How to Start (and Keep) a Healthy Habit (2026)

14 Best Fitness Trackers (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Whether you’re skiing in the backcountry or trampolining in the backyard, we have an activity tracker for you.

Things Software Developers Think They Don’t Need to Care about, But Can Impact Their Job

Holly Cummins gave a keynote at Goto Copenhagen where she urged developers to care about overlooked issues that shape their work. She warned of unintended consequences...

5 uncomfortable predictions for engineering leaders in 2026

Home truths, not pie-in-the-sky predictions. The post 5 uncomfortable predictions for engineering leaders in 2026 appeared first on LeadDev.

AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business

After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative.

I Tested Popular Functional Coffee Add-Ins for a Week Each (2026)

Our reviewer optimized his morning cup of coffee with creamer substitutes that promise health benefits and mental clarity.

How to Make It Through Cold and Flu Season

Reduce your chances of catching these respiratory illnesses, and make sure you don’t spread it to others.

10 Tech Cleanup Tasks for New Year’s Day

Knock out these simple chores on this day of fresh starts to keep you and your devices humming smoothly.

Here’s What It’s Like to Use Acuity Scheduling for Your Business or Side Hustle (2026)

The online booking platform aims to streamline scheduling for everything from virtual appointments to workshops.

Trace Tracing to the Tunes

Some kind of continuity beeper has been a standard piece of gear since the dawn of electronics. Sure, you probably have an ohm meter, but sometimes...

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The Many-Sprites Interpretation of Amiga Mechanics

The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and richer graphics despite the limitations of early...

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Bun Introduces Built-in Database Clients and Zero-Config Frontend Development

Bun 1.3 revolutionizes full-stack JavaScript development with unified database APIs and zero-config frontend setup. Experience enhanced performance with built-in Redis support and optimized bundling. With a...

FOSS Weekly #26.01: Distros of 2026, Terminal Customization, CachyOS Server Edition and More Linux Stuff

The first FOSS Weekly of the year 2026.

13 Open-Source Apps I Use from a Web Browser (And You Can Too)

You don’t always need to install an open source software on your desktop or self host in your homelab. I use some of my favorites from...

Virus-Based Thermoresponsive Separation of Rare-Earth Elements

Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that would help with mining. This does...

Tick, Tock, Train Station Clock

We’ve seen a few H-bridge circuits around these parts before, and here’s another application. This time we have an Old Train Station Clock which has been...

Daniel Baumann: Pǔ’ěr chá storage (in Western Europe)

The majority of Pǔ’ěr chá (普洱茶) is stored in Asia (predominantly China, some in Malaysia and Taiwan) because of its climatic conditions: warm (~30°C) humid (~75%...

You can’t trust your eyes to tell you what’s real anymore, says the head of Instagram

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is closing out 2025 with a 20-images-deep dive into what a new era of “infinite synthetic content” means as it all becomes...

Junichi Uekawa: Happy new year.

Happy new year.

Linux App Release Roundup (December 2025)

I roundup a crop of December’s smaller Linux app releases, including the Clapper media player, QEMU virtualisation tool, Scribus DTP and ONLYOFFICE. You’re reading Linux App...

Is Neovim Your Next Favorite Development Tool?

If you’ve ever used Linux, you might have heard of Vim. Don’t run away just yet. Yes, Vim is not exactly the easiest text editor in...

API Platform Unkey Ditches Serverless After Performance Struggles

Developer Platform Unkey has written about rebuilding its entire API authentication service from the ground up, moving from serverless Cloudflare Workers to stateful Go servers after...

Teen Develops Flood-Detecting CubeSat

High school sophomore Abigail Merchant has made it her mission to use technology to reduce flood-related deaths. The 15-year-old lives in Orlando, Fla., a state where...

SAFE-MCP, a Community-Built Framework for AI Agent Security

In cybersecurity, going solo rarely works. Historically, frameworks like CVEs, ATT&CK and software bills of materials (SBOMs) have shown that shared languages of risk turn scattered...

Bits from Debian: DebConf26 dates announced

As announced in Brest, France, in July, the Debian Conference is heading to Santa Fe, Argentina. The DebConf26 team and the local organizers team in Argentina...

Here we go again: Retiring coal plant forced to stay open by Trump Admin

On Tuesday, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued a now familiar order: because of a supposed energy emergency, a coal plant scheduled for closure would...

What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More

2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue The Final Countdown by Europe), but not without recapping...

How AI Will Help Tomorrow’s IT Operations

The year 2025 started out with a bang, with the AI community collectively deciding to use the MCP format to build agentic systems, and moving on...

Net neutrality was back, until it wasn’t

The fight for net neutrality never seems to be truly won or lost. Federal net neutrality rules have been on and off for the past 15...

Leaked video shows the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s new camera island

New photos and video seem to confirm previous leaks hinting that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will sport a new camera bump. OnLeaks posted images of...

The Dreame X40 Ultra robovac is about $700 off, nearly matching its best price

The Dreame X40 Ultra used to be one of our robot vacuums on the market before its successor took its place. With the year coming to...

Sergio Cipriano: Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy using eBPF

Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy using eBPF I recently had to debug an Envoy Network Load Balancer, and the options Envoy provides just weren’t...

Ravi Dwivedi: Transit through Kuala Lumpur

In my last post, Badri and I reached Kuala Lumpur – the capital of Malaysia – on the 7th of December 2024. We stayed in Bukit...

Getting DNS Right: Principles for Effective Monitoring

This is the second of two parts. Read Part 1: How to Get DNS Right: A Guide to Common Failure Modes Monitoring DNS is not simply...

The Top 6 AI Stories of 2025

Artificial intelligence in 2025 was less about flashy demos and more about hard questions. What actually works? What breaks in unexpected ways? And what are the...

Killing in the name of… nothing

In a good and just society, it would have been possible to bury Charlie Kirk without either threatening mass violence toward his enemies or making light...

Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025

In a roundup of the top stories of 2024, Ars included a supply-chain attack that came dangerously close to inflicting a catastrophe for thousands—possibly millions—of organizations,...

Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield

Last September, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) unleashed teams of robots on simulated mass-casualty scenarios, including an airplane crash and a night ambush. The...

The 11 best Nintendo Switch 2 games we played in 2025

2025 was a big year for gaming, and that includes gaming hardware. Nintendo launched its Switch 2 console in June, and since then, numerous Switch 2...

Presentation: Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

Karthik Ramgopal and Daniel Hewlett discuss the evolution of AI at LinkedIn, from simple prompt chains to a sophisticated distributed agent platform. They explain the transition...

Factor Meal Delivery Promo: Free $200 Withings Body-Scan Scale

Factor meal kits offer a free $200 Withings body-scanning scale after a three-week subscription. I was afraid, then maybe a little motivated?

The Best Over-the-Counter Sleep Aids (2025), Tested and Reviewed

I tested an array of alternative sleep aids, from gummies to wearable patches, to see if they would help my chronic insomnia.

From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

Following two years of immense hype in 2023 and 2024, this year felt more like a settling-in period for the LLM-based token prediction industry. After more...

Open Source New Year Almanac: What Does 2026 Hold for You? 🗓️

Step into 2026 with your personalized open source forecast!

Match the Resolution: New Year Intentions Meet Linux Commands 🎯

New Year, new you, new Linux commands?

New Year Countdown Quiz for Linux Users 🎆

Happy New Year’s Eve, Linux enthusiasts! 🎉

The performative trap of public recognition 

Ensuring your team members receive proper acknowledgement for their work extends beyond shallow praise. The post The performative trap of public recognition  appeared first on LeadDev.

Fears Mount That US Federal Cybersecurity Is Stagnating—or Worse

Government staffing cuts and instability, including this year’s prolonged shutdown, could be hindering US digital defense and creating vulnerabilities.

AI-Powered Dating Is All Hype. IRL Cruising Is the Future

Dating apps and AI companies have been touting bot wingmen for months. But the future might just be good old-fashioned meet-cutes.

Discovering the Dimensions of a New Cold War

The United States’ plan for dealing with Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China remains ill-defined among a shifting global order. That must change.

Kubernetes 1.35 Released with In-Place Pod Resize and AI-Optimized Scheduling

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the release of Kubernetes 1.35, named “Timbernetes”, emphasizing its focus on mutability and the optimization of high-performance AI/ML workloads....

Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

A new year is the perfect opportunity to break free from routines, reset habits, and refine how you do things. And while you may have made...

ReScript 12.0 Released with New Build System

ReScript 12.0 has launched, marking a milestone in modernizing the language with a rewritten build system, improved performance, and enhanced syntax. Key features include modular architecture,...

Chris Lamb: Favourites of 2025

Here are my favourite books and movies that I read and watched throughout 2025. § Books Eliza Clark: Boy Parts (2020)Rachel Cusk: The Outline Trilogy (2014—2018)Edith...

Introducing the new bootc kickstart command in Anaconda

Anaconda installer now supports installation of bootc based bootable container images using the new bootc command. It has supported several types of payload to populate the...

Cloudflare Year in Review: AI Bots Crawl Aggressively, Post-Quantum Encryption Hits 50%, Go Doubles

Cloudflare has recently published the sixth edition of its Radar Year in Review. The results reveal 19% yearly growth in global internet traffic, Googlebot dominance, increasing...

These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025

These open source gems have helped me refine my workflow.

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Hyprland Becomes More Attractive with Crash Recovery and Safe Mode Features

New crash recovery wrapper and welcome screen arrive, though windowrules require manual migration.

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Freexian Collaborators: How files are stored by Debusine (by Stefano Rivera)

Debusine is a tool designed for Debian developers and Operating System developers in general. This post describes how Debusine stores and manages files. Debusine has been...

Architectural Lessons From Patreon’s Year in Review

In 2025, Patreon’s engineering team expertly balanced feature delivery for 10M+ members with vital infrastructure upgrades. Their Year in Review highlights 12 projects focused on maintenance...

Google Boosts ART Compile Times by 18% Without Compromising Code Quality

Google’s Android Runtime (ART) team has achieved a 18% reduction in compile times for Android code without compromising code quality or increasing peak memory usage, delivering...

Run Real Python in Browsers With Pyodide and WebAssembly

There are many ways to bring Python to the browser (thanks, WebAssembly). But there’s only one way to bring Python’s full functionality (really no compromises) to...

QCon AI New York 2025: AI Works, PRs Don’t: How AI is Breaking the SDLC and What to Do about it

Michael Webster, Principal Engineer at CircleCI, presented “AI Works, Pull Requests Don’t: How AI Is Breaking the SDLC and What to Do about It” at QCon...

Shotcut 25.12 Adds Full 10-Bit Video Editing Support

Open source video editor Shotcut 25.12 adds 10-bit CPU pipeline support, linear color processing, and better hardware encoding on Linux. You’re reading Shotcut 25.12 Adds Full...

The science of how (and when) we decide to self-censor

Freedom of speech is a foundational principle of healthy democracies and hence a primary target for aspiring authoritarians, who typically try to squash dissent. There is...

Lawsuit over Trump rejecting medical research grants is settled

On Monday, the ACLU announced that it and other organizations representing medical researchers had reached a settlement in their suit against the federal government over grant...

From Group Science Project to Enterprise Service: Rethinking OpenTelemetry

Ari Zilka says he counted 23 different observability vendors at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon  North America 2025, and talked with every single one. According to Zilka, first-ever...

DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say

Determining how “successful” Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) truly was depends on who you ask, but it’s increasingly hard to claim that DOGE made...

NJ’s answer to flooding: it has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties

MANVILLE, N.J.—Richard Onderko said he will never forget the terrifying Saturday morning back in 1971 when the water rose so swiftly at his childhood home here...

Hands-On Experience Can Increase Your Chances of Landing a Job

As a college student, are you concerned that your knowledge alone won’t be enough to impress potential employers? Do you feel you lack the necessary hands-on...

Stranger Things series finale trailer is here

Stranger Things fans are hyped for the premiere of the hotly anticipated series finale on New Year’s Eve: they’ll either be glued to their TVs or...

Condé Nast user database reportedly breached, Ars unaffected

Earlier this month, a hacker named Lovely claimed to have breached a Condé Nast user database and released a list of more than 2.3 million user...

Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks

Two former employees at cybersecurity firms – one of whom was a ransomware negotiator – have pleaded guilty to carrying out a series of ransomware attacks...

Stop Drowning in Alerts: Why Signals Are Your Team’s Lifeline

Engineering teams have done everything they can to keep up with contemporary IT systems. They’ve added dashboards while also adopting observability platforms, building custom instrumentation and...

Monthly News – December 2025

Many thanks to you all for your generous donations. A big thank you as well to our sponsors and to everyone who supports our project. Special...

Guido Günther: Phosh 2025 in Retrospect

As in previous, years we took another look back at what changed in Phosh in 2025 and instead of just updating our notes why not again...

Why Developers Are Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla JavaScript

Everyone’s tired, and framework fatigue isn’t just a meme anymore: It’s a collective burnout. Developers who once raced to master React, Vue and Svelte are now...

Looking for friends, lobsters may stumble into an ecological trap

Lobsters are generally notable for their large claws, which can serve as a deterrent to any predators. But there’s a whole family of spiny lobsters that...

2025’s Radical Frontend AI Shift

When we closed the door on 2024, there was both pearl-clutching and hype over AI — but at that time, not a lot of functionality for...

The top 5 most horrifying and fascinating medical cases of 2025

There were a lot of horrifying things in the news this year—a lot. But some of it was horrifying in a good way. Extraordinary medical cases—even...

A Step-by-Step Guide To Deploying ADK Agents on Cloud Run

In our recent tour of Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), I walked you through the three approaches to building AI agents with ADK: Python, YAML, and...

The Top 8 Semiconductor Stories of 2025

This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw material) to commercial deployment. I’ve...

The 10 best vehicles Ars Technica drove in 2025

2025 has been a tumultuous year for the car world. After years of EV optimism, revanchists are pushing back against things like clean energy and fuel...

Porsche Brings Wireless EV Charging to Consumers

Charging an EV at home doesn’t seem like an inconvenience—until you find yourself dragging a cord around a garage or down a rainy driveway, then unplugging...

Commodore 64 Ultimate Review: An Astonishing Remake

The reborn Commodore 64 is an astonishing remake—but daunting if you weren’t there the first time around.

What Is a Preamp, and Do I Really Need One?

If you’ve wondered what a preamplifier is, what it exactly does, and whether your audio setup is missing one, we’ve got the answers—as well as some...

AWS Announces New Amazon EKS Capabilities to Simplify Workload Orchestration

Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EKS Capabilities, a set of fully managed, Kubernetes-native features designed to streamline workload orchestration, AWS cloud resource management, and Kubernetes...

7 Best Digital Notebooks (2026): reMarkable, Kobo, Kindle

These nifty tools combine the ease of jotting notes by hand with the power of saving them digitally.

Experiencing This Powerful NXP SBC Made Me Realize of My Limitations

Using an industry-oriented device can surely test the limits of a DIY enthusiast.

The ascent of the AI therapist

We’re in the midst of a global mental-­health crisis. More than a billion people worldwide suffer from a mental-health condition, according to the World Health Organization....

Tips for Keeping a Digital Diary and Why You Should

After 10 years of journaling, my only regret is not starting sooner.

The Great Big Power Play

US support for nuclear energy is soaring. Meanwhile, coal plants are on their way out and electricity-sucking data centers are meeting huge pushback. Welcome to the...

Open-Source Agent Sandbox Enables Secure Deployment of AI Agents on Kubernetes

The Agent Sandbox is an open-source Kubernetes controller that provides a declarative API for managing a single, stateful pod with stable identity and persistent storage. It...

China Will Tax Contraceptives in a Bid to Improve Birth Rates

Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax exemption on contraceptives.

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service Simplifies State Management with Long-Term Memory Preview

Microsoft has launched a public preview of a managed long-term memory store for its Foundry Agent Service. The service automates the extraction, consolidation, and retrieval of...

Put an end to being the “go-to” engineer 

Being the individual people run to in a fire may feel great short-term, but the negative effects can pile up. The post Put an end to...

How To Design For (And With) Deaf People

When we think about people who are deaf, we often assume stereotypes, such as “disabled” older adults with hearing aids. However, this perception is far from...

CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Programme to Standardise Workloads

The CNCF has launched the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance programme to standardise artificial intelligence workloads. By establishing a technical baseline for GPU management, networking, and gang...

AI-assisted coding and unsanctioned tools headline 2026’s biggest security risks

Predicting the biggest security threats in 2026. The post AI-assisted coding and unsanctioned tools headline 2026’s biggest security risks appeared first on LeadDev.

NTFSPlus Becomes "NTFS" as Driver Moves Closer to Kernel Integration

The v3 patch series brings improved performance and new features while dropping the “Plus” moniker.

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in December 2025

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here...

US can’t deport hate speech researcher for protected speech, lawsuit says

Imran Ahmed’s biggest thorn in his side used to be Elon Musk, who made the hate speech researcher one of his earliest legal foes during his...

Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge “thank you” to all of our readers — newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past...

Leonardo’s wood charring method predates Japanese practice

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique  for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in bioarchitecture because the carbonized layer protects the wood...

Your AI Workflow Is Missing a Composable Architecture

“Don’t ask the model to build your whole app. Break your request into smaller parts and generate one function, hook, or component at a time.” You’ve...

Researchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream...

Generative AI Apps Need an Ecosystem, Not Just a Prompt

Every engineer has a moment early in their career when they realize the truth: You cannot learn everything. Much like doctors choose specialties, engineers eventually pick...

Make GNOME’s App Grid Scroll Vertically (Like it Used to)

A new GNOME Shell extension brings vertical scrolling back to the app grid. Ideal for mouse scroll wheel obsessives running GNOME 49. You’re reading Make GNOME’s...

China drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence

China drafted landmark rules to stop AI chatbots from emotionally manipulating users, including what could become the strictest policy worldwide intended to prevent AI-supported suicides, self-harm,...

Why Decoupling Control and Data Planes Is the Future of SaaS

Over the last decade, the industry accepted a simple truth: If you wanted a Software as a Service (SaaS) product, you consumed it in the cloud...

Presentation: Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads

Bruno Borges discusses a paradigm shift in performance management: moving from manual tuning to automated SRE agents. He explains how to leverage the USE and jPDM...

Self-Driving DevOps? How Stakpak Tackles Infrastructure Complexity

Everything in tech is always changing at what feels like a breakneck pace — everything except DevOps infrastructure, that is. Actually, George Fahmy, co-founder and CEO...

The Top 7 Energy Stories of 2025

Powering the AI data center boom dominated the conversation in the global energy sector in 2025. Governments are racing to develop the most advanced AI models,...

Devices Target the Gut to Maintain Weight Loss from GLP-1 Drugs

Christina had tried dieting and exercise before. The weight always came off but then crept back on, especially after she gave birth to her son in...

iMP Tech Mini Arcade Pro Review: A Nintendo Switch Arcade Cabinet

A fun diversion for retro gaming on the Nintendo Switch 2—if you can stand to look at it.

The Best Vacuum for Pet Hair—We Tested Many to Find Which Ones Work Best (2026)

Cordless, handheld, robot, and traditional—we tested them all to find the vacuum that’s fantastic for fur.

The Best Body Pillow, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

From the classic body pillow to unique shapes for optimal limb support, we tested a wide range of body pillows designed for side sleepers.

The Worst Hacks of 2025

From university breaches to cyberattacks that shut down whole supply chains, these were the worst cybersecurity incidents of the year.

Debian Embraces Chinese LoongArch Processors with Official Loong64 Support

Two-year journey from Debian Ports brings LoongArch to the officially supported architecture lineup.

Bangladesh’s garment-making industry is getting greener

Pollution from textile production—dyes, chemicals, and heavy metals like lead and cadmium—is common in the waters of the Buriganga River as it runs through Dhaka, Bangladesh....

3 New Tricks to Try With Google Gemini Live After Its Latest Major Upgrade

Google’s AI is now even smarter, and more versatile.

The New Surveillance State Is You

Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them.

The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2025

From Donald Trump to DOGE to Chinese hackers, this year the internet’s chaos caused outsize real-world harm.

If You Have an Older NVIDIA GPU on Arch Linux, Your System Might Be Broken

But it’s not entirely Arch Linux’s fault. This stems from NVIDIA dropping Pascal support and Arch’s decision to push legacy drivers to AUR.

The Earth Is Nearing an Environmental Tipping Point

Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.

How engineering leaders can better leverage AI in 2026

Supercharge your leadership next year with these AI-powered workflows. The post How engineering leaders can better leverage AI in 2026 appeared first on LeadDev.

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Goodbye Plugins: MCP Is Becoming the Universal Interface for AI

Three months ago, I spent two weeks building a custom plugin to connect our AI assistant to our internal CRM system. Last week, I replaced it...

Martin Fowler on Preparing for AI’s Nondeterministic Computing

Martin Fowler, Thoughtworks chief scientist and long-time expert on object-oriented programming, views AI as the biggest shift in programming he has seen in his entire career....

CrunchBang Linux Lives on With GreenBang

CrunchBang was a Debian-based Linux distribution that was minimal and pretty popular among hard-core users. CrunchBang eventually ended, but gave way to the likes of CrunchBang++...

Year in Review: AI’s Cultural Surprises – and Spectacular Failures

In a world where AI was suddenly everywhere, what will be remembered about 2025? How can we tell future generations what it looked like when miraculous...

The Top 5 Climate Tech Stories of 2025

The skies may have rained on this year’s big climate summit in Belém, Brazil, but engineers have invented plenty of exciting climate tech this year worth...

How Much Melatonin Should You Be Taking? (2026)

Many people rely on the sleep aid melatonin to help them get a more restful night’s sleep. But is it safe? And how much is too...

First Air Taxi Service to Launch in Dubai in 2026

Summary Joby Aviation is realizing Uber’s original “Elevate” dream, moving electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from science fiction toward commercial reality. By 2026, Joby...

10 Best Drones (2025): Flight-Tested and Reviewed

Whether you want to battle Star Wars spaceships or shoot a cinematic masterpiece, one of these drones is going to be perfect for you.

8 Best Plant-Based Meal Delivery Services and Kits (2025), Tested, Tasted, and Reviewed

Convenience isn’t just for meat eaters anymore. These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door.

Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World

The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.

The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance

Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.

Jonathan Dowland: Our study, 2025

We’re currently thinking of renovating our study/home office. I’ll likely write more about that project. Embarking on it reminded me that I’d taken a photo of...

F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email

And I understand why he got annoyed and angry.

Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.

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