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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

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    LG is launching a new smart home hub.

    The CES 2024 announcement lacked details on how this hub is part of reinventing its ThinQ smart home platform, but it will leverage what CEO William Cho called LG’s “Affectionate Intelligence” to make smart home setup and control easier and more intuitive.

    Cho touted its 7 billion devices in people’s homes as its leg up in the AI race, saying LG can leverage “real life data” from your fridge, TV, and all the other LG products out there — with your permission.

    Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
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    LG kicks off a day of big, splashy press conferences at CES.

    I’m at LG’s press conference, where I’m hoping to get a first glimpse at the company’s new smart home robot “AI Agent.”

    LG has already made a slew of announcements, including the reveal of its transparent TV.

    But here’s hoping they have some surprises in store this morning. Because it’s way too early to be subjected to this much bass.

    Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
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    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.

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    The new DreameBot X30 Ultra has an anti-tangle brush and can twist and extend its mops to clean under low furniture.
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