You can do all kinds of fun, useful, and questionable things with a Flipper Zero, among other wireless mischief tools. Now, they can rewrite electronic price tags with TagTinker. Creators say it is for “educational research” and testing at a store is “strictly prohibited.” Maybe for my kid’s toy grocery store, though?
While playing Fortnite Festival, if you want to sing along to songs, you’ll be able to use “any microphone that works in Fortnite on PC and Console,” while drummers can plug in “a Rock Band 4 or compatible MIDI drum kit,” according to Epic Games. The features launch on Thursday.
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The new Varmblixt adds color-changing, dimming, and Matter-over-Thread support, and brings a touch of inexpensive style to my smart home.
Verge favorite Matt Levine weighs in on the New Allbirds Thing. The financing is the crucial part — so some “institutional investor” is “essentially buying $50 million worth of stock at the old, defunct-sneaker-company price, and selling it at the new, AI-neocloud-company price,” maybe. Neocloud market looking frothy, imo.
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The company said today its robotaxis in the two Florida cities would be available to anyone using its ridehail app. Waymo typically invites select riders on a rolling basis before opening up its service to anyone with the app. The company take riders on Miami’s freeways, so routes could be a little quicker than usual.
The site is looking very different today. I’ve long appreciated the rigorous product testing and reporting Tom’s Guide provides and wish its crew the best of luck on the next chapter!
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