If vacuuming is your least favorite chore, employing a robot vacuum can save you time and stress while also making sure your home stays clean. While once most robo-vacs landed on the higher end of the price spectrum, that’s not the case anymore. Sure, you could pick up a $1,000 cleaning behemoth, but it would… Continue reading The best robot vacuums on a budget for 2024
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Oura’s fourth-generation smart ring gets smaller and smarter
Oura, the Finnish company that has done more than most to put smart rings on the map, is ready to show off its fourth-generation Ring. The new model gets a sleeker design, longer battery life and smarter sensors producing even smarter insights for wearers. But the thing I really care about is that the company… Continue reading Oura’s fourth-generation smart ring gets smaller and smarter
The creepy Crow Country is coming to Nintendo Switch on October 16
One of the year’s scariest and most engrossing horror games is clawing its way to a new console. SFB Games’ Crow Country will launch on the Nintendo Switch on October 16. Crow Country may look like a cheerier, grainier Animal Crossing but that just adds to the horror adventure’s creepy and dark atmosphere. You play… Continue reading The creepy Crow Country is coming to Nintendo Switch on October 16
Tesla has stopped selling its cheapest car
Tesla’s least expensive car is off the market: the Model 3 Standard Range Rear-Wheel Drive is no longer available in the online configurator. Electrek first reported on the absence of that Model 3 build. It was the cheapest option from the electric vehicle brand with a price tag of $39,000. Now the Model 3 Long-Range… Continue reading Tesla has stopped selling its cheapest car
Epic will extend its free games program to its mobile store
Until now, the mobile version of the Epic Games Store has mostly been focused on the brand’s staples like Fortnite and Fall Guys. It won’t be that way for long. Epic Games Store general manager Steve Allison announced at Unreal Fest in Seattle that it plans to expand the Epic Games Stores’ mobile library with… Continue reading Epic will extend its free games program to its mobile store
Meta’s smart glasses can now tell you where you parked your car
Meta is rolling out some of the previously announced features to its AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses for users in the US and Canada. CTO Andrew Bosworth posted on Threads that today’s update to the glasses includes more natural language recognition, meaning the stilted commands of “Hey Meta, look and tell me” should be gone. Users… Continue reading Meta’s smart glasses can now tell you where you parked your car
Prime Day 2024: The best early deals we could find ahead of October Big Deal Days
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days is back this year, returning on October 8 and 9. The “fall Prime Day” of sorts has served as the online retailer’s unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season for the past few years. We expect most of the deals to be Prime exclusives, meaning you must be an active… Continue reading Prime Day 2024: The best early deals we could find ahead of October Big Deal Days
ChatGPT added 50 million weekly users in just two months
It’s little wonder that investors were clamoring to plow money into OpenAI. Alongside an announcement that the company had raised $6.6 billion in funding, OpenAI revealed that “every week, over 250 million people around the world use ChatGPT to enhance their work, creativity, and learning.” That’s a sharp rise since late August, when OpenAI said… Continue reading ChatGPT added 50 million weekly users in just two months
Students used Meta’s smart glasses to automatically dox strangers via Instagram streams
An unsettling report from 404 Media has shed light on some ways that the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses could be used to violate people’s privacy. Two Harvard students used facial recognition tech and a large language model to unearth a subject’s name, occupation and other details. Their setup (dubbed I-XRAY) can use that information to… Continue reading Students used Meta’s smart glasses to automatically dox strangers via Instagram streams
Serve Robotics and Wing will partner for drone delivery pilot in Dallas
A new joint venture between Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery robots and Alphabet’s Wing flying drone service will do a dual test run. Both tech companies hope that flying and sidewalk drones can cover areas its counterpart can’t and speed up delivery times. TechCrunch reported that Serve Robotics and Wing will start making deliveries in Dallas… Continue reading Serve Robotics and Wing will partner for drone delivery pilot in Dallas