I have several Echo smart speakers in my home. Amazon has continued to make the prices of these devices relatively cheap in order to try to lock people into its smart home ecosystem. I no longer really trust my Echo speakers, so I wanted to see if I could put them to use in another…
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual…
The number of options available for readers is shrinking dramatically as three more of the largest manga and webtoon websites have been shut down. According to a report by TorrentFreak, Harimanga, Manhwaclan and Kunmanga were taken down following coordinated action by Korean and Vietnamese authorities. The platforms originally went offline in late May. While the…
We’ve seen a lot of weird things happen in the last few years, and most of them have AI’s fingerprints on them somewhere. We watched Jensen Huang walk onstage at GTC with a real, free-roaming robot version of Olaf, saw an AI-generated image of seven tech CEOs who can barely stand each other loitering in…
For centuries, the scientific method has been the greatest engine of human progress. At Google, our mission is deeply rooted in building tools to accelerate it. We believe that a new era of discovery won’t come from narrow, specialized models, but general agents that empower researchers across every scientific field. That’s why we are introducing…
If you’ve been on the same T-Mobile plan for years, listen up: Not only will T-Mobile move you into a new plan this month, you may have to pay more as a result. As reported by CNET (which is owned by Lifehacker parent company Ziff Davis), T-Mobile will end a number of legacy plans, which…
Providing new places to generate music High-quality music generation should be accessible wherever creativity happens. Whether you are an app developer, a business or music professional, or a creator, these integrations allow you to use Lyria’s advanced musical awareness to scale your production. Vertex AI: Lyria 3 Pro is now in public preview on Vertex…
USB hubs have become almost essential for people who use laptops and phones, especially since these devices seem to be shedding extra ports with each passing year. Hubs have been a good way of adding those ports back, but I’m doing something different with the Baseus Spacemate RD1 Pro. Instead of plugging this into a…
Expect the company to take a boxy direction when the next Unpacked rolls around. Samsung (modified) We’re likely coming up on another Samsung Unpacked event, but the brand has dropped some teasers about what we’ll be seeing when the next showcase does happen. A series of new videos shared to social media point…
