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SimpliSafe’s new outdoor monitoring service combines AI with human agents

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SimpliSafe has announced the addition of Active Guard Outdoor Protection to its monthly subscription offerings. The new tier adds an added layer of 24/7 monitoring to the home security service. Outdoor Protection Pro is available for $50 a month, a price that includes the Boston-based firm’s standard $22  indoor monitoring service. The new offering will […]

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Oura Ring 4 isn’t an Apple Watch replacement, but that’s not the point

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Oura didn’t invent the smart ring category. It did, however, make all that came before it effectively obsolete. The category dates back more than a decade; TechCrunch wrote about an NFC ring in 2013. The Motiv Ring is of far more recent vintage, but it ultimately struggled to find the right use case before being

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India’s Reliance targets 2G users with $13 4G phones offering streaming, payments

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Reliance’s digital arm, Jio Platforms, has launched two new 4G-enabled handsets that offer access to live TV, music and video streaming as well as host the ability to make digital payments – all for a price tag of 1099 rupees ($13). The JioBharat V3 and JioBharat V4, successors to last year’s JioBharat model, feature 1.77-inch

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Shield AI’s founder on death, drones in Ukraine, and the AI weapon ‘no one wants’

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About two months ago, Shield AI co-founder Brandon Tseng and one of his employees were in an Uber weaving through Kyiv, Ukraine. They were headed to a meeting with military officials to sell them on their AI pilot systems and drones, when suddenly his employee showed him a warning on his phone. Russian bombs were

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Never mind the Switch 2, Nintendo launches a $100 sleep-tracking alarm clock

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That Nintendo gadget that showed up on the FCC’s site last month is sadly not the Switch 2. While the gaming giant confirmed in May that a Switch successor is, indeed, in the works, fans are going to have to settle for Alarmo. The $100 motion controlled alarm clock brings sounds from titles like Breath

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DOJ sentences pair for Apple repair scheme involving 6,000 knockoff iPhones

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The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday announced that it has sentenced a pair of Chinese citizens residing in Maryland following a massive bid to defraud Apple. According to the officials, the scheme involved sending more than 6,000 knockoff iPhones from Hong Kong to the company for repair. With the help of spoofed IMEI and serial

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Oura Ring 4 debuts slimmer design, additional sizes, and improved sensing starting at $349

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Oura on Thursday unveiled the fourth generation of its popular smart ring. The Oura Ring 4 arrives just under three years after its predecessor’s debut. Despite the gap, the new wearable largely refines — rather than reinvents — the experience. The most notable hardware change is the slimmer profile, an odd thing to say about

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