I asked Claude for a guide to run AI locally on my Mac Mini, then let Cowork skip it and just build the thing.

I’ve received one of AMD’s first official AI developer boxes for testing, and it’s an impressive piece of AI hardware with a ...

Mobile devices and laptops go everywhere and serve us well, even on the water. But once the device’s battery dies, we’re at a loss. An onboard USB-style charger is the answer, and if you’re the antsy ...

Spend enough time in the self-hosting and smart home hobby, and even the most ardent smart home enthusiast eventually reaches a moment where the excitement of adding new gadgets gives way to the ...

Real operating systems on a tiny microcontroller.

Microsoft on Monday unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact desktop computer designed to let software developers run large AI models on their desks instead of paying for cloud computing — a ...

When installing Python libraries, there are two general approaches. One will install packages into the local user library directory, using the pip command, while the other involves creating virtual ...

So, you’ve got an older machine running Windows 7 and you want to get Python on there? It can seem a bit tricky, especially with newer software versions. Don’t worry though, it’s totally doable. We’ll ...

For many years, I boated on the Pacific Ocean without radar, largely because I did not have a suitable location to mount a rotating scanner or dome and, to be blunt, disposable income was hard to come ...

An Ars Technica colleague recently bought a new M4 MacBook Air. I have essentially nothing bad to say about this hardware, except to point out that even in our current memory shortage apocalypse, ...

The internet is buzzing with discussions about Clawdbot (OpenClaw). It is a new open-source AI agent that lives inside your computer. Think of it like having a 24/7 AI assistant that you can message ...