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It’s about that time of year. National Pool Opening Day is tomorrow, April 25, and summer is almost here, which means pool owners everywhere are getting ready to unveil the horrors of whatever happened during the off-season. Most of the Beatbot lineup is on sale at Amazon and Beatbot’s own storefront, with prices starting at $499. Beatbot makes many of the best pool-cleaning robots we’ve tested, and we’ve highlighted our top picks below. Note that the discounts are scheduled to end on April 26, though items may sell out sooner. Happy pool party season! (Drop me an invite!)Beatbot AquaSense 2…
Xiaomi has launched a new high-end refrigerator, the Mijia Refrigerator Pro Premium Cross-Door 508L with Ion Purification 4.0. The refrigerator is now available for pre-order in China, priced at 9999 yuan ($1466). The appliance comes in three colors: Ice Crystal White, Star Silver, and Apricot Glass. Mijia Refrigerator Pro 508L Specifications The refrigerator has a total capacity of 508L, divided into a 297L fridge, a 35L variable temperature zone, and a 176L freezer. It features multiple storage zones for beverages, fresh produce, and frozen goods, enabling efficient food organization. This Xiaomi model features Full-Area Ion Purification 4.0, which removes odors…
This Ban Does Not Include Cellphones Nor Existing Products The FCC seems to have learned from their recent blanket ban of foreign made routers and while they are doing something similar with Wi-Fi hotspots it will not be quite as confusing. The ban will only apply to new hotspot products released by non-US companies, it won’t mean products that are currently available will be removed from shelves. That makes it somewhat less confusing that the original wording of the router ban, which has undergone some modification after it was first announced. There are now exceptions to some consumer routers models,…
A retired PlayStation boss makes the case for PS5 games on PC. Atari expands its retro game emulation capabilities. And the “efficiency” purge at Meta continues. It’s your Morning Checkpoint for April 24, 2026, where we can safely report that the next Halo game is not a pottery spin-off. I can’t tell you what might come out of this bouncing, talking Ditto’s mouth, but I can tell you it will be roughly $33 to find out. In the meantime, Final Fantasy XVI Fan Fest is underway this weekend in Anaheim, California. It’s packed, and former Kotaku writer Harper Jay MacIntyre…
On a hot Saturday in San Antonio over 10 years ago, an 8-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after days of fever, headache, vomiting and sensitivity to light. The child’s mother, who lived near the Texas-Mexico border, had taken him to a series of clinics in Mexico, but his condition had worsened. The child was now unconscious and unresponsive to sound, light or other stimuli.Doctors put the child on a ventilator and began a breakneck effort to find out what was wrong. What they discovered, swimming in the boy’s cerebrospinal fluid, was an organism that left little room for…
Two companies that launched last year with plans to create gene-edited babies have already shut down, citing money issues and internal conflict.One of them, Manhattan Genomics of New York, closed abruptly shortly after announcing a team of scientific advisers in October that included a prominent fertility doctor, a data scientist who worked for de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences, and a scientist who pioneered a “three-parent” IVF technique. The other, California-based Bootstrap Bio, said it ceased operations in late 2025, as first reported by Mother Jones.Manhattan Genomics and Bootstrap Bio had ambitions to edit DNA in human embryos with the goal of…
John Ternus was unavoidable when Apple debuted the Macbook Neo. He kicked off an intimate media event for the Neo, introducing it as a transformative machine for Apple thanks to its low $599 cost ($499 for education customers) and premium build quality. He was interviewed on Good Morning America, the sort of prominent media feature CEO Tim Cook typically handles. And when I asked Apple workers about the Neo at its launch event, they almost always brought up Ternus’ vision of the laptop.For all intents and purposes, Tetanus was Apple’s frontman for the MacBook Neo.Ternus is slated for his coronation…
Huawei has unveiled a new smart home accessory in China called the Huawei Smart Lock M2. The lock officially went on sale today at 799 yuan (~$117), but a government subsidy brings the price down to 679.15 yuan, or around $100. And it’s a bargain for that price. Huawei Smart Lock M2 Specifications The Huawei Smart Lock M2 relies on AI-based features, particularly for its fingerprint unlocking system. The company says the lock uses an adaptive AI fingerprint sensor that improves with each use, gradually refining recognition accuracy over time. It unlocks in about 0.5 seconds, and Huawei claims a…
Valve is providing more data on Steam Deck performance to developers who have created and shipped games that are marked as Verified on the handheld PC. While this might help devs tune games to run better on the platform, I’m still not sure the Verified system is working as intended. On April 23, Valve published a new Steamworks Development blog announcing that two new Steam Deck data features were now available for devs. The first is a tool that provides the average framerate over the last 30 days for a dev’s game on Steam Deck. At the moment, this new…
Listen to this audio excerpt from Peter Rossoni, Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System flight manager: Your browser does not support the audio element. As a child, Peter Rossoni watched the Apollo missions launch with his family. In April 2026, he became a part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, helping enable communications as astronauts journeyed around the Moon. Rossoni’s path to NASA began as he followed his parents’ footsteps into science. That foundation eventually led him to laser communications and NASA’s Artemis II test flight. Today, Rossoni is the flight manager for the Orion Artemis II Optical Communication System at…