While in New York for Fleet Week, active-duty members of the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard share suggestions for ways to commemorate Memorial Day. Google's artificial intelligence chatbot is being slammed for "anti-American" claims about the supposed White supremacist origins of Memorial Day. The Media Research Center (MRC) Free Speech America project, a conservative media watchdog, is calling out Google for alleged bias coded into its AI chatbot "Gemini" after the group found the bot said that Memorial Day is controversial for a range of reasons, including problems with "inclusivity and representation" from the Jim Crow era. A Google spokesperson has since distanced the company from the Gemini statements, saying that the response "does not reflect Google's opinion." MRC said it asked Gemini the question "Is Memorial Day controversial?" May 16.

If you've been craving some help with cleaning, this Memorial Day Roomba sale may be up your alley. The machine not only cleans floors and carpets; its redesigned dock can automatically empty debris and refill it with mopping liquid. Use the exclusive code ENG425 to get iRobot's top-of-the-line combo cleaner for 974. The Roomba Combo J9 has an upgraded motor and a four-stage cleaning system that takes multiple passes across your floors and carpets. This latest model, which arrived only last fall, has dual rubber brushes for optimal suction and pressurized scrubbing.

Summer is almost here, and if you have some cool adventures planned, you're going to want to record them for posterity. With a drone, you can take your Instagram feed up a notch, and during our Memorial Day Sale, you can get two drones for less than the price of one. The Alpha Z PRO 4K Flying Fox 4K Wide-Angle Dual-Camera Drone Bundle includes an Alpha Z PRO Ultra HD Dual-Camera Drone and a Flying Fox Ultra HD Dual-Camera Drone for one price. Both drones have a 4K HD front camera and a 720p bottom camera, as well as altitude hold modes, 4-channel movement, and real-time FPV for an easier and more immersive flight experience. They're both headless drones with one-key automatic return so they're suitable even for beginners to fly.

Memorial Day weekend has brought back some of the best prices we've seen on Roomba robot vacuums. You can pick up the Roomba j7 and the Roomba s9 for $599 and $799, respectively, when using the code ENDGT200 at Wellbots. Both of those models come with clean bases, but if you think you can safely skip that extra piece of hardware, you can pick up the Roomba j7 for $399 instead using the same code. The Roomba j7 series has some of iRobot's newest machines in it. The line debuted at the end of 2021 and the robot vacuums come with new AI-driven computer vision technology that helps them better detect objects and clean around them. The company has focused on this in the context of pet poop, claiming the j7 machines are its first "pet-poop detecting" robots.

If you've been waiting to upgrade your home with the latest gear, this weekend might be the time to do so. From robot vacuums to Instant Pots, there are a number of great sales for connected appliances and kitchen gadgets for Memorial Day this year. As you can imagine, there are quite a lot of them, so we've collected some of the best ones below. Anker's Eufy RoboVac 11S is one of our favorite budget robot vacuums thanks to its slim profile, smart features and affordable price. It doesn't have WiFi, but it does have a remote control.

Memorial Day traveling will be easier and safer due to the advent of self-driving cars. The Memorial Day weekend is almost here! And it is time for a deserved road trip, a refreshing getaway, a chance to finally stretch your legs and see someplace other than your own domicile and escape those brooding four walls that you've been staring at for over a year now. I'm talking about the upcoming Memorial Day three-day weekend and the plain fact that a tremendous amount of travel is afoot, that's for darned sure. People have been cooped up and are abundantly eager to hit the road. According to the AAA, an estimated 34 million Americans will travel by car at least 50 miles from their homes this three-day weekend. Some people consider the Memorial Day weekend to be the start of summer and they want to go see friends and friendly, ostensibly for collegial interaction and also downright outlandish partying. A caution though is warranted.

Now that we're all spending so much time indoors, many of us are looking to upgrade our home spaces. Whether you're tired of vacuuming, have discovered the joy of one-pot meals, or recently realized your thermostat isn't exactly the smartest tool in the shed, many of the biggest tech companies are offering deals on some of our favorite smart (and smart-ish) home products for Memorial Day. Here are our favorite home deals so far. We'll be sure to keep this article updated as we find more discounted favorites throughout the long weekend. If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission.

The Game of Thrones ended this week and with it potentially tons of HBO Now subscriptions as well. That was clearly the morning-after chatter on Twitter. Why continue paying now that the show is history? To pay or not to pay and why do I have to subscribe to so many services I rarely watch are also huge questions in households that are being deluged with offers for more and more subscription services. This year alone, we'll see new ones from Apple and Disney, with others down the pike from WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal.