Month: April 2025
Meta Ray-Bans Now Speak Your Language, Roku’s New Streaming Sticks, and Kia EVs Get Supercharged—Your Gear News of the Week
Plus: Duolingo now teaches chess, and it’s a big week for coffee. Source
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Kuxiu’s ‘world first’ solid-state power bank costs more but lasts much longer
Solid-state batteries are the future. They’re more powerful, compact, safe, and sustainable than Lithium-ion alternatives, but true all-solid state batteries can’t be mass-produced cost-effectively. That’s why Kuxiu has gone semi-solid state for what it calls the “world’s safest” power bank, while calling dibs on it being a world first. Kuxiu’s…
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Best Early Memorial Day Mattress Deals (2025)
There’s still plenty of time between now and Memorial Day, but the mattress and bedding sales are already underway. Source
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ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from your LG becoming an Xbox to the new Insta360 X5 camera
This week, we celebrated Earth Day with a suite of sustainability-focused pieces, saw our LG TVs morph into Xboxes, and got to experience the new Insta360 X5. To catch up on all that and more from the world of tech, scroll down for recaps of the week’s seven biggest tech…
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I tried using ChatGPT to restore old photos, here’s how to really do it
There’s a new AI image fad spreading on the internet, one that could bring new life to those dusty shoeboxes and family albums. ChatGPT users have discovered that the AI assistant can take old photos and mimic a restored, colorized version. I first saw it discussed on a Reddit thread,…
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GPU prices are out of control again
Every so often, Central Computers — one of the last remaining dedicated Silicon Valley computer stores — lets subscribers know it’s managed to obtain a small shipment of AMD graphics cards. Today, it informed me that I could now purchase a $600 Radeon RX 9070 XT for $850 — a…
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