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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:44 EDT

Aptera shows off a new solar-powered car that it swears will go into production

Image: Aptera Aptera is aiming to get a little more time in the sun. The once-dead and now-resurrected startup unveiled a new “production-intent” solar-powered electric vehicle that it made with a little help from legendary Italian automotive designers Pininfarina. And much like the last go-around, the new prototype is an ultra-efficient three-wheeled electric vehicle powered, in part, by embedded solar panels. Aptera insists the partnership with Pininfarina is providing necessary... Read more â€ș

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:15 EDT

Microsoft is using Bing to trick people into thinking they’re on Google

Image: The Verge Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot like... Google. It’s a clear attempt from Microsoft to make Bing look like Google for this specific search query, and other searches just list the usual Bing... Read more â€ș

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:15 EDT

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says ‘we know how to build AGI’

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is confident that it knows “how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it,” referring to the tech industry’s long-sought benchmark of artificial general intelligence. And he predicts that AI agents capable of autonomously performing certain tasks may start to “materially change the output of companies” this year. Altman made the announcement in... Read more â€ș

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:01 EDT

Schlage’s sleek new smart lock ditches keys for UWB

The Sense Pro is Schlage’s first lock to support Matter; it will also work with a new UWB-powered auto-unlocking feature. | Image: Schlage It’s a bit of a moment for the humble door lock. Schlage, one of the oldest lock makers in the US, just launched its first-ever smart door lock without a keyway. But that’s not the most exciting part: the Schlage Sense Pro Smart Deadbolt is the company’s... Read more â€ș

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:00 EDT

Microsoft would really like you to stop using Windows 10 this year

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s 2025, and Microsoft is kicking off the year by reminding everyone that support for Windows 10 ends in October. While the company has been trying to entice Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 with full-screen prompts throughout 2024, it’s now calling 2025 “the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh.” Last year, Microsoft kicked off 2024 by declaring it was... Read more â€ș

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:00 EDT

This $400 Brisk It smart grill has generative AI

Image: Brisk It Barbecue tech startup Brisk It has unveiled its latest smart grill at CES, which uses generative AI to automate cooking and create personalized recipes. The $399 Zelos 450 electric wood pellet smoker features 450 square inches of cooking space and Wi-Fi connectivity for remotely adjusting settings and monitoring food as it cooks via a mobile app. That’s pretty affordable for a smart wood pellet grill — the... Read more â€ș

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:00 EDT

Intel’s new Core Ultra 200HX series CPUs are ready for next-gen gaming laptops

Image: Intel Intel is announcing the rest of the Arrow Lake family of CPUs at CES today, with options for thin-and-light laptops all the way up to gaming notebooks. These mobile processors will appear in many of the computers being announced at CES this week, with the 200HX series being paired with next-gen GPUs we’re expecting Nvidia to announce later today and the 200H and 200U series of chips destined... Read more â€ș

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Allison Johnson @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:00 EDT

This home security camera can also monitor for falls and call for help

The camera uses AI to help identify falls even when the subject is partially obscured. | Photo: Kami Vision Home security company Kami Vision is introducing a new camera that’s designed especially for seniors living on their own. The Kami Fall Detect Camera monitors for falls and can alert families or caregivers to take action. The company has been offering similar fall detection systems for senior living communities, but this... Read more â€ș

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Allison Johnson @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:00 EDT

Ring is upgrading its outdoor cameras with 2K resolution (even if you already own them)

The Floodlight Cam Pro is our pick for the best overall outdoor floodlight camera. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ring is doing something rare for a technology brand: upgrading devices that customers have already purchased. The company is updating its outdoor cameras to boost video resolution, but it’s not just new customers who will benefit — existing owners of the floodlight and spotlight cams will get... Read more â€ș

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:00 EDT

Ring is making a smart smoke alarm

Kidde’s new smart smoke and combination smoke + CO alarms with Ring work in the Ring app and don’t require a Ring Alarm system. | Image: Ring Ring has announced a new partnership with fire safety brand Kidde to launch smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms that connect to the Ring app via Wi-Fi and send alerts to your phone when the alarms are triggered. The Kidde Smart Smoke Alarm... Read more â€ș

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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 09:00 EDT

This portable security camera has a week of free cloud recording

Image: Xthings At last year’s CES, we heard from the company behind Ultraloq and U-tec about the $69 Ulticam Dot, a portable security camera that was supposed to launch over the summer. But according to Xthings chief strategy officer Matthew Brown, it delayed the launch until Q1 2025 in part to work on what it considers a “disruptive” feature: giving every Ulticam product seven days of free cloud storage for... Read more â€ș

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Jacob Kastrenakes @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 08:30 EDT

This outdoor security cam adds a second camera that moves and zooms

The HybridCam Duo security camera system. | Image: Tapo Home security cameras are usually good at getting a wide shot of your yard and whatever’s passing through it — but a new camera can help you get a close-up on your visitors, too. Tapo’s new HybridCam Duo camera sticks two cameras together: a more traditional security camera with a wide-angle lens, plus a second camera that can pan, tilt, and... Read more â€ș

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Jacob Kastrenakes @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 08:30 EDT

Tapo’s palm-scanning door lock promises a full year of battery life

The PalmKey door lock from Tapo has a fingerprint reader and a camera for scanning your palm. | Image: Tapo Tapo is the latest brand trying to let you open your front door with just a wave of your palm. The company announced the PalmKey smart door lock today, which lets you enter the house with a PIN, a fingerprint, or a palm scan. The palm scanner requires your hand... Read more â€ș

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 08:00 EDT

Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept Matter certification of smart home products

Illustration: The Verge Buying a smart home product today means checking which ecosystems it works with by looking for the little “Works with Apple Home” or “Works with Google” badge on the package. Matter was supposed to get rid of those because if a product works with Matter, it should work with all the big smart home platforms. That hasn’t happened yet, and now we have one more badge to... Read more â€ș

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 08:00 EDT

The ElliQ companion robot can now send health updates to a caregiver

Image: Intuition Robotics Intuition Robotics introduced the ElliQ Caregiver Solution on Monday, an AI-powered system that includes the ElliQ companion robot and a new Caregiver app to help caregivers monitor the health of homebound seniors. Originally, the bobblehead-esque animatronic was mainly a friendly looking Amazon Alexa-like voice assistant designed to offer companionship to seniors living alone. Unlike Alexa, though, the ElliQ is proactive, prompting seniors to talk to it and... Read more â€ș

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 08:00 EDT

TiVo-powered TVs are coming to the US

Image: TiVo More than a year after launching its smart TV platform in Europe, TiVo is now bringing it to the US. The company’s putting its TiVo OS platform inside a new Sharp TV arriving as soon as February, rivaling the likes of Roku, Google TV, and Amazon’s Fire TV. TiVo first announced TiVo OS in 2022, but the platform didn’t actually launch until last year. The company bills its... Read more â€ș

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 05:08 EDT

LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

The Verge LG and Samsung have both announced their 2025 smart TVs at CES this weekend, and some of them will include access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Both TV manufacturers are chasing the artificial intelligence hype train with dedicated AI sections on their smart TVs that include a shortcut to a Copilot web app. LG is adding an entire AI section to its TVs and rebranding its remote to... Read more â€ș

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 04:01 EDT

Finally, a real contender for Apple’s pricey Thunderbolt 4 cable is here

OWC has released two new super-long active optical USB4 cables, available in lengths of nearly 10 feet (3 meters) and 15 feet (4.5 meters) and offering up to 40Gbps of data throughput. According to OWC’s press materials, they’ll set you back $98.99 and $129.99, respectively, though its website currently lists them for slightly less. That’s a bargain, compared to what Apple is charging. Data throughput aside, OWC says you can... Read more â€ș

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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 01/06/2025 02:00 EDT

L’OrĂ©al claims its new skincare gadget can tell which ingredients work best for you

Here’s to figuring out whether using retinol is actually worth it for you. | Image: L’OrĂ©al L’OrĂ©al is hoping its latest beauty gadget can demystify skincare. At CES 2025, the company announced Cell BioPrint, a device that’s designed to analyze your skin and give personalized advice on how to slow down signs of aging. The device is the result of a partnership with NanoEntek — a Korean startup that specializes... Read more â€ș

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Chris Welch @ The Verge · 01/05/2025 22:00 EDT

Samsung goes big on anti-glare screens and AI with 2025 TV lineup

With its new lineup of TVs, Samsung is making a decision that I think might prove somewhat divisive. The company is bringing the matte, glare-free display technology that debuted on last year’s S95D OLED to several more models — including its flagship Mini LED sets. Here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Samsung is showcasing all of its latest TVs at its annual First Look event. The new S95F QD-OLED... Read more â€ș

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