An AI chip floating hundreds of kilometres above Earth was asked to write a poem. It answered. That sounds like the opening of a science-fiction story, but it happened for real this week. Google’s Project Suncatcher satellite, carrying a data-centre-class AI chip, sent back its first AI-generated response from orbit: a short haiku about being … Read more
You know that moment when you join a call and everyone else looks crisp and clear, while you look like you’re broadcasting from inside a cupboard? It’s rarely your internet. More often, it’s the camera — and the light in front of it. Here’s the good news: picking a decent webcam isn’t complicated once you … Read more
Open your browser’s extension list some evening and count. Most people find ten, fifteen, sometimes thirty little icons they barely remember installing. One came with a PDF tool two years ago. Another promised coupon codes. A third was added in a hurry for a single work task and never removed. They all still sit there, … Read more
Your phone is warm in your pocket, and you haven’t even touched it for an hour. That’s not a fault. It’s the price of a chip that never really rests. It runs on a clock, checks everything in turn, and shuttles data back and forth between memory and processor millions of times a second. All … Read more
You open your inbox and something feels off. For example, a password-reset email you never asked for arrives. Then, a friend asks why you sent a strange link at 3 a.m. That cold feeling is real. It is also useful. Finally, the next hour is when you can do the most good. Here’s the thing … Read more
You know that moment when you download a file, then can’t find it five minutes later? You open your Downloads folder and it’s just… a wall. Hundreds of files with names like “final-v2-REALLY-final.pdf” staring back at you. Here’s the good news: you don’t need a fancy app or a whole weekend to fix it. If … Read more
For years, Apple watched other phone makers fold their phones in half and said nothing. Samsung, Huawei, Motorola — they all shipped foldables while Apple stayed silent. That silence ended this week. Apple’s first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, went on sale on Friday, October 23, and it is the most consequential iPhone launch in … Read more
It’s 11 pm, you’re three chapters into a novel, and your phone buzzes. A message, then a news alert, then another message. You didn’t stop reading because you got bored. You stopped because your phone is built to interrupt you. That’s the whole case for an e-reader in one scene. A dedicated reader does one … Read more
Be honest: where are your notes right now? A bit in your phone’s notes app, a few on paper, some in a chat you sent to yourself, and one very important one — you know the one — that you can’t find anywhere. Note-taking apps explained properly isn’t about which app is trendiest this month. … Read more
Picture this: you move into a house at the end of a quiet lane, the kind of place where the nearest fibre cable stops two villages away. The broadband checker says “sorry” in three different ways, and your video calls freeze every time someone else in the house opens a photo. Satellite internet sounds like … Read more