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April 17, 2024
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CNET

Motorola’s Edge 50 Phone Line Has Moto AI, 125-Watt Charging
Motorola’s debuting three new flagship phones for its Edge line Tuesday, all of which spotlight artificial intelligence features meant for improving photography. The Motorola Edge 50 line comes in three tiers, headlined by the Edge 50 Ultra, …
CNET

Amazon’s Sale Saves Up to 57% Off Anker Chargers and Charging Accessories
Anker makes some of our favorite charging accessories and Amazon is now offering a number of big discounts on cables, chargers, and more. With savings of up to 57% off these deals are all limited-time affairs, which means they could end at any time.
CNN

Sony’s Ult Field 1 speaker gives you big bass in a small package
Sometimes, you just want to take your music with you. Portable speakers have a place in cars, on bikes, at parties and can even be substituted as soundbars for your TV or computer. Sony just launched its newest portable Bluetooth speaker with the Ult …
CNN

The Sennheiser Momentum Sport are great exercise earbuds with some major flaws
Hybrid wearables are nothing new in the audio space. Headphone brands like Amazfit, Jabra and Soul have created wireless earbuds that double as activity trackers, but none of them have bridged the gap successfully. Sennheiser thinks it can.
Forbes

How To Unlock Mythic Skins In ‘Overwatch 2’ Season 10
From now on, you won’t have to unlock that particular season’s Mythic skin when you hit level 80 of the Premium Battle Pass. That’s a welcome change as players will have more choice over the Mythics …
The Verge

Google Maps will use AI to help you find out-of-the-way EV chargers
Google Maps is rolling out some new updates designed to make locating an electric vehicle charging station less stressful. And to accomplish this, it will (of course) lean heavily on artificial intelligence. Google says it will use AI to summarize …
CNET

YouTube Cracks Down on Ad-Blocking Apps
YouTube is making it tougher to use third-party, ad-blocking apps that go against its terms of service, the company said Monday. Trying to watch a video using such apps could lead to buffering issues or the error message: “The following content is not …
The Verge

Amazon Music’s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists
Amazon Music may soon let you create playlists with a text prompt using Maestro, its new AI playlist maker. Maestro, which is currently available in beta to a small number of Amazon Music subscribers in the US, will let users put together playlists …
Phys.Org

New tagging method provides bioadhesive interface for marine sensors on diverse, soft and fragile species
Tagging marine animals with sensors to track and study their movements can provide researchers with important environmental and behavioral information, including energy usage, habitat changes, and migration patterns. But existing techniques to attach …
The Verge

Snapchat is watermarking its AI-generated images.
A small, sparkly ghost logo will “soon” feature on saved or exported images created with Snapchat’s generative AI tools. More information — including some fairly obvious yet rigorous generative AI dos and don’ts — can be found on Snap’s support page.