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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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Gadgets & Reviews

AI Kitchen Gadgets Are Changing How Tired Adults Cook
AI Kitchen Gadgets Are Changing How Tired Adults Cook

The trend hiding in plain sight: kitchens are getting automated Walk through any major tech publication’s gadget coverage…

Jun 2, 2026  ·  8 min read

AI & Machine Learning

Claude’s Open-Source Plugin Library Makes It Workplace Infrastructure
Claude’s Open-Source Plugin Library Makes It Workplace Infrastructure

What Claude Cowork’s plugin system actually is (and isn’t) Anthropic’s knowledge-work-plugins repository lives on GitHub under the anthropics…

Jun 2, 2026  ·  7 min read

Consumer Tech

Rugged Tablets Survive the Drop but Fail the Worker
Rugged Tablets Survive the Drop but Fail the Worker

The rugged device promise vs. the field worker reality Manufacturers selling rugged tablets lead every product page with…

Jun 2, 2026  ·  9 min read

Consumer Tech

New Glenn’s Thermal Failure Exposes Commercial Launch’s Hidden Risks
New Glenn’s Thermal Failure Exposes Commercial Launch’s Hidden Risks

What Actually Went Wrong in April When New Glenn launched in April, something went wrong in the upper…

Jun 1, 2026  ·  9 min read

Consumer Tech

LinkerBot’s $600 Robot Hand Is Disrupting Humanoid Robotics
LinkerBot’s $600 Robot Hand Is Disrupting Humanoid Robotics

The $600 Hand That Changes the Math on Humanoid Robotics LinkerBot sells a fully dexterous robotic hand for…

Jun 1, 2026  ·  9 min read

Consumer Tech

iii Eliminates the Pre-Business-Logic Tax on Backends
iii Eliminates the Pre-Business-Logic Tax on Backends

The Hidden Cost Nobody Talks About: The Pre-Business-Logic Tax Every backend project starts the same way: not with…

Jun 1, 2026  ·  10 min read

Cybersecurity

NordVPN Is Now a Security Suite—Here’s What Changed
NordVPN Is Now a Security Suite—Here’s What Changed

From tunnel to fortress: what NordVPN actually offers now NordVPN started as a straightforward VPN service. It no…

May 31, 2026  ·  9 min read

AI & Machine Learning

MOSS-TTS Opens Voice AI That Proprietary Platforms Lock Away
MOSS-TTS Opens Voice AI That Proprietary Platforms Lock Away

What MOSS-TTS Actually Is (And Why It’s Bigger Than a Voice Tool) MOSS-TTS is not a single model…

May 31, 2026  ·  9 min read

Consumer Tech

Lithium Recycling Breakthrough Could Fix Battery Supply Chains
Lithium Recycling Breakthrough Could Fix Battery Supply Chains

The lithium problem nobody talks about enough Lithium-ion batteries sit at the core of every major clean energy…

May 31, 2026  ·  9 min read

Consumer Tech

SourceHut’s Invisible Labor Problem Threatens Open Source Infrastructure
SourceHut’s Invisible Labor Problem Threatens Open Source Infrastructure

The ‘boring’ update that says everything Drew DeVault opened SourceHut’s Q2 2026 quarterly update with a blunt admission:…

May 30, 2026  ·  8 min read

Cybersecurity

FROST Fingerprints Your SSD Through the Browser
FROST Fingerprints Your SSD Through the Browser

What FROST Actually Does — And Why It’s Different FROST works by measuring the tiny timing variations in…

May 30, 2026  ·  9 min read

AI & Machine Learning

Epicure Packs Global Cooking Logic Into One Tiny AI File
Epicure Packs Global Cooking Logic Into One Tiny AI File

What Epicure actually is — and isn’t Epicure is not a chatbot that suggests weeknight dinners. It is…

May 29, 2026  ·  9 min read