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Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.
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 Ray-Ban has kicked off a major discount across numerous retailers this week, taking 15 percent off the second generation Meta smart glasses, and 25 percent off the first generation. We're tracking these deals at Amazon and Best Buy below, and they are set to last through May 26.
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The grocery store coffee aisle gets a bad rap. As a former barista, I'm here to tell you some of it is genuinely great if you know what to reach for.
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Some devices force you to choose between power and flexibility. The Surface Book 3 says, why not both? This like-new 2020 model is a triple threat — a high-performance laptop, a creative studio, and a lightweight tablet — all in one seriously premium design.
Inside, it's packing a 10th Gen Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GPU, 32GB RAM, and 512GB SSD, so whether you're editing 4K videos, working on design projects, gaming on the go, or just juggling 37 browser tabs, this machine keeps up without breaking a proverbial sweat.
And with three distinct modes, it adapts to whatever you throw at it:
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Also known as NextGen TV, the new broadcast standard promised to revolutionize free over-the-air TV with features like 4K HDR video, time-shifting, on-demand viewing, and interactive programming. For cord-cutters who get free local channels with an antenna, this was a genuinely exciting technology when it began rolling out way back in 2019.
Six years later, that excitement has evaporated thanks to restrictive digital rights management (DRM) and high adoption costs. While the broadcast TV industry has failed to make ATSC 3.0 stick, they've succeeded in getting tech enthusiasts, consumer advocates, and even some individual broadcasters to fear and despise it.
Now, broadcasters are hoping for a bailout from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which announced this week that it will consider their wishes to wind down the existing ATSC 1.0 standard and mandate ATSC 3.0 adoption. If that happens, most antenna users will need a new TV or tuner box by 2030 at the latest. Having failed in the marketplace, broadcasters now want the government to help foist ATSC 3.0 upon people instead.
Sadly, it didn't have to be this way.
What's happening with ATSC 3.0?
NextGen TV broadcasts are available in more than 90 U.S. markets, covering 70 percent of the population, but accessing these broadcasts requires an ATSC 3.0 tuner, and most TVs don't have one.
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