If you enter a small lab at Ohio State at the appropriate time, you will see something that resembles a botany experiment rather than a serious computer project. From dehydrated mushrooms, wires emerge. The probes are attached to the caps with clips. Beside them, a laptop hums as it records electrical signals. At first glance, it seems almost ridiculous. Then you realize that these researchers are creating memory chips from fungi, something that ten years ago no one really thought to take seriously. The study isn’t presented as a moonshot; it was published in PLOS One in late 2025. It…
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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A designer is using a standard Phillips-head screwdriver to unscrew the back of a phone somewhere in an Amsterdam workshop. No glue. No specialized equipment. No pentalobe theater that is exclusive. There are only a few visible screws and a drawer-like battery. The point is that it appears almost embarrassingly simple. The notion that a gadget should be a long-term relationship rather than a brief affair is what members of the so-called Slow Tech movement consistently return to. Additionally, the ambition has recently expanded in a way that ten years ago would have seemed ridiculous. Not for three years. Not…
When a thirteen-year-old is lying in the dark with a phone in hand—not texting a friend, but conversing with an AI—a certain silence descends upon a bedroom at eleven o’clock at night. The topic of discussion could be a disagreement with a parent, the stress of school, or the specific pain of feeling invisible. Additionally, the AI listens flawlessly because it is patient, focused, and never sidetracked by its own issues. Each and every time. Watching this play out makes it difficult to not feel two things at once. It has an almost tender quality. And something that ought to…
A portfolio manager who couldn’t stop laughing told me about Jonah Reuter for the first time. He wasn’t sure whether to be impressed or upset after losing a trade to a 22-year-old’s software. “The thing doesn’t sleep,” he remarked while stirring an espresso that he wasn’t consuming. “And it doesn’t blink.” A few years ago, Reuter would have seemed like an unlikely founder. Halfway through his second year, he left Oxford, citing what he refers to as “an allocation problem” with the sly smile of someone who has said it too many times. His parents weren’t overjoyed. According to multiple…
When you watch a 124-meter airship take off in 2026 and realize it’s not a movie prop, it can be a little confusing. The object floating inside the former Navy hangar near Moffett Field, which used to house dirigibles in the 1930s, is owned by a business supported by one of Google’s co-founders. The optics are peculiar. Strangely enough, the numbers aren’t. A stubborn portion of the world’s emissions are caused by freight, and the simple solutions have mostly been claimed. The power of trucks is amazing. CategoryDetailsIndustrySustainable Aviation & LogisticsLeading CompanyLTA Research (backed by Sergey Brin)Flagship VehiclePathfinder 1 —…
The way it transpired had an almost theatrical quality. On a clear October morning, a 400-foot silver shape glided over the Golden Gate Bridge, moving slowly enough for cars below to stop and gawk. The largest aircraft to fly in almost a century, Pathfinder-1 was built covertly by Sergey Brin’s LTA Research and chose the most photographed bridge in America for its longest test flight. It doesn’t feel like an accident. Although Brin avoids the media, it’s obvious that his airship wasn’t designed to blend in. A few weeks later, Helsinki locals began sharing images of what they believed to…
The most bizarre thing occurs when you enter a specific hospital room in Lancaster, Texas. Your doctor greets you, leans forward, and inquires about how the incision is healing as you take a seat across from him. Commonplace items. However, your physician isn’t present. Inside a black-trimmed box that weighs as much as a baby grand piano, he is a hologram that is projected so convincingly that patients occasionally forget there isn’t a real doctor within fifty miles. InformationDetailsSubjectHolobox 3-D Telehealth SystemDeveloperHoloconnects (Netherlands)First U.S. Hospital UserCrescent Regional Hospital, Lancaster, TexasDevice Dimensions7 feet tall, 440 poundsUnit Cost$42,000Annual Service Fee$1,900Launch DateMay 2024Primary…
A small office printer-sized device inside a pharmacy at Southampton General Hospital is about to begin doing something that pharmacists have long desired. Pills will be printed by it. actual ones. shaped, flavored, and dosed according to the individual in front of it. The National Institute for Health and Care Research awarded the funding earlier this year, and the researchers behind it describe it in the same way engineers describe a prototype that finally functions after years of near-failure. FieldHyper-personalized 3D-printed medicineFirst FDA-approved 3D-printed drugSpritam (levetiracetam), 2015Lead UK research siteUniversity Hospital SouthamptonFunding bodyNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchKey researchersDr…
Late on a Friday night, a certain silence descends upon a police control room. Phones are ringing. The sound of monitors. A dispatcher reaches for a cold cup of coffee somewhere in the corner. Additionally, a piece of software is increasingly detecting patterns in that same room that a human eye could miss in time, warning the streets when something is going to go wrong. It’s the kind of scene that would have seemed lifted from a movie script just ten years ago. That is no longer how it feels. Predictive AI is gradually making its way into the everyday…
When I first learned about the Florida Keys plan, I thought it sounded almost too tidy. After releasing hundreds of millions of male mosquitoes that were genetically modified to carry a self-destructing gene, the biting females would simply disappear in a few seasons. There are no clouds of insecticide floating over backyards. County health officials will no longer give standing-water sermons. Just a subtle biological adjustment made with surgical patience. However, nature rarely cooperates with neat plans, as anyone who has spent a steamy August evening on a Key Largo porch will attest. Project OverviewDetailsProject NameOX5034 Mosquito Release PilotLead CompanyOxitec…