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Ring’s first smart lock can be charged by turning a dial when the battery unexpectedly dies
Amazon announced its first smart lock that eliminates the need for a physical backup key should its rechargeable battery die while you're away from home. While other smart locks lean on hidden USB...
Ring’s smart lock has a hand crank so it works even if the power’s out
Ring's smart lock has a built-in hand crank to generate power when the batteries are dead.
Google’s AI detection website is now available
SynthID Detector will flag content created with AI tools from OpenAI, Google, Apple and other companies.
Cisco is bringing a new agentic framework to its Webex enterprise platform
Cisco's Dialog feature promises to turn "fragmented interactions into continuous customer relationships."
My cats hate to see this great upright carpet cleaner coming
I’m choosing to believe that they’re cleaning chocolate and Mountain Dew. | Image: Bissell For a while, I swore by Bissell’s Little Green carpet cleaner. I liked the sub-$100 price, the fact that it...
Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends
Most people know that Amazon collects data about your shopping history to serve up personalized product recommendations. But what some of us didn't realize is that you can check exactly what Amazon...
Windows and Surface event: how to watch and what to expect
Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this morning to reveal what's coming next for Windows and Surface and a "conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." That conversation...
OpenAI just posted hundreds more results on major math problems
The company said that most results were produced in a response to a single prompt given to a single AI agent.
The Social Reckoning is a tepid thriller that reminds us of how we got here
When David Fincher's The Social Network premiered in 2010, many people still thought of Mark Zuckerberg as a genius who had revolutionized the world by creating Facebook. Writer Aaron Sorkin's...
Why humans are so good at feeling bad
What can an economist teach us about misery? I had that question in mind while reading the new book The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us, by eminent researcher George...