Category: Technology
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The new Nest Cam Indoor and Nest Cam Outdoor boast the easiest setup experience I’ve encountered. Simply plug them in (the Nest Cam Indoor comes with a 10-foot USB-C cable, the Nest Cam Outdoor has an 18-foot weatherproof cable), scan the QR code sticker on the front of each camera with the Google Home app,…
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robot, about the size of a guinea pig, sitting on my couch, and it’s squeaking. My friend’s dog Wylie sits watching it, suspicious of its every move. Moflin is an AI companion robot made by the Japanese electronics manufacturer Casio. Via the companion app, I have chosen to name this one Puff, because—well—that is what…
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Hearing Aid Price Battery Type Max Battery Life Weight Style Availability Best OTC Hearing Aid: Jabra Enhance Select 300 From $1,695 Rechargeable 30 hours 2.23 grams BTE OTC Best Upgrade: Jabra Enhance Select 700 From $1,995 Rechargeable 24 hours 2.58 grams BTE OTC Best Value: Jabra Enhance Select 50R From $1,195 Rechargeable 24 hours 2.5…
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traditional wireless earbuds uncomfortable, or maybe they just won’t stay in no matter what you do, there’s still hope, thanks to open-ear earbuds like Baseus’s Inspire XC1. Open-ear earbuds don’t sit directly in your ear, up against your ear canal, which gives them two major advantages over the more common “closed” design (think AirPods Pro…
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Plus: Aura’s new digital photo frame goes wireless, a mood-morphing watch, Wyze and TP-Link unveil solar-powered outdoor security cameras, and Intel will open “AI Experience Stores” in five cities. Source: Wired.
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Whether you’re new to feeding birds or have been at your wits’ end for years, here are some tried-and-true tips on how to foil these wily rodents. Source: Wired.
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of Homeland Security is seeking to develop a new mobile surveillance platform that fuses artificial intelligence, radar, high-powered cameras, and wireless networking into a single system, according to federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED. The technology would mount on 4×4 vehicles capable of reaching remote areas and transforming into rolling, autonomous observation towers, extending the…
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on September 30, OpenAI’s Sora app has dominated the iOS App Store charts, thanks to its easy breezy AI video generation and an initially loose interpretation of copyright laws. On Friday, its reign came to an end. Your new champion is … Dave’s Hot Chicken. Yes! Not ChatGPT or Gemini or Threads or any of…
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believe it. He was weeks away from auctioning off the answer to Kryptos, the sculpture he created for the CIA that had defied solution for 35 years. As always, wannabe solvers kept on paying him a $50 fee to offer their guesses to the remaining unsolved portion of the 1,800-character encrypted message, known as K4—wrong…
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of the past year, as the teenage roboticists of Team Palestine have been working on their latest project, their homeland has been engulfed in Israel’s war with Hamas. Earlier this month, that all changed. With a fragile ceasefire in place, Israeli forces began to pull back from parts of Gaza, and the teens put the…