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Eric Howard, founder of Dog Tired, rides his One Wheel while running Boone, a golden retriever, near Lake Tapps, Wash. (Photo courtesy of DogTired) It’s tough to tell who has the bigger smile: the guy zipping by on the Onewheel, the dog running alongside him at full sprint, or the passersby lucky enough to witness it. This is Eric Howard‘s dream job. Howard is the founder and chief dog runner at Dog Tired, a dog-exercising service outside of Seattle that operates at a different speed. After stints in tech, including at data visualization company Tableau, Howard ditched the corporate leash…

Capital One Financial Corp.’s five-year mission to transform its information technology operations to a “serverless-first” model is paying off in improved developer productivity, lower operating costs and a shift away from infrastructure focus toward customer-facing outcomes. The move has been less a technology migration than a redefinition of how applications are built, operated and governed at enterprise scale, executives say. Reducing the need to manage infrastructure has required the financial services giant to shed some control, but the speed at which it can deploy new applications has more than made up for the tradeoffs. Serverless computing is a cloud execution…

This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get access to member-exclusive stories every month, become a Vox Member today.AI is coming for the laptop class. While you clack away at your keyboard — writing code or drafting memos or making spreadsheets or scrolling X or perusing DoorDash or reading Vox or dreading death — machines are teaching themselves how to do your job.Over the past four years, chatbots have gone from neat parlor tricks to hyperproductive polymaths. AI models can now generate new software out of a single English sentence, summarize case law in seconds,…

Is it the era of the great digital retreat? Ofcom’s latest report concludes so. Ofcom recently conducted a survey across UK social media users and noticed a strange dip. Only 49% of the UK adults actually post, share or even comment on social media. That’s a 61% decline since 2024. The reason, one can assume, is the panopticon effect. Social media was always thought be a space for the ‘now’- the ‘present.’ But if one hasn’t noticed, it’s now used as a record of our past and present followings. You can also call this: archive anxiety. It’s the fear that…

This canceled LG Rollable smartphone highlights how far behind today’s designs feel. A newly surfaced teardown from JerryRigEverything shows the device wasn’t just experimental, it pushed further than what you can actually buy today. The LG Rollable smartphone never reached store shelves, but it did make it into the hands of a few internal users. Now, a teardown video details how much engineering went into a phone that almost launched back in 2021. LG What stands out is how complete the concept feels. Even after five years, the hardware works, and the approach tackles problems foldables continue to face. Inside…

Pinball video games have been around for years — I cut my teeth on Space Cadet 3D Pinball, which was pre-loaded on Windows 95. They range from realistic recreations of pinball tables you’ll find at arcades to games that could never exist in real life like 2019’s Demon’s Tilt or older ones like Metroid Prime Pinball for the Nintendo DS or Pokémon Pinball for the Game Boy Color.I didn’t expect to find a detailed pinball game for the humble and delightful Playdate, but a pair of developers working under the name Amano pulled it off with Devils on the Moon…

Mowers I Am Currently TestingWe are just into a new cutting season here, so I haven’t tested these new robot mowers enough to make a full recommendation, but here are my impressions so far.Photograph: Simon HillMammotion Luba 3 AWD for $2,399: If this robot mower continues to perform as well as it has in its first week, it will earn a spot above. It is pricey, but the Mammotion Luba 3 AWD can handle relatively rough terrain and steep slopes, and it combines three technologies (GPS, LiDAR, and AI vision) to ensure it can cut larger lawns even where there…

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Today’s NYT Strands puzzle could be tough. Hope you know your animals! One of them is an animal I had never heard of before. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.Read…

It’s now widely accepted that artificial intelligence will permeate nearly every aspect of our lives. That presents new challenges related to AI threats, enterprise AI management and adapting security programs for an increasingly AI-driven world. What matters most in assessing your risk exposure is to understand what type of AI is being used. There’s a direct correlation: More modern generative and agentic AI can expose us to greater threats. Lack of transparency with gen AI apps makes it more difficult for security teams to get necessary visibility into where potentially sensitive data is going. The convenience and accessibility of AI…

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Sea Ltd. is Singapore’s most successful startup turned major tech company. Six months ago, it was going head-to-head with DBS for the title of the most valuable company in the city-state, exceeding US$100 billion in market capitalisation. That number has now shrunk to just over US$40 billion. Image Credit: Google This is despite the numbers it keeps reporting, which are, by almost any objective measure, excellent. For the full year of 2025, Sea generated a net income of S$1.985 billion—which is more than three times what it…