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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.

The 10,000-Box Test: Why Humanoids Lose the Warehouse Math
Ten thousand boxes, from Warehouse A to Warehouse B. Straight-line distance: 80 meters. Two roll-up doors in between. Epoxy floor. The task is simple: move them over, stack them, do not drop them.
By Jin3 days ago in 01
The AI Pioneer Who Thinks We’re Looking at the Wrong Frontier
For two years, public talk about AI has been dominated by bigger models, more data, longer context. Text, code, Q&A, agents. The race has been to stretch the token stream. Fei-Fei Li offers a different read: large language models are one chapter, not the last one. The next frontier, she argues, is spatial intelligence.
By Jin3 days ago in 01
He Built a Hoverboard From a Childhood Dream. Then the Internet Called It Fake.
The reporter met Song Xingyu at an industrial park in Yichang. He was wearing flip-flops and loose, clean casual clothes. His hair was fluffy and curly, and acne marks were still visible on his fair face. He trotted over and knocked on the pontoons of two seaplanes in the warehouse. “Bang, bang… Look, these are my treasures! I bought them online for only 20,000 yuan. Do you know how much new ones cost? 200,000! Aren’t I lucky?” He was as excited as a child.
By Jin3 days ago in 01
Will You Ride In The New Tesla Roadster?
Tesla has taken electric vehicle innovation in an extraordinary direction with the unveiling of its redesigned next-generation Roadster on 15 October 2026. The vehicle attracted international attention after demonstrating the ability to drive upside down on a curved ramp, perform an airborne flip, and land using rocket-inspired thrusters developed with technology from SpaceX.
By Emma Ade9 days ago in 01
Apple Nudify Apps: Dangers
Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed digital photography, making it possible to edit images, change backgrounds, modify clothing, and create realistic visual effects. One controversial development is the emergence of AI nudify apps, which attempt to generate nude or sexually suggestive versions of photographs of real people.
By Emma Ade9 days ago in 01
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Wants to Put an AI Agent on Your Laptop. The 128GB Number Matters Most.
AI agents are moving faster than the devices meant to host them. Open-source projects such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent have set records on GitHub and OpenRouter. They can reason across applications, call tools, generate content, write plug-ins, and search local files. The open question is whether ordinary users can run them safely and privately on a main PC. NVIDIA’s RTX Spark, announced at GTC Taipei, and a Windows platform co-developed with Microsoft, try to answer that question. The pitch is a shift in what a PC is for.
By Jin10 days ago in 01
I Ran DeepSeek Through a Model Fingerprinting Tool. It Called It GPT. Here’s Why I Don’t Buy It.
I ran DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 through a model fingerprinting tool last week. The result came back fast: 84.66 percent match with GPT-6 Astra, and a 90.71 percent probability that the model belonged to the GPT family. I saved the screenshot. Then I ran the test again. Different answer. This time the tool pointed at Claude Sonnet 5.5.
By Jin10 days ago in 01
DeepSeek Went Down for 5 Hours. The Silence Afterward Is the Real Story.
At 8:11 a.m. on October 15, 2026, the customer service system of a tech company in Shenzhen stopped. Queued messages lined up on the screen. No one knew when service would return. At the same time, tens of millions of Chinese office workers opened DeepSeek and saw: “Server temporarily unavailable.”
By Jin13 days ago in 01
The CPU Naming Scam Nobody Warned You About
7840HS, 8845HS, Ryzen 7 260: One Chip, Three Names, Four Prices You open an e-commerce page and search for “thin-and-light laptop 16GB 1TB.” Two machines sit side by side. The spec sheets list roughly the same things. One says Ryzen 7 7840HS. The other says Ryzen 7 8845HS. The second one costs 300 yuan more.
By Jin14 days ago in 01
SilverSingles Review: The Price of a Smaller Dating Pool
A dating subscription becomes expensive very quickly when the person you want to talk to never replies. You can admire a profile, notice a shared interest, and imagine an easy conversation over coffee. Then nothing happens. The subscription keeps running, and the possibility stays a possibility.
By Dating Advice14 days ago in 01
Huawei’s ‘Xingmang’ Rumor: The Mid-Range Comeback Nobody Saw Coming
On October 11, 2026, “Huawei to launch sub-brand Xingmang” trended on Weibo. Several tech bloggers claimed Huawei would launch a new phone sub-brand called Xingmang (星芒, “Starlight”). They said it would target the 1,799 to 4,000 yuan mid-range market, much like early Honor. The first model was expected in November, with a Kirin 8-series chip, native HarmonyOS, and XMAGE imaging. Satellite communication would be removed. The pitch: a cheaper way to get Kirin and HarmonyOS.
By Jin16 days ago in 01
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 Jin22 days ago in 01