I work as an Engineering Manager at Google, and my teams practice a simple habit - we book all meetings to start at five minutes past the hour (or half hour). This works better than trying to finish five minutes early. Meetings often don't finish on time, and the impact is highest with back-to-back meetings.…

This article examines why the practice of AI startups disguising GMV as ARR distorts business sustainability. It redefines the true meaning of ARR and analyzes how the revenue structure of many AI companies resembles a brokerage or reseller model rather than SaaS. Using the analogy of investors who only inflate transaction volume, it presents—from a consulting perspective—why repeatability, margins, and control are far more critical than the magnitude of the numbers.

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iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier.

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

Strata Elite cardholders say they have been locked out of their accounts for weeks, unable to make purchases or redeem rewards that cost an annual $595 fee.

Skip to the technical stuff Shutdown announcement On February 18, 2025, Humane announced it would be shutting down all services for the always online Humane Ai Pin in ten days, following a sale to HP. I had been vaguely aware of the Ai Pin, definitely more so than the average tech person, as I have a close friend who was one of the earliest adopters and eventually joined the Humane team to actively work on the device, but I ultimately knew little about them. I did know that they were small, ran Android, had good industrial design, and had a cool laser. I also have dreamt of a personal, local always listening device since I was a young teenager. I was a little more confident in my ability to help shape a niche device’s ecosystem after my experiences driving the Analogue Pocket’s growth, so I decided to go looking for disgruntled users looking to sell their devices.

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

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Lawyers said it’s believed to be the largest-ever settlement in a US copyright case, paying about $3,000 per book.

Estimado Pedro Jota, lo que has descrito en tu carta dramática sobre los ataques sufridos por El Español no es una anomalía única ni una persecución person