Category: Technology

Amazon is suing the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) after the agency said it was responsible for recalling all of the dangerous products on its marketplace, including those sold by third parties. In a lawsuit filed last week, Amazon accuses the CPSC of stretching consumer safety law by treating the e-commerce giant as a…

Google started rolling out an update on Thursday to fix Chromecasts that suddenly lost the ability to cast. Now, it also has a fix to take care of the ones that were unexpectedly bricked after an attempted factory reset. “Everything should now function normally,” Google writes in an email to affected owners of second-generation Chromecast…

Elecom says its new sodium-ion power bank can be used in hot and cold extreme temperatures. | Image: Elecom Accessory maker Elecom has announced what it’s claiming to be the first consumer-ready power bank that uses a sodium-ion battery instead of lithium-ion one, as spotted by Notebookcheck. In addition to being more environmentally friendly to…

I don’t want to sound alarmist or anything (although I admit I’m naturally pessimistic), but the way things are going, it’s a good idea to have an extra source of power for your home in case of storms and other outages. Luckily, EcoFlow is running a sale through March 26th, letting you save on several…

The AI search engine Perplexity just debuted a new ad featuring Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae, who’s trapped in a room and must answer a series of questions to escape. One question targets Google’s AI gaffe last year, as Lee taps Perplexity to answer, “How do I make cheese stick to a pizza?” The AI…

Mark Rober’s Tesla video has kicked up a lot of reactions claiming it was fake. | Screenshot: Mark Rober Over the weekend, former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober published a video that sought to demonstrate the difference between Tesla’s camera-only Autopilot system and a vehicle equipped with lidar. He wanted to see whether the…

Google is shipping the latest “experimental” features of its Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model to more developers across all regions, and people are finding some concerning abilities that include editing out watermarks from photos. The company’s lightweight localized on-device AI model is now equipped with native image generation that can not only produce pictures from…

Snap’s AR Spectacles can now access location data so they can point you to your destination. | Screenshot: Snap Six months after introducing its fifth-generation Spectacles and the second version featuring AR capabilities, Snap has announced new features and functionality. Lenses — what Snap calls the Spectacles’ various AR effects — can now utilize GPS…

The Electric NoseFrida Pro is rechargeable and offers up to two hours of battery life. | Image: Frida Baby Frida Baby is upgrading a popular tool designed to help relieve an infant’s congestion with more power. The company says it sells over 4.7 million of its manual SnotSuckers every year, but for parents who are…