Catania is the second-largest city in Sicily, built on volcanic lava stone from Mt. Etna. Residents refer to the restive volcano as Idda. “If you’re in the right place at the right time, you can hear ...

The ninth edition of Stanford’s AI Index Report landed this week, and the headline from co-chairs Yolanda Gil and Raymond Perrault sets the tone. “The data does not point in a single direction,” they ...

Musey, a Meta Muse personal AI agent, opens its first conversation by explaining what it can do with the user's approval. Correction, September 22, 2026: this piece originally said Meta cannot access ...

I want to tell you about the moment this past week, when I stepped off a plane at SFO and wasn’t sure if Clint was going to be there to pick me up. That sounds like the setup to a bad travel story.

Canon 46.5% Sony 27.9% Nikon 11.3% Fujifilm 6.0% Panasonic 3.6% As noted in the article these numbers do not source directly from the companies themselves. Rather, they are published by a third party ...

5 out of 5 stars – 'The gold standard for pocket eReaders.' A 4.3-inch, 72-gram pocket e-reader that adds a touchscreen and a dual-tone front light to the open-source XTEINK X4. If you’ve been ...

A tool I’ve been using for a while, Roo Code, an extension for Visual Studio Code, recently made a decision that got me thinking about where agentic software development is actually headed. Roo Code ...

TurboQuant compresses AI model vectors from 32 bits down to as few as 3 bits by mapping high-dimensional data onto an efficient quantized grid. (Image: Google Research) The AI industry loves a big ...

AI entered my studio, and everything changed. Not just how I create, but why. When beauty can be generated without understanding, what becomes of authorship? I looked backward first… following the arc ...

Best Espresso Accessories - a Puck Screen helps reduce channeling while keeping the group less messy. After 2 Years with a Puck Screen, Here’s What I’ve Learned (2025 Update) It’s been two years since ...

The X4 sitting idle, showing the cover of whatever I am reading. E-ink holds the image at zero power, so it waits there like a paperback left face up. (Photo: Clinton Stark / Stark Insider) I was ...

Australia-based Blackmagic Design has long been known for democratizing access to high-end video production tools. With its industry-standard color grading suite and robust free tier of DaVinci ...