2026-08-08
Russia is kickstarting its plans to dominate the space race once again — but it will have to depend on Chinese hardware to do so
Russia's Angara expansion combines domestic machinery with strategically important Chinese equipment supporting critical manufacturing processes. [...]
2026-08-08
Claude Cowork Record a Skill: I’m Never Hiring a VA Again
I’ve spent way too much time doing tasks that feel like they should be someone else’s job, whether it's formatting reports, organizing information, or repeating the same steps in different apps. At some point, you start thinking, “Maybe I should just hire a VA.” That’s why Claude Cowork’s Record a Skill feature caught my attention. Instead of writing out a giant list of instructio [...]
2026-08-08
xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Precise Editing and a Top Arena Ranking
xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026, making the new model generally available as the Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and inside the company's iOS and Android apps, according to the company's announcement. The release lands as xAI lists its models under the SpaceXAI name, and it arrives with region-level editing tools, multi-image reference inputs, and a claim to the num [...]
2026-08-08
Kensington Expert Mouse Pro TB900 review: I swapped my mouse and trackpad for the new TB900 trackball, and ran a head-to-head video edit against my usual setup — the trackball won.
I ran a head-to-head video editing tests against my usual setup, and found the TB900 faster and more intuitive editing across creative applications. [...]
2026-08-08
Working hard or hardly working? More than half of workers have sent unneeded emails or messages just to show they are doing something
Office workers are feeling increasingly pressured to unnecessarily respond to emails and messages to prove that they are engaged with their workload [...]
2026-08-08
I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok which sci-fi AI they're most like — and their answers were surprisingly different
Anthropic made me wonder whether AI learns from science fiction — so I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude one fascinating question. Which sci-fi AI are you most like? [...]