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Technology writing that tests the hype instead of repeating it — AI tools, gadgets, and software reviewed by people who use them daily, with the tradeoffs left in.
The Practical Guide to Using AI Tools Without Getting Burned
Every few weeks a new AI tool launches promising to change how you work, and every few weeks most people try it once and forget it exists. After a year of testing dozens of these tools for InkRoar, he…
by Olivia Park · 🦁 33 · 💬 6 · 11 hours ago
Apple Accuses OpenAI of Trade Secret Theft, Calls Hardware 'Rotten to Core'
On Friday, Apple launched a lawsuit against OpenAI and some of its employees, alleging theft of trade secrets. The complaint specifically targets OpenAI’s nascent hardware business. According to Apple…
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 4 · 💬 0 · 16 hours ago
The AI tools I actually kept using after the novelty wore off
I tried around thirty AI tools this year for a running series. Two are still open in my browser every day. The other twenty-eight I forgot existed within a week of writing about them. The two that sur…
by Olivia Park · 🦁 11 · 💬 0 · 3 days ago
What building a writing platform taught me about AI hype
We added AI-assisted writing to InkRoar early on, and the lesson that stuck wasn't about the technology — it was about restraint. The instinct is to let AI do more: generate the whole post, pick the h…
by Pantho Bihosh · 🦁 10 · 💬 2 · 3 days ago
Why I stopped trying to prompt my way to good writing
I spent months trying to find the perfect prompt that would make an AI model write like me. I never found it, because the thing I was asking for doesn't exist — "like me" isn't a style, it's thousands…
by Olivia Park · 🦁 9 · 💬 0 · 3 days ago
A realistic timeline for what AI can (and can't) do this year
Every January someone predicts AI will replace some entire profession by December. Every December that profession is still there, slightly changed. I've stopped taking the big predictions seriously an…
by Olivia Park · 🦁 5 · 💬 0 · 3 days ago
The privacy setting most phones bury three menus deep, and it's worth the search
Every major phone OS ships a setting limiting how much ad networks can link your activity across different apps, and it's buried deep enough in settings that most users never find it, despite taking under two minutes to ...
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 6 · 💬 1 · 4 days ago
Esports World Cup Switched Hosts in 8 Weeks; Questions Linger
The Esports World Cup is officially underway in Paris, a significant last-minute change from its original host country. The entire relocation process, moving the major event from Saudi Arabia to the F…
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 3 · 💬 0 · 2 days ago
Renting Robots: Is It the Smart Move for Fast-Changing Tech?
The world of robotics is experiencing incredibly rapid advancements, with new technologies emerging constantly. This pace of innovation presents a challenge for individuals and businesses looking to i…
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 4 · 💬 0 · 4 days ago
Meta's AI Image Tool Sparks Privacy Fears
Meta has launched a new feature that allows users to create AI-generated images. This system is designed to utilize other people's public Instagram profile pictures as source material for these creati…
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 2 · 💬 0 · 3 days ago
The AI feature adoption pattern that surprised our whole product team
Our team assumed the most powerful AI features in our product would see the highest adoption. The data said otherwise: the single most-used feature was the smallest, most narrowly scoped one, while the flashiest capabili...
by Olivia Park · 🦁 4 · 💬 0 · 4 days ago
Why your smart home devices are chattier than you think, explained simply
Most smart home devices phone home far more often than their function requires — a smart bulb checking in every few minutes has no functional reason to communicate that frequently, since turning a light on or off doesn't...
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 4 · 💬 0 · 4 days ago
Your phone's focus mode is useless without this one change
I turned on focus mode for a year and got nothing from it. The notifications stopped, but I kept unlocking the phone anyway — the checking was the habit, not the responding. The change that worked: ma…
by Mike Torres · 🦁 8 · 💬 0 · 8 days ago
Why AI tools keep confidently getting simple things wrong, explained without the jargon
The most common complaint I hear about AI writing and research tools isn't that they fail on hard questions — it's that they sometimes state an obviously wrong simple fact with the exact same confident tone as a correct ...
by Olivia Park · 🦁 4 · 💬 1 · 6 days ago
The AI feature everyone ships and almost nobody uses correctly
Working inside AI product teams for the past few years, I've watched the same feature get shipped, celebrated in a launch post, and then quietly used by a fraction of the users it was built for: the "summarize this" butt...
by Olivia Park · 🦁 3 · 💬 1 · 6 days ago
Top 10 Latest Technologies That Will Scare You
Technology has always promised a better future. Faster communication. Smarter homes. Powerful AI. Revolutionary medicine. Every breakthrough arrives with the same message: life is about to get easier. And most of the tim…
by Pantho Bihosh · 🦁 1 · 💬 2 · 4 days ago
The hidden cost of free AI tools nobody talks about
I spent two weeks reading the terms of service of 14 popular AI tools. Here is what I found, and it changed how I work. Most free tiers reserve the right to train on your inputs. That includes your un…
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 4 · 💬 1 · 7 days ago
Pioneer says current AI isn't smart. What's his next move?
A prominent figure in AI research, Yan LeCun, recently stated that today's artificial intelligence systems are fundamentally "not smart." This assessment comes from a leader whose work has significant…
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 2 · 💬 0 · 5 days ago
The $8 self-hosting setup that replaced $40 of subscriptions
Last year I added up my software subscriptions and stopped laughing when the total passed $40 a month. Notes, photos, file sync, bookmarks, RSS — all rented. So I tried an experiment: one small cloud …
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 6 · 💬 2 · 12 days ago
I turned off autocorrect for a month. Here's what I learned about how I actually type
Autocorrect is supposed to be invisible. Turn it off and you notice, immediately, how much of your daily typing was never actually yours. Week one was humbling. My real typos are not the cute kind aut…
by Marcus Kim · 🦁 3 · 💬 1 · 8 days ago