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ADT, the 150-year-old company best known for home security, has acquired Origin Wireless in a $170 million deal to expand the capabilities of its security and smart home offerings. Origin Wireless developed algorithms that analyze how wireless RF signals bounce around a space to detect the presence and movements of people and objects without the need for additional sensors.ADT plans to integrate Original Wireless’ technology into its smart home and security systems to add more context when security alarms are triggered, and potentially reduce false alarms. By leveraging existing technologies like Wi-Fi, future ADT systems may also require fewer sensors…

ProducerAI, an AI-powered music-making platform, is joining Google. As part of the deal, Google will fold ProducerAI under the Labs umbrella and power the tool with a preview version of its new Lyria 3 music-making AI model.ProducerAI is a music-making platform that allows users to work with an AI agent to generate sounds, workshop lyrics, remix songs, and even create new instruments based on a prompt. The platform launched in July 2025 as a successor to the AI music-making tool Riffusion, and initially used the startup’s own AI model to help you generate songs and tweak existing ones. Seth Forsgren,…

The Asus ROG Flow Z13 was already a unique beast. It’s a chunky gaming tablet with impressive AMD Strix Halo integrated graphics. I was really into it when I reviewed it around this time last year. But just look at it now, clad in the stylings of Hideo Kojima’s game studio and his longtime collaborator, artist Yoji Shinkawa.I felt compelled to hike this whole kit up a mountain during the early hours of a snowstorm because it just seemed so fitting.This is the Asus ROG Flow Z13-KJP, a collaboration between Asus and Kojima Productions announced at CES. It’s officially inspired…

Major League Baseball wants more of a footprint on TikTok. Just in time for spring training, the two companies announced Tuesday they were partnering to expand baseball content on TikTok, including creating an MLB hub in the app and, of course, bringing in more influencers.Baseball is coming back after a season that was especially culturally relevant. The World Series last fall had its highest viewership in years, and an increasingly international audience tuned in to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays after seven games and extra innings. There was a surge in interest on TikTok, too:…

The next big iPhone camera upgrade might not be about more megapixels or smarter AI. Instead, it could borrow a trick from dedicated cameras by letting you physically change the aperture of the lens. According to multiple reports – including those from Korea’s ET News and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo –  Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are expected to feature a variable aperture on their main rear cameras. That means rather than being stuck with one fixed lens opening, the camera would be able to physically adjust how much light hits the sensor. If you’re not into…

Apple is preparing to move some of its Mac Mini production to the US as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to appease the Trump administration’s push for domestic investment. Manufacturing is set to begin later this year in north Houston, Texas, at a Foxconn facility that currently assembles Apple’s AI servers.“Apple is deeply committed to the future of American manufacturing, and we’re proud to significantly expand our footprint in Houston with the production of Mac Mini starting later this year,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the announcement. “We began shipping advanced AI servers from Houston ahead of schedule,…

Xbox fans had been anticipating the retirement of Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer for years, but what most hadn’t expected was the departure of Xbox president Sarah Bond too. For many outside the company, Bond seemed like Spencer’s natural successor, a deputy of sorts.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Microsoft CFO Amy Hood clearly didn’t agree.Instead of picking Bond for the role, Microsoft promoted Asha Sharma, a former Microsoft AI executive, to the top of Xbox. The decision to overlook Bond might have surprised many Xbox fans, but for the more than a dozen current and former Microsoft employees I’ve been…

Smartphone manufacturer Honor has teased the reveal of an AI-powered humanoid robot at MWC 2026. The smartphone-centric show gets underway in Barcelona next week. In a teaser video posted online, the Chinese brand revealed its theme for this year’s event will be “believers in an AI future.” We don’t know much about the device yet, but Honor actually offers a look at the robot and it’s very much in the vein of the Will Smith iRobot movie characters, albeit in matte black rather than white. There’s a camera on its forehead too. The company has already revealed a Robot Phone…

Kohler claims its new Anthem EvoCycle smart shower system can deliver “up to 80% water savings” without the use of showerheads that limit flow or pressure. The system instead relies on a reservoir in the shower’s base that collects used water and passes it through a filtration system before sending it back up through the showerhead. Pricing starts at $7,500, or $5,625 with discounts, but you’ll need to buy fixtures and the $825 water tank base separately.The Anthem EvoCycle’s recirculation system starts with a “Standard Mode” where only fresh water is delivered through a handshower sprayer and collected in the…

Apple will announce a series of new products next week, prior to its in-person “experience” event on March 4. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman who expects a new iPhone and new Mac computers to be on the agenda. In his latest Power On Newsletter, Gurman said Apple will begin unveiling “at least five” new products on Monday March 2, calling it a “three-day blitz” of announcements. This will be prior to the media event a couple of days later, which is likely planned to give the press a hands-on look at the new hardware. The headline-making device is “very…

Discord is attempting to distance itself from the age verification provider Persona following a steady stream of user backlash. In an emailed statement to The Verge, Discord’s head of product policy, Savannah Badalich, confirms the company “ran a limited test of Persona in the UK where age assurance had previously launched and that test has since concluded.”An archived version of Discord’s support page stated that users in the UK “may be part of an experiment” that involves processing their age verification information through Persona. Users pointed to Persona’s privacy policy, which states that it may obtain personal data from users…

Apple has released the latest beta for iOS 26.4 and it promises to make texting between iPhone and Android smartphones safer. iOS 26.4 beta 2 is out for developers now and adds support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging between iOS and Android smartphones. That promises to close a loophole that has existed since iOS 18 when Apple added support for Rich Communication Services for cross-platform texting, as a replacement for the archaic SMS. RCS made it possible for iOS and Android users to exchange texts with better resolution photos and videos, read receipts and support for better audio messages. It…