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If “budget-friendly” and “high-quality” sound like oxymorons to you, you’re in for a surprise. As it turns out, you can buy a number of great gifts without completely draining your savings account, which makes it easy to pick up a present for your anniversary, a birthday party, or one of the many other gift-giving occasions strewn throughout the year. Finding the right gift can still be tough, though, even when there is a sea of inexpensive items for under $50 to choose from. That’s why we’ve put together a selection of techy gift ideas, ranging from disposable cameras and wireless …

Newsletter Sed ut perspiciatis unde. Subscribe News briefs for the week take a look at the week’s biggest announcement: Walmart’s recent blockbuster 5-year plan to go all-in on robotics and automation (April 5). By 2026, Walmart claims that 65% of its retail operations will be totally serviced by automation. Winning robotics vendors in the Walmart plan: Symbotic, GreyOrange, and Alert Innovation. Walmart Goes All-In for Robots! A massive upside for entire robotics industry At Walmart’s April 5th Investment Community Meeting, a giant of an industrial robot opened the conference, picking up large white blocks with blue letters on them from …

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Boston-based Consensus, an AI-powered search engine aimed at scientific research, announced today that it has secured $3 million in a seed funding round to continue its mission to improve scientific web search quality. Consensus’s search engine aims to solve the problem of biased and inaccurate search results by delivering expert knowledge from 200 million scientific and academic research papers. With nearly 200,000 registered users since its launch in September, the platform aims to offer genuine answers to …

Sony Bravia X95J specs: Screen size: 65, 75, 85 inches | Panel type: Full array LED | HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10 | Audio: Dolby Atmos, DTS Digital Surround | Refresh rate: 120Hz | Resolution: 4K | VRR support: In dedicated gaming mode The new Bravia X95J from Sony is one of the best the brand has to offer. It comes in 65, 75, and 85-inch screen sizes and uses a full array LED panels. Plus, it supports Dolby Vision and HDR10 to give you crystal clear images, excellent contrast, and bold colors. The updated processor uses AI to analyze shows …

There are a number of e-bike conversion kits on the market, all offering ways to electrify your existing wheels. Boost has emerged as an option with a more elegant and easier way of doing things than some of its rivals. Rather than wire in controllers, battery hardware and a hall effect sensor, almost all of the necessary gear is built into a custom-made rear-hub motor. Everything else, meanwhile, is included in a circular battery pack that sits inside a bottle cage, or something that looks a lot like it, which is mounted to your downtube. Whereas with, say, Swytch, which …

You may have heard that HBO Max is rebranding as Max. In addition to streaming everything on HBO Max, subscribers will have access to Discovery Plus programming and a slate of new TV shows and movies under the Warner Bros. banner. Beginning May 23, Max will roll out as an updated streaming service with a fresh logo and merged catalog. There are no major price hikes set to go in effect, but there will be some changes to subscriptions. Here, we outline what you can expect on each subscription plan once Max goes live next month.  Read more: Best Streaming …

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. If An AI Reworks Copyrighted Images, Is It Art? | Future Tech As environmental challenges go, microfiber pollution has come from practically out of nowhere. It was only a decade or so ago that scientists first suspected our clothing, increasingly made of synthetic materials like polyester and nylon, might be major contributors to the global plastic problem. Today a growing body of science suggests the tiny strands that slough off clothes are everywhere and in everything. By one estimate, they account for as much as one-third …

Dozens of regional LGBTQ community centers are deactivating their Twitter accounts today, decrying recent policy changes despite the rise of hate speech and calling on the app to do more to protect its users.  The announcement came from CenterLink(opens in a new tab), an international nonprofit network of more than 325 LGBTQ organizations, many of which will also be leaving the platform. SEE ALSO: Florida students ‘Walkout 2 Learn’: How to join their education revolution “Twitter has become increasingly unsafe in recent months for LGBTQ and BIPOC people with anti-LGBTQ, anti-trans, anti-Black, and antisemitic tweets on the rise. The removal …

For more than a decade, Snapchat has been a fixture in the lives of young people. But the business side of the app has been much less stable. This week I flew down to LA to check in on the company — and while Snap still has plenty of big ideas, I was struck by how much the company’s ambitions seem to be limited at the moment by the recent downturn in the economy. The occasion for my visit was the annual Snap Partner Summit. For the past three years, due to the pandemic, the event had been online-only. But …

Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. “This is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization,” Musk said at a TED conference on the day he made his offer. “I don’t care about the economics at all.” Even for one of the richest men …