Ditching the surveillance baggage makes Meta's audio-only frames surprisingly easy to live with. Audio and call quality are excellent. Transition lenses adjust effectively and quickly. Meta AI is getting better, but isn't top-notch. I am very lost in Los Angeles.

Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn't Really Say (or Do) Anything Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? You've had a long day. You finally get home, fling the door open, plonk on the couch, and let out a big sigh. In the corner of your eye, you notice your mushroom lamp perk up. Its microphone must have heard you come in.

After testing multiple models, I'm convinced voice control belongs on the family calendar. Greenlight's Family Hub shows why. I set up a digital wall calendar at a friend's house a couple of months ago. Her first question was one I've constantly asked myself as I test these devices in my own home: "Does it have a voice assistant?" It feels like the one thing missing from these devices.

The Detroit automaker wants your next vehicle to be a personal assistant, a best friend, and an autonomous errand-runner. Americans spent about 95 billion hours behind the wheel last year, traveling something like 2.76 trillion miles . On Wednesday, General Motors executives are outlining the future of automotive at the company's annual GM Forward event in New York City, and they say their goal isn't to reduce that number. But GM does want to make car time better. Or, as Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson put it in an interview with WIRED, "make it more productive, make it more relaxing, make it more engaging. We'd like to make your vehicle a more central, more useful part of your life than it has been historically."