Author: Taylor Lowery

You’ll notice something strange if you walk into any mid-tier electronics store in Rawalpindi or Lahore these days. The price tags have subtly increased, but the shelves still appear familiar—the same Xiaomis, Samsungs, and shiny display units under fluorescent light. When you ask why, shopkeepers shrug. Some point the finger at “PTA.” Some murmur about memory chips. Some simply say, “What to do, sir? Everything is going up,” with a smile. In the center of this peculiar moment is the Samsung Galaxy A57. With its 6.67-inch OLED screen, Exynos 1680 processor, 5,000mAh battery, and 45W charging, it appears to be…

On a Monday in early March, the press release arrived. It was written in Cupertino’s signature tone, which is clear, self-assured, and slightly exuberant. Inside is a brand-new iPad Air M4. Memory of twelve gigabytes. a starting price of $599, which hasn’t changed from the previous year despite a memory market that has been brutal by all accounts. It seems like just another standard spec bump on paper. However, the longer you sit with it, the stranger it becomes. The iPad Air now uses the same silicon that Apple was selling inside MacBook Pros two years ago, which is something…

You can sense that the internet is changing somewhere between the time a VPN connection drops in Shanghai and the moment a German user clicks past another cookie banner. It was once. It pretended to be, at least. The web marketed itself as a single, expansive commons for the majority of the late 1990s and early 2000s, where a teenager in Karachi and a librarian in Helsinki were, in a thin but genuine sense, neighbors. Now, and not by coincidence, that promise is eroding. Governments have realized that the internet is power, something that the rest of us took years…

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…

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…