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The second-gen Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box featuring 8K and 2.1 HDMI is now available | Image: Philips Hue
The rumored Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box 8K has been officially announced and is now available to buy. It’ll cost you $350, though — a $50 bump from the first-gen model. Hue promises this version will bring even more impressive music, movie, and gaming entertainment...
Philips Hue announced a partnership with Nobilia to bring integrated smart lighting to its new kitchens. | Image: Signify
Philips Hue is finally getting into smart under-cabinet kitchen lighting. But as it's Hue, they are doing it in the most expensive way possible, and it will be at least a year before it comes to the US. Still, the new fully integrated smart lighting solution...
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The Verge spoke with Bill Gates about AI, misinformation, and climate change.
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A coalition of consumer protection and anti-waste groups wants the Federal Trade Commission to go after “software tethering,” or the practice of tying hardware’s functionality to external software — which often renders products unusable after software updates stop.
The groups, including Consumer Reports, iFixIt, US PIRG, the Electronic Frontier...
The Voice Mate H1 is a small button-like microphone you lift to activate and then can issue smart home commands to. | Image: Aqara
Smart home company Aqara has announced the Voice Mate H1 — a home automation voice control system activated by picking up a small puck rather than its microphone always listening for its wake word. The company is also launching its first outdoor...
The Ki standard could help reduce the number of power cables clogging your kitchen. | Screenshot: YouTube
The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has announced that it’s releasing the finalized specifications for the Ki wireless power transfer standard that will allow smaller kitchen appliances such as toasters and blenders to operate without the need for power cords. It’s not...
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X has won an appeal to block parts of California’s content moderation law, which requires social platforms to publicly post policies against hate speech and misinformation, as well as submit semiannual reports on their enforcement efforts. A federal appeals court decided on Wednesday that the reporting aspect of the law likely violates the First Amendment...
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The National Security Agency (NSA) will start sharing stories about some of the agency’s past missions in a new podcast. Dubbed No Such Podcast, the podcast will initially focus on foreign signals intelligence and cybersecurity in the first two episodes, both of which will be available to listen to starting tomorrow, September 5th.
For years, the work of the NSA has...
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Elon Musk is a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist.” He’s declared himself so committed to the unfettered, open exchange of ideas that he’s said the only way X would let a government suppress speech on its platform is “at gunpoint.” All of this explains why Musk recently allowed X to be banned in Brazil rather than comply with the...
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The Russian government is once again trying to influence the US presidential election, the Biden administration says.
In a series of actions across the government on Wednesday, several agencies sought to crack down on alleged disinformation campaigns targeting the November election. The government alleges that Russian actors operated websites and social...