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Mini gadgets are everywhere these days. Online stores have pages of them, and bricks-and-mortar stores stock just as many. The quality obviously varies. Some are little more than aesthetic gadgets that look clever but solve problems nobody’s ever had. Others are genuinely useful tools. But the difference isn’t always obvious just by looking at them.

For frequent flyers, backpackers, and road trippers, preparation is always the difference between a frustrating trip and an enjoyable one. This year has given us plenty of new gadgets that can make life easier for those who are always on the go. From tech that can help save space to noise-cancelling headphones like the AirPods…

Robinhood this week unveiled a financial instrument that lets anyone feel like they, too, can make money by backing Y Combinator startups.

Deepfake scams might use your voice, but they don’t know what’s in your head. Five minutes of preparation could save your loved ones from falling for fraud.

The idea of collapsible gadgets has always been alluring. The concept of pulling out a tiny package and unfolding it into a fully featured gadget is very sci-fi. Or at least it has been. Collapsible contraptions themselves have always existed, of course, but have been limited to simple mechanical objects with no active parts. For…

Agentic AI marks a fundamental shift beyond simple prompt‑and‑response chats. These advanced systems, built from intelligent agents, autonomously perceive environments, reason through complex problems, plan strategies, and act to achieve goals with minimal human supervision. No more micromanaging a chatbot; set a high‑level objective and let AI orchestrate its own multi‑step workflows. Traditional chatbots require…

  The generative AI ecosystem moves fast, but the mathematics and architectures powering it are well-documented. The shift from classical natural language processing (NLP) to generative AI has changed what data professionals actually need to know. A few years ago, understanding recurrent neural networks or standard classification models was enough for most roles. Today, the…

  The simplest solution is often the best, especially when solving a specific machine learning problem.

The average nightstand is a collection of individual decisions made at different points of frustration. An alarm clock here, a white noise machine there, a lamp chosen because it was on sale. None of it was designed to work together. Most of it arrived one problem at a time, and collectively it creates a surface…

AI is a waste of time, money, and resources. AI is a solution in search of a problem. AI is a thief that pilfers on a scale previously unthinkable, in broad daylight. AI drives up the price of hardware that many of us rely on for work and play. AI is a terrible blood altar…