Month: March 2025
This new Roomba finally solves the big problem I have with robot vacuums
iRobot just scrapped and replaced almost its entire range of robot vacuums, but amongst the shiny new fleet there’s one model that has caught my eye in particular: the Roomba 205 DustCompactor Combo. This bot is designed especially for smaller homes, and as the owner of such a compact dwelling,…
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Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed
Editor’s note: Ahead of Microsoft’s 50th’s anniversary, we’ve fixed the layout on this story — which we originally published in 2012 when Windows 8 launched. Now’s a good time to revisit our look at an operating system that helped shape personal computing over the years. Two years ago today, when…
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1Password Coupon: Get Up to 50% Off in March
Save up to 50% on business and personal memberships with a 1Password promo code. Source
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I use ChatGPT to help with parenting – here’s 5 prompts you can use AI to keep the kids entertained
Though I experiment with AI chatbots professionally, I’ve found many ways to incorporate them into my regular life, including as a parent to a lively baby and uncle to several nieces and nephews. ChatGPT has been a surprisingly big help. It’s not a babysitter, but it can be a real…
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Gemini just got physical and you should prepare for a robot revolution
Gemini Robotics is a new model It focuses on the physical world and will be used by robots It’s visual, interactive, and general Google Gemini is good at many things that happen inside a screen, including generative text and images. Still, the latest model, Google Robotics, is a vision language…
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Spectre Divide and its developer are shutting down
“We were optimistic about the first week,” developer Mountaintop Studios says in a post. “We’ve had ~400,000 players play, with a peak concurrent player count of ~10,000 across all platforms. But as time has gone on, we haven’t seen enough active players and incoming revenue to cover the day-to-day costs…
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