Brooke Becher
Staff Reporter at Built In
Expertise: Hardware and Robotics
Education: University of Lincoln, United Kingdom; California State University, Long Beach
Brooke Becher is a Built In staff reporter covering hardware and robotics. Based out of Los Angeles, she’s been writing culture features and reporting local news since 2014.
Becher holds a master’s degree in journalism and international human rights from the University of Lincoln, based in the United Kingdom, as well as a bachelor’s in journalism and mass communication from California State University, Long Beach. Her dissertation analyzed the nation’s narrative on rape culture through Western, online news media coverage, spanning the American political spectrum.
Past works are featured in LA Weekly, The Orange County Register, GOOD Magazine, Long Beach Press Telegram, California Business Journal and Los Angeles Magazine.
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After billions invested and nearly a decade together, the tech giants are testing the boundaries of their AI partnership — and eyeing what life apart might look like.
A recent Supreme Court decision has unleashed a torrent of state-level age verification laws in America, igniting debate over whether protecting kids online should come at the expense of privacy and free expression for adults.
Apple, once the gold standard in consumer tech, is being overshadowed in the generative AI era. Will its playbook of small, strategic partnerships and quiet R&D pay off in the end?
The Pixel 10 weaves artificial intelligence into every touchpoint, redefining what a smartphone can do. Now, with the release of the iPhone 17, the battle is on to see who will stake their claim in the AI-first era.
From Meta’s new AR glasses to OpenAI’s mystery device, Silicon Valley is racing to build the next AI-first heir to the smartphone. The winner could not only dominate the hardware market, but reshape our entire relationship with artificial intelligence.
Forget perpetual trial and error — generative design lets artificial intelligence do the grunt work, testing thousands of ideas in seconds to find smarter, faster ways to build.
Robot cops promise to keep officers out of harm’s way, but critics warn they could also change policing in ways we’re not ready for.
As data tracking ramps up, these privacy-first search engines offer a rare pause from constant digital surveillance.
The Right to Repair movement is gaining ground, pushing for laws that give consumers and independent shops more control over how they fix their own devices.
Unmanned aerial systems started as balloons with bombs. Now they’re AI-guided, fully integrated pilotless systems that can be found operating everywhere from combat zones to cornfields.
The Trump administration is letting American chip makers like Nvidia and AMD sell select AI chips to China again. Is China buying it?
Mechatronics engineers fuse their knowledge of hardware, software and intelligent automation to build machines that can think, navigate and adapt to the physical world.