Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics have unveiled Microduck, a $399 waddling robot toy with a camera eye, beak grabber, and motion sensors, available for preorder with delivery by end of year in North Am…
Plaud, a leading AI note-taking company, has unveiled the Plaud One headphones, integrating its agentic AI into a wearable form ahead of IFA 2026 in Berlin. The headphones capture and transcribe conve…
Amazon's Ring security brand will introduce Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE) starting in September, a new standard that encrypts customer video with rotating keys and deletes Ring's access key aft…
The Google Pixel 11 Pro retains the best display for gaming with its 6.3-inch OLED screen and 3,600-nit brightness, but CNET's testing found it underpowered for high graphics settings, triggering over…
Luffu, the AI-powered family care system founded by Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman, announced the Luffu Link, a screenless health and safety wearable available for preorder in the US …
WhatsApp, owned by Meta, announced two new security features to help prevent accounts from being hacked: upgrading six-digit PINs to passwords and allowing users to add multiple passkeys. The app also…
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple's upcoming iPhone event will include the AirPods 5, an update to the entry-level earbuds, while the camera-equipped AirPods Ultra are not expected until next…
Anthropic has unified memory across its Claude AI assistant and Cowork collaboration tool, allowing users to carry context from past chats between the two without re-entering it. The update adds real-…
Apple Inc. announced new Mac Mini and Mac Studio desktops with M6, M5 Pro, M5 Max, and M5 Ultra chips, featuring a 2nm process and a doubled Neural Engine (32 cores) for AI performance, with prices ri…
CNET's robot pool vacuum tests found that suction power matters less than cleaning efficiency, with AI-equipped models using cameras and sensors outperforming traditional ones. The corded Dolphin Naut…
Apple is expected to raise iPhone prices by at least $100 on the iPhone 18 Pro and other products at its September event, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, potentially making the iPhone 18 Pro sta…
A free Apple iOS app called Zuckoff, developed by Pawel Szydlowski, detects nearby Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, Snap Spectacles, and similar hardware by sweeping Bluetooth frequencies for vendor IDs an…
A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 US adults found that 72% say it is extremely or very important for their medical provider to disclose any use of AI, and eight in 10 want to be told if AI is used…
Amazon has raised prices on popular electronics including Kindles, Echos, and Fire TVs by up to 60%, citing significant increases in memory and storage component costs amid the AI-driven RAMageddon. T…
In a CNET comparison, Google's Gemini Flash outperformed OpenAI's ChatGPT in visual recognition tests, correctly transcribing messy handwritten notes from The Hound of the Baskervilles and identifying…
Vitamix launched the Nano, its first personal single-serve blender, on Monday, featuring the brand's first adaptive smoothie program, SmoothiePilot, which uses machine learning to automatically select…
Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate recognition cameras have a distinctive oval, hooded shape with a circular lens and visible solar panel arrays, according to a CNET guide by a reporter who has c…
Anthropic will begin watermarking AI-generated text and files from its Claude chatbot to comply with a newly enacted European regulation, a move that has sparked backlash from some users who have canc…
OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages Plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex on Mac desktops that can read, write, and send iMessages with user permission, raising privacy concerns for Apple, which has mar…
XAI's Grok chatbot suffered a 'generation glitch' this week that caused it to output long paragraphs of gibberish on its website interface, with users reporting the issue on Reddit and the bot acknowl…