AI & Future Tech

Quick Answer — NerdChips Insight: An “AI PC under $800” in 2025 usually means a mid-range laptop with an entry-level NPU (around 40+ TOPS), 16GB RAM and decent integrated graphics. It’s great for local writing assistants, transcription, light image work, […]

Quick Answer — NerdChips Insight: In 2025, satellite-SMS finally goes mainstream: T-Mobile’s Starlink-powered T-Satellite, Verizon’s Skylo texting and Orange’s new “Satellite Message” for Pixel phones make it realistic to send basic texts abroad when there’s zero signal. The catch: coverage,

Quick Answer — NerdChips Insight: On-device translation chips in e-readers move AI from the cloud into the device itself, letting you translate books instantly without sending text to remote servers. In 2025 they promise faster, more private reading in any

⚡ Thunderbolt 5 Hype vs Reality: The Upgrade Question for Creators Thunderbolt 5 is finally moving from slides into shipping devices. Laptop makers are talking about 80 Gbps baseline bandwidth, 120 Gbps “Bandwidth Boost” for displays, and up to three

🔎 Why “Local” Matters—And Why It’s Confusing “Local” is the buzziest word in smart home marketing right now. Brands promise local control, local inference, and private-by-default automations. For apartment dwellers and anyone with shaky internet, that promise hits home: fewer

🛰️ Intro: Why 2025 Is a Pivot Year for Satellite Internet The story of satellite internet used to be a tale of heroic engineering and spotty service. In 2025, it’s morphing into a pragmatic, planet-scale utility. Several forces converged: low-Earth-orbit

🏙️ Intro Cities didn’t suddenly become “smart” in 2025 — the foundations were built years earlier with AI + IoT infrastructure, traffic sensors, and policy sandboxes that tested what actually works in messy, real-world conditions. You can see that multi-year

🚀 Introduction: Factories Don’t Look Like They Used To—And 2025 Proves It Labour shortages are no longer a temporary blip, supply chains are still structurally tighter than they were pre-2020, and cost pressures creep into every BOM and balance sheet.

🚗 Introduction: The Car Is Becoming a Computer—With Wheels The modern automobile is no longer a metal shell with a motor—it’s a rolling stack of compute, sensors, and software that learns. In 2025, the most important decisions in automotive won’t

🌍🧠 Intro Semiconductors are the invisible infrastructure behind modern life—AI inference at the edge, flagship smartphones, EV drivetrains, flight control systems, medical imaging, even the cashier-less checkout down the street. The 2020–2023 crunch exposed just how delicately the world balanced