Samsung Transforms Its Smart Home into a Remote Care System for Aging Families

In short: Samsung has updated SmartThings with family care features that use connected appliances and wearables to monitor elderly relatives remotely, including fall detection via robot vacuum camera, cognitive decline screening through behavioural pattern analysis, environmental safety alerts, and activity tracking. The update also adds Galaxy AI-powered routine creation, millimetre-wave ambient sensing with local processing, […]

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OpenAI’s Major Codex Update Targets Anthropic’s Claude Code

OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system Codex with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. Codex will now be able to operate desktop apps on your computer, OpenAI says in a blog post announcing the update. It can work in the […]

Nine Best Ways to Protect, Customize, and Accessorize Your MacBook Neo

The MacBook Neo is poised to be a top-selling laptop in 2026, thanks in large part to its affordable $599 entry price. Despite launching at a more accessible price point than Apple’s $1,099 (though often discounted) 2026 MacBook Air, the Neo makes surprisingly few concessions in terms of build quality. Its design has the same […]

Everything We Like Is a Psyop

If culture is shaped by TikTok’s algorithmic feed, then it’s time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking.