I’ve tested enough “smart” home gadgets that promised to fix my cleaning routine and ended up collecting dust instead of removing it. So when I saw Acer — a brand most of us associate with laptops and monitors — pushing a cordless vacuum cleaner in Indonesia, I raised an eyebrow. A 20,000 Pa wireless vacuum […]
Author: Nadia Malik
Ubisoft+ on Stadia: Great Idea, Thin Library for $15
The $15 you spend on Ubisoft+ buys you over 100 games on Windows. On Stadia, it currently buys you not even 20. That’s the trade-off in a nutshell: breadth on PC versus flexibility on Google’s cloud platform. If you live in the Ubisoft ecosystem and bounce between a gaming rig, Chromecast, and Android phone, this […]
Elon Musk’s Tech Empire and What It Means for Your Phone
Can one person really own rockets, AI, social media, and the pipes that may one day bypass your carrier? That’s essentially the question hanging over Elon Musk right now, after his net worth reportedly crossed US$800 billion (around Rp 14,000 trillion) and SpaceX moved to acquire xAI, the AI company he also founded. It’s not […]
No, SpaceX Isn’t Making a Starlink Phone… Yet
The smartphone industry has been inching toward native satellite connectivity, but so far it’s been more marketing bullet than mainstream reality. Apple pushed emergency SOS via satellite on recent iPhones, Qualcomm flirted with Snapdragon Satellite before that deal fizzled, and Android OEMs keep talking up “anywhere connectivity” without delivering it at scale. Against that backdrop, […]