Tech & AI

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Mammotion Spino E1 Review: A Budget Pool Bot That Comes Up Short

The robot uses Bluetooth to communicate with your phone and uses 2.4-GHz Wi-Fi to connect directly to your home network for over-the-air updates (but not real-time management). Onboarding requires connecting to a temporary network on the device and bridging it to your home network, a quick process that gave me no trouble during setup. Firmware

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TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent?

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Normally, I have an analysis and then a little bird (my insidery bits curated just for you).

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AI health questions? 4 chatbot prompt tips to get the most accurate answers

Every day, millions of people turn to an artificial intelligence chatbot like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to ask a question about their physical health.  They may not know that getting the correct answer is harder than it appears, no matter how authoritatively the chatbot responds.  Three recent studies indicate that large language models aren’t as

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The Screen Time Maximalists Who Spend an Ungodly Amount of Time on Their Phones

Morgan Dreiss, a copy editor in Orlando, has severe ADHD that they say requires them to always be “doing at least three things at once.” The result? A daily average screen time of 18 hours and 55 minutes. “I’m reading a book or playing a game pretty much from waking to sleeping,” Dreiss tells WIRED.

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Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives for a meeting this week where they encouraged the executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities, according to Bloomberg.  Indeed, while JPMorgan Chase was the only bank listed as one of the initial partner organizations with access to the

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‘Euphoria’ Season 3 review: It should be great. Instead, it’s gross.

“Anyone can reinvent themselves.” These are the words of menacing Euphoria Season 3 newcomer Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). He speaks them to Rue (Zendaya) as she comes to a crossroads on her winding journey to redemption, but he might as well be describing series creator Sam Levinson’s thought process coming into Season 3. This time around,

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There’s a Secret Ingredient to Making Luxury Ice at Home

If you don’t want to bother with cutting your own cubes, then Klaris has you covered. Klaris has labored to make a kitchen countertop version of the classic Clinebell machine, and we loved it. Trouble is, it costs a hard-to-swallow $550. Now, however, the company has created a new, cheaper version called the Klaris Mini,

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Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses

Apple plans to sell its first smart glasses in 2027, with a possible unveiling at the end of this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Gurman has been reporting steadily on the evolution of the company’s smart glasses strategy, but now he has more details about how they’ll look — he said Apple is testing

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T-Mobile is giving away the Apple iPhone 17 for free — how to claim

TL;DR: Score a free iPhone 17e when signing up for a T-Mobile plan with no trade-in required. Alternatively, you can get the iPhone 17 for free from T-Mobile when signing up for an Experience More plan and trading in an eligible device. In the mobile world, the word “free” is usually followed by a list

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Best 2-in-1 Laptops (2026): Microsoft, Lenovo, and the iPad

There will always be a use case for owning both a laptop and a tablet as stand-alone products. But the 2-in-1 laptop is the utopian dream of combining these two into a single device. Of all the models I’ve tested, no 2-in-1 laptop is equally good at being both a tablet and a laptop. They

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