Life360 owns Tile, which makes popular location trackers like the Tile Pro. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge
Tile is promising satellite connectivity for its Bluetooth trackers in a move that could boost the company as an independent alternative to its Big Tech rivals: Apple’s Find My network and Google’s newly revamped Find My Device network.
Life360, the family locator and safety service company that bought Tile in 2021 announced a partnership with the satellite company...
Denon Home smart speakers now support Apple’s Siri voice assistant. | Image: Denon
Way back in 2021, Ecobee’s thermostats became the first non-Apple device to integrate Siri voice control into its hardware, following Apple’s making the voice assistant available to third-party devices at WWDC that year. Fast-forward a few years, and there’s finally another device with Siri on board: Denon smart speakers.
While primarily known for its receivers, Denon’s line of wireless...
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Cruise’s autonomous vehicles are officially back on the road and driving autonomously for the first time since one of its driverless vehicles dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet in San Francisco.
Cruise said last month that it would resume testing with manually driven vehicles focused on mapping and gathering road information — minor tasks for a company with as many autonomous miles as Cruise. But Cruise needs to show local officials that it is suitably...
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Even if subscribers are outside cellular or Wi-Fi range (or if there’s a massive outage), Apple News Plus on iOS 17.5 can still supply them content now that it’s added Offline Mode — this must’ve been farther down the list from Apple Maps, which added offline navigation last year in the iOS 17 update. Top Stories, Apple News Today audio briefings, magazines, narrated articles, and puzzles can automatically download to your iPhone or iPad, all optimized to maximize...
I thought opening the impossible door in Mario 64 was the coolest thing that’d happened to the Nintendo 64 in years, but Mr. Wiseguy’s just-released N64 Recompiled blows me away. It’s a tool that theoretically lets you turn any N64 game into a native PC port, the better to play and preserve N64 games — and to showcase its abilities, you can already download Windows and Linux-native apps for The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask that seem to run incredibly well.
It almost seems...
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OpenAI is releasing a Her-inspired voice assistant feature that can read your facial expressions and translate spoken language in real time — and hopefully do it all without abandoning you like in the movie.
During a livestream demonstration on Monday, OpenAI engineers and CTO Mira Murati gathered around a phone to show the new capabilities. They encouraged the assistant to be more expressive while making up a bedtime story, then abruptly requested it to switch...
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Our top picks: Best deal overall JBL FLIP 5 $79.99 at Amazon ...OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4o, a new AI model that combines text, vision, and audio.
At its highly anticipated livestream event, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati shared that GPT-4o can process text, audio, and vision in one model. GPT-4o will be available to all users, including free users, in ChatGPT and the API.
SEE ALSO: Apple and OpenAI 'finalizing terms' for bringing ChatGPT to iOS 18The announcement confirmed previous rumors of a voice assistant....
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Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation and intense material constraints.
Melinda French Gates has been cochair of the Gates Foundation since it launched in 2000.
Melinda French Gates is resigning from her role as cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she launched with her then-husband Bill Gates in 2000. Her last day with the foundation will be June 7. The nonprofit said that it will now change its name to the “Gates Foundation.”
Her synthetic but remarkably real-sounding AI voice can now say almost anything she wants.
The voice Alexis “Lexi” Bogan had before last summer was exuberant.
The free ChatGPT version is powered by a new faster model called GPT-4o.
OpenAI held a webcast Monday to roll out a new version of its free ChatGPT app, which sounds and acts a lot like the AI in the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her.
The Buccaneers and Antoine Winfield Jr. have reached agreement on a four-year, $84.1 million deal, agent David Mulugheta told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has sent supporters a steady stream of fund-raising solicitations featuring exaggerated portrayals of his days in court.
Brooks Koepka smiles with the Wanamaker Trophy following his win at the 2023 PGA Championship. | Photo by Keyur Khamar/PGA Tour via Getty Images
The best golfers in the world descend upon Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky for the second major of the year.
This year’s PGA Championship features plenty of compelling storylines, stemming from Tiger Woods’ return to Valhalla to whether or not Michael Block can replicate his success from Oak Hill a year ago.
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The newest City Connect jerseys are ... still kinda bad!
The 2024 unveilings of MLB’s City Connect jerseys have come, and let’s just say they’re kind of hit and miss. The Cleveland Guardians, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays, New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and Toronto Blue Jays all have or will receive City Connect jerseys between Opening Day and the MLB All-Star game, and so far the...
Ikea’s new Energy Insights feature will offer real-time data on energy consumption and electricity spot prices. | Photo: Ikea
Energy management is a big benefit of the smart home, and more companies are starting to offer easier ways to monitor and control your home’s energy use through their app on your phone. The next level is offering intelligent ways to automate the process to save you money without you having to think about it.
Swedish furniture giant Ikea just took a small...
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OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4o, an iteration of its GPT-4 model that powers its hallmark product, ChatGPT. The latest update “is much faster” and improves “capabilities across text, vision, and audio,” OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said in a livestream announcement on Monday. It’ll be free for all users, and paid users will continue to “have up to five times the capacity limits” of free users, Murati added.
In a blog post from the company, OpenAI says...