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“More harm than good” Americans fear there are no cheap alternatives as tariffs suddenly hit drones. A DJI Mavic Pro 3 camera drone. On Thursday, the Trump administration imposed a 100 percent tariff on foreign-made drones, alarming critics who warn that high tariffs would harm public safety and devastate thousands
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Today could be the day Tesla changes forever. In a couple of hours, Tesla will “launch” the Cybercab — a small, gold, two-seater sedan with no steering wheel or pedals that uses cameras and AI to navigate the world — in its hometown of Austin, Texas. The company hasn’t said what
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Technology news moves quickly. Funding rounds, product launches and AI announcements can easily become isolated headlines by the end of a busy week. Sometimes, however, the numbers tell a larger story. This week, CIOL’s coverage ranged from AI-generated software and new compute infrastructure to conversational advertising, space technology and
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Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker is acquiring the platform where much of the open-source AI community stores and shares its models, while promising to leave the platform itself largely unchanged. The price values the
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We've seen a number of desktop monitors that track AI coding agent token use recently. In general, they are all quite similar. There is a display that continuously shows how much of one's quota has been used, and perhaps a few buttons to tweak the settings.
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At the Dyson Unveiled event at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Dyson announced a whopping 10 new products, including its first toothbrush, three robot vacuums, three air purifiers, a wet floor cleaner and two hair tools: its first dryer brush and a hair straightener designed to lessen heat damage. If you’
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Dyson makes some fantastic cordless vacuums, and many of its models have earned top spots in our lab-tested picks. Our lab testing history for Dyson’s robot vacuums is a bit of a mixed bag, with the older models we’ve tested not always offering the cleaning performance of top
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Today, I’m talking with Tom Conrad, the CEO of Sonos. Tom and I have known each other for a long time — he was the chief technology officer of Pandora, VP of product at Snap, and the chief product officer of Quibi. He was also on the board at Sonos
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8.3 Pros & Cons * Excellent speech clarity and music replay * Calibration feature is easy to use * Great connectivity * Bose app and ecosystem not as sophisticated as Sonos * No native Apple Music support in app The soundbar market is now fully in the thrall of AI, with nearly every audio
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DJI has announced a second generation of its Romo robovac. The Romo 2 series is quieter, more powerful, and better at climbing over small steps and other obstacles. But more importantly for DJI, a new local-only data mode should go some way to reassuring anyone concerned by the first Romo’
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By Yogan Senthilkumar, CTO, iVP Semi The Internet of Things has quietly moved from pilot projects to core infrastructure. It now runs behind fleets, factories, energy networks and connected homes. The next phase of IoT growth in India will not be defined by how many devices come online, but by
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Petoi, the firm behind the OpenCat project and the palm-sized Bittle robotic dog, has opened crowdfunding for a new compact four-servo quadrupedal robot that folds flat for ease of storage and transportation: the Quaddle. "Quaddle is the next robot to democratize access to robotics and physical AI [Artificial Intelligence]
