Qualcomm engineers have been working on a problem that no one asked them to solve for the better part of ten years in a building in San Diego. In a nutshell, the issue is this: Why should the processor in your pocket be any less powerful than the one humming inside a server that is mounted on a rack? Heat, battery life, and physics were the obvious answers for the majority of the smartphone era. However, over the past 18 months, something has changed, and Qualcomm’s most recent silicon is the best proof yet that the boundaries are beginning to…
Author: Taylor Lowery
Taylor Lowery
Taylor Lowery is a senior editor at glofiish.com, a technology writer, and a true circuit enthusiast. She works in the tech sector, so she does more than just cover it. Taylor works for a smartphone company during the day, which gives her a firsthand look at how gadgets are designed, manufactured, promoted, and ultimately placed in people's hands.Her writing is unique because of this insider viewpoint. Taylor makes the technical connections that other writers overlook, whether she's dissecting the silicon architecture of a new flagship chipset, analyzing the implications of a significant Android update for actual users, or tracking the effects of a new AI model announcement across the mobile industry.Her editorial focus covers every aspect of the current tech stack, including smartphone software and hardware, artificial intelligence (from large language models and generative tools to on-device inference), and the broader innovation trends influencing the direction of the consumer technology sector. She is especially passionate about the nexus of AI and mobile computing, which she feels is still in its most exciting early stages.
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The way artificial intelligence is being incorporated into transportation has an almost anticlimactic quality. No grand opening, no ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of a brand-new, shiny terminal. Rather, it takes place in the background, buried in the traffic signal logic of a mid-sized city in North Carolina, embedded in the routing software of freight trucks traversing the Australian outback, and inside scheduling algorithms at bus depots. If you want to call it that, the revolution is quieter than anyone anticipated. The situation was exposed in a seminal study published late last year at CoMotion GLOBAL in Riyadh. The report, which…
Watching European lawmakers discuss AI ethics the same week that an American startup announces a billion-dollar funding round with no governance requirements is almost theatrical. There is a purpose behind the contrast. It is the outward manifestation of a deeper division between those who maintain that speed is the only important tactic and those who think democratic safeguards must govern artificial intelligence. One of the key geopolitical debates of this decade is the escalating conflict between AI innovation and regulation. Think about the timing. When JD Vance cautioned Europe against “excessive regulation” of AI at a podium in Paris at…
The fact that the most significant advancement in artificial intelligence is taking place inside a gadget that most people use to browse through food photos and check the weather seems a little ridiculous. However, that is essentially what has occurred. Once a glorified communication tool, the smartphone has evolved into the main means of delivering AI in daily life. This has happened gradually, almost covertly, one software update at a time, rather than through a big announcement. Small conveniences were the first, barely noticeable. predictive text that picked up on your routines. apps for photos that subtly improved fuzzy images.…
A recent action by Will Teague, a history professor at Angelo State University in west Texas, felt more like counterintelligence than pedagogy. In his assignment instructions, he included invisible instructions in the form of white text in a one-point font. ChatGPT was instructed to write from a Marxist viewpoint by the hidden sentences. Students who copied the prompt into the chatbot received essays that were rife with allusions to dialectical materialism and class conflict. Thirty-three of the 122 papers that were submitted were clearly Marxist. Fourteen more students confessed after Teague revealed the trap in an email to his classes.…
Sweating through his shirt, a man sits opposite two journalists in a small Nairobi hotel room, fearing that his employer will discover his presence. In essence, his work entails viewing footage taken with Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, which occasionally shows people handling credit cards, undressing, or using the restroom. He did not volunteer to be a voyeur. However, Meta created him for that purpose. Earlier this year, a joint investigation by the Swedish publications Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten revealed the story, which went viral in the already contentious wearable AI debate. Employees in Kenya who were hired to examine and…
Not too long ago, purchasing a gaming console was seen as a sign of political loyalty. You were either a PlayStation or an Xbox. If you wanted to be the quiet outcast at the lunch table, consider Nintendo. The decision determined the games you could play, the people you could play with, and the online arguments you would unavoidably run into at two in the morning. It’s not quite dead, but it’s barely hanging on, and it wasn’t some audacious corporate choice that put it there. It was crossplay, which entered the industry slowly, messily, and almost unintentionally. In 2018,…
A steel-hulled trawler is currently dragging its nets through waters that, at least in theory, belong to a marine protected area somewhere in the South Pacific. The automatic identification transponder was turned off by its captain several hours ago. The location of the ship is unknown to the port authorities. There isn’t a Coast Guard cutter nearby to step in. However, a radar pulse was just reflected off the ship’s hull by a satellite flying overhead at a height of about 500 miles, and a data center algorithm detected the contact. As it happens, the vessel is not invisible. Illegal…
A family is currently sitting in a waiting area at a hospital, keeping an eye on the clock, and hoping that a phone will ring. They most likely picture a physician somewhere going through files, carefully weighing each patient against the others. The reality is more bizarre. The decision regarding the recipient of a donated organ, such as a liver, kidney, or heart, is made by a software system that performs calculations more quickly than the human mind could. Every time an organ becomes available, a “match run” is created by the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS, using…
A few months ago, there was a change on the internet that most people were unaware of. It wasn’t a dramatic change. There was neither an alarm bell nor an announcement. However, automated bots now produce more web traffic than people, according to Cloudflare’s most recent traffic report, which was released in early June 2026. The percentage is approximately 42.6 percent human and 57.4 percent bot. For the first time in its history, machines now control the internet. Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, appeared genuinely taken aback by the timing. He posted, “Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,”…