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New York is moving quickly toward an electrified future. Money is flowing into EV charging networks, upgraded electrical grids, and clean-energy projects as the state chases ambitious climate targets. Yet according to Richard Sajiun, the conversation around funding, policy, and technology is missing a critical piece: the people who will
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Picture a regular Tuesday afternoon. A developer on your platform team wires up a small script. It imports an agent framework, points it at a language model, and starts answering questions by pulling from an internal data store. No ticket. No review. By Friday it is handling real work. It
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Three days at the mappiest event of the year surfaced the trends redefining geospatial engineering: serverless map stacks, AI-drafted data, and human-in-the-loop authorship at planet scale. From June 11 to 13, Madison, Wisconsin was the center of the mapping universe. Leading geospatial companies and independent mappers packed a hotel a
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Kyung-seo Yoo is an industrial designer who works across categories most people spend a career specializing in. She trained in industrial design at RISD, with a concentration in Computation, Technology, and Culture and cross-registration in Design Engineering at Brown, and now designs professionally while also developing her own projects independently,
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I recently moved to the US. Long before I moved, I built my very first voice agent. It didn't take long to realize a fundamental flaw in standard architectures: the underlying models were heavily biased towards standard American accents. The moment an input featured a non-standard accent, regional
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Cold outreach advice tends to begin with what the seller can edit. Shorten the subject line. Personalize the opener. Improve the CTA. Add another follow-up. Those levers matter because they are visible, measurable, and easy to change. But they leave the more consequential question untouched: What decision is the buyer
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Activity percentages on time-tracking dashboards are basically a compressed view of mouse and keyboard input. Hardware jigglers, software “movers,” and keep-awake scripts exist because they game that view: they keep the green bar green without proving anyone is working. Richer Windows endpoint data—apps, session state, files, network—can make
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There is a clear repeating trend in agent deployments: The gateway is the first control teams reach for, but it is the one they are least ready to run. This is because gateways sit on top of identity and attribution layers that are mostly not there. The first layer of
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I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I’ve found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed
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AI AND ML Disclosure optional, quality mandatory The Debian community has voted to allow members to use generative AI when creating their contributions, with the caveat that developers remain responsible for code quality. The Linux distro’s community recently decided to develop a policy on use of AI-assisted coding tools,
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If you’re like me, then you know the right song, podcast, or audiobook can help make every day a bit more pleasurable. That being said, noise-canceling audio gear isn’t exactly the cheapest, especially if it’s waterproof or offers a long battery life. Additionally, AirPods and Beats offer
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Apple Intelligence arrived with iOS 26 turned on by default, which means it’s been running on eligible iPhones and Macs whether their owners engage with it or not. For users who don’t use Writing Tools, have no interest in Image Playground and find notification summaries more disruptive than
