May 25
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback showed the baseball skills that once got him drafted by the Montreal Expos.
May 25
IKEA continues its foray into smart home devices with the launch of a Google Matter-ready hub called DIRIGERA and a new IKEA Home smart app. With the new device and app, the Swedish company is promising to handle more smart device segments while making device integration easier. It says the app will be “convenient, easy to navigate and user-friendly” for anyone just getting into smart home tech.
“With the new DIRIGERA hub for smart products, users will be able to onboard all IKEA smart products to the system and steer them individually, in sets or in groups in the new IKEA Home smart app. This enables users to create different scenes with pre-set functions of the smart products and increases the personalisation options for the smart home,” according to the company.
IKEA’s first smart home hub/gateway TRADFRI and app launched way back in 2014, so it was long overdue for a refresh. The company said that you’ll still be able to use that device, and current “products from IKEA can be connected to and work equally well with the DIRIGERA hub.”
IKEA’s smart home and device family continues to grow at a fairly rapid pace. Earlier this year it launched the VAPPEBY LED lamp that doubles as a Spotify-enabled Bluetooth speaker. It also recently refreshed the SYMFONISK bookshelf speaker, built in partnership with Sonos, along with smart blinds, a smart air purifier and other devices.
The DIRIGERA hub and new IKEA smart home app will launch in October 2022, the company said. It will also unveil remote “away from home” functionality in the first half of 2023.
May 25
A project to develop diffractive solar sails has advanced to the third and final phase of NASA’s advanced concepts program. The team behind the project now has two years to further develop this unconventional means of space propulsion.
May 25
Logitech's MX Master 3S Makes the Best Wireless Productivity Mouse Even Better
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Logitech has made my job easy. When asked which non-gaming mouse to buy, I instinctively answer “Logitech MX.” There are alternatives, but none are as premium or boast as many useful features as the Master series. I’ve previously reviewed the MX Anywhere 3, and while I love its features, the compact design didn’t…
May 25
So it turns out Jason Sudeikis is not going to be in Blue Beetle, but that’s the rumor mill, isn’t it? We’ve also got a wee interview featuring Hayden Christensen chatting about Darth Vader and a few more teasers from Jurassic World: Dominion. Forward, spoiler brigade!
May 25
As An Asian-American Woman, This Is The Dating App Red Flag I Don’t Talk About
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May 25
While you may waiting in anticipation for Apple’s next iteration of the MacBook Air, the current model is on sale at Amazon. You can pick up the 256GB MacBook Air M1 for $900 right now, or $100 off its normal price. We have seen it lower before — last year’s holiday shopping season brought its lowest price ever of $800 — but a $100 discount remains a good one if you’re in need of a new thin-and-light laptop.
Buy MacBook Air M1 (256GB) at Amazon – $900
We consider the MacBook Air M1 to be the best laptop for most people, despite it being about two years old at this point. It impressed us with its stellar performance and lack of fan noise, both of which help it feel speedier, smoother and more efficient than previous models. It also has improved GPU performance, and while it’s not a gaming machine by any means, it can handle Apple Arcade games nicely.
Performance is the standout new feature on the MacBook Air M1, but that’s only because Apple didn’t fix what wasn’t broken about the laptop’s design. It’s super thin and light, coming in at 2.8 pounds, plus it has a lovely 13-inch Retina Display, an excellent keyboard and trackpad and a battery that can last over 16 hours on a single charge. The biggest downsides come in its webcam and scant port selection. You’re only getting a 720p webcam on this laptop, which is lackluster considering how much time many of us spend on video calls every day, and the machine has only two USB-C ports on it.
If you absolutely must have more ports and don’t want to live the dongle life going forward, consider the 14-inch MacBook Pro instead. It’s more expensive, but it’ll be a better investment in the long run. However, if speed and portability are your top concerns, the MacBook Air M1 is one of the best options out there.
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May 25
A report into lockdown-breaching U.K. government parties says blame for a “culture” of rule-breaking in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office must rest with those at the top.
May 25
Dyson has been getting into more and more offbeat products these days, like the Zone noise-canceling headphones that blow purified air at your face. Now, the company has revealed that it has an entire division that’s secretly been developing robot prototypes that do household chores.
The company didn’t detail any of the models in particularly, but many look like regular robot arms adapted to do specialized home chores like cleaning and tidying. One appeared to be designed to vacuum out the seat cushions, mapping an armchair out in detail to do the job. “So this means I’ll never, ever find crisps around the back of my sofa again?” the company’s chief engineer, Jake Dyson, asked a researcher in a video (below).
Another robot was putting away dishes or at least placing them in a drying rack, and another was grasping a teddy bear, presumably picking up after a child. Dyson also showed off a “Perception Lab” that was all about robotic vision systems, detecting its environment and mapping humans with sensors, cameras and thermal imaging systems.
Dyson is currently on a recruiting drive, looking for around 700 engineers, which is one reason it finally decided to show off the lab (located at Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire in the UK) after keeping it under wraps. “What you’re developing counts an awful lot in terms of excitement and attracting engineers,” he said. “One thing about robots, as with wearables, is that they are the future of Dyson.”
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