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Google posted a new video today showing its upcoming Ambient Mode feature for Google Assistant in action on an Android device. The company first announced Ambient Mode at IFA in September. The mode shows onscreen items like calendar info, notifications, weather, and smart home controls on your lock screen when your phone or tablet is…
Sponsored Links Boston Dynamics/MA State Police/TechCrunch Boston Dynamics has been looking for ways to put its robots to work, but it turns out they’ve already seen some service. Radio station WBUR and the ACLU have learned that the Massachusetts State Police bomb squad leased Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot between August and November. While the document…
Sponsored Links Cybertruck vs. F-150 Tesla At the unveiling of Tesla’s Cybertruck, Elon Musk showed off a video of the low-polygon-count pickup defeating an F-150 in a tug of war. Since then, many have complained it wasn’t a good comparison, since the presumable AWD Cybertruck appeared to face off against a RWD Ford with nothing…
Sponsored Links ASSOCIATED PRESS Amazon’s relentless drive for efficiency and to meet its self-imposed tight delivery deadlines has reportedly played a role in serious injuries among warehouse workers. A joint investigation by Reveal and The Atlantic, along with a separate report from Gizmodo, highlighted the extent of the injury epidemic based on Amazon’s internal incident…
Sponsored Links In exchange for buying a new phone, Walmart is offering customers up to $450 in eGift cards this Black Friday. You can get up to another $250 in eGift cards with a qualifying trade in. Buy and activate an iPhone XS or Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+ or Note 10+, and you’ll get a…
Sponsored Links picture alliance via Getty Images One of the fiercest critics of the modern internet is the man who created it, Tim Berners-Lee. As the father of the web he has been vocally critical about the current state of the internet and how it is dominated by a small number of powerful companies, and…
Artiphon first made a splash back in 2013 when it started showing off a rather rough prototype of a device that would eventually become the Instrument 1. By the time it hit Kickstarter in 2015 it had undergone a serious facelift. In its final version it was sleek and futuristic, with an almost minimal design.…
Belinda J. Wilkes is a senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and director of the Chandra X-ray Center, both in Cambridge, Mass. In Brief This year is the 20th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has been continually orbiting Earth since its 1999 launch. The telescope has made major discoveries about supermassive black…
Sponsored Links With just a couple of days before the official start of Black Friday, Sonos has detailed what you can expect from its sale. Later this week, you’ll be able to save on the company’s Beam, Playbar, Playbase and Sub speakers, as well as its Amp amplifier. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Sonos plans…
Sponsored Links SOPA Images via Getty Images Texas no longer stands in the way of the T-Mobile and Sprint merger. The state has reached a settlement with T-Mobile, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today. In exchange for T-Mobile’s commitment to build a 5G network throughout Texas, Paxton will drop the lawsuit he filed in…