Apple hiring news usually arrives with the emotional texture of a firmware update: important, inevitable, and delivered in a tone best described as “silent mode.” So when a well-known independent designer openly announces he’s joining Apple’s design team—and the story pops up across the Apple ecosystem in a matter of hours—you pay attention. On January…
AWS Weekly Roundup (Jan 26, 2026): EC2 G7e with NVIDIA Blackwell, Corretto Security Updates, and the Quiet Upgrades That Matter
AWS has a special talent for shipping headline-grabbing infrastructure one day and then—almost casually—dropping a handful of smaller features that end up saving teams real money and real sleep. The AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (January 26, 2026) is a perfect example of that pattern. The roundup (written by…
AWS Weekly Roundup (Jan 26, 2026): EC2 G7e with NVIDIA Blackwell, Corretto security updates, and the quiet platform tweaks that matter
AWS has a particular talent for launching something that sounds like a minor alphabet soup update (“G7e is now generally available”) and then watching half the internet quietly reorder its infrastructure roadmap. In the AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (January 26, 2026), AWS recaps a cluster of changes that—taken…
The Power of Sound in a Virtual World: Why Audio Is the Real MVP of VR, AR, and Online Meetings
On January 26, 2026, MIT Technology Review published (via its Business Lab channel) an episode titled “The power of sound in a virtual world”. The conversation is hosted by MIT Technology Review Insights’ Laurel Ruma and features Erik Vaveris (Vice President of Product Management and Chief Marketing Officer at Shure) and Brian Scholl (Director of…
Claude Cowork: How Anthropic Is Turning Claude Into Shared AI Infrastructure (and Why Teams Should Care)
When most people think “AI assistant,” they still picture a glorified autocomplete box with manners: you ask, it answers, you copy-paste, you forget where you put the answer, and then you ask again next week. That workflow has been remarkably popular for something that’s basically the digital equivalent of shouting questions into a canyon. Anthropic…
F-16 Falcon Strike: The Atari XL/XE Combat Flight Sim That Shouldn’t Exist (But Absolutely Does)
Somewhere in the multiverse, there’s a timeline where the Atari 65XE is a respected platform for modern combat flight simulators. In our timeline, that idea sounds like a prank—until you boot F-16 Falcon Strike and realize the joke is on you. F-16 Falcon Strike is a new 3D, six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) combat flight simulator for Atari…
Cutting Through AI Coding Hype (Without Cutting Yourself) — and the Biotech Trends Worth Watching in 2026
On January 16, 2026, MIT Technology Review published an edition of its weekday newsletter The Download titled “The Download: cut through AI coding hype, and biotech trends to watch”, credited to Rhiannon Williams. The piece is a compact two-for-one: a reality check on AI coding’s claims of effortless productivity, and a quick scan of biotech…
Infrastructure for AI Is Finally Getting a Standard: What Kubernetes AI Conformance Means (and Why You Should Care)
AI infrastructure has spent the last couple of years doing its best impression of a garage-band soundcheck: loud, experimental, and held together by duct tape. Lots of innovation, sure—but also lots of “works on my cluster” energy. That’s why a new move from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is quietly a big deal: the…
PawSense: Catproof Your Computer (and Your Sanity)
Some inventions arrive with the subtlety of a kernel panic. Others show up with a gentle purr, then proceed to sit directly on your keyboard and send your manager a love letter composed entirely of “;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;” and the occasional “m” (for “meow,” presumably). PawSense belongs to the second category—software designed to detect when a cat…
Exploring the Corsair Void Wireless V2: A Gaming Headset Gem Under $100
The Rise of Affordable Gaming Headsets Gaming headsets have become a staple in every gamer’s arsenal. With technological advancements, today’s headsets are not only about sound but also provide immersive experiences, enabling players to feel every whisper of the wind and the thunderous roar of dragons. Introducing the Corsair Void Wireless V2 The Corsair Void…