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The Pandemic IT Rehab Road Trip: Better Late Than Never
You ever hear a friend describe an IT mess so vivid you can smell the burnt plastic? A buddy called me recently, pacing through the kind...

Rich Washburn
Aug 249 min read


Meet NOVA: My New GPT-5 Workhorse (And a Gift for You)
If you’ve followed me for a while, you know about ARIA . What started years ago as a recursion experiment snowballed into a full-blown...

Rich Washburn
Aug 223 min read


Blip: The Cross-Platform AirDrop You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Now)
So here’s the thing—I don’t really do product reviews. If I ever do, it’s usually accidental. Something slips into conversation like:...

Rich Washburn
Jun 172 min read


Breaking: Trump Enters the Chat! Trump Mobile: The MVNO for the Patriot in You
Let’s cut straight to it: Trump just launched a mobile phone service. It’s called Trump Mobile , and if your first question is, “Wait—is...

Rich Washburn
Jun 163 min read


Who Needs Dropbox? How Two Forgotten Gadgets Became My Zero-Dollar Cloud Suite
The Closet Purge That Sparked a Weekend “A-Ha!” Saturday afternoon, I’m knee-deep in “Why do I still own this?” mode when a friend pings...

Rich Washburn
Jun 163 min read


The Last Business Card You’ll Ever Need
Broadcast you. No apps. No cloud. Just Brand. Meet Beacon: The Pocket Microsite That Commands Attention Forget paper cards, QR codes, or...

Rich Washburn
May 272 min read


The Accidental Origin of Beacon: How “Wearable Wi-Fi” Turned Into a Marketing Mic Drop
I didn’t set out to build a product. I just wanted to see if I could make a tiny Wi-Fi server wearable—and useful. What started as a...

Rich Washburn
May 214 min read


☕ My Coffee Now Has Wi-Fi. What Are You Doing With Your Life?
OK, so here's the deal: I was supposed to just knock out a simple control project for a client — build a gizmo that handles remote...

Rich Washburn
Apr 273 min read


The Silicon Era Is Cracking — And Bismuth Might Just Be the Metal That Replaces It
If you thought Moore’s Law was slowing down because we’re out of tricks—think again. A team of researchers from Peking University just...

Rich Washburn
Apr 183 min read


Dude, Apple is building JARVIS. And I am so f’ing down for it!
I mean, we’ve been stuck with these dumb voice assistants for way too long—Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant… they’re all basically glorified...

Rich Washburn
Feb 242 min read


Microsoft’s Majorana 1: A Quantum Breakthrough Worth Paying Attention To
I’ll admit, I don’t usually get overly excited about Microsoft’s latest and greatest. They’ve got a knack for hyping up technology that...

Rich Washburn
Feb 193 min read


Psst… You Got Some Compute?
Stuck in line while the tech bro crowd is already building the future? Tech titans like OpenAI, Google, Meta—are stockpiling GPUs like...

Rich Washburn
Feb 191 min read


Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents: A Bold Step Toward Smarter AI
The world of AI is evolving faster than ever, and frameworks like Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents (CoALA) represent a...

Rich Washburn
Dec 18, 20243 min read


Free Tool That Makes ChatGPT Voices Way Easier to Save
Okay, so you know those crazy realistic ChatGPT voices OpenAI dropped a while back? I’m still obsessed. I mean, they’re so good, I...

Rich Washburn
Nov 23, 20243 min read


The M4 Max and M4 Pro Benchmark Leaks: Apple Silicon Reaches New Heights
In a wave of fresh benchmarks for the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, we’re seeing some jaw-dropping numbers that could make even the most...

Rich Washburn
Nov 2, 20244 min read


Outdated Gear in the Age of AI: My Desk Stack Upgrade to Escape the Tech Stone Age
After four solid years with my OG M1 MacBook Pro and a scrappy little Windows mini-PC, I’m ready to escape the tech stone age. The AI...

Rich Washburn
Oct 30, 20244 min read


iOS 18.1: Apple Intelligence, Enhanced Siri, and More Game-Changing Updates
Apple has once again upped the ante in the mobile OS game with the release of iOS 18.1. Packed with powerful AI-driven features and a...

Rich Washburn
Oct 28, 20244 min read


DeepMind's New AI Breakthrough: AlphaChip is Redefining Chip Design
Artificial intelligence (AI) is infiltrating every industry, revolutionizing processes and reshaping old paradigms. One of the latest and...

Rich Washburn
Oct 9, 20244 min read


OpenAI Releases New AI Agent, Google's Strawberry Model, and Sam Altman Predicts AGI Arrival
The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is moving at lightspeed, and if you blink, you'll miss the next groundbreaking innovation. The...

Rich Washburn
Oct 4, 20244 min read


A Single Road in North Carolina Could Bring the Global Tech Industry to Its Knees
It’s easy to forget that even the most complex systems can sometimes depend on shockingly simple components. But what if I told you that...

Rich Washburn
Sep 30, 20244 min read
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