CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
The Commodore Callback 8020 and Sailfish OS: A European Mobile Comeback
Commodore is back in the phone business, and the actual story is the operating system. The Callback 8020 runs Sailfish OS, made…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
AI
Snapdragon Reality Elite: The XR Chip That Finally Solves the AI Ceiling
Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite lands 48 TOPS of on-device AI compute in XR headsets, a 160% NPU jump over the XR2+ Gen…
AI
EU AI Act: Sovereignty Governance Without Sovereignty Infrastructure
The EU AI Act highlights a disconnect between regulatory ambitions and Europe's hardware capabilities, creating compliance burdens for startups while relying on…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
OPPO: The Complete Story, From DVD Players to the Hidden Empire Behind Five Billion Devices
The complete OPPO story: from DVD players in Silicon Valley in 2006 to running the BBK empire that owns OnePlus and Realme…
AI
The AI Power Shift: Control, Capital, and Who Gets Cut Off
SpaceX went public without loosening Musk's grip. The US government picked quantum winners with political ties. AI agents started trading crypto alone.…
CHIPS & AI
On-Device AI Code Generation: The MIT and AMD Shift That Redefined Developer Tools
MIT's 2024 reasoning model and AMD's Ryzen AI chips proved on-device AI code generation could work. Two years later, the shift is…
AI
Satya Nadella’s Human-Token Capital Framework: The Learning Loop as the New IP
Satya Nadella's recent LinkedIn piece outlines a framework for companies to build both human and token capital in AI. He emphasizes the…
DIGITAL MANUFACTURING
Raspberry Pi DNS Server: Own Your Network’s First Layer of Sovereignty
Sovereignty starts at the network layer, not the model layer. Here is how to run a local DNS resolver on a $95…
AI
AI Reasoning Gets Smarter, but Who Controls Where It Runs?
Reasoning models are measurably smarter. The real question is who controls the infrastructure they run on, and whether better reasoning creates value…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Nothing Company: The Complete Story, From Carl Pei’s Exit to a $1.3 Billion Bet Against Boring Tech
The complete Nothing Company story: from Carl Pei leaving OnePlus in 2020 to 7 million devices sold, 13,000 community investors, and a…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
OnePlus and North America: Past, Present, Future, and the Go-to-Market Strategy
OnePlus has been in North America since 2014 and has never cracked the market. The T-Mobile partnership gave distribution and took product…
AI
AMD’s EVO-X2: The Local AI Box That No Government Can Shut Down
128 GB of unified memory, a 40-core RDNA GPU, and local LLM inference nobody can revoke. The GMKtec EVO-X2 is the hardware…
AI
Nothing’s Design Philosophy: Transparency as Strategy, Not Gimmick
Nothing's design philosophy in full: transparency as a material argument, the Glyph Interface as notification philosophy made physical, Nothing OS as software…
AI
The Fable 5 Shutdown: When the US Government Pulled the Plug on Frontier AI
The US government ordered Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users globally, citing national security. The implications for…
AI
NVIDIA RTX Spark Deep Dive: Architecture, Benchmarks, and the x64 Compatibility Question
Nvidia's RTX Spark brings 20 ARM cores and 6,144 CUDA cores to Windows laptops this fall. The full architecture breakdown, Geekbench comparisons…