Tag: author_name|Lawrence Bonk
Aura just announced an incredibly thin color e-ink photo frame
Aura just announced the Ink, a 13-inch color e-ink photo frame. The company says it’s the “thinnest e-paper frame available” that is “designed to join a gallery wall or stand alone.” Aura isn’t kidding here. This thing is just 0.6-inches thick. One of the primary pain points of traditional digital…
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The latest Roku update adds AI-powered voice control and better search
Roku just announced a robust software update coming to many of its devices. These are free upgrades, with search getting a major AI boost. First of all, the pre-existing voice search feature is getting "AI smarts." This means that users will be able to ask contextual questions about movies, actors…
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Therabody just introduced the TheraFace Mask Glo, which uses LEDs to reduce wrinkles
Therabody just revealed a bunch of new products, including the TheraFace Mask Glo. This MF Doom-looking full-face mask offers quite a different experience from the pre-existing TheraFace Pro. The Pro is essentially a face massager, but the Mask Glo is a giant mask that uses LED lights to "reduce fine…
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Slack is transforming its Slackbot into a ‘personalized AI companion’
I've been using Slack for like a decade and the platform's proprietary chatbot, Slackbot, has always been a bit underwhelming. It can deliver reminders and notifications and, well, that's about it. That could change in the near future, as the platform is testing a redesigned Slackbot that's chock full of…
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iFixit calls Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses ‘unrepairable’ but praises the tech
The how-to website iFixit posted a teardown of Meta's new Ray-Ban Display augmented reality glasses and came away impressed by the tech but wary of repairability. As a matter of fact, one of the techs said in the accompanying video that it's "very clear that the first iterations of these…
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Meta makes Facebook Reels more like their Instagram counterparts
Meta is rolling out some serious changes to Facebook Reels to make the experience more like Instagram Reels. First of all, the Reels will now be accompanied by friend bubbles. This shows users which posts their friends like and makes it "easy to start a chat instantly about what you're…
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