Thierry Lillette

A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again.

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Watch men - Works in Progress Magazine Japanese quartz made watches accurate, lightweight, and thin. But Swiss mechanical watches fought back.

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Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.

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How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...

Interesting take: AGI as a conspiracy theory www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

AI will accelerate the end of brick and mortar’s reign: Amazon CEO The domination of e-commerce is inevitable and will only come faster thanks to the emerging technology, even if physical stores represent opportunity for now, Andy Jassy told analysts Thursday.

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The dirty truth behind the e-waste recycling industry The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

The dirty truth behind the e-waste recycling industry restofworld.org/2025/india-e...

AI could bring us a smarter home — if we can trust it Your home, in control?

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Ranking the Chinese Open Model Builders From the obvious names to those to keep an eye on.

A lot of companies are building models in China too ...
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Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster Hertz' new AI damage scanners are dead on arrival — and unfortunately, it's not the only company deploying the shoddy tech.

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Electric Cars Are So Fast That A Ferrari Can't Catch A Kia Now The Kia EV6 GT is slightly heavier and less powerful than the Ferrari Purosangue, but it's the quicker-accelerating car of the two.

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How Morgan Stanley Tackled One of Coding’s Toughest Problems The finance giant built its own AI tool to help modernize its legacy code—something it said existing tools on the market still struggle with.

Interesting solution for modernizing old systems: Morgan Stanley is using its own DevGen.AI tool to translate legacy code into English specs for developers to then rewrite www.wsj.com/articles/how...

Silicon squeeze: AI’s impact on the semiconductor industry Massive AI-fueled market growth in the semiconductor industry has only benefited the top five percent of companies. How can the rest of the industry catch up?

Silicon squeeze: AI’s impact on the semiconductor industry
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40 years ago, the FCC opened the 2.4 GHz spectrum and it kickstarted an invisible, wireless revolution How it sparked four decades of wireless innovation

Releasing the 2.4GHz band for public use paved the way for #Bluetooth and #Wi-Fi amongst other now ubiquitous technologies
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Semiconductors have a big opportunity—but barriers to scale remain Global semiconductor companies plan to invest roughly one trillion dollars in new plants through 2030. But first, the industry must overcome challenges.

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Why It’s So Difficult for Robots to Make Your Nike Sneakers The shoe giant’s effort to find alternatives to Asian factories that churn out a dazzling variety of its sneakers is a cautionary tale.

Insightful article on how dificult it is to assemble shoes with robots www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Man Versus Machine as China Shows Off Humanoid Robots in Half-Marathon A Beijing half-marathon featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—it showed how far robots still are from being able to mimic human activity.

Robots can already run a half marathon faster than me ...
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China bans 'smart' and 'autonomous' driving terms from vehicle ads China is banning automakers from using the terms "smart driving" and "autonomous driving" when they advertise driving assistance features, and it will tighten scrutiny of such technology upgrades.

China bans 'smart' and 'autonomous' driving terms from vehicle ads www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Evolution of Apps marketoonist.com/2025/04/evol...

Opinion: Tech-Free Trend Among Ultrarich Highlights Existing Biases Toward Smart Homes A new Hollywood Reporter article says luxury homeowners are moving away from smart home tech due to complexity, design issues.

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Touch screens are not the silver bullet for good #UX in cars and not in dishwashers either #smarthome
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No one knows what the hell an AI agent is | TechCrunch AI agents are all the rage. But no one knows exactly what an agent is, partly because companies define them radically differently.

No one knows what the hell an #AI agent is techcrunch.com/2025/03/14/n...

Apple innovation and execution — Benedict Evans It matters that Apple’s new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is it more than that?

Apple n what have you done for us lately?´ www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...

Lasers, Magnets and the $40 Billion Fight to Store the World’s Data Hard disk drive makers, under pressure from faster solid state rivals, hope a breakthrough will keep it the dominant data-storage medium.

Hard disk drives fighting for relevance in the data center after losing out to flash memory solid state drive in laptops www.wsj.com/tech/seagate...

The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts Automakers have added tech features in the 2020s that go beyond the touch screens, assisted-driving systems and companion phone apps that have become ubiquitous. Some vehicles come with infrared night...

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How the British Broke Their Own Economy With the best intentions, the United Kingdom engineered a housing and energy shortage.

“Europe has an energy problem; the Anglosphere has a housing problem; Britain has both.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

RIP (finally) to the blockchain hype While blockchain still has a future, the excitement has nearly disappeared, and it will need to be paired with AI and other technologies to reach its potential.

RIP (finally) to the blockchain hype
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Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked To decarbonize road transport, the world must move away from petrol and diesel cars and towards electric vehicles and other forms of low-carbon transport.

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Smart appliances should come with an expiration date The smart home zombies are coming.

interesting concept
www.theverge.com/smart-home/6...

As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders Ars staffers take aim at some of the web’s worst predatory practices.

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Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest one-day loss in U.S. history Nvidia shares plunged 17% on Monday, resulting in a market cap loss of close to $600 billion, the biggest drop ever for a U.S. company.

Amazing times…
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