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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Hyper adds to the growing number of Qi2 chargers.

The tech accessory provider introduced a bunch of new products at CES that make use of the new MagSafe-like charging standard, such as the $149.99 HyperJuice 4-in-1 Qi2 Charging Stand and the $129.99 HyperJuice 10,000mAh Qi2 Power Bank.

It’ll be a few weeks until they’re available to purchase, but customers hunting for Qi2 products are already spoiled for choice given the numerous offerings already announced by brands like Nomad and Anker.

The HyperJuice 4-in-1 Qi2 Charging Stand against a white backdrop.
The HyperJuice 4-in-1 Qi2 Charging Stand (pictured) will be available in Q2 this year.
Image: Hyper
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Medium says its third-party API is working again after a nearly two-week outage.

The API went down on December 28th, preventing third-party apps like iA Writer or Ulysses from publishing to Medium.

The site’s API status page was updated today, at 12:41PM ET, to say it’s active again.

Update January 9th, 2024, 12:47PM ET: Medium’s site says its API is back up.

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
This robovac can cut tangled hair for you

Robot vacuums are becoming impressively autonomous, but they still need our help to clean them, like when hair gets wrapped around their brushes. Dreame thinks it’s solved this problem with a new automatic hair-cutting tool.

The Anti-Tangle Tricut brush cuts hairs wrapped around the brush, so you don’t have to mess with those annoying knife tools.

The brush is debuting at CES 2024 along with the new $1,700 DreameBot X30 Ultra. Both are available for pre-order on February 28th, and the brush will be compatible with the excellent L20 Ultra.

The new DreameBot X30 Ultra has an anti-tangle brush and can twist and extend its mops to clean under low furniture.
The new DreameBot X30 Ultra has an anti-tangle brush and can twist and extend its mops to clean under low furniture.
Image: Dreame
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
The NFL is almost all that remains when it comes to broadcast TV.

A set of pie charts done up by Sportico and based on Nielsen data illustrates how much the NFL has swallowed up the top 100 broadcasts list, like a blue Pac-Man gobbling up the dizzy, meandering ghost of what’s left of the old ways.

72 of the most-watched broadcasts were NFL games in 2020. By last year, that number had jumped to 93. (Number two was college football games, at three.)

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Elon Musk’s alleged drug use is worrying Tesla and SpaceX execs,

At least according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal that claims that SpaceX and Tesla executives and board members are concerned about how Musk’s drug use could affect his health — and his businesses.

Musk, thanks to SpaceX, is deeply entangled with the US federal government, and his antics have cost him before, such as when the Pentagon investigated him after he smoked pot on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Don’t expect new Airtags until 2025.

In the subscriber edition of his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg today, Mark Gurman wrote that he believes the first generation of its Airtags Find My tracking devices was “clearly over-produced” and Apple retail stores and warehouses are stuffed full of them.

Echoing previous reports that new models won’t be mass-produced until late 2024, Gurman says they’ll probably hit the market the following year.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Apple will probably try to steal some CES thunder with a Vision Pro announcement.

That’s according to Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter in Bloomberg.

Apple doesn’t participate in CES, of course, but Gurman writes that he still expects an announcement about Apple’s fancy AR / VR headset to come “in the next week or so” ahead of a February release.

The hubless electric motorcycle with sci-fi style and a great name

Verge Motorcycles’ 360-degree sensors could make the wild TS Ultra safer than anything else on two wheels.

Tim Stevens