Cync’s new dynamic Effect Neon Rope lights can be configured into any shape you want. | Image: Cync GE Lighting announced a big expansion of its smart lighting brand Cync’s Dynamic Effects line this week. The new entertainment-themed products position Cync even more squarely as a cheaper Philips Hue and Nanoleaf competitor. New hexagon wall
Read MoreWell folks, we made it through another one. While it would be a stretch to call 2022 a good year for those of us in the hacking and making community, the light at the end of the tunnel does seem decidedly brighter now than it did this time 365 days ago. It might even be
Read More(Image: Michael Fousert/Unsplash)Norway is leading the charge when it comes to electric vehicle (EV) adoption. In 2022, four out of every five vehicles sold in the Scandinavian country were EVs, offering a glimmer of hope that Norway could be the first to ditch new gas-powered vehicles by 2025—if a new luxury vehicle tax doesn’t get
Read MoreCredit: Fossil Fossil has unveiled its Gen 6 Hybrid Wellness Edition watch. The smartwatch has several fitness-focused features along with smartwatch-like features. Fossil’s new watch will sell for $229. After releasing a Wellness Edition of its Gen 6 smartwatch back in October, Fossil is continuing to focus on fitness with the announcement of a new
Read MoreZuck promised his “metaverse” could bring people together. All I got were glitches and disappointment.
Read MoreCredit: GE Lighting The GE Cync products that already exist on store shelves are not scheduled to get a retroactive upgrade to Matter. Instead, GE will release new versions of older products with Matter support and discontinue production of older, non-Matter versions. Select new Cync products will receive Matter support going forward. In the smart
Read More(Credit: AMD) (Photo: AMD)Over the holiday period, AMD has been embroiled in a bit of controversy. Its all-new flagship GPU is overheating for some users, which has spurred the company to investigate. With most of the tech media on holiday, though, there hasn’t been much new information. However, overclocking wizard De8auer has dug into the
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Intel details its 13th Gen range for laptops, including the flagship Core i9-13980HX with eight performance and 16 efficiency cores and low- and mid-range chips — Intel’s 13th Gen desktop CPUs have already delivered impressive performance to beat their AMD counterparts …
Read MoreIf you think about it, our lives these days are made up of multiple inboxes. Whether it’s your email inbox, your WhatsApp account, your texting app, your Slack channels, or your social media feeds, everything is more or less an inbox. But nothing sparks more anxiety than the email inbox. With over 200 billion new
Read MoreThe annual CES trade show is about to get underway in Las Vegas. This year, it seems like OLED gaming monitors will be a staple at the event. Though the opening keynote isn’t until Wednesday, companies like to get ahead of the avalanche of press releases by coming out of the gate early. The first
Read MoreHartley Charlton / MacRumors: A report details Apple’s work on its AR/VR headset, which could cost ~$3,000, says manufacturer Pegatron assembled initial testing units in 2022, and more — Apple’s mixed-reality headset will feature a physical dial for switching to a view of the real-world, small motors to automatically adjust its lenses …
Read MoreReuters: Legal filings: Google alleges over 50 instances of India’s antitrust investigators copy-pasting parts of the EU’s antitrust ruling, sometimes word-for-word — Google has told a tribunal in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the U.S. firm …
Read MoreCredit: Dell At CES 2023, Dell unveiled the second-gen Concept Nyx gaming controller. The controller has wildly advanced features like customizable trigger response, a fingerprint sensor, and the ability to move a game from screen-to-screen in your home by merely pointing the controller at it. Dell unveiled the original Nyx at CES 2022. In 2022,
Read MoreCristina Criddle / Financial Times: Google’s Jigsaw and UN-backed Tech Against Terrorism plan to release a free moderation tool to help smaller websites flag and remove terrorist material — US tech group’s Jigsaw division leads initiative as UK and EU introduce tough laws to police online content
Read MoreCredit: LastPass (Credit: LastPass)LastPass has spent the second half of 2022 on the defensive following a pair of major data breaches. It has claimed users are not at risk, the subtext being that we should not be upset with LastPass. Some security experts are speaking up following the company’s most recent statements, pointing out that
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Layoffs.fyi estimates tech companies cut over 150,000 jobs in 2022, compared to around 80,000 between March and December 2020 and 15,000 across all of 2021 — Areas that were largely spared in 2020 are now among those with the largest numbers of job cuts — Technology-driven companies …
Read MoreChris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: Filing: lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried ask a judge to redact the names of the two people who intend to sign on as sureties to his bail, citing media scrutiny — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried asked a judge to keep confidential the identities of two people who will help secure his bail.
Read MoreOne analyst believes that Apple is working on a cheaper version of its wireless earbuds, dubbed AirPods Lite.
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy A34 5G specs have purportedly leaked online. The specs point to an extremely minor upgrade over last year’s phone. We saw apparent Galaxy A54 specs leak online earlier this week, showing a phone with a chipset upgrade but a very familiar proposition otherwise. Now, the same source has dished out what appears to
Read MoreThe CEO of Proton says new competition laws have finally given him a voice in Brussels, even as he fights the EU’s anti-encryption campaign.
Read MoreAs the state’s residents step up to save the sea cows, advocacy organizations believe the solution is less about lettuce—and more about leaders.
Read MoreBusinesses can get a head start on VR life if they transition to 3D-centric content now.
Read MoreTechnology’s biggest trade show must go on, in spite of rough economic headwinds. These are the trends and innovations to keep an eye out for.
Read MoreThis pet cam takes all the features we loved in its predecessor and quite literally turns them around.
Read More[Danielle Boyer] is Ojibwe: Sault Ste Marie Tribe and passionate about preserving vanishing indigenous languages. She’s invented a shoulder-worn talking companion, called a SkoBot, to teach STEAM to children through building robots programmed with indigenous language lessons and founded the STEAM Connection to give them away. Through her Every Kid Gets a Robot program, more
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