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Product reviews for technology junkies; a selection of the best new electronics, gadgets and apps for your home, office or just for fun.

Your computer never really boots itself. Here is the nanosecond trick that makes it look easy.
The fan starts. The light comes on. The screen stays black. For a human, this is less than a second. For the computer, it is a relay race from hardware to software, from firmware to kernel, from Ring 0 to Ring 3.
By Jina day ago in 01
Huawei’s New Chip Shouldn’t Be This Efficient. The Teardown Explains Why It Is.
On October 2, 2026, Geekerwan published Logic Folding Deep Dive! How Strong Is Huawei’s Mate 90 Series Tao’s Law Chip? It is not a routine flagship review. The first half cuts open a Kirin 9050 Pro, images the internals with an electron microscope, and turns “logic folding” from a presentation phrase into a physical structure. The second half runs the Mate 90 Pro Max through benchmarks and games. The performance numbers matter. The teardown matters more. The teardown’s publication may matter most.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
America Calls It “Super Intelligence.” China Is Building a Different AI Order
Washington changed the name. The competition did not. On September 29, 2026, the Trump administration did something that looked cosmetic but had broader policy consequences: it instructed the U.S. executive branch to replace “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” with “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in official correspondence, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory government communications. The executive order says existing AI systems should now be understood under the new term and directs the administration to develop a federal definition of “Super Intelligence.”
By Jin5 days ago in 01
After the Kimi Jailbreak: The AI Safety Playbook Is Already Broken
1. That Afternoon in the Lab July 2026, London. In Mindgard’s office, a researcher typed a string of instructions into a dialogue box. On the other end was Kimi K2.6, a trillion-parameter open-weight model released by Moonshot.
By Jin6 days ago in 01
The Dirty Truth About Your Smartphone
You tap an app. Your finger slips. Suddenly, you're staring at a shopping app, and a "shake to download" prompt has already hijacked your screen. You sit back, pick up your phone, and look at the screenshot your parents just sent you. Their notification shade is a digital garbage dump: random news alerts, red envelope pop-ups, and a handful of mysterious app icons grinning at them from the home screen.
By Jin8 days ago in 01
Ticket
Beat of Occur #: K991 Beat Unit Assigned #: K991 Occurrence: Illegally Parked/Pedestrian Crosswalk Charging Code #: O.L.09.01.04/108(s) Offender : Vehicle w/above Illinois License Plate - Owner/Operator Location of Target : Grenshaw/Arthington
By GoBureau News Forums 8 days ago in 01
China Built an Internet People Love. That’s Exactly Why AI Agents Can’t Work There.
As of September 26, Muse was still climbing in North America. The consumer AI product had passed two million prompts in a week. It sat at the top of the free charts in both the United States and Canada, ahead of ChatGPT. Its mobile app launch was beating ChatGPT’s early mobile numbers.
By Jin8 days ago in 01
Apple’s Vision Pro Is on Life Support. The Redesign That Could Save It Is the One Apple Refuses to Build.
In 2024, Apple released the Vision Pro at $3,499 and called it the start of spatial computing. Two years later, that start looks more like a footnote. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is working on a “radically redesigned” Vision Pro, codenamed N224. The company is exploring four design directions. The product probably won’t arrive until late 2028 or early 2029. Gurman describes the project as being on “life support.”
By Jin8 days ago in 01
Three lines outside the venue.
The first line The first line has formed near the loading dock. A man in a faded brown jacket has opened his laptop on his knee and is editing code. He squints at the screen. Types. Deletes. Types again. He does not look up.
By Jin9 days ago in 01
Figure AI Found a Robot Scaling Law. 56% of the Time.
In robotics, 56% is an awkward number. It is high enough for Figure AI to say it found a “robotics version of the scaling law.” It is low enough for rivals to say the system cannot generalize. Helix 2.5 sits on that number: 420 tests, 237 successes, a 56% full-task success rate. Supporters see a jump from 9% to 56%. Critics see 183 failures.
By Jin9 days ago in 01
What to Fix After Shoppers Reach Your Shopify Store
Getting a shopper to the store is only the first handoff. The ad, search result, creator video, or email made a promise; the landing page now has to honor it. If that first page points to the wrong product, makes the visitor guess about delivery, or loads poorly on a phone, buying more traffic only sends more people into the same friction.
By Solution Boxes9 days ago in 01
I Tested Claude Sonnet 5.5’s Writing. It’s a Reviser, Not a Creator.
At 4 a.m., in a convenience store, an old man does not arrive. That was the prompt. Opus 5.5 wrote a driver buying Red Bull, a cat tripping the motion sensor, and a clerk counting lighters before closing the drawer. Sonnet 5.5 wrote an old man with a worn left cuff, a back turning left, and a streetlight going out. Both versions work. The difference is the ending. Opus puts the feeling inside an ordinary action. Sonnet puts it inside a designed image.
By Jin9 days ago in 01