Month: August 2024
The closest thing to C-3PO can be yours – if you have $16,000
Unitree G1 humanoid robot has speed, agility, and a slightly haunting faceless head – and it can be yours for $16,000. The G1 is the more polished and accomplished follow-up to Unitree’s H1 humanoid, a robot I saw doddering around like an old man at CES 2024. That bot walked…
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Can Grammarly’s AI bloodhound sniff out text written by ChatGPT?
Grammarly’s expansion from writing assistance to AI tools that can write for you continued this week with a new feature designed to spot AI-composed text. Grammarly Authorship is coming to Google Docs as a beta and aims to help educators in particular work out when students are using AI to…
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Your Google Pixel might make it even easier to capture Astrophotography shots
Pixel phones have had an Astrophotography mode for several generations now, allowing users to take great pictures of the stars at night. However, accessing this mode requires you to activate the Night Sight feature first, but that may soon change in a future update. The unofficial Google News channel on…
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Marshall’s new portable speakers drop the bass with louder output and smarter features
Summer may be winding down, but that hasn’t stopped Marshall from keeping the party going. The audio brand has recently revealed two new wireless speakers: the Emberton III and the Willen II. At a glance, the former looks identical to the Emberton II from 2022, still resembling a mini guitar…
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Plain text passwords may have struck again
Now, Krebs On Security reports a roughly identical website to NPD called recordscheck.net was found to be hosting an archive containing site logins as well as source code for some of the site’s tools in plaintext. That would’ve been enough information to access the same consumer records as NPD. The…
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The Best Early Labor Day Mattress Deals (2024)
It’s one of the best times of the year to score a new mattress. Here’s all the best deals (plus some exclusive sale codes) to snag ahead of the long weekend. Source
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