Author: Awais
One of my favorite products of 2025 almost flew under my radar. The Keychron K4 HE is an impressively affordable and fully-featured Hall-effect keyboard, with a signature pillowy feel and a mature design. I leapt at the chance to review the Keychron K4 HE. Not because of all the Hall-effect stuff, but because I thought it looked really cool. The wooden side panels evoke a sort-of retro feel that fits well with the wooden window frames, doors, floors, baseboards, and furniture in my office. In any case, I was right to judge a book by its cover—the keyboard’s pretty great.…
Whenever I visit antique and thrift stores, I make a beeline for the shelf of vintage cookbooks. These decades-old (or older) collections are treasure troves of forgotten favorites. These dishes and desserts evoke instant nostalgia when you recognize the ones that once graced your own family’s table. Many vintage recipes came from regular home cooks, like those found in the Pillsbury Bake-Off Cookbooks, compilations of entries to the company’s wildly popular Bake-Off contests. And one of the desserts from those contests is still a winner today (even though it didn’t win back then!): the Tunnel of Fudge Cake. Simply Recipes…
I’m a big fan of the Watchmen comic and really anything Alan Moore created during his prime as a storyteller. The way that it deconstructs the superhero genre is something that was unheard of at the time it was released. Sure, it’s been done to death now, but it completely broke my brain in the best of ways when I first read it as a kid. When the Watchmen film dropped in 2009, I was also a pretty big fan of that version of it. It didn’t really strike me as an adaptation that failed miserably or anything. However, over…
The holiday season—really, the holiday party season—is upon us. For everyone except the Grinch, the next four weeks are likely to bring a flurry of invites to cookie swaps, potlucks, and cocktail soirées. And that means you’ll need festive outfits, gifts for your hosts, and most likely some provisions to share. A little PSA: You can now get all of the above at Quince.If you know the online retailer, it’s probably because of its convincing dupes of pricier fashion brands like Theory, Everlane, Dagne Dover, and more (it’s hard to argue with $50 cashmere). In the past few years, Quince…
The Department of Transportation under President Donald Trump is moving to reverse more of the climate policies that had been enacted by President Joe Biden. Under a proposed rulemaking by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks in model year 2031 will be reduced to an average of 34.5 miles per gallon, down from the standard of 50.4 miles per gallon that was part of Biden’s plans to encourage more adoption of electric vehicles among US drivers.The move was expected since Trump re-took office. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ordered the NHTSA to review…
SpaceX has been successfully landing the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket for the last decade. Doing so allows SpaceX to use a single booster for multiple missions, enabling it to slash launch costs and increase launch frequency. Few other companies have made any real effort to emulate SpaceX’s feat with a first-stage booster, though Blue Origin just last month scored a first when it landed the main stage of its New Glenn rocket on its second try following a failed attempt at the start of the year. New Zealand’s Rocket Lab is taking a different approach to booster…
Why It Works Beating the egg whites with sugar (rather than using egg whites alone) creates a quick and easy meringue, which has a softer, more spreadable texture that incorporates more easily into the batter without deflating.A rapid caramel formed in the pan after cooking the pancake coats the torn pieces, giving them a crispy, crackly crust.Two cooking methods in the recipe let you prioritize the results you want: in the oven for less active cooking and a fluffier pancake, or fully on the stovetop for more deeply browned and crispy bits and a shorter cooking time. At night, the…
AI chat is the number one source B2B buyers use to shortlist software. Not review sites. Not vendor websites. Not salespeople. AI chat. G2’s 2025 survey of 1,000+ decision makers found that 87% say AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini are changing how they research software. Half of SaaS buyers now start in AI chat instead of Google Search. They’re “one-shotting” their research with prompts like “Give me CRM solutions for a large gym that work on iPads.” What used to take hours of “Google —> right-click —> open new tab” is condensed to minutes. If your product doesn’t…
arXiv:2512.03025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achievement. We introduce LORE, a systematic framework for Large Generative Model-based relevance in e-commerce search. Deployed and iterated over three years, LORE achieves a cumulative +27\% improvement in online GoodRate metrics. This report shares the valuable experience gained throughout its development lifecycle, spanning data, features, training, evaluation, and deployment. Insight. While existing works apply Chain-of-Thought (CoT) to enhance relevance, they often hit a performance ceiling. We argue this stems from treating relevance as a monolithic task, lacking principled deconstruction. Our key insight is that relevance comprises distinct capabilities: knowledge and reasoning, multi-modal matching, and rule…
Spotify Wrapped is a fun annual roundup of your listening habits throughout the year. And every year, the music streaming app adds new features, like back in 2023, when it assigned people a Sound Town, meaning a city that supposedly matched their listening style. Spotify Wrapped was released on Wednesday, and the new features this year include a multiplayer game, Wrapped Party, and a listening age.My actual age is 57. According to Spotify, my listening age is 79.SEVENTY-NINE.Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source.President Donald Trump and former Presidents…