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It’s now a familiar story: a company launches a new AI chatbot or AI-powered search feature. It works great in the demo. Then real customers show up, all at once, all asking questions at the same time and the feature that impressed everyone in the boardroom starts crawling, timing
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Google introduced its Gemini Audio AI models earlier this year, during the latest developer-focused I/O conference. Now, the advertising corporation is going to bring these additional features to three of
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The annual Labor Day sales tend to be associated with grills and appliances rather than the latest tech, but it's actually a great time to shop. For example, right now you can get a number of record-low prices on Samsung's latest 2026 TVs. Released earlier this
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Roborock, one of the flashiest home robot makers, is taking the plunge. The Beijing-based brand, known for its super-smart robot vacuums, including models with robotic grabbing arms and stair-climbing capabilities, has launched its first-ever robotic pool cleaner. We saw it first at IFA Berlin. On a crowded showroom floor, we
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The dishwasher felt like the final frontier for cameras in the kitchen. Cams and sensors have found their way into most major appliances. Ovens have cameras that watch food as it cooks and alert you when it’s properly browned, and smart refrigerators will ping you when you’re running
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IFA, Berlin's huge annual tech expo, is where some of the biggest tech firms unveil their latest innovations — and this year is one of the strongest we've seen in a long time for interesting new releases. IFA is a great place to find fascinating new gadgets
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All of your reading apps in one place, with stylus support. Cheyenne MacDonald for Engadget RATING : 7.9 / 10 Kindle and Kobo may lead the ereader space, but for anyone seeking a bit more flexibility in how they read on the go, there are options like Boox. Boox's
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Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers. The popular JavaScript package manager pnpm, already known for its speedy downloads, has further cut installation times by up to 90 percent thanks to a complete rewrite in Rust. Yet the freshly released version 12 of pnpm should not cause consternation
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Chipmaker Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $13 billion. It’s the latest deal by the company, whose processors are integral to the AI boom, and highlights Nvidia’s push to champion increasingly popular open-source AI models. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a
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Turns out, you can rewrite history. Well, a chatbot's understanding of your personal history, anyway. Igor Bonifacic for Engadget Since the summer of 2025, Claude has had the ability to remember past conversations. This feature — which Anthropic, like other AI labs, calls memory — allows the chatbot to personalize
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I’ve covered the many ways smart thermostats can convert your home to a well-heated haven and how quickly they can pay for themselves through energy savings, but there’s one glaring issue. Almost all smart thermostats are designed only for central hubs and forced air heating/cooling. Imagine my
