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Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.

After testing multiple models, I’m convinced voice control belongs on the family calendar. Greenlight’s Family Hub shows why.

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.

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Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.

Don’t buy a loved one something you wouldn’t want for yourself. These are the must-haves that tech enthusiasts have on their wish lists this year.

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

The new Echo Studio also gets a camera, and the Echo Show 16 debuts an AI-generated Alexa interface.

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.

Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

Digital wall calendars can organize multiple family calendars, meal plans, chores, and to-do lists, and even double as a digital photo frame. And best of all, they’re on sale.