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Amazon’s Big Spring Sale kicks off on March 25th, though some great tech sales are already available. Sonos is one of several companies that has switched on sales for its products, including some that haven’t previously been discounted this year. While the company is best known for its home theater gear, these discounts largely focus on products that are just as enjoyable to use outside as they are indoors (it is almost spring, after all).Kicking things off, the Sonos Ace wireless headphones are back down to $299 (originally $399) at Amazon, Best Buy, and through Sonos, as long as you’re…

Intel has a pair of new flagship CPUs coming to a variety of pricey gaming laptops: the Core Ultra 9 290 HX Plus and Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus. The Arrow Lake Refresh chips sport 24 cores / 24 threads and 20 cores / 20 threads, respectively. Like Intel’s recently announced desktop CPUs, the new Plus models for laptops are “pushed further for enthusiasts,” and also feature the Intel Binary Optimization Tool that can improve native performance “in select games.”Intel’s Josh Newman states that the new chips “deliver meaningful, real‑world performance gains so users can experience smoother gameplay, faster creation…

“The convenience of 1-hour delivery is currently available to customers in hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S., including parts of major metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., and smaller cities such as Des Moines, Iowa; Boise, Idaho; and American Fork, Utah. 3-hour delivery is offered in over 2,000 cities and towns, which includes large, mid-size, and small cities, as well as surrounding suburbs like Cornwall, Pennsylvania; Harrah, Oklahoma; and Arabi, Louisiana. Our new delivery options are available seven days a week and we plan to bring 1-hour and 3-hour delivery to even more areas in…

Xiaomi subsidiary Poco has launched the X8 Pro and X8 Pro Max phones, both of which feature large silicon-carbon batteries, powerful chipsets, and 256GB of storage as standard, with stronger specs on paper than the recent Pixel 10A despite costing less. Both Poco phones also feature a surprisingly subtle take on RGB lighting, with small rings of LEDs inside each of their rear cameras.The X8 Pro Max, a new tier in Poco’s X line, is the more exciting of the two thanks to a huge 8,500mAh silicon-carbon battery — with an even larger 9,000mAh version available in India and some…

Klumpen isn’t an off-grid cabin, but it does provide all the utilities needed to live away from civilization comfortably. The seven-square-meter teepee is an “off-grid utility core” that provides solar-generated electricity, satellite broadband, a shower, toilet, and small kitchen. It’s expected to cost around $35,000 plus an estimated $3,000 to ship within the EU.The idea is to drop a factory-built Klumpen next to a small cabin and just press “on” — no need for any extra permits, plumbers, or electricians. The electrical system is built around a 7.5kWh battery with inverter to power standard 230V appliances and wall jacks. Water…

The first Matter camera is here — sort of. Camera support came to the smart home standard last year, and Aqara’s Camera Hub G350 is the first to support it. The G350, which was announced at CES, launched this week and is a pan-and-tilt indoor security camera with up to 4K video resolution.Today, the G350 only supports Matter on Samsung SmartThings, as none of the other platforms have added Matter 1.5 yet. I’ve only had the camera setup for a day, and it took several firmware updates before I could connect it as a Matter camera. So far, all it…

Nvidia added two leading Chinese automakers, BYD and Geely, to its robotaxi program, as the chipmaker seeks to put its stamp on the growing autonomous vehicle market worldwide.At its GTC conference today, Nvidia announced that BYD and Geely, as well as Isuzu and Nissan, would use the chipmaker’s Drive Hyperion platform, which combines the chips, computers, sensors, and software needed for for the development of Level 4 autonomous vehicles.BYD currently uses Nvidia’s chips in its manually driven cars, and now, under this expanded agreement, it will use the company’s Hyperion platform to build next-generation Level 4 vehicles. Geely, meanwhile, is…

If you like the idea of spring cleaning but not the part where you actually have to clean, both the Ecovacs Deebot X8 Pro Omni and newer X9 Pro Omni have dropped to their lowest prices to date ahead of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, which officially kicks off on March 25th. The X8 Pro Omni is available for $599 ($501 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, and Ecovacs, while the X9 Pro Omni is on sale for $679 ($621 off) at the same retailers (Amazon, Best Buy, Ecovacs).Both robot vacuums are packed with smart features designed to reduce the time you…

The plaintiffs include two minors and an adult who was underage when the events in the lawsuit took place. One of the victims, identified as “Jane Doe 1,” alleges that last December, she learned that explicit, AI-generated images of herself and at least 18 other minors were available on Discord. “At least five of these files, one video and four images, depicted her actual face and body in settings with which she was familiar, but morphed into sexually explicit poses,” the lawsuit claims.The perpetrator, who has since been arrested, allegedly used Jane Doe 1’s AI-generated CSAM “as a bartering tool…

You know Olaf. Before KPop Demon Hunters, before the Wicked movies, it was Disney’s Frozen that blasted show tunes like “Let It Go” and “Into the Unknown” into our lives. My little girls loved belting those tunes.So when I met Olaf, the Disney Imagineering robot, I kept thinking: I can’t wait for my kids to meet him too.It’s a weird thought, really, because this Olaf isn’t a “he” and can’t carry on a conversation. Why do I keep thinking “I met him” when he’s largely a remote-controlled puppet teleoperated by a Steam Deck gaming handheld?I think the answer is that…

Social media platforms are currently awash with conspiracy theories claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu has been killed or injured and replaced by AI-generated deepfakes. Between clips that supposedly show the Israeli Prime Minister sporting extra fingers and drinking from a bottomless, gravity-defying cup of coffee, only one thing is apparent: reality used to be much easier to prove.There’s very little credible evidence to suggest that Netanyahu isn’t alive. But credibility is a rare commodity now that AI can convincingly clone real people across image, video, and audio formats, so it’s getting tougher to conclusively dispel the rumors. This is what it…

Seating technology may have reached its peak for those of us who struggle to keep our lightly worn clothing piles away from furniture. The Laundry Chair — developed by YouTuber and viral inventor Simone Giertz — is now available to buy through a Kickstarter campaign, providing a storage solution that still functions as a usable seat when it’s covered in clothes that are too clean to wash, but too dirty to put away.The $1100 Laundry Chair includes a rotating rail that can swivel around the seat on a ball-bearing Lazy Susan, allowing laundry to be slung over it without covering…