Author: Awais

There are plenty of things you can do if you have downtime during the holidays, but one of the most rewarding could be cleaning out your bloated iPhone photo library. All year, we take pictures of people and pets — and receipts, and parking space numbers — which load up the Photos app. A round of culling will help you regain storage space and remove shots you don’t need. Before you cave and pay Apple for more iCloud storage, you should know there’s a ridiculously easy fix already built into your phone. If you’re running iOS 16 or later, the Photos app…

I’ve officially entered my auntie era, and every holiday season brings a guaranteed request from the little ones in my life—one I happily oblige: baking up a batch of sugar cookies. Watching tiny hands pipe quirky icing designs and pile on glittery sprinkles never gets old. As a food writer, though, I like to rotate the recipe I use each year. And while rereading “In Pursuit of Flavor,” one of my all-time favorite cookbooks, I landed on Edna Lewis’s 1988 recipe for “special” sugar cookies. A quick scan of the two-page recipe sealed the deal. Lewis builds flavor with warm…

Broad match used to mean “more reach, less relevance.” Now it means more reach, with a machine learning layer deciding what relevance looks like. Google has been steadily steering advertisers toward fewer moving parts – fewer match types, fewer manual levers, and more automation.  Making broad match the default for new Search campaigns in July 2024 was the clearest signal yet that this is the direction of travel. If you still think of broad match as “the loosest match type,” you will manage it like it is 2016.  That is where the pain comes from: CPC inflation, irrelevant search terms,…

When I joined HubSpot, I stepped into a rare position. I had already spent years as a customer, learning how to build systems creatively with the tools I had access to. Then, I joined the company with the responsibility of modernizing a long-standing customer reference system that had served many teams well but was now struggling to meet new expectations, complexity, and scale. Seeing both sides changed how I approached this work. Advocacy is often misunderstood. It can be seen as simple or administrative because so much of its complexity lives behind the scenes. But once you look closely, you…

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I’ve never been a huge fan of jigsaw puzzles, but the pieces of art the Magic Puzzle Company makes for you to assemble are a delight. For starters, each has gorgeous and distinctive artwork — while there are a variety of artists who’ve contributed to the company’s puzzle lineup, they all feel related, packed with color, whimsy and a bunch of secrets you’ll notice as you build. The puzzle pieces themselves are high-quality and solid, something that goes a long way towards making a puzzle fun to put together. But my favorite part is the fact that once you finish…

No Linux operating system is complete without a suite of handy software. This week I found some legitimately useful apps you can install on your system, including a planetarium for stargazing, a library of internet radio, and a way to learn terminal commands faster. HTG Wrapped 2025: 24 days of tech 24 days of our favorite hardware, gadgets, and tech While it doesn’t always work out this way, these apps all have a common theme. The software this week all help you pick out individual items in a vast array of things so that you can understand them better. Whether…

Just eggnog, heavy cream, and one packet of gelatin turn eggnog into a festive dessert.This panna cotta uses store-bought eggnog, saving you time and effort.No need to fuss with unmolding—serve these right in the ramekins, bowls, or mugs. Celebrating Christmas with my parents throughout my childhood was always spontaneous, irregular, and never too serious. My parents had only immigrated to the US a decade before I was born, so they were still adjusting to its traditions. As my siblings and I have gotten older, we’ve brought new culinary traditions into our family holiday gatherings. My contribution is this eggnog panna…

In an interview with the Big Technology Podcast, Sam Altman seemed to struggle answering the tough questions about OpenAI’s path to profitability. At about the 36 minute mark the interviewer asked the big question about revenues and spending. Sam Altman said OpenAI’s losses are tied to continued increases in training costs while revenue is growing. He said the company would be profitable much earlier if it were not continuing to grow its training spend so aggressively. Altman said concern about OpenAI’s spending would be reasonable only if the company reached a point where it had large amounts of computing it…

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