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The reason why automakers are now building homes

6 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Aston Martin unveiled something called the 'Nยฐ001 Minami Aoyama', which is a bespoke home in Tokyo. They said it was custom built, which presumably means it was built on commission for an unnamed client. The point is, this isn't a one-off. Until n...

Here's what Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill means for EVs and energy companies

4 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Tesla investor and fan Sawyer Merritt did the hard work for us (so thank you for that) and summarised Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. Namely, he made a list of all the ways this bill affects EV car makers, EV buyers and companies that work in the...

Ex-OpenAI Mira Murati is fueling the AI salary war

4 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Mira Murati, former chief technology officer (or technical officer, depending on the source) at OpenAI left the company nearly a year ago to start her own startup, called Thinking Machines Lab (TML). Since then, Murati has been raising funds and hir...

Grok is more useful when you're bossy

3 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I just wrote a short article about the upcoming Apple Fold and I needed a create a mockup image to go with it. So I asked Grok. I said, "can you design an iPhone Fold based on predictions?" Grok thought I was asking for info, which, fair enough, I...

Apple iPhone Fold is nearly ready

3 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

So, according to Digitimes, the long-awaited, much-talked-about iPhone Fold (working title) is nearly ready. And by nearly ready I mean the working prototype is ready and good to go. They say that they claim that they heard that they call it Protot...

Some say 1 in 2 employees of this company are now millionaires

3 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

They're saying that nearly one in two employees working the latest and hottest tech company in the world is now a millionaire. So many of them have a portfolio of at least $25 million. The company in question is worth $3.5 trillion, and has 36,000...

This company seems to be the only to have worked out what Apple did that no one else does

3 Jul 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Nothing Inc. seems to be the only tech company that figured out what Apple is doing that other companies aren't. Some people think customers buy Apple products because of their tech, but there's more. People buy Apple because of its design, status,...

NordVPN man....

30 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Oh man, NordVPN. NordVPN sponsors just about any and every YouTube video you're watching, but perhaps they should stop throwing some of that money at their actual tech. I've been using NordVPN for years, and aside from its absurd onboarding policy...

Tech issues. Tech issues everywhere PART II

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Among other things, I have a website that runs on WordPress. It's monetised, which means I make about 2 cents a month. (Kidding, maybe). But that's beside the point, because the point is that WordPress, for whatever reason, has stopped showing ads...

Tech issues. Tech issues everywhere PART I

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

My MacBook is getting on a bit. It's an Air M1 model that I bought about two and a half years ago and overused for two and a half years. Think 70+ tabs regularly kept open across two browsers (Safari and Brave) with media playing in the background,...