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I quit all my AI fitness plans, and I feel free

An AI coach is a terrible accountability buddy. Sometimes the best thing you can do is to ignore everything it says.

Victoria Song
Relax, grown-ups: VR is doing fineRelax, grown-ups: VR is doing fine
Janko Roettgers
No one knows what to call these things

Apparently, ‘smart glasses’ is insufficient. Enter AI glasses, AR glasses, wired XR glasses, and everything in between.

Victoria Song
Both sides of the aisle hate the AI moratorium

It’s the one of the few things Republicans and Democrats can agree on right now.

Tina Nguyen
Starlink made ‘work from home’ possible from anywhere — now, I’m ready for a change

Competition is coming, but it might never catch up.

Thomas Ricker
Welcome to the wellness surveillance state

We’ll take your blood and urine, please.

Victoria Song
Silicon Valley is rallying behind a guy who sucks

The coordinated support of David Sacks after a New York Times report is only drawing more attention to the story.

Tina Nguyen
The indie web is here to make the internet weird again

Welcome to the new old internet.

Stevie Bonifield
The dark side of optimizing your metabolism

There are known benefits to tracking your glucose levels, but it can also be a slippery slope into disordered eating.

Victoria Song
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab

Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?

Tina Nguyen
Apple TV wants to go big

The streamer is the place for premium sci-fi, but can it catch up with the competition?

Andrew Webster
AI has no idea what I’m eating

Food logging is tedious enough without AI making stuff up.

Victoria Song
How soapy micro dramas became Hollywood’s next big bet

Studios specializing in vertical video production are slowly but surely shaking up the entertainment industry.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display

Traveling with the Meta Ray-Ban Display was a better experience than using it in my day-to-day life.

Victoria Song
Where have all the TV cameras gone?Where have all the TV cameras gone?
Janko Roettgers
Let’s talk about PluribusLet’s talk about Pluribus
Andrew Webster
The algorithm failed music

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop.

Terrence O'Brien
Lost in AI translation

When traveling, AI translators are still more cumbersome than the universal language of pointing fingers and Googling.

Victoria Song
Election night at Kalshi HQElection night at Kalshi HQ
Alex Heath
Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain

Donald Trump’s vicious, meme-driven ethos has started seeping into the US government’s official internet presence.

Tina Nguyen
The great tariff shakedown

We’re all paying for Donald Trump’s erratic policies.

Mia Sato
Microsoft’s agent platform playMicrosoft’s agent platform play
Alex Heath