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Adam Clark Estes

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Are we living in the movie Her yet?

When it came out in 2013, the movie Her was set in the “slight future.”  That “slight future” is, astonishingly, here. After all, AI-powered...

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What if your earbuds could read your mind?

For the past few months, when I really needed to get something done, I put on a special pair of headphones that could read my mind. Well, kind of. The...

07.08.2025 9

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The surprisingly sound financial advice I got from a chatbot

Recently, as an experiment, I gave a bunch of my financial information to an AI chatbot. I know what you’re thinking — it sure doesn’t sound...

31.07.2025 6

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Personalized prices sure sound like a bad idea

During Amazon’s semi-annual Prime Day bonanza, the underwear I usually buy were on deep discount at a price so low I assumed it was just for me, the...

24.07.2025 6

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Revenge of the flip phone

I laughed out loud the first time I saw a folding phone. The contraptions, which debuted when the Samsung Galaxy Fold hit the market in 2019, are...

17.07.2025 20

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Little videos are cooking our brains

As an elder millennial, I’ve tried to avoid TikTok because of its documented brainrot potential and despite the fact that it means missing out on an...

10.07.2025 20

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Don’t let AI steal your job

ChatGPT’s most advanced models recently served me a surprising statistic: US productivity grew faster in 2024 than in any year since the 1960s. Half...

03.07.2025 30

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How (not) to track your health

You’d think I would have been more self-conscious about walking around New York City while wearing no fewer than six health trackers at a time. For...

26.06.2025 10

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What we learned the last time we put AI in a Barbie

The first big Christmas gift I remember getting was an animatronic bear named Teddy Ruxpin. Thanks to a cassette tape hidden in his belly, he could...

19.06.2025 30

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Your iPhone is about to get uglier

Once a decade, Apple does something that mobilizes its entire userbase in a fit of pixelated rage: It redesigns its software and debuts that new...

12.06.2025 10

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Why does Amazon want to scan your palm at the doctor’s office?

An Amazon-branded palm scanner greeted me at my last doctor’s office visit a few weeks ago. I’m not sure what I’d call the experience....

05.06.2025 9

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I covered my body in health trackers for 6 months. It ruined my life.

It’s never good when an alarm surprises you in the middle of the night. I was recently on vacation with my family, and a weird beeping woke everyone...

02.06.2025 10

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What is Google even for anymore?

Somewhere between asking Google’s new advanced AI to explain, in detail, how to become an expert birdwatcher in my neighborhood and using Google’s...

29.05.2025 6

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This life-changing piece of health tech is getting cheaper — and more advanced

Hearing aids, like canes or orthopedic shoes, are something you don’t think about a lot when you’re young. But maybe you should. You probably...

14.05.2025 5

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Mark Zuckerberg’s surreal new AI app is the future

You’ve probably seen bespectacled Mark Zuckerberg recently. The billionaire has been on a media tour wearing his Ray-Ban Meta glasses and talking...

08.05.2025 8

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The gas station of the future is not what you think

There’s a bodega on the corner where I live in Brooklyn with a massive TikTok following and a thick cable almost always stretched out the front door...

23.04.2025 10

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A battery-powered house? You can make that a reality.

Growing up in rural Tennessee, power outages were frequent and sometimes fun. With no TV or lights, we played boardgames by candlelight or played...

22.04.2025 10

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Will the courts break up Google? The tech giant’s big problems, briefly explained.

Google just lost a huge antitrust case. A federal judge in Virginia ruled on Thursday that the search giant illegally maintained a monopoly in the...

18.04.2025 20

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The everyday electronics that won’t survive Trump’s trade war

Less than six months ago, after an inappropriate amount of research, I bought a new toaster for $30. My old toaster had died, as old toasters do, and...

17.04.2025 20

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A surprisingly useful tool for this year’s tax season

Something unexpected happened recently as I was filing my taxes: AI helped. It even caught an error that my human accountant missed. This was...

10.04.2025 5

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AI is perfect for this stressful, seasonal chore

Something unexpected happened recently as I was filing my taxes: AI helped. It even caught an error that my human accountant missed. This was...

10.04.2025 7

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A skeptic’s guide to quitting your smartphone

If you’d asked me a decade ago how I felt about my phone, I would have said: “Wow, I love it.” And also: “How could you even ask me such a...

03.04.2025 4

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The spy in your living room

Roku City, the oddly alluring cityscape screen saver, scrolls across millions of idle TVs every day. Recently, an island paradise appeared in the...

27.03.2025 8

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The surprising thing I learned from quitting Spotify

Last summer, I quit Spotify, and wrote about it with the rather unsubtle headline “Why I quit Spotify.” My reasons remain sound: The software had...

20.03.2025 10

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The Facebook tell-all Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want you to read, briefly explained

In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg made a bold statement. Rather than to help college kids get dates, he claimed, Facebook was...

14.03.2025 40

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The Elon Musk company you should be worried about right now

The next phase of Elon Musk’s plan to entangle his companies with the workings of the federal government is well underway. That entails not only...

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The secret to scrolling less

I got my latest Screen Time report from Apple halfway through my daughter’s first day at Disney World. Waiting in line for rides, I’d been...

06.03.2025 10

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The surprising security pitfalls of read receipts

For a decade, my wife’s read receipts have been on without her knowing it. She kept checking her phone’s settings to see if they were turned off,...

27.02.2025 20

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Why scam texts simply will not stop

As soon as I sat down to write this, I got a text that simply said, “Hi.”  In another era, I may have been intrigued by the mysterious message...

20.02.2025 3

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AI can use your computer now. Should it?

The first time I heard about AI agents, I thought they could monitor your computer use, anticipate your needs, and manipulate your behavior...

13.02.2025 6

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You’re charging your phone wrong. It’s not your fault.

I used to think I was good at charging stuff. My phone, for instance, almost never dies because I charge it wirelessly overnight, and then, if it’s...

06.02.2025 10

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DeepSeek is bad for Silicon Valley. But it might be great for you.

When it comes to AI, I’d consider myself a casual user and a curious one. It’s been creeping into my daily life for a couple of years, and at the...

30.01.2025 10

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Yes, You Can Still Get That $7,500 Federal Rebate When You Buy an Electric Car

This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As President Donald Trump’s first...

25.01.2025 10

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Trump’s attack on EVs is just theater — so far

As President Donald Trump’s first week in office comes to a close, his biggest accomplishments are things many of us anticipated: chaos and...

24.01.2025 6

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Trump’s crypto grift is a warning

Three days before taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump launched his own crypto asset: $TRUMP. By the eve of his inauguration, Trump’s...

23.01.2025 20

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The bright side of TikTok’s downfall

The TikTok ban seems imminent. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would spell the end of TikTok as we know it in the United States, and now...

18.01.2025 9

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The first electric minivan will change the way you think about EVs

When I stepped up to test drive the all-electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz, the first thing I thought was that it looked as if it were grinning, almost too...

16.01.2025 20

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The first electric minivan will change the way you think about EVs

When I stepped up to test drive the all-electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz, the first thing I thought was that it looked as if it were grinning, almost too...

16.01.2025 3

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I visited our tech future. It’s not actually a terrible place.

When I stepped on the showroom floor in Las Vegas at CES, the largest tech industry trade show in the world, earlier this week, I felt a sense of...

09.01.2025 4

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5 breakthroughs that improved our lives this year — and 1 that didn’t

As 2024 comes to a close, it’s tempting to think that nothing happened this year except for a history-shaking presidential election. But it’s also...

19.12.2024 5

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What if AI can actually help with your burnout?

I recently had a breakthrough by talking to a computer while walking my dog. Creating a family meal plan had been on my to-do list for about a year...

12.12.2024 4

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An AI that sees what you see

It’s almost hard to remember what it was like before the whole world seemed to be powered by AI. Whether you like it or not, the tech industry is...

11.12.2024 10

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Your drawer full of old cables is worth more than you think

05.12.2024 6

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You deserve a better browser than Google Chrome

22.11.2024 4

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There’s never been a better time to buy a used phone

21.11.2024 5

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Bluesky feels more like old Twitter than X does

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What to buy before Trump makes everything more expensive

14.11.2024 1

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Trump’s techno-libertarian dream team goes to Washington

11.11.2024 10

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The growing danger of Elon Musk’s misinformation machine

07.11.2024 3

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Your AI-powered iPhone comes with a questionable carbon footprint

31.10.2024 2

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