Observing a technological boom lead to a technological collapse is particularly ironic. That’s about how the global smartphone market is going in 2026. The same wave of artificial intelligence that has investors pouring money into server farms, data centers, and GPU clusters is silently depriving the consumer device industry of memory chips, the one essential component. As a result, the International Data Corporation projects that global smartphone shipments will drop by 12.9% this year, the largest annual decline in over ten years, bringing the total volume down to about 1.12 billion units, levels the industry hasn’t seen since 2013. Letting…
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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Last spring, Chinese and American envoys sat across from one another in a conference room in Geneva for what both governments referred to as a “candid and constructive” meeting. They were discussing artificial intelligence, including its hazards, risks, and who gets to set the rules. You quickly realize that they weren’t actually describing the same conversation when you read the separate summaries that each side subsequently released. Washington mentioned China’s “misuse of AI.” Beijing took issue with the United States’ “restrictions and pressure.” The diplomatic language remained unaltered. It wasn’t the underlying tension. By geopolitical standards, that meeting—the first official…
San José’s choice of a library has a subtle symbolic meaning. Not a campus for technology. Not an incubator for startups. It’s not a chic co-working space with cold brew available. On the morning of March 3, 2026, representatives from some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, university administrators, and city officials convened at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The AI Center for Civic and Social Good, a public space where anyone can, at least in theory, walk in and begin learning how to use one of the most significant technologies of our time, will be inaugurated by…
A Recent Entrance to Paradise is a painting that frequently appears in legal circles. Its color scheme is dreamy, lush, and almost romantic. The kind of piece you might find in a gallery in lower Manhattan, with the artist’s name and the year written on a little white card next to it. However, there isn’t an artist. Computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s algorithm, DABUS, produced the entire piece. Thaler applied for copyright protection but was categorically turned down. Upheld by the courts and upheld by the Supreme Court in March 2026, that denial has quietly emerged as one of the most…
A warehouse worker in the Midwest of the United States goes through a tiny, nearly unmemorable moment dozens of times during a shift. They hesitate. Perhaps they look at a window, or perhaps they stretch their back. When thirty minutes of that accumulate over the course of a shift, the system issues a warning. After an hour, the disciplinary procedure starts. They are fired after two hours. A supervisor did not call. There had been no discussion. No one gave them a direct look. That was the decision made by the algorithm. FieldDetailsTopic / ConceptAlgorithmic Management (ALMA)Also Known AsAI-driven management,…
Carbon dioxide extracted from the open air is gradually turning into a diamond somewhere in a reactor facility in Chicago under intense heat and pressure driven by clean electricity. Atom by atom. Week by week. It sounds like something from a novel by Jules Verne. However, the man behind it has a waitlist to show that it is actually happening right now. The CEO and co-founder of Aether, a startup in New York, Ryan Shearman has spent years creating a patent-pending method that uses CO2 straight from the atmosphere to create gem-grade diamonds in about four weeks. For comparison, Mother…
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…
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…