Tech Pulse 10/13/25

This week on Tech Pulse, we narrate three articles spanning the future of work, AI wearables, and the surprise toy of the year.AI is going to eliminate jobs — but it's also going to create ones that don't exist yet. A writer sketches four plausible new roles: the person who explains AI decisions to judges and regulators, the expert who helps companies choose the right AI for the right task, the auditor who catches bias, and the trainer who upskills workers using the very technology disrupting them.A columnist spent a year testing eight AI wearables — bracelets, pendants, rings, and glasses — so you don't have to. Most ended up in a drawer within days. The piece is an honest assessment of where the category stands, and why the promise is still worth paying attention to.A startup no one in the industry had heard of quietly became one of the best-selling gaming devices of the holiday season — outsold only by the PlayStation 5 and the Nintendo Switch 2. The story behind it involves a pandemic pivot, a sixth-grader with a basketball, and the mother of all product reinventions.Aftersight is a media organization that serves individuals with barriers to print. This podcast is produced by Aftersight under the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act which states that authorized nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to provide copyrighted works in specialized formats to individuals with barriers to print are exempt. By continuing to listen, you verify you are blind, have low vision, or barriers to reading print materials.