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We've entered the era where the ultimate status symbol is a device that refuses to bother you. This tells you everything you need to know about where we went wrong. The mui Board exemplifies this absurdity perfectly. When inactive, it's wood grain. Touch it, and subtle
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There's something distinctly American about treating caution as inefficiency. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that xAI’s Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside Defense Department networks, and that Grok is expected to go live later this month. Watching this unfold feels like observing a national
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Remember when skipping commercials felt like sticking it to The Man? When pausing live TV made you feel like a time-bending wizard? That was TiVo's gift to humanity. A brief, shining moment when we thought we'd outsmarted television itself. Now, in October 2025, TiVo has stopped
~Technology
Remember when nuclear power was the boogeyman of the energy world? The thing that made environmentalists chain themselves to fences and inspired a thousand disaster movies? Well, plot twist: Big Tech just swiped right on atomic energy, and Meta's leading the charge with enough nuclear deals to power
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The greatest trick LEGO ever pulled was convincing the world that plastic bricks were about architecture when they were really about possibility. Now, at CES 2026, they've done it again, embedding a computer smaller than a single LEGO stud inside what looks like an ordinary 2x4 brick. The
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The first time I tried to fix my own laptop, I voided three different warranties in under five minutes. The manufacturer's sticker literally said "WARRANTY VOID IF REMOVED" in the kind of aggressive caps lock that makes you wonder if they're yelling at you
~AI
The suits at Warner Music Group just signed a deal with the devil, and the devil's name is Suno. While they're popping champagne somewhere, celebrating their "innovative partnership" with an AI music generator, the rest of us are watching rock and roll get processed
~Music
The same restless energy that drives a bassist to practice scales until their fingers bleed might be what pushes a scientist to sequence DNA until dawn breaks. Both are chasing something invisible—a perfect groove, a genetic breakthrough—and both refuse to stop until they find it. The connection runs
~Technology
The best technology doesn't always come from the biggest companies. Sometimes it arrives through the side door, carried by enthusiasts who care more about solving specific problems than conquering entire markets. That's exactly what's happening with AYANEO's gaming handhelds and LiberNovo'
~Music
Screamo legends Saetia pulled their entire catalog from Spotify. If you're expecting another thinkpiece about artistic purity and the death of albums—surprise. This story is messier and more interesting. Saetia's taking a stand on ethics and politics. Veteran rockers Tesla are making different calculations about
~Space
The mathematics of orbital mechanics are elegant—Kepler's laws describe perfect ellipses, Newton's equations predict trajectories with clockwork precision. But the reality above our heads resembles less a celestial ballet and more a high-speed demolition derby. Every satellite we launch, every rocket body we abandon, every
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The first time I heard about musicians removing their songs from Israeli streaming services, I was sitting in the park ordering my coffee from an app and wondering why they stock three different oat milk brands. It struck me how we live in an age where both coffee preferences and