Google says it has “optimized backend processing” for smart home device controls, alarms, and timers to make Gemini for Home better at the basics. Improved age-gating and content controls mean it should now be able to give you the recipe for a margarita too.
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Boox’s new e-reader remote has a distinctive two-button typewriter design, a radically different approach to the form factor than Kobo took.
magpie-lark:
love the design on this but im very happy with my kobo remote that looks like a sex toy
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It’s part of One UI 8.5, rolling out now in the US after the Korean rollout began last week. Along with AirDrop compatibility, the update brings other features that launched on the Galaxy S26, including an updated Bixby, AI call screening, and easier AI image editing in Creative Studio.
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While rivals push experimental telephotos, Vivo’s phone simply has three equally excellent cameras.
Takashi Tezuka is stepping down at the end of June. He joined the company in 1984, and worked on the original Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda games, before directing titles including Super Mario Bros. 3 and A Link to the Past. More recently, he was a producer on Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Sean Hollister let a hacked robot lawnmower run him over in the name of journalism, but it took a Verge commenter to find the right language that really sets the stakes.
MattMaher_M7Innovations:
There’s investigative journalism, and then there’s ‘get-run-over-by-a-lawnmower-to-prove-a-point’ journalism. Thank you Sean, for almost chopping off your chicken nuggets to give us the gif of the century.
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Samsung’s updated take on Android first appeared on its S26 phones back in February, but it’s taken until now to reach older hardware. Flagship phones and tablets from the last two generations or so are the first eligible for the update, which is rolling out now in Korea, with other countries to follow.
That’s what one actor said after a micro drama she starred in was promoted using AI clips of her in underwear. Multiple actors have had similar experiences, including ads featuring nude scenes and threesomes that they never shot. In the age of The Clippening, it doesn’t always matter if the content being clipped is real or not.
Following its acquisition by Elon’s other company, xAI is now being referred to as SpaceXAI. Presumably this is only the start of the brand synergy to come.
tuff_ghost:
Excited for X to become SpaceX X by XAi
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