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There is a category of consumer software the design and engineering community has collectively decided to ignore, and it has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry in the meantime. AI girlfriend and AI companion applications have been shipping fast, iterating harder, and accumulating millions of active users while most product designers were busy debating border radius to...

For decades, picking winners in New Zealand thoroughbred racing has relied on the same ingredients: a form guide, a sharp eye, a bit of track knowledge, and more than a little luck. The best punters develop an intuition — a feel for when a horse is ready, when a trainer has found the right race, when the track conditions suit.

But intuition has limits. A human brain ca...

SolidSmack readers already understand the thrill of turning an idea into a model, a render, a prototype, or a finished product. There is something addictive about the design loop: sketch, build, test, adjust, repeat. A rough concept becomes a shape. A shape becomes a model. A model becomes something you can rotate, inspect, improve, and maybe one day hold in your hand.

Reliable field equipment is a core control in HDD and utility construction. It affects safety, compliance, production, and margin. HDD gives crews little underground visibility, so the drill, mud system, locator, telemetry, tooling, excavator support, and PPE must work as one system.

U.S. requirements come from OSHA, PHMSA, and NTSB findings. Equipment failures can lea...

The franchise world is changing fast. And technology is the reason why.

A few years ago, running a franchise meant hiring a big team, printing flyers, and hoping customers would walk in. Today, it looks very different. Smart tools, apps, and artificial intelligence are helping franchise owners grow faster and smarter than ever before.

If you are thinking about b...