Apple is expected to announce more hardware before the end of the year following the debut of the iPhone 18 Pro and folding iPhone Duo earlier this month. The updated products will include a new version of the HomePod mini, the iPad mini 8, and the Apple TV 4K, according to details and images discovered […]
Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren't meant to see, not least because Muse itself told people, including us, it wasn't supposed to reveal […]
Hitting its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week is reportedly proving tricky for Tesla. The Information reports that Tesla produced "several hundred robots a week" last month, after it repurposed its Model S and Model X production lines for Optimus earlier this year. However, this strategy is reportedly creating manufacturing snags, like issues […]
One of the questionable limitations of the iPhone 18 Pro's new main camera with a variable aperture is that you're limited to just four settings in the native iOS' camera app in manual mode: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4. Those same limitations are also in place when the app is adjusting the iris itself in […]
Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: They're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do […]
Roku recently launched its first-ever OLED TVs. The $999 starting price was already impressive for the 55-inch Pro Series model that has a 120Hz refresh rate OLED panel (with four HDMI 2.1 ports and support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10 Plus). The price is even lower right now at Amazon when you enter the […]
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is he...
Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agent's promotion across its own apps and beyond.
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
Teachers have a very specific set of constraints that most web apps ignore: locked-down district Chromebooks, no permission to install anything, strict student privacy rules, and about five minutes between the bell and needing a tool on the projector.
Badge Your Classroom is a set of 24 free, browser-based teacher tools — wheel of names, timers, bingo cards, word searches, crosswords, a Jeopardy-style review board, a noise meter and more — built around those constraints. Here's what buildin...
Daily challenges are one of the simplest engagement features you can add to a games site — Wordle made the pattern famous. On Classroom Games , a collection of free learning games for teachers (math, typing, spelling, reading comprehension, geography, fractions, multiplication, sight words, brain breaks and more), the homepage shows one "Today's Pick" with a points goal. It resets at midnight, and there's one pick per day.
The interesting part: you can build this without a server . Here's t...
1. At what point of time in the designated process, will the team utilize the Model?
Understanding the timeline is very crucial for the model development process because it defines the prediction point. All ML models operate within a specific timeline. If you use the data which is available after a particular timeline, it can result in data leakage. Understanding prediction points also helps to determine what features will be available for the model and would follow the same timeline. All fe...
We run a pay-as-you-go proxy service. Until this month, using it in a browser meant the manual route: open the proxy settings, type a hostname and port, build a username by hand, sign in at the 407 prompt, and repeat the whole thing every time you wanted a different country.
So we built an extension. One popup: product line, country, fixed or rotating IP, a "new IP" button, and an on/off toggle. It is live for Firefox and Microsoft Edge . The popup took an afternoon. The part worth writing...
Why making many independent computers behave like one coherent system is where the trouble actually begins.
"Explore how independent machines, networks, concurrency, partial failures, clocks, transparency, and coordination turn “just add more computers” into a fundamentally different engineering problem"
Suppose a system needs more processing power, more storage, better availability, or simply needs to serve more people.
The obvious instinct is: ✨ Add machines ✨
That so...
Psychology quizzes are everywhere online, and most of them are made up. When I built Ask.Dr — a site with 240+ free psychology self-assessments, symptom guides and articles — the core rule was that clinical-style screeners should use published, validated instruments , implemented exactly as specified, with clear "this is not a diagnosis" framing.
The PHQ-9 depression questionnaire (Kroenke, Spitzer & Williams, 2001) is a good example of what that involves in code.
Model the...
Gradient Descent is a method for unconstrained mathematical optimization . It is a first-order iterative algorithm for minimizing a differentiable multivariate function.
The basic idea of the gradient descent algorithm is to take repeated steps in the opposite direction of the gradient of the function at the current point, which leads to a path that eventually minimizes the objective function. Gradient descent is one of the most popular algorithms in machine learning and artificial intel...
Short answer: inspect the delivered message's From, SPF, and DKIM domains; the aligned SPF or DKIM identity, not a green DNS console, explains why mail is going to spam.
The decisive trade-off is between declaring authentication success and proving that the visible From domain is aligned with the authenticated identity. In a marketplace where each seller can point a custom domain at the product, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC can all return green while messages still land in spam. The practical answer...
When Laravel 11 made SQLite the default database for new applications, it sparked a massive debate across the ecosystem. For years, standard engineering practice dictated using SQLite solely for local testing and spinning up MySQL or PostgreSQL for staging and production.
By mid-2026, the developer landscape has shifted. Fueled by the raw performance of modern NVMe SSDs, Write-Ahead Logging (WAL), and real-time streaming replication tools, SQLite is now a viable, low-maintenance production ch...