Somewhere over a section of rural Montana or the steppe of Kazakhstan, a phone signal just goes out. Not a bar. Nothing. For many years, this silence was just accepted as a drawback of the way mobile networks are designed. Towers are expensive. Remote land is not profitable. Thus, the towers never materialized. This reasoning, which has long been ingrained in business practices, is currently being dismantled covertly from a height of roughly 340 miles above the Earth’s surface. CategoryDetailsTechnologyDirect-to-Cell Satellite ConnectivityPrimary CompanySpaceX (Starlink)FoundedSpaceX: 2002 | Starlink: 2015HeadquartersHawthorne, California, USACEOElon MuskSatellite Network Size10,000+ satellites (as of 2025)Global UsersOver 10 millionTotal…
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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Every gamer is familiar with a certain moment. It happens quickly: a boss kill that required 47 tries, an impossible headshot, a last-second clutch play. Your heart is pounding. Your hands continue to tremble. And then it’s gone, undocumented, existing only in recollection and the frantic recounting to friends who weren’t present. It appears that Microsoft has been considering that precise moment for some time. Through its Xbox Insider program, the company is currently testing a feature called Highlight Reels. The idea is simple enough to seem almost obvious in retrospect: let artificial intelligence watch your gameplay, recognize the moments…
Take a moment to pick up your phone. Feel its weight, the cool glass against your fingers, the slight pressure in your palm. It’s simple to forget what’s really inside. The majority of people use it like a call-making camera. As of right now, it is more akin to a supercomputer, but not in the loose, hyperbolic sense that the term is used in tech press releases. Two years ago, the processing power found in today’s flagship smartphones would have required a room-sized server farm. That isn’t a metaphor. Today, a device that costs about $800 can perform thousands of…
Standing in a store with a box in hand—possibly a shrink-wrapped CD case or a DVD with the receipt still tucked inside—is probably a scene that many people can remember. You owned that item once you bought it. There is no need to log in. There isn’t a server on the other end. There isn’t a business that could reverse its decision in three years. It’s getting harder to find that sense of real ownership in the technology we use on a daily basis, and it’s vanishing more quickly than most people realize. The change was not self-announced. Dressed as…
Kenny Hirschhorn, Orange’s group director of strategy, imagineering, and futurology, pulled out his cell phone in January 2000 in London and asked a strategy consultant, “What is this?” A cell phone, the consultant said. With a sigh, Hirschhorn gave another opportunity. When the response was “Nokia,” he shook his head. “This,” he stated, “is the remote control of your life.” Then he showed a video of a California executive using a phone in a car in 2000 to check his calendar and see his wife’s ultrasound pictures. The consultant’s mouth fell open. CategoryDetailsTopicArtificial Intelligence in Mobile Devices (On-Device & Cloud…
Sitting in front of grainy satellite footage of the Peruvian desert, there is a moment when it ceases to resemble geography and begins to resemble a message. Stretching across the Nazca Pampa, lines carved into pale earth are invisible to those who haven’t been instructed where to look and are typically overlooked on maps. For many years, it took months of fieldwork, skilled vision, and a certain obstinate willingness to crouch in the dust under a harsh sun to find these marks. An algorithm now completes the task in a fraction of the time. Additionally, it’s discovering things that skilled…
If you look closely, there’s a point at which technology becomes tiresome instead of exciting. The smartphone might have arrived at that point. These days, if you walk into any busy corner café in Austin or London, you’ll see the same scene: faces glowing blue-white in the afternoon light, heads tilted down, and thumbs scrolling. It doesn’t seem to make anyone very happy. No one appears to be learning something new. They simply appear to be stuck. At one point, the smartphone was truly revolutionary. The 2007 release of the first iPhone was more than just a product; it was…
These days, you can find someone presenting a slide about artificial intelligence’s potential to save the planet at any major tech conference. The typefaces are tidy. The images are green. The optimism is as thick as a knife. However, the image of the data centers humming in the distance—massive concrete blocks drawing electricity at a scale that would have seemed ridiculous ten years ago—is more difficult to ignore when standing outside one of those locations. The conference slides don’t fully convey the tension that exists here. TopicAI and Climate Change — Promise vs. Environmental CostKey OrganizationsUNEP, WRI (World Resources Institute),…
Every technology company has a point in its history when ambition surpasses the product roadmap and becomes more difficult to identify. Meta seems to have arrived at that point. In the last few months, Mark Zuckerberg has been quietly assembling what could be the most costly and aggressive AI research operation ever created inside a consumer technology company. He has recruited researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and GitHub, offering signing bonuses that have reportedly reached $100 million. not pay. bonuses for signing. FieldDetailsCompany NameMeta Platforms, Inc.FoundedFebruary 4, 2004CEOMark ZuckerbergHeadquartersMenlo Park, California, USANew AI DivisionMeta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)Chief AI OfficerAlexandr…
There’s a moment, if you spend enough time around working artists, when the subject of AI comes up and the room gets complicated. Not angry, not dismissive — complicated. A graphic designer in Brooklyn might admit she uses Midjourney to rough out client concepts before touching her tablet. A film composer in Los Angeles will tell you, almost in a whisper, that he ran a melody through an AI arrangement tool last month and the output was genuinely good. Then both of them will go quiet, as if they’ve confessed something they’re not sure how to feel about yet. CategoryDetailsTopicArtificial…