For nearly two decades, Stark Insider has run on a Google Cloud VM hosting an Ubuntu server. It’s been our foundation, but ...

It's hard to believe the iPhone was released in 2007, or about 18 years ago. When CEO Steve Jobs famously unveiled Apple's ...

Filmmaker and editor at Stark Insider, covering arts, AI & tech, and indie film. Inspired by Bergman, slow cinema and Chipotle. Often found behind the camera or in the edit bay. Peloton: ClintTheMint.

Anthropic just jumped from $60 billion to $183 billion. In less than a year. Let that sink in. The four-year-old San Francisco-based AI startup raised $13 billion in one of the largest venture rounds ...

Royal Drawing School marks 25 years with a conversation on why drawing remains a vital act of seeing and being. "Jack was determined not to let a little bit of spilled milk ruin his week." (2024) ...

Canon delivers a compact cinema powerhouse with 7K RAW, Super 16 mode, and dual-format media at a competitive price. The Canon EOS C50 features a full-frame 34.2MP CMOS sensor with an RF mount, ...

Claude can now create and edit Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint decks, Word docs, and PDFs. File creation transforms Claude from advice-giver into active project collaborator. Available today in preview ...

Google has released EmbeddingGemma, a new open-source text embedding model designed to run right on laptops, desktops, and even phones. This can happen all locally, without the need for a datacenter, ...

The Canadian boys in the woods (PetaPixel) call it the “ZED RED” which I kind of like. Nikon officially calls it the ZR: as in the new Nikon RED ZR to be exact. And it might just be the best and most ...

I picked this book up at the airport on my way to my meeting with CGI in Virginia. As usual, I wished I had the foresight to have ordered this book off of Amazon for far less than they were charging ...

Cy spent the ‘80’s as a bench scientist, the tech boom doing intellectual property law, and the first decade of the millennium, aspiring to be the world’s oldest grad student at Stanford where she is ...