Somewhere around minute forty of yesterday’s Connect keynote, my notebook stopped being a list of announcements and became a scorecard. My team and I have been tracking the leaks on this one for months — we even put our predictions in print last week — so when Mark Zuckerberg finally took the stage in Menlo …
The last thing my eyes saw every night used to be a phone screen, and they were filing complaints. I wrote about fixing that screen fatigue back in August, and the single change that stuck wasn’t an app timer or a pair of amber-tinted glasses — it was moving my evening reading onto a device …
Five days from now, Mark Zuckerberg walks onto a stage in Menlo Park at an unusual hour — 4PM PT, 7PM on the East Coast, an evening keynote for the second year running — and opens Meta Connect 2026. My team has been through every leak, firmware dig, and supply-chain whisper leading into this one, …
There is a small box on the shelf above my desk that has heard nearly everything I’ve said out loud for the past three months. Every voice memo, every interview, every half-formed idea muttered at the whiteboard at 11 p.m. It has never sent a single syllable to the cloud, it has never asked me …
IFA 2026 will be remembered for the robots. Every hall had a humanoid, a quadruped, or a wheeled butler promising to fold your laundry by 2031 — and behind almost every one of them stood a nervous engineer with a PlayStation controller. But the product I actually brought home from Berlin wasn’t a robot at …
The storm itself was unremarkable. Forty minutes of wind, a lot of rain, done by nine. What followed was fourteen hours without power — long enough to learn that my house, which I’d spent three years making smarter, had quietly become the dumbest thing on the block the moment the grid blinked off. Here’s what …
When I moved my office home permanently six years ago, I inherited two coworkers I never interviewed: a sixty-pound shepherd mix who treats my 3 p.m. stand-up break as a personal appointment, and a gray tabby who has claimed the warm spot behind my monitor since the day the monitor arrived. I have reviewed thousands …
A reader email landed in my inbox last month that I’ve received, in one form or another, maybe forty times this year: “I want to buy my first drone. Which one won’t end up in a tree?” I’ve been testing consumer drones since they were carnival gimmicks with four screaming motors and a battery life …
On the first of September, in Paris, James Dyson stood on a stage and revealed a toothbrush. Not a vacuum, not a fan, not a hair tool — a toothbrush with a camera in its head, a water jet in its handle, and a $499.99 price tag. The CameraJet is the company’s first swing at …
I watched Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event Wednesday night with three browser windows open, two colleagues on Slack, and a legal pad I filled with conflicting product names. That last part is the story nobody at Apple will admit: the biggest hardware launch in years shipped with a communications problem. The company that famously obsesses …