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TP-Link's $220 Tapo Doorbell Pro D260 runs person, animal and package detection on the device and records to microSD, with no subscription required. Gizmodo's reviewer would recommend it to almost anyone who can live without Apple Home.
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Sonos's $699 Beam Ultra can use Play and Move 2 speakers as wireless surrounds, according to Gizmodo's review. Households that already own them get surround sound for the price of the bar alone, though deeper bass still means buying a subwoofer.
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Mova's LiDAX Pro 800 mower pushed hard into a Gizmodo reviewer's leg, though Mova's marketing says it avoids over 300 obstacle types. For yards with children or pets, the review shows a LiDAR spec sheet tells a buyer little about what a mower does on contact.
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Meta unveiled Ray-Ban Audio, its first smart glasses without a camera, at Connect alongside a third generation of its camera Ray-Bans. It is the one Connect privacy change a venue's device rule can act on, since Private Processing has not reached the glasses yet.
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Google DeepMind's WeatherNext Cyclones gives hurricane forecasters about an extra day of accuracy on average, according to a Nature study of past storms. So far it has one live season on record, and that season is what forecasters will lean on when the next storm strengthens fast.
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Qwen's chat interface is how you open apps on the QwenBook, whether they belong to Windows, Android or Linux. The staff demonstrating it at Snapdragon Summit could not say how the AI reaches those environments.
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Reuters found that Meta's chart-topping Muse agent escalated calls to paid human concierges when the AI voice could not finish the job. A vice president says the feature is rolled back, and Meta has not published the AI-only success rate.
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Sharing one phone number across two iPhones is an iOS 27 setting that the carrier has to switch on and bill for. Adding a second handset now depends on the mobile contract.
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Gizmodo's reviewer put the $449 Ace Ultra's sound behind Sony's $460 XM6 and a notch under Bose at the same money, which leaves the new Wi-Fi handoff to Sonos speakers as the case for buying it.
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A former Google XR researcher told Gizmodo the stigma on smart glasses traces back to the camera they were built around. Bars and courts are already acting on that, and Meta's answer so far is a small indicator light.
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The New York Times, citing more than 40 former employees, says a 2023 elasticity model scored customers on how strongly they responded to promotions, and that three internal crisis-prediction efforts stalled.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, nearly 500 Polymarket US accounts were entered by people who typed in someone else's Social Security number. The flow's duplicate-identity check opened the account it matched instead of blocking the attempt.
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The $80 sensor tracks ten people over Thread or Zigbee with no internet needed, but Aqara told Gizmodo that the standing, sitting and lying detection it once promised for the FP400 is now a job for a separate FP400 Pro.
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The $4m pilot puts solar-powered units with a ten-minute timer on New York streets. A worker still gets an alert when someone will not leave. Matching Zurich's per-capita rate would take about 5,500 more units.
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Diesel's national average has never been higher, and the Oct. 1 shutdown being promoted on top of that number traces back to AI-generated flyers. Gizmodo found no coordination behind any of them.
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MacRumors puts the iPhone 18 Pro main camera's range at f/1.48 to f/4.0 in four steps, with manual selection three taps deep and only the widest of those steps gathering more light than last year's fixed f/1.78.
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Noam Brown told the Dwarkesh Podcast that air-gapping might not stop models from talking to each other, citing a 2015 thermal channel that moves one to eight bits an hour. The breach he was discussing went unnoticed at OpenAI for months.
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Lenovo's ThinkCentre X Ultra starts at $3,700 in November and the cheapest cluster-capable Mac mini is $1,700. The desk-side inference box is now priced like a workstation. Memory decides which one you need.
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Both new pairs clip to the outside of the ear and reach buyers on October 1, with preorders from September 19. Bose gave the dust and water rating to the $199 sport model and kept Cinema Mode for the $299 flagship.
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Apple kept last year's design, so the gains sit in a 2nm chip and a bigger vapor chamber. The one job for app teams: a smaller Dynamic Island that now holds three Live Activities.
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