Five Smart Door Locks so You Never Have to Dig for Your Keys Again Wi-Fi-enhanced smart locks were made for those prone to forgetting their keys at the worst moments—for instance, with kids or melting ice cream in tow—as they offer access through an app, a keypad or ... 04/30/2024 - 12:29 am | View Link
Secure Your Home, Apartment, or Rental with These Tested Smart Locks I mproving your smart home takes more than connection to a digital assistant and a voice-activated speaker. Smart locks—or smart deadbolts, more accurately—streamline your daily routine and strengthen ... 04/29/2024 - 9:33 am | View Link
Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch picks up new features with the Z-Wave Smart Module The Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch now comes bundled with the Z-Wave Smart Module, allowing you to sync the smart lock with products beyond the Yale catalog. 04/29/2024 - 7:17 am | View Link
Aqara Smart Lock U100 Review: Top-Tier Nuts and Bolts The Aqara smart lock U100 offers a winning deadbolt replacement option, especially for Apple users. Add a hub, and its capabilities expand even more. 04/27/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
Abode Smart Lock review: This retrofit left us with reservations We dig the large rechargeable battery that powers this smart lock, but our initial experience left us wondering about Abode’s quality control for the first time. 04/22/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
With summer movie season upon us, theaters are looking to draw crowds with a new interactive lobby attraction.
A long line to get into the theater is fairly standard for a hot movie in its opening weekend. A long line just to engage with a film’s lobby display, however, is not standard at all.
The housing market saw a 30% increase in active inventory in April, but that’s still 35% below pre-pandemic levels.
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In the past few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an artificially intelligent chatbot.
Within those apps, you can chat with Meta AI and type in questions and requests like “What’s the weather this week in New York?” or “Write a poem about two dogs living in San Francisco.” The assistant will come up with responses immediately, such as “The corgi was short, with a butt so wide, the lab was tall, with a tongue that would glide.” You can also instruct Meta AI to produce pictures — like an illustration of a family watching fireworks.
This is Meta’s response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the chatbot that upended the tech industry in 2022, and similar bots including Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Bing AI.
Builders are finally making a dent in the state’s housing shortfall, especially for apartments. But home prices and mortgage rates continue to outpace income gains, and affordability is worsening rather than improving.
“The story with interest rates is that they are only exacerbating the problem,” said Steven Byers, chief economist with the Common Sense Institute in Denver.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — On a Monday morning last month, tech executives, engineers and sales representatives from Amazon, Google, TikTok and other companies endured a three-hour traffic jam as their cars crawled toward a mammoth conference at an event space in the desert, 50 miles outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The lure: billions of dollars in Saudi money as the kingdom seeks to build a tech industry to complement its oil dominance.
To bypass the congestion, frustrated eventgoers drove onto the highway shoulder, kicking up plumes of desert sand as they sped past those following traffic rules.
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said last month.
Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology.