At the beginning of this month, Google unveiled Gemini for Home, alongside a bunch of devices for the home. Today, Gemini for Home has started rolling out in the US, but there’s a catch. Gemini for Home is currently in early access mode, and if you want to be among the first people in the…
It can be hard to build an Adulting Arsenal. And expensive! Mattresses, couches, vacuums, cookware … all of these necessary things around us that require a hefty initial investment, lest you be met with back problems, sagging cushions, subpar suction, or flaking nonstick pans that leave a little bit of mystery plastic behind with every…
Are you an Android user who is constantly looking at Apple Watch owners with envy? You’re in luck, as the Pixel Watch 3 is marked down to just $200 at Amazon in several colors. I spotted three discounted colors of the 45mm aluminum version in matte black, champagne gold, and polished silver. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu…
Whether you fully realized it at the time, you’ve almost certainly seen a Seiko 5 Sports watch. This range of timepieces has been around for decades and is not only extensive, covering everything from dive watches to dress watches, it has also become a model for the watch world when it comes to delivering value….
REI’s Base Camp tent is the best-designed, best-built six-person tent I’ve ever used. It also proved itself one of the most waterproof large tents in our testing. It’s a traditional dome tent design, with two crossed poles and two side poles. The tent floor is high-quality 150-denier (150D) polyester, while the sides are a combination…
Even though Nothing already has entry-level smartphones under the CMF brand, it decided to launch its first affordable smartphone under its own lineup. The Nothing Phone (3a) Lite is the first entry-level smartphone from the London-based tech brand. A quick specs comparison reveals that the Phone (3a) Lite is actually quite similar to the CMF…
Amazon’s speakers have a new look—and new leaders—with the newest lineup of the brand’s Echo devices. Amazon’s fall hardware event in September announced the next frontier of the Alexa-powered speakers, but strangely enough, none of them was a fifth-generation Echo. Instead, Amazon has leaned in to two specific speakers: the Echo Dot, now named the…
It’s easy to tell someone to delete their Apple account and start from scratch when it’s not your digital life on the line. But for anyone faced with such a reset, it’s not just inconvenient—it’s traumatic. And that’s just as true for children. That’s because for Apple users, an Apple ID is more than a…
Honorable Mentions Open earbuds are becoming the hot trend in wireless audio, meaning there are plenty of good options that don’t make our top list. Here are some other pairs worth considering. Acefast Acefit Pro for $80-125: Acefast’s Acefit Pro are more stylish than the cheaper Acefit Air above, most notably in their snazzy transparent…
Adobe’s Oriol Nieto loaded up a short video with a handful of scenes and a voice-over, but no sound effects. The AI model analyzed the video and broke it down into scenes, applying emotional tags and a description of each scene. Then, the sound effects came. The AI model picked up on a scene with…
