Author: Shrijit Roy

Most laptop announcements are easy to ignore. Google’s new laptop isn’t. On May 12, 2026, at The Android Show, Google did not just reveal a new device. It declared its existing laptop strategy obsolete. The global AI PC market is already valued at $131.81 billion in 2026. And AI-capable laptops are on track to make up 58.7% of all laptop sales by 2026, up from just 19.4% in 2024. Microsoft has Copilot+ PCs. Apple has M-series silicon doing on-device AI quietly. Google needed a move. The Googlebook is that move. But whether it works is a different question. Key Takeaways…

Nobody buys an e-reader expecting it to be killed off. Yet here we are. Amazon confirmed it will end support for all Kindle e-readers released in 2012 or earlier starting May 20, 2026, cutting them off from the Kindle Store and making it nearly impossible to load any new content. For a lot of readers, this is the nudge they needed to finally upgrade. And 2026 is genuinely the best year to buy a new e‑reader. The options are sharper, more affordable, and more feature‑packed than ever before. Here is everything you need to choose the right one. Key Takeaways…

Most content teams don’t have a tool problem. They have a workflow problem caused by trying to turn one AI-powered content creation platform into a universal solution. Six months of testing these tools inside real workflows, not demos – showed exactly where that breaks down. One two-person newsletter team cut their podcast repurposing time from three hours to under forty minutes per episode by pairing Descript with ChatGPT. The tools didn’t change their content strategy. They removed the step that was killing their publishing cadence. HubSpot’s 2026 State of Marketing report found that 80% of marketers now use AI for…

Most people only think about a GPU when their game starts stuttering or their AI model is taking forever to train. That’s the wrong time to start caring about it. A GPU is the chip that handles thousands of parallel calculations at once. It was built for rendering images. But it turned out to be exactly what modern AI, scientific simulation, and data-heavy workloads needed. The GPU market sits at $104.24 billion in 2026, on track to nearly triple by 2031. That kind of growth doesn’t happen just because of gaming. In this article, I will break down what is…

On January 6, 2026, the FDA released updates to two foundational guidance documents: General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices and Clinical Decision Support Software. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the changes at the Consumer Electronics Show, framing them as a push to “promote more innovation with AI in medical devices.” Both documents allow a wider range of digital health devices to reach consumers without going through full premarket review. The updates are not entirely new rules. They draw clearer lines around things that have been frustratingly vague for anyone building AI-enabled medical devices, AI wearables, or wearable biosensors. This…

The best AI productivity tools in 2026 don’t ask you to rebuild how you work. They remove the parts that slow you down, the writing that takes three drafts, the meeting notes nobody reads, the data that sits in one app when it’s needed in another. ManpowerGroup’s 2026 Global Talent Barometer found AI adoption up 13% across nearly 14,000 workers globally, yet confidence in using that technology dropped 18% in the same period. More people are using AI. Fewer feel like it’s working. The gap is almost always tool selection. This list covers the 8 best AI tools for productivity…

The most expensive server rack ever built won’t be in Virginia, Oregon, or Singapore. It’ll be traveling at 17,500 miles per hour, somewhere over the Pacific. The idea of AI in space is no longer science fiction On May 6, 2026, Anthropic AI announced a major compute deal with SpaceX. Most of the coverage focused on the GPU count. But buried in the announcement was something genuinely strange, a stated interest in developing “multiple GW of orbital AI compute capacity” in partnership with SpaceX. The reason this conversation is happening at all comes down to energy. Global data center electricity…

Apple has been running the same AI playbook since 2024: integrate ChatGPT into Siri, call it Apple Intelligence, and hope nobody notices how far behind you’ve fallen. It mostly didn’t work. Users noticed. Analysts noticed. And now Apple is doing something it almost never does, opening the doors to its competitors. With iOS 27, Apple is adding an Extensions system to Siri as part of its biggest iOS 27 new AI features rollout yet. It lets users route queries directly to Claude, Gemini, Grok, or any supported AI chatbot they have installed. ChatGPT’s exclusive deal is ending. The AI race…

Most Google I/O previews follow the same script of AI is everywhere, Android gets a refresh, and Pixel looks nice. I think that framing misses what actually matters this year. Google I/O 2026 kicks off on May 19 in Mountain View, California, and for the first time in a while, the stakes are different. Not because Google has some mystery product, but because the window for catching up in AI is closing. Google has distribution advantages that OpenAI and Anthropic can only dream about. The question at this Google event is whether the company actually uses them or settles for…

AI overreliance at work is becoming one of the defining workplace concerns of the artificial intelligence era. 58% of workers in a peer-reviewed 2026 study said AI did most of the thinking on their work tasks. Not the repetitive tasks. Not the formatting. Their actual work. That number comes from a study of 1,923 adults published by the American Psychological Association in April 2026. The finding was not that AI makes people less intelligent. The cost is quieter: passive AI use is eroding workers’ confidence in their own reasoning and their sense of ownership over their ideas. This article breaks…

The Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold is reportedly shipping with 4GB less RAM than last year’s model. At the same price, though. That one detail explains the 2026 chip shortage better than any earnings call. This isn’t 2021’s chaos. This time it’s deliberate. AI’s appetite for high-bandwidth memory has consumed so much manufacturing capacity that everything running on conventional DRAM is quietly being squeezed. Tech companies are raising prices, cutting specs, or both. The semiconductor industry saw this coming. Consumers are only now feeling the heat. Key Takeaways What Is the 2026 Chip Shortage? The 2026 chip shortage is an…

Most people who “can’t code” have already built software. They just didn’t call it that. The expense tracker your operations manager built in Airtable? That’s a No-code. Is the internal HR portal your company spun up in Power Platform? It’s Low-code. The Airbnb competitor someone prototyped over a weekend using nothing but plain English? Now that’s Vibe coding. The line between a developer and a non-developer has been blurring for years. And by 2026, it will have basically dissolved. Gartner forecasts 60% of all new code will be AI-generated by the end of this year. Roughly 63% of Vibe coding…