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Technology

Why your phone battery still dies by evening

Battery capacity grows a few percent a year while everything that drains it grows faster. A tour of where the energy in your phone really goes.

Maya OkaforSep 27, 20262 min read

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Technology

Inside the race to make chips that sip power

Efficiency, not raw speed, has become the central contest in chip design. We look at the techniques engineers are using to cut energy per calculation.

Maya OkaforSep 23, 20262 min read

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Artificial Intelligence

Small models, big consequences

Compact language models can now run on laptops and phones. That changes who controls them, how fast they respond and what they cost.

Maya OkaforSep 17, 20262 min read