At MAI (Microsoft AI), we don’t just build AI tools, we care about how real people interact with them. So as 2025 wraps up, we’ve gone headfirst into a mountain of de-identified data, searching for ...

I'm a pretty new user of ESP32 based devices (currently Lilygo T-Embed CC1101, Lilygo T-Deck, M5Stack Cardputer v1.1) and been looking at available firmware for these before I began doing my own thing ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he was unhappy ...

What if the future of portable computing could fit in your pocket, without compromising on power or versatility? Enter the Cardputer ADV, a compact yet feature-packed device that’s redefining what’s ...

It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers. Google has just released a technical report detailing how much ...

For years, teachers have been bashing their heads against the wall as students outsource their homework to large language model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT. But as students of all ages grow to depend ...

What if you woke up tomorrow to find your most trusted AI assistant suddenly limited in how much it could help you? For a small but significant group of users—just 5%—this scenario is now a reality.

A year ago, I wrote a piece here about how people were really using gen AI. That article seemed to hit a note: It was popular, featured in viral posts, and the beautiful accompanying infographic has ...

For those of us lucky enough to have been at Hackaday Europe in Berlin, there was a feast of hacks at our disposal. Among them was [Vladimir Divic]’s gradients game, software for an M5Stack module ...

The long-awaited Xbox handheld could arrive this year… but if the latest rumor is accurate it won’t be made by Microsoft and it may be more of a Windows 11 handheld with Xbox branding than a portable ...