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Sam Rivera

Sam Rivera covers consumer technology, gadgets, and hands-on product analysis for Newzlet. Articles under this byline are produced by Newzlet's AI-assisted editorial process and checked against our published editorial standards; see our AI Disclosure for how the newsroom works.

Areas of focus: Consumer tech, gadgets & reviews, smart home

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Consumer Tech

Omarchy Is a Dotfiles Repo, Not a Linux Distribution
Omarchy Is a Dotfiles Repo, Not a Linux Distribution

What Omarchy Actually Is Under the Hood Omarchy describes itself as “a beautiful, modern & opinionated Linux distribution…

Jun 7, 2026  ·  9 min read

Gadgets & Reviews

L.L.Bean Zip Hunter’s Tote Beats Every ‘Smart’ Bag We’ve Tested
L.L.Bean Zip Hunter’s Tote Beats Every ‘Smart’ Bag We’ve Tested

The Bag That Refuses to Be Just One Thing Michael Calore, a reviewer at WIRED, loads the L.L.Bean…

Jun 7, 2026  ·  8 min read

AI & Machine Learning

Why Graduates Booed Eric Schmidt at Arizona’s Commencement
Why Graduates Booed Eric Schmidt at Arizona’s Commencement

The Moment That Went Viral for the Wrong Reasons Eric Schmidt walked onto the stage at the University…

Jun 6, 2026  ·  7 min read

Cybersecurity

RBI’s Q-SAFE Committee Targets Quantum Threats to Indian Banks
RBI’s Q-SAFE Committee Targets Quantum Threats to Indian Banks

What the RBI Actually Did — and Why Now On May 25, the Reserve Bank of India announced…

Jun 5, 2026  ·  8 min read

Consumer Tech

Last.fm Is Independent Again: What It Means for Your Data
Last.fm Is Independent Again: What It Means for Your Data

The Announcement: What Last.fm Actually Said Last.fm published a brief announcement confirming that ownership has formally changed hands…

Jun 5, 2026  ·  7 min read

Consumer Tech

Memorial Day Phone Deals: Skip the Hype, Time It Right
Memorial Day Phone Deals: Skip the Hype, Time It Right

The Memorial Day Deal Hype: What Retailers Want You to Believe Every May, carriers and retailers roll out…

Jun 5, 2026  ·  9 min read

AI & Machine Learning

AI Job Fears Don’t Match the Data, Labor Stats Show
AI Job Fears Don’t Match the Data, Labor Stats Show

The Gap Between the Narrative and the Data The panic has outrun the evidence by a wide margin.…

Jun 5, 2026  ·  9 min read

Gadgets & Reviews

Portable Speaker Deals: How to Spot Real Value in 2025
Portable Speaker Deals: How to Spot Real Value in 2025

The Portable Speaker Market Is Overcrowded — Here’s Why That Works in Your Favour The portable speaker market…

Jun 5, 2026  ·  9 min read

Cybersecurity

754-Skill Security Taxonomy Gives AI Agents a Common Language
754-Skill Security Taxonomy Gives AI Agents a Common Language

The Problem Nobody Talks About: AI Agents Have No Shared Security Vocabulary Cybersecurity teams deploying AI agents in…

Jun 4, 2026  ·  10 min read

Gadgets & Reviews

AI Bird Feeders Bring Computer Vision to Your Backyard
AI Bird Feeders Bring Computer Vision to Your Backyard

The surprise tech inside your garden: Computer vision goes consumer Not long ago, automatically identifying a bird species…

Jun 3, 2026  ·  9 min read

Consumer Tech

Awesome-Free-Apps: The GitHub List Beating App Stores
Awesome-Free-Apps: The GitHub List Beating App Stores

What awesome-free-apps actually is — and why it’s different from a Top 10 list Awesome-free-apps is a GitHub…

Jun 3, 2026  ·  8 min read

Consumer Tech

Xreal’s Google Deal Could Finally Fix Smart Glasses
Xreal’s Google Deal Could Finally Fix Smart Glasses

The Graveyard Nobody Talks About: A Decade of Expensive Failures For more than a decade, the smart glasses…

Jun 3, 2026  ·  8 min read