Author: Ken Roberts

  • NBA Tech Summit—25 Years of Tracking Everything

    The NBA Tech Summit just turned 25. A quarter-century of wearable sensors, AI playbooks, VR coaching, and player stat tracking down to heart rate and hydration. That’s cool—but also a little creepy. Here’s my hot take: the tech’s incredible. But as data gets more granular, the line between performance enhancement and surveillance gets thinner than…

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  • The iPhone 17 Air—Thin Ain’t Always Smart

    Leaks say Apple’s going ultra-thin with the iPhone 17 Air—5.5mm thin, to be exact. That’s wild. But you know what else gets thin? Battery capacity. Drop resistance. Repairability. All the stuff that actually matters. As someone who’s worked on networks, hardware, and the inside of more iPhones than I want to admit—this isn’t progress. It’s…

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  • Chinese Tech Stocks Are Surging—Should You Care?

    The Hang Seng Tech Index is up 25% this month, outpacing the Nasdaq 100. Companies like Alibaba and Xiaomi are rebounding fast, thanks in part to the DeepSeek hype train. Look, Brother—I’ve seen a lot of stock bubbles in my time. Remember dot-com? Crypto 2021? This has that same flavor. Quick gains, lots of chatter,…

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  • DeveloperWeek 2025—Cool Tools, Same Old Questions

    DeveloperWeek hit Santa Clara this week and, as expected, the buzz was all AI, all the time. Chinese firm DeepSeek flexed some serious muscle with a lean, efficient model that’s giving Western heavyweights a run for their GPUs. That’s great if you’re rooting for more competition. But let’s not pretend these tools exist in a…

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  • Take a Breath—Progress Needs Pause

    This week’s been a blur. New AI tools, billion-dollar deals, fancy dashboards tracking economic impact. It all feels like a sprint. But maybe we need a little more walk. Tech doesn’t move in a straight line. Sometimes we innovate so fast we forget to ask why. Or worse—who gets left behind. So here’s my Sunday…

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  • GPT-4.5 Drops—More Power, More Responsibility

    OpenAI just gave us a taste of GPT-4.5 in research preview form. It’s smarter, faster, and even better at mimicking human nuance. Cool, right? Except every time these models level up, so does the risk. With great power comes great potential for misuse. Misinformation, deepfakes, phishing emails that look real—this stuff’s not science fiction anymore,…

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