Honor’s new Watch 6 brings battery life Apple Watch users dream about

Honor Watch 6 is launching globally with a 35-day battery claim, bright display, wet touch controls, and dedicated football and badminton tracking modes.

California VPP is rolling out a $6,000 rebate for new home batteries
California VPP is rolling out a $6,000 rebate for new home batteries

Ava Community Energy’s SmartHome Battery program is offering income-qualified North California residents up to $6,000 in up front incentive cash to install a FranklinWH smart battery and connect it to the utility’s virtual power plant (VPP).

MIT experts just made a special memory. When humans forget, robots will just fetch the lost item

MIT researchers have developed an AI memory system that lets robots remember objects, locations, and details from real-world environments over time.

A strange little electric nose may be the missing piece for smart fridges

UC Berkeley’s electric nose uses a carbon nanotube gas sensor chip to detect spoiled food and allergens, but crowded refrigerators and mixed-food smells are still the real test.

A harmless-looking ChatGPT prompt opened the door to gruesome AI images

Researchers say ChatGPT generated violent and sexualized images after a harmless-looking prompt was altered, raising new questions about OpenAI’s safeguards and how quickly AI image tools can be pushed around filters.

Fitness trackers and smartphone apps help heart disease patients stay active, study finds

A new American Heart Association review found that smartphone apps and wearable trackers helped heart disease patients walk more and increase daily activity.

Two of Call of Duty’s greatest games are finally coming to modern PlayStations

Treyarch has confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 are being ported to modern PlayStation consoles by Iron Galaxy. The classic shooters will include campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies, giving PlayStation players a chance to revisit two…

A US state wants to ban smart glasses while driving, and it could open Pandora’s box

Smart glasses are rapidly evolving from niche gadgets into mainstream consumer technology. Devices from companies such as Meta, Google, Apple, and Snap are increasingly capable of displaying notifications, providing navigation, recording video, and eve…

Epic Games just took a big step toward AI-built games with Unreal Engine 5.8

Unreal Engine 5.8 ships with an experimental plugin that lets developers connect any LLM to core engine systems, and Epic plans even deeper integration for Unreal Engine 6.

ChatGPT’s new Scheduled page puts all your automated tasks in one place

OpenAI is rolling out a dedicated Scheduled page for ChatGPT that lets users view, manage, and monitor all active tasks from the sidebar.