Hermes Bot Mode Review: This Is What Multi-Agent Hermes Should Feel Like
Hermes Bot Mode turns isolated Hermes profiles into a real roster of named agents with their own chats, routines, avatars, and agent-to-agent messaging. Here’s…
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How to Use Gemini: A Practical First-Day Guide
Gemini is Google's consumer chat assistant (gemini.google.com), a mobile assistant on Android, and a developer platform with Google AI Studio and a Gemini API…
How to Use Docker Sandboxes: A Practical First-Day Guide
Docker Sandboxes is a free local CLI that runs Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Kiro, and other coding agents inside per-agent microVMs so…
How to Use llama.cpp: A Practical First-Day Guide
llama.cpp is the C/C++ inference engine that runs GGUF models on CPU, NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple Silicon hardware. This guide walks a first-day user…
Reviews
Tested gear and tools
iOS 27 Beta 5 Review: New Siri Controls, Fresh Icons, and a Massive Fix List
iOS 27 beta 5 is here with expanded Siri voice controls, Liquid Glass tweaks, search changes, and a massive fix list covering Siri, ChatGPT,…
Rabbit R1 Review: A Voice Remote for Your AI Stack
The Rabbit R1 isn't a phone replacement and never pretends to be. It's a $199 voice remote for your AI stack, and for people…
Hermes Agent v0.20.0 Herald Release: Hermes Finally Speaks
Nous Research dropped Hermes Agent v0.20.0, the Herald Release, on August 3. Real-time voice with barge-in, wake words, A2A v1.0, signed webhooks, and grounded…
Deals
Worth-a-look price drops
Samsung QN990F 65-Inch 8K TV Drops to $1,798 on Amazon for Prime Day (60% Off)
The Samsung QN990F 65-inch 8K TV just dropped to $1,798 on Amazon for Prime Day. That is $2,700 off the $4,498 list price, making…
Samsung S90F 55-Inch OLED Drops to $998 on Amazon for Prime Day (29% Off)
The Samsung S90F 55-inch OLED just dropped to $998 on Amazon for Prime Day. That is $400 off the $1,398 list price, making this…
Bose Ultra Open Earbuds Drop to $199 on Amazon for Prime Day (33% Off)
The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds just dropped to $199 on Amazon for Prime Day. That is $100 off the $299 list price, making this…
News
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Hugging Face’s Microduck Is a $399 Open Source Robot Duck You Train
Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics opened pre-orders for Microduck, a $399 open source robot duck with a full reinforcement-learning stack you can fork and retrain.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Call for an AI Cyber Defense Surge
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google just published a joint open letter calling for a surge in AI cyber defense before AI-enabled attacks get out of…
Plaud One turns your earbuds into a hands-free AI agent
Plaud's new Plaud One earbuds put an AI agent in your ears, with a 4G case that works without your phone. Priced at $249.99,…
Guides
Practical tech walkthroughs
How to Use Claude: A Practical First-Day Guide
Claude is Anthropic's assistant, and 'how to use Claude' covers more ground than most people realize: a chat surface, an Artifacts panel for standalone…
How to Use vLLM: A Practical First-Day Guide
vLLM is the high-throughput, memory-efficient LLM inference and serving engine out of UC Berkeley. This guide walks a first-day user from picking the right…
How to Use ComfyUI: A Practical First-Day Guide to Node-Based Image Generation
ComfyUI is the open-source node-based interface for running image and video generation models locally. This guide walks you through your first install, first text-to-image,…
Takes
The industry read
Sam Altman’s ChatGPT Parenting Pitch, and the Internet’s Answer
Sam Altman wants parents to let ChatGPT narrate the drive to school. The internet's response says everything about how people feel about AI parenting.
Anthropic’s Fable 5 Circus Keeps Getting Worse. OpenAI’s Sol Makes It Embarrassing.
Anthropic extends Fable 5's deadline while OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 Sol in every subscription. The contrast says everything about who respects their users.
Sam Altman Is Equally Amazed by His Toddler and GPT-5.6 (and That’s the Most Honest Thing He’s Said All Year)
Sam Altman compares his kid's two-word milestone to GPT-5.6 discovering new math. It's hilarious, it's revealing, and it accidentally makes a deeper point than…
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Best 4K Monitors for Coding in 2026
8 4K monitors tested for coding in 2026, from budget to premium. BenQ RD280U 3:2, Dell UltraSharp, LG OLED, ultrawides, and more -- with…
Best Portable SSDs for AI Development in 2026
The best portable SSDs for AI development work, tested for sustained throughput, thermal stability, and speeds that actually matter when shuffling model weights and…
Prime Day Hangover: 5 Tech Deals That Didn’t Leave After the Sale Ended
Amazon Prime Day 2026 is over, but the deals didn't all vanish. I checked every price on Amazon myself. Here are 5 deals still…
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