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Your macbook charger secretly updates itself without you knowing.
But why would a charging cable need firmware updates?
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Removing ads from your smart tv is the most viral project on the internet right now.
So we bought a cheap smart tv and tested it to see if it’s real.
Supposedly aluminum can boost your router’s signal.
But does it actually make your wifi speeds faster?
People are going viral wrapping light around solid objects
It’s called projection mapping and here’s how it works
Eink screens aren’t just for kindles anymore
Now you can make real photo cameras with them, so we tried it.
Supposedly a wifi router that looks like a minion is the fastest router in the universe.
So we got our hands on one to test it.
Bose is releasing a pair of wired headphones with noise cancellation.
Is this actual new tech or is it just marketing for gen Z?
Subaru turns regular consumer WRX cars into rally racing machines.
So we went out to Tennessee to find out how they do that.
CRT tvs still look better than modern tvs, but they are dumb.
So we used an AI computer to turn a CRT into a smart TV #pamiraipartner
🤝 Paid partnership
The new Meta VR glasses were announced as a revolutionary new solution to wearable VR. But so were the Apple Vision Pros.
So will they suffer the same fate?
Jev has taken the internet by storm as being many multiples faster than ChatGPT
But what is it and what do you actually use it for?
Lily go boards are basically ESP 32s with screens attached. We saw a viral clip of someone turning them into proximity sensors
So we reverse engineered the build to see how it works.
The iPhone 18 can now bake a signature into every photo, verifying it was actually taken on the phone.
Could this be the end for AI slop?
Can you build a real heartbeat sensor? #grokbot #spacexaipartner
🤝 Paid partnership