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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Copilot Mode, Microsoft transforms Edge into an AI-powered assistant that compares prices, summarizes content, and might just steal your tabs. Will AI kill the web, or, in a twist of fate, ...

Pebble Time 2 flat on a surface, showcasing a modern segmented time display on its color e-paper screen. Eric Migicovsky this week took the wraps off the updated and near final designs of the revived ...

Yesterday, Loni Stark asked me a simple question: was I ready for my presentations at the Third Mind Summit? I told her I didn’t have any. I said my role was “support, not spotlight.” I listed all the ...

Everything retro seems to be in these days, including video game consoles. Old systems from Nintendo, Sony, Sega and Atari among others have plenty of fans as you’ll see if you check places like ...

A quietly gripping, beautifully shot day-in-the-life tale where a child’s forced “birthday duty” becomes a tense, tender quest through Saddam-era Iraq—and a loving portrait of the marshlands before ...

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 ...

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 ...