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There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Apple is expected to announce several products at its September event next weekβ€”including a folding phoneβ€”but the iPhone 18 might not be among them. It would be a first for the company.
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β€˜The Blood of Dawnwalker’ Is a Bloody Balm for My Completionism

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The game starts as a reheated Witcher 3, but evolves into something much more focused.
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Sonos Ace Ultra, Beam Ultra, Sonos Fabric, and a New App: Everything Sonos Just Announced

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s β€œvery hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in.
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6 Takeaways From the GTA VI Extended Look

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Grand Theft Auto VI is nigh. Here’s what the developer revealed about its highly anticipated game.
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Netflix Failed at Video Games. Now It’s Trying to Promote Them

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Netflix has walked back plans to put AAA games on its streaming platform. Instead, it's pivoting to marketing highly anticipated titles like Grand Theft Auto VI.
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Forget Meta Ray-Bans. These Dorky-Looking Virtual Display Glasses Are Way More Useful

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Tethered display glasses are truly practical face computers. They trade bulky spatial computing for simplicity: Plug in, recline, and get a massive screen right in front of your nose.
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Can the Upcoming β€˜Expanse’ Game Avoid the Biggest Mistake of β€˜Mass Effect’?

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The universe may never tell you if your choices mattered. Owlcat’s Osiris Reborn might not either.
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This Art Project Slows Down Citi Bikes to Make NYC’s Rent Crisis Feel Real

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Ground Truth makes the shared rental bikes harder to pedal through rent-burdened neighborhoods, offering a tangible way for people to experience income inequality.
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Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren’t Creepy?

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
As more big companies invest in glasses that record audio and video and pack AI on board, privacy concerns are only getting louder.
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Daisy One Review: Comfy and Tactile Headphones

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The company’s first headphones look very stylish and have great tactile features but underwhelm on sound quality.
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The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.
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Apple Upgrade Isn’t the Best Way to Buy an iPhone

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
With Apple Upgrade, the company is making it easier to pay for its products in monthly installments. Critics call it the β€œfinancialization of the affordability crisis.”
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Is the Electric Trike the Next Big Thing in Shared Micromobility?

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Veo is launching accessibility-focused electric tricycles in Denver, with plans to put its e-trikes on the streets nationwide.
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Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
With β€œblessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted β€œAI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.
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Flipper Busy Bar Review: An Expensive Focus Tool

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
It didn’t keep my coworkers at bay, but Flipper’s expensive productivity tool did help me focus on the task at hand.
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Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Halliday’s G2 glasses can listen to and summarize your workplace meetingsβ€”with no video involved.
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A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sony’s PlayStation 5 a Computer Again

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Nice PlayStation you got. Bet it could probably run Linux too.
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The 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The soft, oddly intimate home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.
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The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
After more than a decade of pushback, farmers and repair advocates have won access to equipment and services John Deere had long kept under its control.
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These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
You can clip a cover over the cameras, which could be a double-edged sword.
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All Your Favorite Gadgets Are Getting Way More Expensive … Again

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Thanks to the AI-driven chip shortage, prices for phones, computers, and consoles are sky-highβ€”and still climbing.
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Daisy’s First Headphones Are Premium, High-Qualityβ€”and Just a Little Bit Cheaper

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The California-based startup enters a crowded headphone market with a $399 chiseled-aluminum gamble.
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The Busy Bar Is a Gadget to Get People to Leave You Alone

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Flipper Devices, a company that built a banned hacking device, now wants to hack your attention span.
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After More Than a Decade of Waiting, β€˜GTA VI’ Is Finally Around the Corner

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
We’re finally getting Grand Theft Auto VI, poised to be one of the largest gaming releases in history.
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They’re Making Clip-On Frames for Smart Glasses Now

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Smart glasses are hitting the mainstream, so companies are now getting into the accessories game.
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Buying a Used iPhone Makes More Sense Than Ever

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
With Apple raising prices soon, you can save a lot of money by buying a used handset or upgrading an older deviceβ€”safe in the knowledge that it’ll last longer than ever.
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CVS Is Switching to Aluminum Pill Bottles

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
They’re much more recyclable than the current plastic ones, and they will still probably be locked away behind that anti-theft plexiglass.
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You Can Finally Buy Snap’s New AR Specsβ€”for $2,195

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel lays out the company’s vision for its augmented-reality smart glasses, arriving later this year.
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How To Watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup Finals: Spain vs. Argentina

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The end of the FIFA Men’s World Cup is nigh. Here’s how to watch the final games and the first ever World Cup halftime show.
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Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Updates include a new souped-up Siri, lots of iOS enhancements, and some inkling on how an AI partnership with Google has come to power Apple’s products.
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Watch Duty Is Adding Flood Alerts to Its Wildfire App

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The popular wildfire tracking app is adding flood monitoring to its platform. It’s the first new disaster alert on the service, with many more to come.
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How to Watch Apple’s WWDC 2026 Keynoteβ€”and What to Expect

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The annual developer event is where Apple announces operating system updatesβ€”like iOS 27β€”and maybe even teases future hardware. Here’s how to see it all.
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Wave Cash App’s Magic Wand to Pay for Stuff

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
You can tap the star-shaped, NFC-enabled wand at terminals to make contactless payments. It's the first of several tap-to-pay hardware doodads coming from Cash App.
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Enclayve Is a Drab Black Box for Your Private Group Chats

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
I put my family on a private social network, and all I got was this lousy group chat. At least it’s secure.
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Partiful Is Putting Ticket Payments on Its Platform

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
In the social event planner’s first major move toward monetization, Partiful is getting ticketing directly in the app.
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Xreal’s New $299 β€˜xbx’ Smart Glasses Channel Xbox Vibes

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
These display smart glasses can connect to a phone, laptop, or gaming handheld and project the screen to your eyeballs.
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These Robots Are Making Meals for a Nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.
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Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses

By: Boone Ashworth, Michael Calore β€”
Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.
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Hands-On With All of Google’s New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses

By: Julian Chokkattu, Boone Ashworth β€”
Here’s your first look at smart glasses coming from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Google and Samsung’s XR platform.
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How to Watch Google I/O 2026

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Google I/O is back with updates to Search, Android, Gemini, and a fresh peek at upcoming Android XR smart glasses. Here's how to watch the announcements live and what to expect.
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Gantri’s 3D-Printed Lamps Are Going Wireless

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
In a partnership with design firm Ammunition, the lamp company is taking its lights wireless.
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On Running LightSpray Cloudmonster 3 Hyper Review:

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The Swiss shoemaker’s LightSpray Cloudmonster 3 Hyper is a laceless, lightweight, super shoe.
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Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. They aren’t as helpful during smaller outbreaks.
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What to Know About Sony’s $7.85 Million PlayStation Settlement

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Are you eligible for a payout? Probably, but it might take a while and will likely be pretty small.
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The Person Behind Those Viral Polycule Ads Says It’s Just a Joke

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
No, the flyers weren’t part of a secret scheme to promote anything.
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Colorado's Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
Colorado has led the US on legislation that ensures people can fix their stuff. Manufacturers tried to claw back that control but ultimately failedβ€”for now.
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β€˜Saros’ Shows Off the PS5’s DualSense Tricks

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The new game from the creators of Returnal goes all-in on the PlayStation’s haptics and 3D audio. Maybe it will catch on with other game developers.
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These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost

By: Boone Ashworth β€”
The Kickstarter-funded glasses from L'Atitude 52Β°N have AI features bundled for one year, but the company doesn't know yet how much it will charge for access after that.
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Framework Has a Better, More Take-Apartable Laptop

By: Boone Ashworth, Luke Larsen β€”
The company announced its new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, along with updates to its 16-inch model.
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