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You’ll find Tado on our list of the best smart thermostats. And if you’ve got multiple properties running on one, there’s good news – you can now use a single account with multiple homes. Launching this summer, Tado’s new multi-home feature lets you control smart thermostats across up to five different properties from a single account inside the Tado app. That could be your main home, a holiday place, or a secret Warhammer bunker. No judgement here. If you’re helping manage heating for older relatives, the multi-home feature also makes it easier to monitor and adjust their setup remotely, without…

In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who’d lost his legs while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine’s candidates for tomorrow’s leaders: musicians like Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny; athletes like Coco Gauff and Alysa Liu; business leaders like Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong; fellow political stars like Pete Buttigieg.Crenshaw was, Time declared, “what the Republican Party might look like after Donald Trump.” At the…

If you’re not planning to upgrade to the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra (which happens to be on our list of the best smartphones), this might soften the blow. A new free Samsung Galaxy update is bringing some headline Galaxy S26 AI features to some older Samsung devices. With the rollout of One UI 8.5, Samsung is starting to test bringing several Galaxy S26 AI tools beyond its newest phones, SamMobile reports. The update includes four key features. The first is Advanced Audio Eraser, a smart noise filter for video. It can identify things like wind, traffic, or background chatter, and…

Many startups spend years trying to become a household name. Others just spend $10 million on a Super Bowl ad. That’s Dreame’s bet. The little-known Chinese robot vacuum company has grand ambitions to become a global consumer electronics giant and chose to run a pricey 30-second spot as its opening move. If it works, the ad may be remembered as the beginning of the rise of the next global tech powerhouse. If it doesn’t? Well, let’s just say Quibi ran a Super Bowl ad, too.Dreame’s CEO wants to be the Chinese Elon MuskDreame — pronounced dreamy — used its half-minute…

One of the main things stopping me from switching to one of the best dumb phones is the fact that I’m tied to WhatsApp. For better or for worse, I’m in countless group chats, and leaving them behind would make me a social pariah. Though if a monthly WhatsApp subscription rolled out, though, I’d be tempted to drop it entirely.  On that note, according to reports via WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is testing a new paid tier called WhatsApp Plus. If, like me, even the mere rumour of a WhatsApp subscription fills you with dread, don’t panic just yet – it appears…

Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, a powerful cybersecurity tool that the company said could be dangerous in the wrong hands, has been accessed by a “small group of unauthorized users,” Bloomberg reports. An unnamed member of the group, identified only as “a third-party contractor for Anthropic,” told the publication that members of a private online forum got into Mythos via a mix of tactics, utilizing the contractor’s access and “commonly used internet sleuthing tools.”The Claude Mythos Preview is a new general-purpose model that’s capable of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities “in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed…

Anker has announced its own custom silicon that the company says will bring local AI to audio devices, mobile accessories, and IoT devices. The Thus processor is the world’s first neural-net compute-in-memory AI audio chip, which is smaller than traditional chips, and requires less power to run complex computations. That makes it an attractive solution for smaller devices.When comparing Thus to existing chips, Anker CEO Steven Yang said, “Every AI chip built until now stores the model on one side and does the computation on the other. To think, the device has to carry all those parameters across, many times…

Govee’s cordless lamp is a bit brighter producing up to 500 lumens of light compared to just 370 lumens from Hue’s. However, being dimmer allows the Hue lamp to run for up to 48 hours without external power, while the Govee’s 4,800mAh battery will only last for up to 30 hours with colored lighting, or up to just 5 hours when set to white.Contributing to the Hue Go’s higher price is an IP54 water resistance rating allowing it to survive some light rain when used outside. The instructions for Govee’s explicitly warn users to avoid exposing the lamp to splashes…

If you’re tired of dealing with a cluttered desk or nightstand, the Twelve South PowerBug cuts down on cables by plugging directly into the wall and handling multiple devices at once. And right now, it’s down to a new low price, starting at $35.05 ($15 off) at Amazon.All you need to do is plug it in, and it turns any wall outlet into a charger that can power two devices at once, without the clutter of loose cables and bulky wall chargers. The 15W Qi2 pad wirelessly charges MagSafe-compatible iPhones and other Qi2 devices, while a 35W USB-C Power Delivery…

YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake monitoring feature to Hollywood — meaning some celebrity AI videos could soon disappear.The platform’s likeness detection feature searches YouTube for AI deepfake content and flags it for public figures enrolled in the program. Public figures can use it to keep track of AI content on YouTube of themselves or request removal (takedowns are evaluated against YouTube’s privacy policy, and not every request will be approved). YouTube began testing the feature with content creators last fall; in March, the company expanded the program to politicians and journalists. YouTube says the tool will cover celebrities regardless…

If you have a wireless keyboard with a touchpad that lets you control your PC from across the room, chances are it’s a Logitech K400. Framework CEO Nirav Patel is betting that you hate using it — enough to buy Framework’s spin on the idea when it arrives later this year.He says that Logitech’s keyboard is precisely the reason he’s building a new one: “It’s that Logitech keyboard that everybody owns and nobody likes,” he tells me. “Everybody’s got the same keyboard, nobody likes that keyboard, and so we figured we can build a better keyboard.”Framework’s wireless keyboard with touchpad…

SpaceX and Cursor are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together. Read the full article here