I recently spent weeks comparing three deployment paths for large language models: using hosted API services (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere), running Mistral-style open models locally or on dedicated servers, and doing local fine-tuning or instruction-tuning of a model you control. Each option has clear advantages and trade-offs around cost, privacy, and performance. Here’s how I decide which route...
Hello — I’m Anaïs Dupont. Over the years I’ve spent time inside engineering teams, poking at data pipelines, and...
I’ve been testing compressed vector embeddings for search pipelines for a while now, because the promise is...
I spent the last few weeks pushing a Pixel Tablet through a set of pro-photography chores: rapid culling, raw...
I bought a cheap smart plug for my kitchen lamp last month. It was under £50, tucked into a sale, with shiny app...
I spent a month living with the Tilt Five mixed-reality dev kit on my desk, on my coffee table, and — embarrassingly...
I wanted a private, offline note-taking assistant that I could carry around on a cheap, low-power device. The Raspberry...
I spent the last few weeks pushing a Pixel Tablet through a set of pro-photography chores: rapid culling, raw adjustments, masked edits, and a handful of “magic” fixes that promise to save time. My aim was simple: figure out whether the Pixel Tablet’s on-device AI is fast and private enough...
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I bought a cheap smart plug for my kitchen lamp last month. It was under £50, tucked into a sale, with shiny app screenshots and hundreds of five-star reviews. On the face of it, it solved a small convenience problem: turn the lamp on and off from my phone, schedule it, and integrate with my voice...
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I spent a month living with the Tilt Five mixed-reality dev kit on my desk, on my coffee table, and — embarrassingly often — in the middle of the living room carpet while I debugged raycasting math at 2 a.m. The kit is delightful: the holographic glasses are lightweight, the retrofitted...
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I wanted a private, offline note-taking assistant that I could carry around on a cheap, low-power device. The Raspberry Pi 5—when paired with the right model and software—lets you do exactly that: run a local language model that summarizes, tags, and searches your notes without ever sending...
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I’ve helped teams evaluate incident management tooling from both an engineering and product perspective, and one question keeps coming up: can we replace PagerDuty with a cheaper alternative without sacrificing reliability or security? The short answer is: yes — in many cases — but it depends...
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I’ve spent a lot of time testing biometric systems and threat modelling authentication flows for mobile apps and kiosks. Face biometrics are convenient and increasingly common, but they invite a wide range of “liveness” or spoofing attacks — from simple printed photos to sophisticated...
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I remember the first time I had to migrate an authentication system for a business unit: months of planning, frantic late-night debugging, and a growing pile of post-it notes stuck to the monitor. Passwords were everywhere—hard-coded in scripts, reused across subsystems, and guarded by brittle...
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I’ve been living with a privacy-first smart home setup for a couple of years now, and every week I find one more way to stop sending data to cloud services while keeping — and sometimes improving — the convenience I actually want. If you care about privacy, security, and resilience, you can...
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I test a lot of tiny devices—fitness bands, smart rings, and the occasional prototype smartwatch—and one question always comes up: how do you meaningfully evaluate on-device AI when battery life is the limiting factor? It’s tempting to point to a single number (inference time, mAh drained)...
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When I started exploring padel as a complementary sport to my usual tech reviews and gadget testing, I quickly realised that choosing the right padel racket in the UK is as much about fit and feel as it is about raw specs. If you're searching for padel racket uk, this article is meant to take you...
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