The time has come for me to chime in on this whole AI gadget craze.

Two new gadgets aren’t worth your money. One absolutely is.

Here it is, my take on what Humane, Rabbit and Meta are doing to free us from smartphones:

🆕 COLUMN:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/the-ai-gadget-that-can-make-your-life-betterand-two-that-definitely-wont-c51f49f0?st=a458i34feop0n13&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

🆕 VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhzno-IjuiY

Remember the iPhone that still worked after it fell out of an Alaska Airlines plane at 16,000 feet?

I couldn’t shake figuring out how it survived. So I launched some iPhone 14s and Galaxy S23es 300 feet into the sky to find out.

🆕 COLUMN AND VIDEO: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/why-an-iphone-can-survive-a-drop-from-a-plane-but-not-from-your-kitchen-counter-57453ca9?st=9uqa298hbwakydm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Joaquin Oliver died in the Parkland shooting six years ago.

Now with AI he's speaking again—and calling elected officials.

My column / video, which published hours before ANOTHER shooting:

https://wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-brings-back-voices-of-children-killed-in-shootings-7d72cb8d?mod=tech_lead_story

I decided it was time to get a computer on wheels—AKA an EV.

So I tested 5: Ford Mustang Mach-E, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, Tesla Model Y, Volkswagen’s ID.4.

Then I narrowed down to 3—the Ford, Tesla and Hyundai—and took them on an epic road trip.

Then I decided to lease one...

COLUMN: https://wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/best-evs-under-60000-dollars-3eed42f9

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh8ZDiekQQY

Heat is killing our batteries. 🪫 So I stuck an iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S under a commercial grade heat lamp to find out a few things:

🌡️ What temp will you get the needs-to-cool-down alert?
🔋 Will fast charging speed up the alert? How about recording video?
🥶 How can you keep the phone cooler?

New column and video with all those answers and more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-tried-to-melt-a-bunch-of-smartphones-to-find-out-how-you-can-save-your-battery-d75066d1

It's the tech billionaire death match you've been waiting for...

Yes, MUSK vs. ZUCK action figures.

They're jacked. They're ready to fight and explain what this ridiculous fight is really about. OK, I do the explaining.

Latest @WSJ video and column here:https://www.wsj.com/articles/beyond-musk-vs-zuck-how-the-big-tech-rivalries-are-shifting-7430185e

Sometimes you just have to hit the streets with a printer, laptop and a giant battery to generate some AI art and make total strangers' photo dreams come true.

My 🆕 video testing out some crazy AI photo tools, including #AdobeFirefly #midjourney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKoFc14mpMs