Kristen DiMercurio went viral on TikTok when she revealed she was probably the voice of your Bluetooth speaker … and your headphones … and that gadget how-to video … and your insurer’s call center.
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On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World Economic Forum.

The ruling in federal court in Minnesota lands as Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces scrutiny over an internal memo claiming judge-signed warrants aren’t needed to enter homes without consent.

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

Bitter cold, power outages, and impassible roads are a terrible cocktail. Here’s how to prep and bunker in for an extreme winter storm.

These excellent earbuds were already a good deal before the discount.

US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other narcotics.

TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more closely.

A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.

Gearing up to shred the slopes or dive into the seas? These photography tools are made for danger.

Celebrate National Handwriting Day (I did not make that up) with new notebooks, a journal, or sketchbooks.

I tested an array of alternative sleep aids, from gummies to wearable patches, to see if they would help my chronic insomnia.

It’s rare to find a gaming laptop under $1,000 without any major compromises, but the Lenovo LOQ 15 surprises.

Roborock hasn’t updated its popular, affordable Qrevo Curv line of robovacs for years. Finally, it’s happening!

Freecash will actually pay money out to users but not for watching videos. This misleading marketing coincides with the app’s rising popularity.

We Are Rewind’s speaker/cassette player combo is an imperfect but satisfying reissue of a bygone audio era.

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware.

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From Black vampires gobbling up Oscar nominations to gay pro hockey players dominating the culture, diverse stories broke through in an environment that’s increasingly hostile to them.

A pair of bills in Massachusetts would require manufacturers to tell consumers when their connected gadgets are going dark. It should be a boon for cybersecurity as connected devices grow obsolete.

Humanoid robots, space travel, the science of aging—Musk weighed in on all of it at this week’s World Economic Forum. But his predictions rarely work out the way he says they will.



