Dan Costa

Dan Costa is the Consumer Electronics editor at PC Magazine and a frequent Gearlogger. He has covered gadgets and digital culture for Blender, CNet, Computer Shopper, FoxNews.com, Parent & Child, and Time Warner publishing. He plans to finish a novel, learn Spanish, and add ten pounds of muscle—just as soon as he finishes reading all his e-mail.

Microsofts Coffee Table PC Due in Late 2007

Microsoft has been looking beyond the desktop for some time now, but with the launch of "Milan," the company is showing the potential for so-called "surface computing" to revolutionize...

DRM Is Dead

Steve Jobs made headlines in February when he came out against digital rights management (DRM), the copy protection schemes forced onto music tracks by the big record labels. Yes,...

Sony PlayStation 3: Much More than a Gaming System

PC Magazine was able to gets its hands on a Sony PlayStation 3 in advance of the Nov. 17 official launch. It is a debug unit, so not all...

Samsung Ships the First Blu-Ray Player

The format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has finally reached consumers, now that Samsung is shipping the BD-P1000 Blu-Ray player to retailers. The BD-P1000 ($999.99 list) will go on...

Latest Posts

SoftBank and NVIDIA to Bring Generative AI to Telcos

NVIDIA and Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank have partnered to create a platform for generative artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G applications based on NVIDIA’s GH200...

ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair on Generative AI and Data Analytics

I spoke with Sudheesh Nair, CEO of ThoughtSpot, about how generative AI is changing the data analytics market. Among the topics we discussed:  We’ve seen...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Finance

Artificial intelligence, in its many forms, could greatly benefit the finance industry. However, there are some hurdles financial institutions will need to jump first.

Generative AI: Enterprise Use Cases

Generative AI, a type of AI that is trained to generate original content, is growing in both its consumer and business use cases. Particularly...

Battery Ventures’ Brandon Gleklen on How Generative AI Affects Tech Investment

I spoke with Brandon Gleklen, Principal at Battery Ventures, about how the rise of generative AI changes the kinds of business models he seeks...