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Smartwatch settings can make a glucose alert feel wrong even when the reading itself is not. The latest number may already be in your glucose app, but the watch can still change how useful that information feels. It may send the alert to your phone, stay quiet overnight, show older health data from the platform, or keep the reading off the watch face or workout screen you check most. I looked at the settings of the Apple Watch, Samsung Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch, Huawei Watch, and Garmin to see which ones are most likely to change how blood sugar information…
Even the most sophisticated AI (artificial intelligence) models are constrained by data trapped in information silos and legacy systems. The challenge is every new data source requires its own custom implementation, making connected systems difficult to scale, which is something that could slow building the next-gen infrastructure projects we so desperately need. Enter MCP (model context protocol). In November 2024, Anthropic introduced the model context protocol, which is a standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives. Anthropic suggests MCP provides a universal, open standard for connecting AI systems with data sources. The objective is to replace…
The Galaxy S26 series has been a smash hit for Samsung – the trio sold 3 million units in its home country of South Korea in just 118 days. That’s under four months. For comparison, the previous Galaxy S25 generation launched in early February and hit the 3 million mark in early August, which is six months. Before that, the S24 series needed two months more to reach the same target. The 2026 flagships started off strong with 1.35 million over 7 days of pre-orders in Korea, up from the previous record of 1.3 million set by the S25 series…
This is the second memo where I describe my recent experiences on running small models locally on my developer machine for agentic coding. In the first memo, I covered the many factors that can influence the viability of that setup — hardware, model choice, runtime, harness. Here I focus on the concrete experiences, the tasks I gave the models, what happened, and my final conclusions. Scope To recap: my focus is on agentic coding specifically, not just auto-complete. The machines I used were an M3 Max with 48GB RAM and an M5 Pro with 64GB RAM. Viability funnel Evaluating small…
Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup method and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, which transformed how a generation of founders and engineers think about building products. It introduced concepts like the MVP, the pivot, and build-measure-learn that are now so widely adopted they feel obvious. Over two decades of working with founders, CEOs, and investors, Eric has observed that some companies built on those principles eventually betray the very customers and engineers who made them great. His new book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great,…
Guest post by Dane Hudson, who is a former 25-year global CEO. Discipline Beats Vision: How to Be the Leader Your Company Needs (Wiley, 2026) is his first book. See more about the book here. Every founder I have ever mentored has had it, that absolute belief that their idea will work. You cannot start a company without it. Optimism is the fuel that gets you through an investor rejection, a product failure, a key person walking out the door. It inspires you and your team to work ridiculous hours with low pay to create a legacy. However, the surprise…
The following article originally appeared on Markus Eisele’s newsletter, The Main Thread, and is being republished here with the author’s permission.There’s a mental model spreading through the developer community right now that goes something like this: Agents are smart enough to figure things out, so heavy upfront specification is bureaucratic overhead you don’t need anymore. Just describe the goal loosely, let the agent explore, and correct as you go. Fast. Flexible. Modern.It’s wrong. Not because agents aren’t capable—they often are—but because the accounting is off. You’re not eliminating cost. You’re deferring it, fragmenting it, and making it harder to see.Let’s…
2 The FCC faces a spectrum balancing act: strengthen GPS resilience without disrupting a thriving 900 MHz unlicensed ecosystem powering critical IoT, smart infrastructure, and billions in economic value across the U.S. Olivier Beaujard at Semtech explains how. The 902–928 MHz band is one of the most productive pieces of wireless spectrum in the United States. It powers hundreds of millions of devices that U.S. citizens and U.S. economy rely on every day – smart utility meters, home security sensors, supply chain RFID tags, agricultural monitors, and LoRaWAN IoT networks connecting cities, factories, militaries, and farms. The FCC now has…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips to reveal a half-dozen squirming red earthworms. There are likely hundreds of thousands more wriggling just under the surface. The worms and microbes are part of a “vermifiltration” system that cleans manure wastewater. The approach may dramatically cut methane, nitrous oxide, and water pollution. Vermifiltration is…
Imagine being unable to tell your doctor whether you’re in pain or running a fever. This is a reality for many people living with dementia — and it means doctors can struggle to make the right diagnosis, leading to delayed treatment.For people living with dementia, subtle changes such as sleep disruption, reduced movement and shifts in daily routine can signal meaningful changes in health. But when people living with dementia aren’t able to fill in the gaps themselves, capturing that data and making it useful for care providers can significantly improve outcomes. At the UK Dementia Research Institute Centre for…