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Long-time Razer aficionados will say it looks the same as the old one, but underneath a familiar shell the Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse has been completely overhauled. New optical switches for the buttons and scroll wheel; a new ultra-fast sensor with clever polling tech that basically doubles the battery life; and lower-latency cordless connectivity that’s as close as it gets to playing wired. It takes much of what made last year’s Deathadder V4 Pro one of my favourite ever gaming mice, while bringing back the symmetrical shape that has proved such a hit with pro players. You’ll find more…

Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses’ privacy LED light. The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling into the LED light.Meta has previously tried to discourage tampering with the LED light. For example, starting with its second generation glasses, blocking the light with tape or other objects will trigger a prompt asking users to uncover the recording light. However, many modders have…

Solos announced a new version of its AirGo smart glasses, one that forgoes cameras for a sleeker design and an AI assistant that relies on voice interactions. Last year’s AirGo A5 weighed 36 to 40 grams depending on the frame style, but the new AirGo A6 weigh around 19 grams. Part of the weight savings comes from thinner temple arms housing speakers, batteries, and other electronics. For comparison, the new Meta Glasses announced last month weigh around 54 to nearly 60 grams depending on the style.Pricing and availability for the new AirGo A6 hasn’t been finalized yet, but the smart…

Google is going to give content creators and website owners a better idea of how people find their social media profiles and YouTube content through Search. With a new feature in the Google Search Console called “platform properties,” Google says that you’ll be able to “easily track which search terms lead people to your Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube content on Search, and see exactly how your audience is interacting with your posts,” according to a blog post.The new feature continues Google’s push to make Search more of a hub for everything creators and publishers do online. In June, Google…

iRobot just announced its first-ever non-robotic floor cleaner. The $399 Roomba Electro Plus is a 5-in-1 hard-floor cleaner that combines vacuuming, mopping, and disinfecting, but you have to operate it yourself. The company also announced updates to its line of Roomba robot vacuums, launching five new models with higher suction power, smaller footprints, and lower prices. These largely replace the line that arrived in 2025.Designed exclusively for hard floors, the new Electro Plus is similar to the new breed of manual wet-dry floor cleaners available from Dreame, Roborock, and others. iRobot’s distinguishing feature is Electro’s ability to turn regular tap…

Nothing has announced the Nothing Phone (4b), which is the first of its new line of more affordable mid-range smartphones sitting below the flagship Phone and Phone (a) series. The new Nothing Phone (4b) costs £299 and is available to pre-order in the UK. The company is not planning to offer the phone in the United States at present. Nothing is bringing the phone into the public eye with its Glyph light bar, which is brighter than before, and will showcase different patterns for different app alerts. The London-designed unibody handset offers less of the visible transparency we’ve seen in…

Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it’s coming soon to Facebook and Messenger, according to an announcement on Tuesday.As noted by Meta, users can @ mention other Instagram accounts in Muse Image prompts, allowing the AI model to incorporate their likeness into its output. Meta says “tagging a username lets Meta AI use public photos to build a visual,” but notes that users can control how people reuse their content for AI.Users can…

Nothing has launched the new Nothing Ear (3a) earbuds with a pair of intriguing feature additions that are likely to bring in a new audience and add to an already significant value proposition. The $99/£99 ANC eye-catching earbuds – the successor to the Nothing Ear (a) – now have a call recording feature, which gives users the opportunity to save the audio from calls up to two-hours in length. Recordings will be available in the Nothing app. Nothing says the feature is ideal for replaying back moments from the call enabling them to be edited and shared. If this sounds…

You might have a great bed and a good sleepy time routine, but if you’re still struggling to fall (or stay) asleep, Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A20 are worth considering. They’re designed to help muffle distracting sounds, and they’ve hit a new all-time low price of $99.99 ($80 off) at Best Buy and Target.In his review, my colleague Thomas Ricker said this model helped him average nearly 30 more minutes of sleep each night over a two-week period compared to when he wore the AirPods Pro to sleep. My colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy had a similarly positive experience, saying that while…

Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said in a post on Monday that “[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral,” while noting that videos on the platform “make up close to half the impressions on X.” According to Bier, X is launching a new in-app video editor and recorder to address this “recycled content,” so that “some videos on X can finally be original content that doesn’t exist on other platforms.”As previously reported by TechCrunch, the new video tools are available now on X’s iOS app, and include…

Google has confirmed a Made by Google hardware launch event on August 12, which will almost certainly see the launch of new Pixel phones and smartwatches. The company is promising to introduce the “next generation of people” at the in-person event in New York, which is now five weeks away. The invite also reveals a new gold frame, that’ll presumably be a new colourway for the Pixel range. Google is on course to Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold, to succeed the quartet of phones launched in 2025. They’ll be the first…

Google is hosting its next Made by Google launch event for Pixel hardware on August 12th in New York City, according to an invitation sent by Google to The Verge. Unusually, the event is taking place in the evening: It’ll kick off at 6PM ET that day.Last year’s Pixel 10 launch event — which featured Jimmy Fallon and a live studio audience — took place on August 20th, with the base and Pro model phones releasing shortly after on August 28th. Read the full article here