How AI broke the smart home in 2025
This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon's gen...
Dometic makes a better portable water faucet
The Dometic Recon 360 Faucet pumping water out of a Dometic Go Jug through a LifeStraw water filter.
As a reluctant doomsday prepper and eager vanlifer, Dometic's battery-powered Go Faucet has, ...
ByteDance to invest $23B in AI to bridge US tech gap
According to Financial Times, ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent of TikTok, plans to invest 160 billion yuan, approximately $23 billion, in artificial intelligence infrastructure in 2026 to narrow th...
Ad Tech Briefing: Big Tech won 2025 (even when it lost)
AI momentum papered over Google’s reset year
From an ad tech perspective, 2025 will be remembered as the year Google quietly recalibrated — retreating from some of its longest-running bets whil...