A Unique Smart Birdhouse Birdfy Nest Polygon Smart Birdhouse AccordionItemContainerButton WIRED User-friendly app that compiles shareable “stories” No subscription needed to use Remote control allows troubleshooting without disturbing birds Interchangeable hole sizes to attract different bird species TIRED Some connectivity issues No birds have yet nested in it Audible camera…

I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well. Source link

Sometimes, I’m surprised how often VPNs (virtual private networks) turn up in online reporting, considering how rarely I hear people talk about them elsewhere. But I suppose I shouldn’t be. Some VPN companies are very aggressive about their marketing, peppering podcasts and YouTube videos with sponsorships. And now, companies like…

For decades, satellites, drones, and human spotters have all been part of war’s surveillance and reconnaissance tool kit. In an age of cheap, insecure, internet-connected consumer devices, however, militaries have gained another powerful set of eyes on the ground: every hackable security camera installed outside a home or on a…

Other Laptop Docking Stations to Consider We test a lot of laptop docking stations and, quite frankly, most of them are … fine. They’re fine! We get into the nitty-gritty for specific use cases to find the best, but that leaves a bunch of devices that are great options even…

I take a lot of screenshots. Like, an excessive amount. I’m not sure whether to blame my ADHD, my FOMO, or pure sentimentality, but as it stands, I have more than 100,000 screenshots on my iPhone. (For context, a quick informal poll of coworkers revealed numbers closer to 2,000 on…

When it comes to the high-end streaming devices, I think it’s between the Roku Ultra and Apple TV 4K. Yes, that’s partly because I haven’t checked out the Google TV Streamer. I own both a Roku Ultra and Apple TV 4K, and it feels like I go back and forth…

ModRetro, the vintage gaming startup by Palmer Luckey, is in talks to raise funding at a $1 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The company launched its first product, a Game Boy-style handheld device called the Chromatic, in 2024. The Verge’s Sean Hollister said it “might be the best…

In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s Claude technology fell through, the Trump administration designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and the AI company said it would fight that designation in court. OpenAI, meanwhile, quickly announced a deal of its own, prompting backlash that saw users…

The biggest change is in the highback of the binding, which is called the AutoBack in the FASE system. While it can still fold all the way forward for travel and low-hanging chairlifts, when it’s open it leans much farther back than your standard highback. On the bottom of the…