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Here’s @jp2e.bsky.social pointing out the obvious: Ring’s still partnered with Axon, which is still partnered with ICE www.theverge.com/report/87932...
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
A superskinny stick vac, Dyson’s PencilVac is an engineering marvel. While it won’t clean your whole house, it’s a simple. stylish option for quick touchups and other small tasks.
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
We've got a new batch of Verge stories that are completely free to read for today only. First up, from @jp2e.bsky.social:
After years of trying to switch to Home Assistant, Claude Code got me (mostly) there in one afternoon.
Claude Code + Home Assistant = smart home harmony at last!
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Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
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We've got a new batch of Verge articles that are completely free to read for the day. First up, from @jp2e.bsky.social:
Aqara’s new U400 smart lock is the first to use Apple’s UWB-based hands-free unlocking, and it works every time, even with full hands.
I had a great time chatting about all the cool tech I saw at CES on TWiT, including a rundown of @theverge.com 's picks from the show floor.
It was a banner year for the smart home at CES
I spent my week at CES hunting down humanoid robots and trying to get them to do my laundry, or at least open a bottle of detergent. Here's how it went...
#smarthome #robotics
Finally met the legendary @jp2e.bsky.social IRL!
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Mui’s long-gestating calm-tech board finally ships — and it’s a thoughtful, if very expensive, alternative to screens.
The problem is that the new assistants aren’t as consistent at controlling smart home devices as the old ones. While they were often frustrating to use, the old Alexa and Google Assistant (and the current Siri) would generally always turn on the lights when you asked them to, provided you used precise nomenclature. Today, their “upgraded” counterparts struggle with consistency in basic functions like turning on the lights, setting timers, reporting on the weather, playing music, and running the routines and automations on which many of us have built our smart homes. I’ve noticed this in my testing, and online forums are full of users who have encountered it. Amazon and Google have acknowledged the struggles they’ve had in making their revamped generative AI-powered assistants reliably perform basic tasks. And it’s not limited to smart home assistants; ChatGPT can’t consistently tell time or count.
AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...
Verge headline: Roomba invented the home robot - and lost the future by Jennfier Pattison Tuohy Photo: A roomba
iRobot’s collapse marks the end of an era. Co-founder Colin Angle calls it a blow for robotics.
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