Robot vacuums are becoming more commonplace thanks to their efficiency and convenience. The trouble is, choosing one can be quite difficult, especially one that will tackle carpet cleaning, so you don’t have to go over the work with a handheld vacuum. Read More

Keeping tabs on U.S. business news often feels like watching an endless stream of ever-larger Pac-Man (Pac-Men?) gobble each other up. Through mergers and buyouts, the companies get bigger and the number of companies gets smaller. Yet a handful manages to avoid the proverbial noise. For seven decades, Moog Music, the… Read more… Read More

First, a confession. I’ve written fanfiction. Like, a lot of fanfic. In my spare time, I still write fic! (I’m currently writing a couple of fics for Interview With the Vampire and Trigun! It’s going great, thank you.) Over the course of the past 15 years I’ve published around 750,000 words of fic, and just to …

Apple has opened up its library of betas to make them free to all developers. All you need is an Apple ID to download early versions of the much-hyped OS updates if you’re so set on getting access before their full, bug-tested release. Read more… Read More

Amazon revealed a robot named Astro during its September 2021 hardware event. At the time, the company said it believes, in five to 10 years, every home will have a robot. It described Astro as a “new kind of household robot that integrates Alexa, advanced hardware, software, computer vision, and AI”. It even equipped Astro …