Friday

3 April 2026 Vol 19

Category: Tech

Garmin InReach Mini 3 Plus Satellite Messenger Review: Robust With Lots of Upselling

Garmin InReach Mini 3 Plus Satellite Messenger Review: Robust With Lots of Upselling

The maps on the inReach were largely useless. The offline maps on the Garmin Fenix 8 Pro and the Garmin…
Custom-Built Kilowatt Laser Robot Slices Trees and Melts Rocks Into Lava

Custom-Built Kilowatt Laser Robot Slices Trees and Melts Rocks Into Lava

Stabi extends its arm from the shadows with a large barrel mounted to its wrist, and what is inside that…
Caviar’s iPhone 17 Pro 50th Anniversary Steve Jobs Edition Boasts Genuine Fragment of His Turtleneck

Caviar’s iPhone 17 Pro 50th Anniversary Steve Jobs Edition Boasts Genuine Fragment of His Turtleneck

Caviar created an extremely limited run of this Steve Jobs edition iPhone 17 Pro, only 9 copies. Each has a…
Water-Cooled MacBook Neo Equals Double the Frames from a Fanless Budget Laptop

Water-Cooled MacBook Neo Equals Double the Frames from a Fanless Budget Laptop

Apple’s MacBook Neo brings the A18 Pro chip from the iPhone 16 to an entry level laptop priced to compete…
Amazon Big Spring Sale laptops—these deals are already worth it

Amazon Big Spring Sale laptops—these deals are already worth it

SHVETS Production, Pexels If you’re thinking about waiting for the Amazon Big Spring Sale to officially start… this is it.…
Spudnik-1 is the Purple Potato That Floated Through Space and Left Everyone Guessing

Spudnik-1 is the Purple Potato That Floated Through Space and Left Everyone Guessing

Photo credit: Don PettitDuring Expedition 72, NASA astronaut Don Pettit used his free time on the International Space Station to…
Google introduces TurboQuant, cutting LLM memory usage by 6x with no accuracy loss

Google introduces TurboQuant, cutting LLM memory usage by 6x with no accuracy loss

The biggest memory burden for LLMs is the key-value cache, which stores conversational context as users interact with AI chatbots.…
Your smart TV is being geo-blocked without telling you — here’s the no-VPN fix

Your smart TV is being geo-blocked without telling you — here’s the no-VPN fix

One of my Samsung Frame TVs tipped me off first. A show I’d already watched a season of just wasn’t…
David Sacks is done as AI czar — here’s what he’s doing instead

David Sacks is done as AI czar — here’s what he’s doing instead

David Sacks has used up his days as Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar. Speaking with Bloomberg on Thursday, the…
Judge sides with Anthropic to temporarily block the Pentagon’s ban

Judge sides with Anthropic to temporarily block the Pentagon’s ban

After Anthropic’s weeks-long standoff with the Pentagon, the company won one milestone: A judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction in…