Latest articles on AI, technology, and software development.
In 2026, three tools dominate developer environment reproducibility: mise for fast polyglot version management, Nix/Nix flakes for full system-level reproducibility, and devcontainers for Docker-backed onboarding. Here is what each one gets right, what each gets wrong, and how real teams combine them.
NASA has confirmed the ISS will deorbit in 2030. Three commercial stations — Axiom Station, Starlab, and Orbital Reef — are racing to fill the gap. Here's where each project stands in 2026 and what the transition means for science in low Earth orbit.
After a decade of 'five years away' promises, solid-state batteries are finally moving from lab demonstrations to small production runs. Toyota, QuantumScape, Samsung SDI, and CATL each have real hardware. None of them have solved manufacturing at scale. Here's what's been demonstrated, what's still promotional, and when consumers will actually see these cells.
Data brokers legally sell your home address, phone number, family members' names, political affiliation, and location history to anyone with a credit card. Most people don't know they can opt out — and those who do find the process deliberately painful. Here's what they actually sell, how they get it, and what realistically works to reduce your exposure.
Steam Deck sparked a category. Four years later, AMD Strix Halo turbocharged it. Here's the honest breakdown of every major handheld gaming PC in 2026 — what they run, how long the battery lasts, and which one to actually buy.
Autonomous mobile robots have moved well beyond proof-of-concept: major 3PLs, retailers, and e-commerce operators are running fleets of hundreds today. We break down how the technology works, what the leading platforms can reliably do, what they still can't, and what the economics look like for a warehouse operator making the call in 2026.
The developer tools market has fractured. Individual coders want raw speed and capability; enterprise IT wants audit logs, SSO, and model access controls. In 2026, the companies that figured out how to serve both are pulling away from the pack.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge used AI to identify a structural region conserved across the entire coronavirus family — from SARS-CoV-2 and its variants to MERS and bat coronaviruses not yet seen in humans. The resulting experimental pan-coronavirus vaccine has now completed a Phase I human trial in the UK, demonstrating a safety profile that clears the path to larger efficacy studies. Here is what the science actually showed, and what it does not yet prove.
WebAssembly started as a way to run C++ games at near-native speed in Chrome. In 2026 it runs production workloads on Cloudflare's global network, powers plugin systems in editors and databases, executes AI inference at the edge, and is standardizing a system interface — WASI — that lets the same binary run in a browser, a server, or a microcontroller. Here is what that actually looks like.
SQLite runs on over a trillion devices — every iPhone, every Android phone, Firefox, Chrome, VLC. In 2026, it has moved beyond mobile and embedded to power Cloudflare D1, Turso, and the local-first web apps redefining how developers think about data. Here is why the simplest database in the world has become one of the most consequential.
HTTP/3 runs on QUIC, a UDP-based transport that solves TCP's core limitations: head-of-line blocking, expensive TLS handshakes, and broken connections during mobile network handoffs. Google serves over 90% of its requests over QUIC today. Here is what the protocol actually does and what web developers need to know.
In 2019, the original Galaxy Fold cost $1,980 and had its screen damaged by reviewers within days of unboxing. In 2026, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Pixel 9 Fold, and OnePlus Open 2 are legitimate daily drivers with IPX8 water resistance, near-invisible creases, and app ecosystems that actually adapt to the larger canvas. The form factor works now. The question is whether the $1,400–$1,800 price gap from flagship slabs is worth what you get.