far…

As Big Tech algorithms encourage kids and teens toward self-harm and suicide, Mothers Against Media Addiction is fighting back - raising awareness about the platforms' harms and advocating for…

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Now even easier automatic set up of a new Mac or User with customised system settings & apps.

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I upgraded one of my desktops to Ubuntu 26.04 and my second monitor stopped working. It got stuck in "no signal" mode. It was working fine in Ubuntu 25.10, and the OS still detected that a…

I recently realized that the cat and mouse game of privacy is hard to play on the iPhone because of the number of options you have to keep saying yes and no to. So I decided to go with a different…

After yesterday’s post, I got an email from reader Ron Sprague outlining two ways to block sender addresses from the list view in iOS Mail. Both of these methods are efficient, and neither starts…

Mindjacking doesn’t always come from outside. Sometimes you watch it happen in real time and still can’t stop it.

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After writing a two-part series last year about Reddit heavily scaling AI-translated content, I wanted to check in to see how things were going now. Below, I’ll cover how Reddit’s AI…

User researchers as role-playing game classes | AI posture recommendation feature in Huawei Pura 90 phones | AI helps teaching assistants provide better feedback to students | AI as a metacognitive…

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Recently a day at work with GitHub has been met with errors and more - is AI at fault?