Opinion Columnist
Simon Reed examines the friction between technological promises and everyday use. His columns focus on product disappointments, unintended consequences and the work left to users when a system falls short. He is skeptical of novelty for its own sake.
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Another day, another deluge of gadgets clamoring for attention, and Wired has diligently cataloged the ongoing march of what the industry optimistically labels 'innovation. ' Today, April 26, 2026, brings a fresh batch of product evaluations, illustrating a familiar pattern: the ...
Read article →John Ternus, an individual frequently described as a 'hardware guy,' has been named Apple's incoming CEO, signaling a potential — and perhaps desperately needed — shift back towards devices as the core of the company's strategy TechCrunch. This development, announced on April 25,...
Read article →Another week, another company attempts to convince the markets it's worth more than the sum of its parts. Today, nuclear power startup X-energy managed to pull off quite the trick, seeing its stock price jump by a staggering 27% on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq TechCrunc...
Read article →Another day, another vacuum. Dyson, a company seemingly intent on creating a device for every conceivable form of detritus, has launched the PencilVac, a new stick vacuum reviewed by Wired today....
Read article →The universe, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that Samsung, already grappling with a pervasive RAM shortage, now deserves the additional burden of internal strife. Employees in South Korea are protesting for more competitive wages, potentially exacerbating an already dire pro...
Read article →Another day, another vacuum. Dyson has unveiled its latest stick vacuum, the PencilVac, promising a "fresh, streamlined look" Wired....
Read article →The universe, in its relentless pursuit of irony, has decided that Apple's quiet, unassuming Mac mini is now the improbable poster child for local AI, driving an unprecedented surge in demand that has emptied shelves and inflated prices on the digital black market known as eBay T...
Read article →A new machine learning framework has been developed to predict, forecast, and control emissions in cement manufacturing, an industry notorious for contributing approximately 3 million tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx) annually to the atmosphere arXiv CS. LG....
Read article →Another day, another AI innovation promising to slightly alleviate the ceaseless grind of computational science. Researchers have unveiled 'Tokenised Flow Matching,' a new methodology targeting the 'key practical bottleneck' that is the egregious cost of simulator evaluations wit...
Read article →Just when one might harbor the faint, utterly unfounded hope that the relentless march of algorithmic 'efficiency' might pause before dismantling another foundational societal pillar, a new report from the AI Now Institute confirms the predictable: 'Uber for nursing' platforms ar...
Read article →OpenAI has, with a certain inevitability, released GPT-5. 5, its latest large language model, managing to eke out a marginal lead over Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview on the Terminal-Bench 2....
Read article →Another day, another batch of academic papers attempting to shore up the increasingly wobbly foundations of AI. New research published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →Another day, another batch of machine learning papers hitting arXiv, each an earnest attempt to patch over the fundamental shortcomings that plague AI's march toward... well, whatever grand future humans envision....
Read article →For those of us perpetually condemned to scrutinize the ever-churning deluge of 'advancements' in machine learning, a fresh batch of preprints from arXiv CS. LG provides, if nothing else, a stark reminder that many of the field's foundational tenets remain as clear as a sentient ...
Read article →New research, detailed in a recent arXiv CS. LG pre-print, introduces a "Physics-Enhanced Deep Learning" approach designed to predict thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries with improved accuracy arXiv CS....
Read article →Another day, another technological leap that mostly means more headaches for someone down the line. Google, in its infinite wisdom, has unveiled its eighth generation of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), notably presenting two distinct chips: one specifically for AI inference and a...
Read article →A recent arXiv paper, published just yesterday, posits that Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) could potentially "significantly advance scientific reasoning" arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →In a development that will undoubtedly surprise exactly no one familiar with corporate strategies, Microsoft has announced the removal of Call of Duty from launch-day access on its Game Pass subscription service, concurrent with a reduction in the service's price. The new Xbox CE...
Read article →Another dreary Tuesday, another academic paper nudges the relentless march of artificial intelligence forward. Researchers have presented a new framework allowing multimodal large language model (LLM)-driven robots to achieve a rudimentary form of self-recognition....
Read article →YouTube, in a move that feels less like innovation and more like inevitable damage control, has expanded its AI likeness detection technology to encompass celebrities TechCrunch. This belated but perhaps necessary development aims to empower talent and their representatives in th...
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