The promise of AI-powered calorie counting is efficiency—snap and go, no manual entry required. But my experience revealed a different reality. I spent considerable time correcting ingredient identifications, adjusting portion sizes, and second-guessing the…

Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

Maintaining one very long wire that defines a holy space.

Still gliding above the town on an overhead track 125 years after it was built, the charming Schwebebahn in Wuppertal has lost none of its magic

Coleco only could produce 100,000 units and the defect rate was far too high

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

Replanting forests can cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won’t cancel out human-generated warming.

Sick of over-designed websites that take forever to load? A straight-forward take on why designers need to stop showing off and start solving problems.

Interview: Security, not model performance, is what's stalling adoption

Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

In this day and age, celebrities have a lot of influence over our politics. Garthwaite and Moore estimated that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 netted him an extra 1 milli…

Your First Autoregressive Image Generation Model

A letter from your future self on dropping “UI design” tools…

A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.

Pai’s return as CTIA lobbyist fuels industry-wide battle over spectrum rights.

(to JS programmers: not that kind)

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives