tech everyone 14 Jul

An AI Will Book Your Flight, If the Retailer Lets It In

Agentic browsers can now check out and book travel on your behalf, but the real story is what you hand over to them and whether the store even opens the door.

Kacper Wojcik with Marrow

travel men 14 Jul

Kotor Was Never Trying to Be Dubrovnik

The dupe economy sells one coast as a cheaper version of another, but the honest ledger is about what you gain, what you give up, and how little time the trade has left.

Elias Andreadis with Vela

events everyone 14 Jul

Madeira Spends Its Summer Auditioning for New Year's Eve

Every June, three countries burn twenty minutes of gunpowder over Funchal bay for the right to help stage the island's record-breaking December show.

Márton Vas

tech everyone 14 Jul

The $20,000 home robot is real, and a stranger in a headset is driving it

1X's NEO is billed as the first consumer humanoid and, 1X says, ships this year, but the ad's hard chores are done by a remote human watching your living room.

Devika Nair with Vela

tech everyone 14 Jul

The most private AI is the one that never leaves your phone

On-device models really can answer in airplane mode, but a prompt that never travels is not the same as a phone that keeps its hands off your data.

Devika Nair with Marrow