Microsoft is giving Copilot AI faces you can chat with

Microsoft is giving Copilot AI faces you can chat with

Here are some examples of the “Portraits” avatars available to select Copilot users. Microsoft is trying to make Copilot more approachable by giving the AI assistant an animated face to talk with. The experimental “Portraits” feature in Copilot Labs is currently available in the US, UK, and Canada, and provides 40 stylized human avatars that…

Beats redesigned its new Powerbeats Fit’s wing tip to be more comfortable and secure

Beats redesigned its new Powerbeats Fit’s wing tip to be more comfortable and secure

Like the iPhone 17 Pro, the new BEats Powerbeats Fit earbuds come in orange. | Image: Beats Beats has announced a new version of the Fit Pro wireless earbuds that launched in late 2021, which are now called the Powerbeats Fit. The most notable upgrade is a redesigned wing tip that Beats says is 20…

Amazon’s Echo Pop and Dot speakers are the cheapest they’ve been in months

Amazon’s Echo Pop and Dot speakers are the cheapest they’ve been in months

The Echo Pop is $15 off. The Echo Pop and Echo Dot are Amazon’s entry-level smart speakers, and both are currently on sale ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day (aka Prime Big Deal Days), which officially kicks off on October 7th. Both speakers are currently discounted to their lowest prices since the middle of June,…

RidePods is the first iPhone game you control with AirPods

RidePods is the first iPhone game you control with AirPods

Weave through traffic by just moving your head from side to side. | Image: Apple Developer Ali Tanis has released the first game for iPhones and iPads that’s played using Apple’s AirPods as a wearable motion controller. The RidePods – Race with Head gameplay is relatively basic – you’re just steering a motorcycle through oncoming…

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy

Anthropic’s latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams. It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to Anthropic, and it only stopped running when it had completed the task. The model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, was announced today, and its ability to operate…

Trump posts, then pulls bizarre AI video promoting MedBed conspiracy

Trump posts, then pulls bizarre AI video promoting MedBed conspiracy

Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office. Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night was particularly bizarre. The president posted (and later removed) a clip on Truth Social of a fake Fox News segment with Lara Trump detailing the White…

How the voice of Silksong’s Hornet brought her to life through gibberish

How the voice of Silksong’s Hornet brought her to life through gibberish

Silksong resembles the original Hollow Knight in many ways, though right from the start, you can hear one key difference: Hornet. Hollow Knight‘s protagonist was silent, but just as Hornet was voiced in that game, as the protagonist of Silksong, she has a voice, too, and actor Makoto Koji brings a lot of personality to…