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Thomas Ricker

Thomas Ricker

Deputy Editor

Deputy Editor

Thomas’ first gadget memory was typing 7734 into his father’s inverted, HP-35 scientific calculator. Clearly fated to tech blogging, he would have to wait another 20 years before the rise of the medium. A degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering led Thomas to Silicon Valley just prior to the dot-com boom. In June of 2011, Thomas wrote his 1,362,258th word for Engadget, leaving to help launch The Verge.

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Co-lead of Gemini joins OpenAI.

Noam Shazeer spent twenty years at Google before returning in 2024 after the Big G reportedly paid Character.AI — a company co-founded by Shazeer in 2021 — $2.7 billion to bring him and a team of researchers back home.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Mark Zuckerberg and David Ellison in front row of Trump’s gladiatorial spectacle.

On Sunday, the rich and powerful gathered to watch men choke each other out on the White House lawn. Welcome to peak idiocracy.

Solid-state batteries still aren’t ready, but gels are

Semi-solid state batteries are a less volatile bridge to the future.

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This portable light is great for way more than camping

Even at home, I keep reaching for it again and again.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Spotify’s disco era is over.

After updating, the much-maligned sparkle icon — meant to celebrate 20 years of Spotify — will revert back to its former flat self.

I went to the woods to drink surprisingly great espresso

Is a $200 portable coffee machine what Thoreau meant by living deliberately?

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
New Starlink dishes are coming.

No telling if that Starlink Mini dish on the right includes an integrated battery, per rumors, but both terminals look thinner than current models. Elon Musk revealed them yesterday without any specs, pricing, or dates.

Elon Musk: “These are the new Starlink terminals, which we made in much higher volume than the current terminals. Ultimately, we think there’s probably going to be a few hundred million Starlink terminals out there.”
Elon Musk: “These are the new Starlink terminals, which we made in much higher volume than the current terminals. Ultimately, we think there’s probably going to be a few hundred million Starlink terminals out there.”
Image: SpaceX