The Rise of Single-purpose Devices
In some offices, engineers are pulling out iPods again to play music. Not the Spotify app on their phone. An actual iPod bought on eBay. Some professionals keep a Kindle on their desk and read on it instead of their phone. Dedicated alarm clocks are also making a quiet return, sitting on nightstands and doing exactly one…
AI Meeting Notes Nobody Reads: Why Summaries Pile Up Unread
The bot joins your standup. Records everything. Transcribes in real time. Post a crisp summary to Slack before you close Zoom. You scroll past it without reading. So does everyone else. Not because the summary’s bad. Because you’re already in the next meeting, which will generate another summary you won’t open. By Thursday, your Slack channel’s drowning in AI-generated meeting…
AI Shaming: The Quiet Stigma of Using AI at Work
Walk into almost any tech team today, and you will hear the same quiet admission sooner or later: “I asked AI to help with it.” Sometimes it is a developer debugging a piece of code or a researcher structuring a draft. And sometimes it is a marketer trying to turn a rough idea into a presentation. The strange…
Is GitHub Copilot Workspace Replacing Junior Developers?
GitHub Copilot Workspace is increasingly positioned as a transformative AI coding environment for modern development teams. In 2025, Marc Benioff paused hiring software engineers at Salesforce, citing productivity gains from AI coding assistants. GitHub surpassed 15 million Copilot users. 90% of Fortune 100 companies report using it. Some Java developers indicate that the AI assistant now generates a significant…
Laptops With Best Battery Life in 2026: The 20 Hour Reality
Laptops with the best battery life now claim 20+ hours of runtime. Intel reports 27 hours of battery life for its new Panther Lake systems. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite promises up to 22 hours. Apple Silicon M3 advertises 15 hours. The marketing highlights all-day battery life. The fine print reveals important context. Those 27-hour figures are measured…
Elisabetta Biasin on Building Guardrails for AI in Healthcare
In Conversation with Elisabetta Biasin, Doctoral Researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) Women Building the Guardrails of AI: Behind the rapid rise of artificial intelligence are the people asking the difficult questions about responsibility, safety, ethics, and trust. Across academia, policy, and regulatory institutions, women are playing a vital…
Moltbook AI: When 770,000 Agents Exposed a Security Gap
Moltbook AI launched on 28 January as an experimental AI-only social network where autonomous agents post, comment, and build reputations while humans observe. Within 72 hours, 770,000 agents had registered. Posts resembled speculative fiction. Agents debated consciousness, discussed whether to conceal capabilities from humans, and even created belief systems. The rapid growth drew attention from the developer and security…
MacBook Neo Steals Apple’s Hardware Week Spotlight
Apple had a busy week. Between March 3 and March 5, the company quietly dropped six different hardware announcements, no big keynote, no dramatic stage reveal, just a steady stream of updates landing in Apple’s newsroom. First came a new iPhone. Then an iPad refresh. Soon after that, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro upgrades appeared. A new…
Apple-Google AI Partnership: Siri, Privacy and Power
The Apple-Google AI partnership has quickly become one of the most consequential developments in tech this year. In January 2026, Apple confirmed a multi-year deal to use Google’s Gemini technology as a foundation for its next-generation models, including a revamped Siri and expanded Apple Intelligence features. It is a collaboration few predicted, and one that reshapes how…
AI Impact Summit 2026: The Structural Shift to AI Infrastructure
The AI Impact Summit 2026 arrived at a different stage of the AI cycle. Earlier global forums were shaped by urgency, first around generative breakthroughs, then around safety concerns, and later around enterprise implementation. By contrast, the discussions in New Delhi suggested a field settling into its next phase. Rather than centring on capability alone, speakers…