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We recommend an electric kettle for tea lovers, though they can come in handy for just about anybody, and this is one of our top picks. It has an insulated, double-walled body, four preset programs (for oolong, white, and green tea, along with a button for boil), along with an auto shutoff and “keep warm” mode. It also has a really cute look, with a matte finish that’s available in adorable colors like cornflower blue and sage green. We also love that the buttons on the touch-activated display only appear when the kettle is in use, so it looks super…
When she was a child, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outside Birmingham. The practical and cultural differences between farm and city life became more pronounced by comparison. “Life and the way we lived it slowed down on the farm,” she says. “It was a nice change of pace.” These days, Honeycutt, a double major in computation and cognition and linguistics, still finds herself moving between several worlds that are simultaneously connected and distinctly different. Her research interests lie at the intersection of human thinking and awareness, language learning and acquisition, technology, and social group…
When I think of heroic doctors, I think of the physician in the hospital who’s presented with a patient suffering bizarre or vague symptoms and pulls out the right diagnosis just in time. It’s the basis of almost every medical procedural TV show, from House, MD to The Pitt. It’s the mystique that has made doctors among the most revered professionals in society.But what if a machine could make that call just as well or even better? What should we do about it here in the real world?That question is becoming more urgent. According to a major new study published…
Customer experience used to be something tuned at the edges. Better call center scripts, nicer portals, lower prices or a new survey could make incremental improvements in consumers’ perceptions of a brand. Today, it starts much earlier because every interaction across the channels customers use every day matters. Text, voice and messaging are no longer just “pipes” for getting a message from point A to point B. They’re now the primary mechanism through which trust is built or eroded in seconds. The evolution of CX is long overdue. My research shows that 90% of companies now say they compete primarily…
Ravie LakshmananApr 30, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft. According to Aikido Security, OX Security, Socket, and StepSecurity, the two malicious versions are versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, both of which were published on April 30, 2026. The campaign is assessed to be an extension of the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain incident that targeted SAP-related npm packages on Wednesday. As of writing, the project has been quarantined by the administrators of the Python Package Index…
The techniques haven’t changed as much as everyone claims. What’s changed is the buyer. Here’s what actually works in 2026 and why most lists get it wrong. Every year, a new list. New frameworks, new acronyms, new tools promising to close the gap between quota and reality. Most of them are the same techniques with updated vocabulary. This one is different not because the techniques are all new, some are genuinely old, but because it is honest about why they work. The mechanism matters more than the method. A rep who understands why something works can adapt it. One who…
Gchapel/Getty Images Sometimes, a threat lands as a threat. Other times, it comes off like, well, an advertisement for the New Mexico tourist bureau. In court filings (via SourceNM), Meta warned that if a judge sides with the NM Department of Justice in an upcoming bench trial, the company may be forced to shut down its apps for users in the state. NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez described Meta’s threat to pull the plug on its apps as a “PR stunt.” Last month, a Santa Fe jury held Meta liable for…
The artificial intelligence industry continues its blistering pace, with several frontier-level model releases and significant updates landing in the last several weeks. From OpenAI’s latest GPT iteration to Anthropic’s high-stakes safety decision and strong showings from Google, DeepSeek, and Chinese labs, April 2026 has solidified as one of the most intense periods for capability gains in reasoning, multimodality, and agentic performance. In the final stretch of April, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 (including a Pro variant), building directly on the earlier GPT-5.4 series. The new model brings notable improvements in agentic reasoning, tool use, long-running task execution, and overall efficiency. It has…
If there’s something that stands between foldables and the mainstream smartphone market, it’s their battery life, and Motorola has taken it upon itself to fix that. Almost all smartphone giants have their own book-style foldable available in the U.S., and all of them justify the premium with intricate hinges, flexible displays, and other engineering marvels, but somehow, that doesn’t extend to their batteries. You can unfold a foldable to double its screen size; that’s its entire pitch. But does the battery life also double? Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Among the two widely available book-style foldables in the U.S. — Samsung’s Galaxy…
DeepSeek’s latest AI model was poised for a major launch. And yet, the markets did not react as expected to the release of DeepSeek’s V4 preview, despite the Chinese startup making technical headway with its latest software.Investors are less likely to swoon at the announcement of a more powerful, more efficient, and less expensive AI model. They know what we mean, and they’re waiting for it to do something impressive.This is not to imply that DeepSeek failed at its most recent endeavor, because it clearly did not. While its latest model has outperformed predecessors, it still solidifies China’s position in…