With smarter gym tracking, new health alerts, and offline Gemini, the Pixel Watch 5 fine-tunes a winning formula--for a price. Strength Training experience is useful for gymgoers. Gemini now has offline functionality. AI watch faces feel gimmicky. Active Band is still dull.

Flock has long pretended to be a simple automated license plate reader (ALPR) company, despite overwhelming evidence that its cameras can track a lot more than that. Now there's a report that it has been developing new AI tools that can potentially locate people by how they drive, according to Wired. The software was reportedly called Nightshift and is now going by the name OS Investigate. It draws from a network of cameras in 6,000 communities and logs the movements of drivers in those communities, Wired reports. This could be used, for instance, to find a witness to a crime by analyzing vehicle movements near where a crime occurred.

Poland says it is preparing for war as Russia threatens Britain with consequences over drone warfare in Ukraine. A retired NATO commander warns of alliance divisions.

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Google didn't reinvent the three-camera array on the back of the Pixel 11 this year; it's just a slight tweak to the one on the Pixel 10. The 13-megapixel ultra-wide camera (with an f/2.2 aperture) and the 5x, 10.8-megapixel telephoto camera (with an f/3.1 aperture) are identical to last year. The main sensor is still rated at 48 megapixels this year, too, though its sensor is significantly larger this year. The 10.5-megapixel front-facing camera is identical to last year, as well. Overall, those hardware changes are minimal, but there's still a key new feature here. The Pixel 11 camera can shoot in up to 30x "Super Zoom" mode, up from the 20x you could squeeze out of the Pixel 10.

Ugreen's 100W USB-C cables are down to $9 for a two-pack at Amazon, working out to less than $5 per cable for fast, durable charging. Ugreen's high-speed USB-C charging cables are down to just $9 for a two-pack at Amazon, a nice cut from its usual $13. That works out to less than $5 per cable, which is hard to argue with for durable charging cables that can be used with not only phones and tablets but also laptops. That they support up to 100W of power, which means they can recharge an iPhone 17 Pro Max from 0% to 50% in just 20 minutes. That's enough juice to get you out the door with a solid charge by the time you finish your morning coffee.

A new channel on Roku's TV service offers all-you-can-eat AI programming. It is 12:04 p.m., and I've been watching AI slop for the past three hours. Before me on the screen, a man is playing trumpet in fog. He's been fired (bad market for trumpet players) but then, at last, he lands an interview. Trumpet Man sits at a large desk across from an obese fellow who asks how good he is with a mop.

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LG is selling a blazing fast OLED QHD monitor, the envy of anyone who wants massive FPS counts for Counter-Strike or Valorant, for half off its retail price. If you're someone who gets panicked at the idea of having to play a computer game at a paltry 60 frames per second, I think I've found the best monitor deal for you. Today you can get an LG OLED gaming monitor for $499.99 on Amazon . That's about $150 above the baseline for affordable OLEDs right now but this one has a 480Hz panel, double the standard speed. The LG UltraGear 27GX790A-B (catchy!) looks pretty normal for an OLED at first glance.

Australia's eSafety commissioner says the pressure on Roblox is about ensuring the gaming platform is a safe place for children. Australia's eSafety commissioner says the pressure on Roblox is about ensuring the gaming platform is a safe place for children. Regulator says verifiable safety measures are'critical' to the online service's viability Roblox has committed to making changes to its online gaming platform after Australia's eSafety commissioner discovered adults were still able to see child accounts and send connection requests without parental consent. The company has provided a legal agreement to the online safety regulator after testing earlier this year also revealed children and adults could view and respond to one another's posts on forums outside game environments without parental consent. Additionally, the regulator found children's connections and profiles - including account names and interests - were visible to anyone on Roblox.