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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The perennial dance of tech product launches has a new date on the calendar, unofficially of course. A leaked Samsung teaser, circulating like wildfire across tech forums, points to the next Galaxy......
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Read article →Forget those flimsy microfiber pads of yesteryear; the latest generation of robot vacuums with mopping capabilities are finally getting serious about scrubbing floors. These new combo bots ditch th......
Read article →Netflix Animation Studios has officially joined the Blender Development Fund as a corporate patron, signaling a significant investment in the open-source 3D creation suite. This move by the streami......
Read article →Samsung's decades-long reign as the undisputed king of Android is facing its most serious challenge yet, as a confluence of strategic missteps and aggressive competition from rivals like OnePlus an......
Read article →Social media discussion: Claude Code Opus 4.5 Performance...
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Read article →Social media discussion: Anthropic's Claude AI Models and Features...
Read article →Samsung's Galaxy S series has long been a benchmark for smartphone displays. But are we about to see a *real* leap forward, or just another spec bump that disappears in real-world use?...
Read article →TikTok has bowed to pressure, settling a landmark lawsuit alleging social media platforms are intentionally addictive. The settlement, reached just ahead of a highly anticipated trial set to begin ......
Read article →Amazon is officially throwing in the towel on its ambitious brick-and-mortar grocery experiment. The tech giant is shuttering all Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores, marking a significant retreat fr......
Read article →A groundbreaking operator theoretic framework promises to revolutionize the analysis of intricate systems and enhance the stability of machine learning algorithms. Published in a recent paper on ar......
Read article →Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold has finally arrived stateside, but brace yourselves: this innovative foldable will set you back a cool $2,899. The device, which effectively transforms from a smartphone ......
Read article →The hallowed halls of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholarship are facing a reckoning. A new study exposes systemic biases within the peer review process, specifically targeting research origin......
Read article →The world of AI is about to get a whole lot smarter when it comes to tackling those dreaded word problems. Researchers have unveiled SpatialMath, a framework that infuses spatial comprehension into......
Read article →The promise of AI-powered coding assistants like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot is rapidly turning into a cybersecurity nightmare. A new study reveals that these systems, which use Large Language M......
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