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• The Roomba i7+ robot vacuum returns to its all-time low price
• AI can detect COVID-19 by listening to your coughs
• Tesla's updated Full Self-Driving beta needs fewer human interventions
• Joe Biden's campaign has a 'Fortnite' island
• Intel's Iris Xe Max dedicated graphics are now available in laptops
• Nest thermostats in the US and Canada can now monitor your HVAC system
• Disney robot with human-like gaze is equal parts uncanny and horrifying
• Stay safe and comfortable with this LED fan mask that's $50
• Waymo shares in-depth details of self-driving car activity in Phoenix
• FBI, Homeland Security detail how Iranian hackers stole US voter data
• Hitting the Books: How one of our first 'smart' weapons helped stop the Nazis
• The Morning After: Apple starts a repair program for AirPods Pro ANC problems
• 'League of Legends' RPG 'Ruined King' will launch in early 2021

The Roomba i7+ robot vacuum returns to its all-time low price Posted: 31 Oct 2020 09:01 PM PDT The holiday shopping season has already begun, but Wellbots is kicking off November with a couple of deals on iRobot Roombas. Of note is the Roomba i7+ for $699, which is $100 off its normal price. The standard Roomba i7, which does not come with a C...

AI can detect COVID-19 by listening to your coughs Posted: 31 Oct 2020 02:38 PM PDT It's easy to be worried when you cough these days — is it COVID-19, or are you just clearing your throat? You might get a clearer answer soon. MIT researchers have developed AI that can recognize forced coughing from people who have COVID-19, even if...

Tesla's updated Full Self-Driving beta needs fewer human interventions Posted: 31 Oct 2020 01:55 PM PDT Tesla's Full Self-Driving beta is already making some significant (and arguably needed) strides forward. Electrek says the automaker has rolled out an update that, according to Elon Musk, should reduce the need for human intervention by about a third...

Joe Biden's campaign has a 'Fortnite' island Posted: 31 Oct 2020 01:06 PM PDT If you're running Joe Biden's presidential campaign and want to make a last-minute push for the youth vote, what do you do? Set up a Fortnite island, apparently. Mashable reports (via Kotaku) that the Biden-Harris campaign has introduced a "Build Bac...

Intel's Iris Xe Max dedicated graphics are now available in laptops Posted: 31 Oct 2020 12:17 PM PDT Intel teased its dedicated laptop GPU earlier in October, and it's now rolling out the technology in earnest. The chip designer has announced that the first laptops using its Iris Xe Max graphics chip are available in some form, including the previou...

Nest thermostats in the US and Canada can now monitor your HVAC system Posted: 31 Oct 2020 11:28 AM PDT The latest Nest thermostat isn't the only model that can tell you if something's wrong with your HVAC system. Even older models will get the capability, now that the Google-owned brand has rolled out HVAC monitoring to all Nest thermostats across the...

Disney robot with human-like gaze is equal parts uncanny and horrifying Posted: 31 Oct 2020 11:05 AM PDT Robots with human-like expressions are becoming ever more impressive, but Disney Research might just induce some nightmares with its latest project. Gizmodo reports that Disney has developed a system that gives humanoid robots more realistic gazes an...

Stay safe and comfortable with this LED fan mask that's $50 Posted: 31 Oct 2020 10:55 AM PDT Specific preventative measures are essential for staying healthy while slowing the spread of COVID-19. These include everything from washing one's hands and maintaining social distance to wearing a face mask. Even though we're well into this global p...

Waymo shares in-depth details of self-driving car activity in Phoenix Posted: 31 Oct 2020 09:30 AM PDT Waymo's vehicles have driven a total of 6.1 million miles in Phoenix, Arizona, where it first started testing its self-driving technology. That's merely one of the many, many things the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company has revealed in an in-...

FBI, Homeland Security detail how Iranian hackers stole US voter data Posted: 31 Oct 2020 09:03 AM PDT US officials are shedding more light on how Iran-linked hackers stole voter info to send intimidating emails to Democrat voters. The FBI and Homeland Security's CISA have issued an advisory (via Bleeping Computer) explaining the campaign, which ran f...

Hitting the Books: How one of our first 'smart' weapons helped stop the Nazis Posted: 31 Oct 2020 08:30 AM PDT At the outset of World War II, you'd have a better chance of finding a needle in a haystack with a camel stuck in its eye than you did shooting down an enemy aircraft in your first dozen or so shots. This is because anti-aircraft shells at the time u...

The Morning After: Apple starts a repair program for AirPods Pro ANC problems Posted: 31 Oct 2020 07:46 AM PDT You saw the video. The SSC Tuatara hit 331 MPH and set a new speed record for a production car… or did it? Car fans have been dissecting the company's claim ever since the video was posted, and on further analysis that figure doesn't seem to hold up....

'League of Legends' RPG 'Ruined King' will launch in early 2021 Posted: 31 Oct 2020 06:00 AM PDT Almost a year ago, developer Riot Games unveiled Ruined King, a story-driven title set in the League of Legends universe. We haven't heard much about the game since then, which isn't surprising -- the company has been busy with Valorant, Legends of R...

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