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Waymos in Atlanta and San Antonio keep driving into flooded roads
Extreme weather continues to pose problems for autonomous vehicles.
Sonos’s pint-sized Roam 2 speaker is 25 percent off for Memorial Day
The Sonos Roam 2 is about the size of a small water bottle and comes in multiple colors. | Image: Sonos If your summer plans involve spending any time outdoors, whether on the trail or at a pool...
The Endless AI guitar pedal has potential
You can buy physical plates to pair with your AI effects. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge I'm not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would...
Uber is deploying its own self-driving cars again, just not as robotaxis
The project is starting small with just one Hyundai Ioniq 5, though Uber says its not wedded to that model. | Image: Balaji Krishnamurthy / X Uber is putting its own autonomous vehicles back on the...
Humanoid taps Bosch for humanoid robot production
Humanoid and Bosch are looking to put their humanoid robots into production
This mechanical bird drops dead when your home’s air quality worsens
When air quality drops the bird simulates fainting and death by succumbing to gravity and hanging upside down. | Image: Birdie The original Birdie debuted in 2022 with a morbid-but-fun design - an...
AT&T is letting you ‘build your own’ wireless plan starting at just $15 a month
AT&T's 'build your own' wireless plan starts at just $15 a month, but only comes with 1GB of data to start.
The cost of the smart home is going up
Google is expanding its AI-powered Gemini for Home capabilities beyond its cameras and smart speakers to other manufacturers to sell more subscriptions. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The...
Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you
Hundreds of thousands of workplaces use software to monitor employees. Now, a new study has found that many of these tools share data not just with employers, but with digital advertising platforms...
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a...