5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better
The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
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New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.
How I Went From Side Hustle to 7 Figures in 12 Months Using 4 AI Tools (No Employees, No Investors)
Most solopreneurs aren’t failing because they need more AI tools —they’re failing because they’re using AI to patch outdated systems instead of rebuilding their business around an AI-first workflow that scales.
The Most Important Part of Your Website Is the Part Nobody Sees. Here’s Why (and How to Strengthen It).
Findability now depends as much on technical execution as on layout and graphic design.
2 Technical SEO Mistakes Quietly Draining Your Revenue (And You’ve Probably Made Both)
Slow pages and badly handled redirects rarely show up in your rankings until the damage is done. Here’s how to catch both this week with two free tools and 30 minutes.
Content Creation Is Now Your Strongest Fundraising Asset. Here’s Why.
Content creation isn’t a side project; it’s a trust-building infrastructure in today’s competitive fundraising ecosystem.
The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more
The $149 Dune keyboard can be a meeting controller at least and a script-executing keypad at best.
A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible
It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body. When surgeons attempted it a few years ago, the newly-transplanted eye wasn’t able to see. But researchers believe they might have a solution: a device that maintains and…