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The FeelCool editorial team covers AI, gadgets, software, cybersecurity and the business of tech. We test products hands-on, explain complex topics in plain English and follow a strict editorial policy on accuracy and independence.

Mobile & Gadgets

Repairability outweighs the competition

Fairphone's Fairbuds 2 earbuds feature a glue-free design with seven replaceable parts to combat electronic waste. Priced at $119 in the US, these modular earbuds offer 28 hours of total battery life and use 49% fair or recycled materials.

Startups & Business

Vercel AI deployment and Turbopack performance

Turbopack delivers a 0.8s cold start in Next.js 16, significantly outperforming Webpack 5. Vercel provides superior AI deployment capabilities via the AI SDK and Pro plan function durations of up to 300 seconds, while Netlify utilizes a Deno-based runtime for its Edge Functions.

Startups & Business

Replicate and Luma lead the 2026 video API market

Luma AI's Dream Machine utilizes Ray3 reasoning architecture to outperform Runway Gen-4 in spatial physics and cinematic quality. Replicate offers developers access to over 50,000 models, while tools like Seedance 2.0 provide synchronized audio for multi-shot scenes.

Software & Apps

Bun 1.4 performance and stability in 2026

Bun 1.4.2 handles 48,243 requests per second, significantly outperforming Node 26.7.0 in high-throughput workloads. While offering faster cold starts and package installation, the runtime faces enterprise stability concerns due to 4.8k open issues and specific compatibility gaps.

AI

DeepSeek V3.2-Speciale challenges OpenAI reasoning dominance

DeepSeek R1 achieves 97.3% on MATH-500, outperforming OpenAI o1 while costing only $0.55 per million input tokens. The model utilizes a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture to mitigate US chip export restrictions and hardware constraints.