The promise of interoperability for your smart home gadgets that Matter was supposed to bring has been a slow process, but it is starting to deliver, and the…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Matter 1.5 Adds Smart Home Camera Support, and Gemini Comes to Android AutoValve made a big return to PC hardware this week. The company, most famous for its PC gaming platform, Steam, announced a new home console called Steam Machine…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Steam Makes a Home Console, and Apple Debuts a $230 Pouch for Your iPhoneThe only smartphone manufacturer with a 10/10 iFixit repairability score is finally bringing its products to the US, but it isn’t starting with its phones. Netherlands-based Fairphone announced…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Fairphone Lands in the US, and WhatsApp Is Finally on the Apple WatchA few weeks ago, bathroom and plumbing company Kohler debuted the Dekoda, a health and wellness sensor that lives on your toilet bowl and records signs of your…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Withings Launches Its Pee Scanner, and Samsung Shows Off a Trifold PhoneAn increasingly popular solution is the inclusion of a solar panel to keep that battery topped up, enabling you to install and potentially never touch the camera again.…
Read more Gear News of the Week: There’s Yet Another New AI Browser, and Fujifilm Debuts the X-T30 IIIPrices start at $325 for the carry-on version, $375 for the checked size, $395 for a larger checked version, or $995 for the entire family set. I am…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Honor Teases a Bizarre Robot Phone, and Kohler Debuts a Toilet SensorIntel’s future has never seemed so uncertain. But most of the company’s roller-coaster ride of a year has been a lead-up to its next-gen CPU launch, announced this…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Intel’s New Chips Arrive, and Apple May Debut iPads and MacBooks This MonthAdobe has had a busy year designing and redesigning a number of its most popular apps for mobile, and Premiere for iPhone is the latest—a mobile-first video editing…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Adobe Premiere Lands on iPhone, and Nothing Lets You Design Your Own WidgetsNothing has a new pair of earbuds for you: the Ear 3. These AirPods-style buds cost $179 and are available now, following the Nothing Phone (3) and Headphone…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Nothing’s Latest Earbuds, Amazon’s Hardware Event, and a New Free VPNGoogle has accidentally leaked its new Nest security cameras and video doorbell line. Setup options appeared in the Google Home app for wired versions of the Nest Cam…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Google’s Next-Gen Nest Cams Are Coming, and Sony Debuts a New Xperia PhoneGoogle via Julian Chokkattu A few months ago, Google debuted a feature in Google Photos that lets you convert your existing photos into short videos using generative AI.…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Veo 3 Comes to Google Photos, and Garmin Adds Satellite Comms to a WatchApple has officially set a date for its iPhone September event, which is due to take place on September 9. This year’s launch will be held at the…
Read more Gear News of the Week: Apple’s iPhone Event Gets a Date, and Plaud Upgrades Its AI Note-TakerSynthetic voices have been proliferating for years, and the generative AI boom of the new ’20s has sped that process right along. AI voices are everywhere—in podcasts, in…
Read more Amazon’s Audiobook Narrators Can Now Make Their Own AI Voice ClonesThe newest version of Sonos’ mobile app is still very bad—so bad, the company is considering ditching the newly redesigned version of the app and bringing back the…
Read more The New Sonos App Is So Bad, the Company Might Bring Back the Old OnePlus: The Ford Capri returns as an EV, Samsung workers are on indefinite labor strike, and the market for anti-obesity drugs is messier than ever. Boone Ashworth Source…
Read more Tesla’s Cheaper Long-Range Model 3 Is BackIn case you thought Instagram influencers couldn’t get anymore online, they’re soon going to have the ability to make AI versions of themselves that you can interact with…
Read more Say Hello to Creator-Built AI Chatbots on InstagramEach speaker combo is about 42 inches tall. Photograph: Wilson Audio This new iteration of the WATT/Puppy is the first redesign of the speakers since 2011. They ain’t…
Read more Things Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai PinHey u up? I miss u babbe. That’s the kind of immediately regrettable text you’ll now be able to salvage on Android Messages. This week, Google announced a…
Read more Android Now Lets You Edit Text MessagesLinkedIn, the social network that is ostensibly about work, now has a space just for playing games. The company launched LinkedIn Games this week after testing the gaming…
Read more LinkedIn Has Games NowMeta’s newest smart glasses, developed in partnership with Ray-Ban, have been newly fleshed out with more AI features. This week, Meta started rolling out an over-the-air update to…
Read more Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Shades Get a Fresh Blast of AI
