Technology
Technology moves fast. This feed keeps you ahead with sharp, bite-sized takes on AI, gadgets, the internet and the companies redefining how we live and work.
Read Technology on PlaxWhat you'll discover
- What is genuinely new in AI and computing — minus the hype
- How emerging tools change the way we live and work
- Signal over noise from across the tech world
About Technology on Plax
Technology stories cover the products, platforms and policies that shape daily life: phones and chips, the internet and cloud services, artificial intelligence, security, and the businesses behind them. The feed brings together short summaries from technology publishers, with a link to each original.
Technology news moves quickly and is often promotional, so it pays to separate what has shipped from what has only been announced, and what has been measured from what has been claimed. To understand the ideas under the headlines, start with our guides to how the internet works and how AI chatbots work.
Start with these guides
- How the internet works: from a tap on your phone to a web page
What happens in the second after you open a website: IP addresses, DNS, packets, HTTPS and the cables under the sea, explained without jargon.
4 min read
- How AI chatbots and summaries work, and why they sometimes get things wrong
Large language models predict text. That makes them fluent and useful for summaries, and it also explains why they can state falsehoods with confidence.
4 min read
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