Reducing energy costs is a top priority for homeowners these days—not to mention having an efficient and reliable home energy system. Home heating is often a high energy user, so having an efficient system for that can reduce your energy costs significantly. Imagine if you could combine efficient heating with power production. You can: it’s […]

Installing mesh wifi in my home was a game changer. I no longer had to work on top of my router, or worry about wifi calls dropping off in my kitchen. My home, built with the same ethos as a Faraday cage, a home that had challenged any tech the cable company sent my way, […]

It’s easy to run out of iCloud storage space. No matter if you’re using the 5GB that comes free with your iPhone, or if you’ve gradually upgraded to 50GB or even 200GB, running out of space still happens to many of us. But if you want to avoid upgrading to yet another iCloud tier, you […]

Splitwise has long been my favorite app for splitting expenses. The app makes it easy to figure out who owes who, and even works well across multiple currencies. It was amazing until recently, when Splitwise hobbled its free tier to the point of making it a lot less useful: The first couple of expenses can […]

Someone has to be first in line for every iPhone or the latest wearable tech, and that job generally falls to early adopters—the overly enthusiastic among us who are willing to take a chance on technology before anyone else. Sometimes it pays off; sometimes you have an expensive pair of Google Glass in a box […]

You’ve probably noticed generative AI tools such as Google Gemini and ChatGPT pushing their way into most of the technology we use every day. These tools are based on giant Large Language Models, or LLMs: networks trained on huge amounts of human data so that they can spit out realistic text or images or video. […]