Three weeks ago I lined up five e-readers on the kitchen table and told you to sit tight — a refresh wave was landing in October, and buying anything before it landed was a mistake. The wave made landfall on the first of the month. Amazon rebuilt the entire reading line from the display stack …
Three weeks ago I lined up five e-readers on the kitchen table and told you to sit tight — a refresh wave was landing in October, and buying anything before it landed was a mistake. The wave made landfall on the first of the month. Amazon rebuilt the entire reading line from the display stack …
A 1,500-watt heater can trip a home-office circuit by itself. The wattage math, and the desk gear that stays under it.
The default gift in this house used to be another screen. A hand-me-down tablet, a “kids” tablet that was just an ad-loaded Android with a rubber bumper, a streaming stick nobody asked for. By February the thing was facedown on a couch cushion and the kid was bored of the same three apps. The team …
Headphones have had a long run on this desk. Open-ear clips when someone might walk in. A sealed pair when the house gets loud. A wired set when a call cannot afford a Bluetooth hiccup. The people who test gear with me have been living in that rotation for months, and it works, right up …
Open-ear audio spent two years acting like a luxury habit. Clips at a few hundred dollars. Hooks with a running-store markup. Bone-conduction pairs that sounded like a conversation in the next room. Then, on October 14, 1MORE put the Open Earbuds S10s on the market and priced the idea like a spare pair of gym …
Friday, October 23, NVIDIA’s partners start selling a DGX Spark with half the memory. The press line is that this is a lifeline in a brutal RAM market. I have been staring at that sentence for a week, and it does not survive contact with the spec sheet. I do not have the 64GB box …
The furnace in this house clicked over to heat on Sunday. Not a dramatic cold snap. Just the first morning where the kitchen tile won the argument and somebody on the team turned the dial before coffee. Apple picked the next afternoon to throw a party called Welcome Home and put a price on the …
Every AI translation earbud demo you have ever watched was filmed in a room I want to live in. Treated walls. A lavalier mic inches from the speaker. Two polite people trading sentences like they are reading from a script, because usually they are. The latency counter at the bottom of the screen ticks along …
Every quarter, my team and I refresh the three parts lists we keep for readers who want a local AI machine — a budget box, a midweight tower, and a no-limits rig. It’s a two-hour ritual: re-price the CPUs, sanity-check GPU availability, argue about cases nobody sees. This quarter the ritual broke. The line item …
Every quarter, my team and I refresh the three parts lists we keep for readers who want a local AI machine — a budget box, a midweight tower, and a no-limits rig. It’s a two-hour ritual: re-price the CPUs, sanity-check GPU availability, argue about cases nobody sees. This quarter the ritual broke. The line item …