Month: May 2026
Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII has bigger camera sensors and a new look
Once again, Sony doesn’t have plans to release it in the US. Source
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Ikea’s New Designer Collection Is Home-Office Heaven
From a twisty lamp to a bendy clock, the Swedish company’s full 2026 PS Collection has dropped. It’s a boon for those looking to refine their homes and workstations. Source
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On Running LightSpray Cloudmonster 3 Hyper Review:
The Swiss shoemaker’s LightSpray Cloudmonster 3 Hyper is a laceless, lightweight, super shoe. Source
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Data centers are coming for rural America
At its peak, the Androscoggin paper mill in Jay, Maine, a rural town about 67 miles northwest of Portland, employed about 1,500 people — until a pulp digester exploded in 2020, forcing the mill to close permanently. In 2023, the 1.4 million-square-foot facility was purchased through a joint venture by…
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I thought Google NotebookLM was just an AI research tool — now it organizes my entire life
I originally thought Google’s NotebookLM was one of those impressive-but-slightly-pointless AI demos designed to show off what the company’s models could do. But somewhere along the way, it became one of the most genuinely useful AI tools I use every week. What started as an experimental research notebook has quietly…
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Amazon’s Panos Panay addresses new Fire phone rumors
Amazon’s head of devices and services, Panos Panay, says that the company is “not necessarily” planning to release a smartphone, but has stopped short of denying it outright. It was previously reported that Amazon is developing an Alexa-enabled AI phone codenamed “Transformer,” more than 10 years after it scrapped its…
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