When Tony Fadell entered New York City’s 28th Street Subway Station, he did not expect to come face-to-face with an advertisement for a product he designed over 20 years ago. But there it was: a five-by-four-foot poster promoting the iPod Shuffle, luring passersby with the promise of “Zero screen time.” “The first thing was, I … Read More “The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it” »
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me. Today, we cover: Meta follow-up. A follow-up on Tuesday’s deepdive into Meta’s ongoing demolition of its own engineering org. Non-engineering teams lost more than 10% of their … Read More “Big implications of US banning Anthropic’s new model, Fable” »
Months ahead of Apple’s expected iPhone 18 lineup release, Apple CEO Tim Cook is preparing consumers for a price hike. Cook toldThe Wall Street Journal that, “unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” stating that the company has faced rising costs on memory and storage chips used in its products. “We’ve been trying to shield our customers from … Read More “Apple’s Tim Cook Says Price Increases Are ‘Unavoidable’” »
Sony just announced its first LOFIC image sensor, the Lytia 910. “LOFIC” stands for “Lateral Overflow Integration Capacitor”. In other words, it solves the issue of photodiodes becoming saturated by too much light by placing a capacitor next to each diode – this significantly increases the full well capacity of each pixel. According to Sony, … Read More “Sony unveils the Lytia 910, its first LOFIC sensor, and it boasts 100dB dynamic range” »
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Aleksandr Samokutyaev, Expedition 28 flight engineer, in the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module with a view of space shuttle Atlantis outside the window during the STS-135 mission on July 12, 2011. Credit: NASA Aleksandr Samokutyaev, Expedition 28 flight engineer, in the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module with a view of space shuttle Atlantis … Read More “The first long-duration resident of the ISS, a cosmonaut, has died” »
It’s been about a year since the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s Click to Cancel rule. The rule was created to prohibit deceptive subscription cancellation practices. The Click to Cancel rule would have required companies that offer subscription services to update their cancellation processes so it’s just as … Read More “Click to Cancel Is Dead, but the FTC Is Still Fighting Subscription Scams” »
Observability for Beginners: Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Everything Around Them A running service generates events constantly. Requests arrive, functions run, errors appear, and each one is a thing that happened at a specific time with a specific context and a specific outcome. Logs, metrics, and traces are three ways of looking at this same stream. … Read More “Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Everything Around Them” »
We finally got our hands on the Motorola Razr 70 Ultra (aka Razr Ultra 2026 in North America), and it’s looking quite familiar. Here it is next to its predecessor – physically, aside from the different back panel on these specific two models, there’s not much of a difference. You’ve got mostly the same displays … Read More “Motorola Razr 70 Ultra/Razr Ultra 2026 in for review” »
Adobe is bringing its creative AI assistants into public beta and springing them across the Creative Cloud ecosystem. Starting on Thursday, you can use the AI assistant in the beta versions of Photoshop, Premiere Pro, InDesign, Illustrator and Frame.io. These creative, agentic AI tools were first announced in April. It’s Adobe’s biggest swing yet at … Read More “Adobe Says Its Expanded AI Agents Are There to ‘Guide You Down the Happy Path’” »
