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This is the time to get great deals on things that will make your home better all year.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are coming—and some are already here.

One of the dominant storylines I’ve been following through 2025 is electricity—where and how demand is going up, how much it costs, and how this all intersects with that topic everyone is talking about: AI. Last week, the International Energy Agency released the latest version of the World Energy Outlook, the annual report that takes…

Some of the key trends to note in your 2026 social media planning.

New education and enforcement initiatives to protect TikTok users.

Like Instagram Notes, but for your WhatsApp profile instead.

The latest data from Pew shows that the big players have held their lead in US usage.

You can now play chess inside Walkabout Mini Golf.

Yesterday, here in Helsinki, there was MatchXR, the event dedicated to immersive realities in Nordic Europe. It is my third year here, and as usual, I want to highlight for you a few things that I tried in the expo area. [Disclaimer: I’ve been supported by some people in the Finnish XR ecosystem on this […]

The post My hands-on sessions at MatchXR: Obers’s cheap VR treadmill, NOKIA audio innovations, and more! appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

The International Space Station is orbiting higher today after the Progress 93 cargo spacecraft, docked to the Zvezda service module’s aft port, fired its engines for over 14 minutes, 7 seconds at 8:04 a.m. EST on Wednesday. Back on the orbital outpost, the Expedition 73 crew focused its science activities on exercise research and fluid physics, both benefitting humans living on and off the Earth.

Raising our T with herbs and goat glands.

Manufacturing is getting a major system upgrade. As AI amplifies existing technologies—like digital twins, the cloud, edge computing, and the industrial internet of things (IIoT)—it is enabling factory operations teams to shift from reactive, isolated problem-solving to proactive, systemwide optimization. Digital twins—physically accurate virtual representations of a piece of equipment, a production line, a process,…

A group of quantum physicists claims to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek R1 that strips out the censorship built into the original by its Chinese creators.  The scientists at Multiverse Computing, a Spanish firm specializing in quantum-inspired AI techniques, created DeepSeek R1 Slim, a model that is 55% smaller…

Soon, you’ll be able to see how an item looks in your home before making an offer.