When you visit a Best Buy or Croma store in 2026, the salesperson will no longer bring up megapixels. They will discuss TOPS, or trillions of operations per second, a figure that most consumers are unable to comprehend but are nevertheless expected to be concerned about. It’s a minor but significant change that reflects a broader trend in the industry: the long-dormant smartphone wars have resurfaced, but this time the weapons aren’t cameras or screen sizes. The battlefield has shifted inside the chip itself, and they are neural processing units. It wasn’t this silent all the time. Steve Jobs once…
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 server room has a certain type of silence. There was a constant drone of cooling fans operating against tens of thousands of GPUs arranged floor to ceiling, but there was no hum of conversation. That quiet is doing something pretty amazing at Argonne National Laboratory outside of Chicago: it’s enabling researchers to search through 50 billion molecules in roughly the same amount of time as brewing a pot of coffee. Specifically, twenty minutes. One researcher there said that screening even a billion compounds in that window would have been simply unimaginable on older machines. It’s easy to think of…
Most people drive by a building in Menlo Park without giving it much thought. According to those who have worked there, engineers spend their days fine-tuning systems that are so sensitive to human psychology that the difference between versions can be measured in minutes of sleep lost. These changes are not announced. A press conference is never held. Someone scrolls a bit longer somewhere, and the algorithm simply becomes a little more precise. That’s the subdued version of the situation. The more dramatic version includes White House executive orders, classified government reviews, hundreds of billions of dollars, and a race…
A Dolce & Gabbana collection called “Collezione Genesi” sold nine pieces of virtual apparel for $5.6 million, a moment that keeps coming up in discussions about digital fashion around 2021. Not silk dresses or actual coats. pixels. And people made payments. Not only did that sale draw attention, but it also subtly revealed a deeper shift in people’s perceptions of identity, fashion, and what it means to own something lovely. For years, digital fashion—clothing created completely in 3D software and worn by avatars on social media, gaming platforms, and virtual worlds—has been gaining traction but has never quite entered the…
Samsung discreetly brought something out of the ordinary to the MWC 2026 in Barcelona: a smartphone with a screen that slides outward, extending the display like a slow exhale, rather than folding or flipping. It wasn’t a completed item. There was no formal announcement wrapped in a keynote crescendo, no launch window, and no price tag. Just an idea, sitting there in conference lighting, challenging people’s preconceived notions about a gadget they’ve been carrying around for fifteen years. Since the event, Samsung’s sliding smartphone screen concept has been making the rounds in tech circles, evoking the same kind of response…
Somewhere in the middle of a long mountain patrol, the human body begins to subtly bargain with itself. The knees start to hurt, but it’s more of a warning than actual pain. It tightens the lower back. Beneath sixty or seventy pounds of equipment, the shoulders begin to lose the battle against gravity. For decades, the military’s response to this common situation was to simply push through. Nowadays, armies all over the world are making significant investments in exoskeleton technology, which consists of wearable mechanical devices intended to distribute the harsh physical strain of battle. Recently, the DRDO and TATA…
The majority of people use a smartwatch to track their steps and view notifications. It may eventually be the signal for someone with epilepsy that a seizure is imminent, giving them enough time to sit down, call someone, or just get away from danger. That possibility, which is still developing in research labs on at least two continents, is starting to feel more like engineering with a deadline than science fiction. Approximately 1% of people worldwide suffer from epilepsy. Up until you realize what it truly means to live with uncontrollable seizures, the numbers are sufficiently large to be abstracted…
In discussions about fake news, there is a moment that frequently comes up; most people are aware of it even if they are unable to identify it. A screenshot is shared by someone. The headline is frightening. In the corner is a respectable outlet’s logo. And ten thousand people have already seen the thing before anyone considers checking it. Even though the story never happened, the screenshot serves as proof. The top wire service in Italy, ANSA, experienced precisely that in April 2020. On social media, three made-up stories bearing the ANSA logo went viral, each claiming to disclose the…
The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence survived on scraps for the majority of its existence. Short, awkward windows of telescope time were borrowed. Funding came in small amounts before ceasing. In 2011, after UC Berkeley withdrew its support and the Allen Telescope Array in northern California was put on hold for several months, Andrew Siemion estimated that he was one of only two or three people working on SETI worldwide. It’s not a field. It’s a pastime. Before most people knew what Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Airbnb would become, Milner, a Russian-born tech investor, made his fortune by supporting these companies.…
The market for handheld games felt stable for a while. The Steam Deck was developed by Valve, SteamOS operated smoothly, and Microsoft mainly observed from the sidelines, occasionally releasing products that performed well in theory but poorly in reality. The ROG Xbox Ally X, which debuted at $999 in late 2025 and sold out nearly instantly, seems to be the first significant effort to genuinely alter that dynamic. It’s important to comprehend how we arrived. When the first ROG Ally was introduced in 2023, its hardware was truly capable, but its own software consistently outperformed it. The most embarrassing thing…