Tech Business & Industry Trends Beyond the Buzz: How OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ Agent is Transforming AI from Assistant to Advocate October 10, 2026 Dwi Wanna Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. In recent years, the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has moved at a pace that is, frankly, difficult to keep…
Tech How-Tos & Tutorials Home Assistant Veteran Highlights Powerful Platform Features He Wishes He Discovered Sooner October 8, 2026 Suro Senen Even seasoned veterans of home automation platforms can spend years utilizing a system without scratching the surface of its full potential. Adam Davidson, a consumer technology writer and long-time Home…
Google Ecosystem & Pixel Google Cloud Unveils "Gemini Agent" as a Universal AI Assistant for Enterprise Workplaces October 8, 2026 Pevita Pearce At the Gemini at Work 2026 conference, Google Cloud officially introduced the "Gemini agent," marking a major strategic evolution in how artificial intelligence is deployed across enterprise environments. Designed to…
Custom ROMs & Modding Breathing New Life Into Obsolete Hardware: How a 2013 Kindle Paperwhite Was Transformed Into a Smart Desktop Assistant October 7, 2026 Laily UPN When Amazon announced plans to phase out support for older Kindle models, leaving many vintage e-readers unable to connect to modern ecosystem features, device owners were faced with a frustrating…
Tech News & Gadgets From Apple Watch Coder to Thiel Fellow: Sigil Wen Launches Underdog, a Privacy-First AI Assistant Backed by Silicon Valley Heavyweights October 6, 2026 Pevita Pearce When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was just 17 years old, he made a life-altering move to Silicon Valley, immersing himself in an AI hacker house alongside renowned researcher Andrej Karpathy.…
Custom ROMs & Modding Giving Old Hardware a Second Life: How Local AI Transformed a Seven-Year-Old Laptop into a Private Assistant September 25, 2026 Basiran The shelf life of modern computing hardware often feels artificially truncated, with machines gracefully bowing out of active duty long before their physical components actually fail. For most users, an…
Linux & Open Source Ubuntu 26.10 Introduces Windows 11-Style Tiling Layout Picker via Built-In Tiling Assistant September 24, 2026 Ali Ikhwan As the development cycle for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release nears its final stages, developers have introduced a significant enhancement to the desktop environment’s window management capabilities. Users exploring the…
Tech How-Tos & Tutorials Building a Fully Private, Local Voice Assistant Outperforms Cloud Alternatives in Speed and Privacy September 21, 2026 Basiran Commercial smart speakers and mainstream voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Gemini have long dominated the smart home landscape, offering unmatched convenience at a quiet cost. Users trade away…
Tech News & Gadgets Meta Expands Subscription Strategy With Global Launch of ‘Meta One’ Bundles Integrating AI Assistant Muse September 12, 2026 Lina Irawan Shortly after launching its comprehensive, do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta is taking its monetization strategy a step further by introducing new subscription bundles that pair its standalone app tiers with…
