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A good corded vacuum can deliver many times the cleaning performance of a cordless vacuum and essentially unlimited cleaning time, as long as you’re fine with navigating a more unwieldy unit. The Shark PowerDetect Transformer is an interesting alternative because it combines the power of an upright vacuum with
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Sometimes Amazon’s Prime Day events feel like I’m buying more things for my three cats than for myself. In the case of the EyeVac Air, it’s a product I don’t regret grabbing because it’s solved the biggest cleaning problem I have — it stopped my cats
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A good vacuum will seriously improve your life and home. So don't skip past Amazon's Prime Day vacuum deals before the event ends; instead, let me show you the best ones. As WIRED's resident vacuum expert and tester, I've tried dozens of
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Rogue AI agents have dominated tech headlines over the past few weeks. We’ve seen stories about concerns that AI models are attempting to deceive their human operators, finding unexpected ways around restrictions in businesses and, in some cases, behaving in bizarre ways their creators didn’t anticipate. All of
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In Brief 1:48 PM PDT · October 7, 2026 Nous Research, the startup developing the open-source Hermes agent, has raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier reporting. The round was led by Robot Ventures, with participation from other backers including Nvidia,
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Sometimes Amazon’s Prime Day events feel like I’m buying more things for my three cats than for myself. In the case of the EyeVac Air, it’s a product I don’t regret grabbing because it’s solved the biggest cleaning problem I have — it stopped my cats
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There are a ton of good vacuum deals happening for Prime Day, but my favorites are easily Shark’s Prime Day vacuum deals. Sure, you can get some on-sale Dyson vacuums right now, but if you want to spend less and still get something super powerful, Shark is the way
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If you’ve been on the fence about buying a robot vacuum because of the high price tag, Amazon’s October Prime Days are offering some of the biggest price cuts I’ve seen on both entry-level and top-tier flagship models. As CNET’s robot vacuum expert, I’ve been
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DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu says more AI agents will mean more demand for physical delivery networks, and even for human labour. He spoke on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “Inside the Making of DoorDash”. AI agents have probably already overtaken humans
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Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, and Tobias Gessler, three AI engineers at a startup called Axiom, recently fancied In-N-Out Burger for lunch. They weren’t about to drive themselves, though. Sitting in a 2024 Toyota Corolla near the Bay Area restaurant’s drive-thru lane, they opened a laptop and asked OpenAI’
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It’s the last day of Amazon’s October Prime Day which means if there’s something you needed, now’s the time to pick it up. All kinds of vacuums, and quite a few of our favorite models, remain deeply discounted. That includes the Dreame Z30 cordless vacuum, which
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Before Microsoft releases a laptop to the public, it needs to put the device through its paces. That all happens inside a windowless, warehouse-like lab on the company’s Redmond, Washington, campus, where the team developing Surface devices programs robots to press their buttons thousands of times, pelts devices with
