The Busy Bar Is a Gadget to Get People to Leave You Alone
…The Busy Bar is also Matter-certified, which means it can be programmed to work with other smart-home devices. When integrated, it can control smart speakers or trigger lights. If you…
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The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
…Another Meta partnership, Android 17 gets some exclusive tools in Instagram's Edits app, like Smart Enhance, which uses on-device AI to upscale photos and videos. Sound separation will also separate…
Oura’s New Ring 5 Is Smaller and Lighter—and Adds an AI Health Coach
…For activities where a smart ring can be uncomfortable, such as powerlifting, the app now supports third-party heart-rate monitors and select devices, so you can continue to capture live workout…
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026
…These AI-powered features will be accessible in some way on all of Apple’s devices. The AI features will also be able to peer into what’s stored on your devices…
This Company Has Figured Out a Way to Make Face ID Invisible
…It will be deployed on consumer devices—laptops and smartphones—in 2027. Its rollout could mean that Android finally gets a Face ID equivalent, with components that use less space than Apple…
Vertu Is Back With a Folding Phone Powered by—Surprise—an AI Agent
The company announced the AlphaFold smartphone on Thursday—targeting business executives—which comes outfitted with the Hermes Agent. This agent can purportedly handle schedules and tasks on a user's behalf and…
Get Peace of Mind With This GPS and Activity Tracker for Pets
…Many pet-tech companies are now developing devices that use cellular coverage to enable real-time location tracking, as well as integrating health-monitoring features into the trackers . These new smart health…
GE’s Wi-Fi-Enabled Smart Coffee Maker Is Good but Not Quite Great
…If you love pulling out the proverbial duct tape to integrate various smart home-enabled devices into your aspirational domicile of the future, then adding the GE Profile to the mix could…
6G Is Coming. Here’s What to Expect From the Next Generation of Cellular Tech
…The demand for faster uploads will continue to grow as companies trot out new kinds of mobile devices, like smart glasses, smartwatches, AI wearables, and earbuds, that plug into the cloud. “We…
The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep
…Zuckerberg about the company’s reported plans to integrate face-recognition technology into these devices. “Given Meta’s vast data collections, its smart glasses could capture images of thousands of people without…