The Little Cylinder That Could (And Now Really, Really Can) Remember when you first got a smart speaker and thought it was absolute magic? You’d ask it to play your favourite song or set a timer for the pasta, and you’d feel like you were living in a science fiction …

Hold On, Did You Just Say 100 Times Less Power? Yes. Yes, I did. And before you scroll away thinking this is some dry, technical article full of jargon that makes your eyes glaze over, stick with me for a moment. Because this story, this particular development in the world …

Let me paint you a picture. It’s 1985. You want to write a letter. You sit down at a typewriter, carefully hunt and peck your way through the alphabet, and if you make a mistake, you’re reaching for the Tipp-Ex. Then word processors arrived and suddenly everyone could write, edit, …

I’ll be honest with you. I’ve spent more time rewriting emails than I care to admit. You know the drill: you write something, read it back, cringe at how it sounds, delete half of it, rewrite it again, wonder if you’ve been too formal or not formal enough, and then …

When Robots Stole the Show (And Everyone’s Hearts) Let me paint you a picture. It’s the eve of Chinese New Year 2025. About a billion people, give or take, are gathered around their televisions for the Spring Festival Gala, which is essentially China’s version of the Royal Variety Performance, but …

Why This Matters More Than You Think When I first heard people banging on about AI content editing, I thought it was just another tech fad, like those QR codes everyone insisted we’d use for everything back in 2011. Remember those? Yeah, me too. But here’s the thing, this AI-generated …

I’ve got 47,000 photos on my phone. Forty-seven thousand. I know this because I finally checked last week, and honestly, I felt a bit sick. There are 23 nearly identical shots of my dog yawning, 156 accidental screenshots, and what appears to be an entire folder dedicated to photos of …

| Reading time: approximately 12 minutes Wait, AI Is Hiring Humans Now? I know. I had the same reaction. I actually laughed out loud when I first heard about it, that slightly unhinged laugh you do when something is simultaneously absurd and completely obvious in hindsight. We spent years worrying that AI …

When I first heard about AI writing tools, I thought it was just another tech fad, like those fancy bread makers that promised to revolutionize breakfast but ended up gathering dust in the cupboard. But here’s the thing, I was spectacularly wrong. These tools have genuinely changed how we communicate, …

The $70 Million Domain That Just Went Live If you watched the Super Bowl last night, you might’ve seen an ad for AI.com. And if you’re anything like me, you probably thought, “Right, another AI company with deep pockets buying expensive ad slots.” But here’s what’s actually interesting: this isn’t …

I never thought I’d get excited about something that fits in your ear. But here we are, living in 2026, and I’m genuinely gobsmacked by what’s happening with hearing aids. We’re talking about devices smaller than a coffee bean that can do things my laptop struggled with five years ago. …

Look, I need to tell you something that’s been keeping me up at night. We’ve handed over some of the most important decisions in our lives to artificial intelligence, and sometimes, well, it just makes things up. Completely fabricates information. And here’s the kicker: it does it with the confidence …