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Google I/O 2026
…previously announced glasses with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker. Victoria Song May 19 Google Pics is a new app that tries to fix AI image editing Jay Peters May 19 Google…
Ikea’s smart lamp is a sweet treat
…While smart lamps and light fixtures from companies like Govee and Nanoleaf, with their flashy RGB lighting effects, are fun for a certain time and space, the Varmblixt is more versatile. Both…
Read this before you vibe-code another app
…It’s an app that scrapes links and due dates into a single dashboard and uses an LLM to prepopulate each form, so users only need to review and edit it (and…
I finally got my Trump phone
…It installed all my usual apps from my Google backup to go alongside the preinstalled Truth Social, claims its February Android security update is the latest it needs, and unlike YouTuber Quinn…
Insta360’s new viewfinder turns the action cam into a retro shooter
…included random people, houses, and cars that I deliberately tried to keep out of frame. It’s easy to fix with a quick crop in the Insta360 app, but it feels counterintuitive…
Inside the return of Xbox
…We have to fix the fundamentals on console and PC. We have to sweat every single detail and every single part of the experience to get to fun much faster and make…
Autonomous Cars
…Eight months after the iOS app launched , Tesla has released an Android version of its Robotaxi app. The service expanded to Houston and Dallas last week, but still seems to only have…
Welcome to the personal software revolution
…late 2025, Sloan updated his post: “I have changed literally nothing in the app, and it’s glorious.” Sloan is a fairly knowledgeable coder and built that app by hand. These days…
The next YouTube phenomenon hitting the big screen
…He also worked on a great voice notes app called Cleft Notes, and a bunch of other cool projects. After Justin and I chatted this week about the state and future…