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The vacuum failed to clean up two of the three test Cheerios that I strategically placed around my main floor to see which nooks and crannies it could reach. Both had small overhangs (one was an Ikea Billy bookshelf and the other a freestanding cabinet) that the Spot+Scrub couldn’t get under. It doesn’t have an extendable arm to help fix the issue.I ran into a similar issue upstairs. My bathroom cabinets are the same basic builder-grade set as my downstairs kitchen, but the Spot+Scrub managed to wedge itself underneath my primary bathroom cabinets and then struggled to remove itself. It…
Kepler content production lead Zach Schimpf is the first agency creative we’ve profiled for Off the Clock whose Bandcamp and Spotify accounts come up before LinkedIn in a Google search.From his home studio, now in Milwaukee and usually with a dog at his side, Schimpf makes albums of electronic and ambient music, as well as taking on projects for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. It was his passion for music—specifically the process of producing it—that led him to the advertising world.Schimpf first picked up a guitar at age 11, which lit a spark that definitely wasn’t there when he’d taken piano…
For decades, buying stock in a hot startup meant being allowed to invest in the funds run by the top VCs. But with the AI boom causing an investment frenzy, more family offices and private wealth are skipping the VC middlemen to get directly onto the cap table. “Companies are staying private longer, and there are fewer IPOs now than we’ve seen historically,” Mitch Stein, founder of Arena Private Wealth, an investment advisory firm for high-net-worth individuals, told TechCrunch on a recent episode of Equity. “A lot of money is being made well before companies go public, and right now the…
The ELIE 6 stands 7.7 x 4.8 x 4.1 inches and weighs 4 pounds. It’s not fully dunkable like the new Sonos Play, but it offers basic dust and water resistance (IP54). Like the Play, you can stereo-pair it with a second speaker over Bluetooth, or group multiple Fender speakers together.On the top panel, analog volume dials for both the speaker and amplifier modes give the ELIE a retro vibe, but they can be a bit of a hindrance in daily use. This isn’t the first portable speaker with the Fender name (see the Fender Tuefel collaboration speakers), but it’s…
Adobe Acrobat has largely catered to professionals with its recent AI features. Now, the company is turning its attention to students by making Acrobat more useful with the launch of a new AI tool called Student Spaces. The tool will allow students to create presentations, flash cards, and quizzes from study materials such as PDFs, links, and notes. With the launch, the creative suite company is trying to compete with other AI tools like Google’s NotebookLM, Goodnotes, and Turbo AI, all of which allow students to upload documents to generate different kinds of study materials. To gain traction, Adobe is…
The Trump administration is planning to cut the budget of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) by at least $707 million for 2027. The proposed budget cut [pdf] was released late last week as part of an omnibus budget proposal that includes the privatization of airport security. The Trump administration claims the reduction to the U.S. top cybersecurity agency will refocus its “core mission” of securing the federal civilian network and protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, and not “weaponization and waste,” as the administration claimed. The proposal also alleged that CISA was “focused on censorship,” likely referring to…
Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place. Once users select photos that they want to share, Gemini will analyze the images to create captions. Users can then choose to edit or remove the caption. The company says the new tool is designed to give users a head start on captions when sharing content. Caption suggestions are available now in English on iOS in the…
Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends, wives and girlfriends, and former partners, new research has uncovered. The findings, from a European nonprofit group, also say that the communities are involved in extensive trading, selling, and promotion of a huge variety of abusive content, including nonconsensual intimate images of women, so-called nudifying services, plus folders of images that sellers claim include child sexual abuse material and depictions of incest and rape.Over six weeks earlier this year, researchers at the algorithmic auditing group…
Update (April 7, 10:30 PM PT): The company has updated the app store listing and removed references to the Android app. But it also added that the iOS keyboard is coming soon. Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to take on the likes of Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow, and others. The app is free to download, and once its Gemma-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are downloaded, you can start dictating on your phone. In the app, you can see the live transcription, and when you hit pause, the app…
AI research lab Anthropic announced Monday that it signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for increased processing and compute capacity to power its Claude AI models. This reworking of its compute deals comes as demand for its AI models continues to soar. The deals would expand Anthropic’s use of Google Cloud’s tensor processing units, or TPUs, the company’s advanced AI chips, and is an expansion of the deal the companies struck in October 2025 for more than a gigawatt of compute capacity. This new compute capacity will come online in 2027, Anthropic said in the blog post. The…
On Tuesday, Amazon announced that Uber was expanding its contract for AWS cloud services to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips. Uber will particularly expand its use of AWS’s Graviton (a low-power, ARM-based server CPU) and start a new trial testing Trainium3, AWS’s Nvidia competitor AI chip. This deal is a bit less about a long-term threat to Nvidia than it is a thorough thumbing of the nose by Amazon at AWS’s cloud competitors, Google and Oracle. While Uber historically ran its own data centers, back in 2023, the ride-hailing company famously signed giant, multi-year cloud computing…
After years of resisting, Google Chrome is finally adopting vertical tabs — a feature more recently popularized by the Arc browser, a predecessor to the AI browser Dia. Google announced on Tuesday that Chrome users will have the option to enable vertical tabs, which will move the tabs to the side of the browser window, making it easier to read full page titles and manage tab groups. Once enabled, vertical tabs will remain the default setting until the user changes it back. Image Credits:Google The company is adding support for vertical tabs alongside a refreshed version of Reading Mode, its…
A group of Russian government hackers have hijacked thousands of home and small business routers around the world as part of an ongoing campaign aimed at redirecting victim’s internet traffic to steal their passwords and access tokens, security researchers and government authorities warned on Tuesday. This is the latest tactic by the long-running Russian hacking group known as Fancy Bear, or APT 28, known for its high-profile hacks and spying operations, including the breach of the Democratic National Committee in 2016 and the destructive hack that hit satellite provider Viasat in 2022. Fancy Bear is widely believed to be part…
Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work. In a previously leaked memo, the AI startup called the model one of its “most powerful” yet. The model’s limited debut is part of a new security initiative, dubbed Project Glasswing, in which 12 partner organizations will deploy the model for the purposes of “defensive security work” and to secure critical software, Anthropic said. While it was not specifically trained for cybersecurity work, the model will be used to scan both first-party…
It takes just a skim of Eclipse’s recent investments to see where this venture firm’s interests lie — and where it is headed. The Palo Alto-based VC, which saw its median deal size explode over the past several years, has poured an increasing amount of money into the “physical world.” Its deals include electric boat developer Arc, buzzy battery recycling and material firm Redwood Materials, self-driving construction vehicle startup Bedrock Robotics, autonomous vehicle tech company Wayve, and industrial robotics lab Mind Robotics. With $1.3 billion in fresh capital — which is split between a $591 million early-stage incubation fund and…
Tired of solicitors knocking on your front door trying to sell you junk while you’re relaxing? You can grab the Google Nest Doorbell, our favorite video doorbell, from Amazon for just $140, a $40 discount from its usual price, and turn them away without getting off the couch. This attractive and elegant video doorbell has a variety of smart features, full Google integration, and hooks up to a powered source so you never have to charge the battery. I have the wireless version at home and found it extremely useful for spotting packages, talking to neighbors, or just snooping on…