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Ray Fernando and the Art of Showing Your Work
After 12 years building experiences at Apple, Ray Fernando took his work into public view. His livestreams, apps and open source tools show the exhilaration of coding with AI - and the work required when the code meets real users.
Catherine Wolpe Knows the Brand Is Built Between the Billboards
The former Princeton distance swimmer has spent nearly two decades learning why people choose, trust and gather around brands. At Bandit, her brief is to turn that discipline into a running company whose marketing behaves like part of the community.
The company that turned a $6,000 diabetes gadget into a $249 ring
Piyush Gupta left Abbott, watched his wife struggle with gestational diabetes, and decided the fix wasn't a better sensor - it was a cheaper one. A decade later, Ambrosia Systems sells glucose tech in 100-plus countries and just put the whole thing on your finger.
Apple Sells You a Smaller World, and You Keep Buying It
It started in a garage and now runs on custom silicon, a services machine, and a billion-plus devices that all talk to each other. Here is how the walled garden actually works - and why leaving it feels like moving countries.
Fitbit Air 30-Day Review: The $99 Subscription-Free Wearable Tested
A hands-on 30-day review of the $99 Fitbit Air, a screenless, subscription-free wellness wearable. The reviewer wore it every day for a month through international airports, a week-long tennis camp in Bali, and intensive training in tropical heat, comparing it head-to-head against WHOOP 5.0. The verdict: the Fitbit Air excels at comfort and sleep tracking and offers roughly 80% of the value at 20% of the cost, but its thin, older sensor hardware lags behind WHOOP during high-intensity exercise, and the Google Health app is still rough around the edges.