Aeotec’s $119.99 Smart Home Hub 2 features faster hardware, USB expandability, and support for Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee, and Thread. It works as a Matter Controller and prioritizes on-hub communications to keep your smart home up when the cloud is down. It doesn’t support Z-Wave.
After being fined $3.5 billion by the EU for ad tech abuse, the search giant is, begrudgingly, proposing changes:
For example, we are giving publishers the option to set different minimum prices for different bidders when using Google Ad Manager [... and] increasing the interoperability of our tools to give publishers and advertisers more choice and flexibility.
A new setting allows your 1Password vault to automatically unlock alongside your Mac or PC. It’s part of three new security presets rolling out now to individual and family plans — biz plans coming soon.
This is the self-aware way Apple used to launch socks for its devices at a fraction of the cost of its new iPhone Pocket. I’m guessing it too, was inspired by “a piece of cloth.”
Despite a $50 price hike to offset Trump’s tariffs, Sony shipped 3.9 million PS5 units globally in the recent quarter (up slightly from 3.8 million last year) with help from Ghost of Yōtei sales that reached 3.3 million after just one month. Lifetime shipments now sit at 84.2 million consoles after five years, putting it roughly in line with the PS4.
[Sony]
I wanted less complexity, more flexibility, and maximum value for money.
GM — on the latest Decoder — used the word “cobot” in a transparent bid to assuage workers concerned that the robots operating alongside them will soon replace them. As we learned this week from Amazon’s proposed usage of the friendlier term: human replacement is definitely the plan.
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is weirdly confident he’ll get regulatory approval to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, unlike other suitors. Why? Because big daddy Larry is good friends with Donald Trump, who’s making it known that “US antitrust concerns and personal gripes will be a major stumbling block for rival bidders.”
Welcome to the era of gangster regulation, as Liz wrote on the day DJT came into office.
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