Think about the last time your phone died at the worst possible moment. Now zoom out. Electric cars, home solar panels, laptops, hearing aids, power tools, and even the electricity grid all depend on the same quiet technology: the battery. Batteries rarely get the spotlight. They don’t have the glamour of AI or the novelty […]
For years, science fiction has promised a world where digital information floats effortlessly in front of your eyes. Directions appear on the street ahead of you. A foreign menu translates itself as you look at it. A friend’s name appears quietly over their head at a party. That technology has a name: augmented reality, or […]
Every year, tech companies tell us that their latest gadget will change our lives. Phones bend in half. Rings track our sleep. Assistants promise to summarize, translate, and edit photos with a single tap. Some of this is exciting, and some of it is expensive packaging around features you may never use. So how do […]
When a new technology arrives, the first questions are usually practical: What can it do? How do I use it? But with artificial intelligence, a second set of questions keeps coming up, and they’re harder to answer. Is it fair? What happens to people’s livelihoods? And when it gets something wrong, who is responsible? These […]
Most of us first met AI as a chatbot: you type a question, it types an answer. Useful, but it’s still you doing the work. You copy the answer, paste it somewhere, click the buttons, and fill in the forms. AI agents are the next step. Instead of only telling you how to do something, […]
If you’ve felt dizzy from reading about artificial intelligence lately, you’re not alone. One headline says AI will cure every disease and end work as we know it. The next says it’s an overhyped bubble that can’t count the letters in a word. Both can’t be right, and the truth sits somewhere in the middle. […]
