And see how the world's getting on without Superman in a tease of what's coming in Superman & Lois' final season.

Humans have automated tasks for centuries. Now, AI companies see a path to profit in harnessing our love of efficiency, and they’ve got a name for their solution: agents. AI agents are autonomous programs that perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with environments with little human input, and they’re the focus of every major company working on AI today. Microsoft has “Copilots” designed to help businesses automate things like customer service and administrative tasks. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian recently outlined a pitch for six different AI productivity agents, and Google DeepMind just poached OpenAI’s co-lead on its AI video product, Sora, to work on developing a simulation for training AI agents. Anthropic released a...

You could drop $40,000 on 200 Sonos speakers, or get a single pair of Focal's Utopia Diva. In this case, less is most definitely more.

GM is launching its new PowerBank home battery unit today, which slots right into the company’s lineup of residential energy management products. The battery lets homeowners collect energy at off-peak times from the grid or a solar panel system and then power the home when energy prices peak or when the lights go out without needing to keep an EV hooked up in the garage. GM’s home energy company, GM Energy, launched in 2022 to compete in a growing home energy market with competitors like Tesla and its Powerwall and newcomers like EcoFlow and Anker. Home backup solutions are expensive, but they’ll also keep the freezer, CPAP machine, and water pumps running as increasingly severe weather wreaks havoc on the grid. Currently, over 3 million...

Threshold Care’s new Motion Wi-Fi Sensing Plugs can help caregivers monitor older adults, like aging parents, in a noninvasive way that maintains the privacy of everyone in the home. Its built-in Wi-Fi sensing technology measures physical interference with Wi-Fi signals to enable real-time monitoring of “movement without capturing images or photos.” Wi-Fi sensing technology has been kicked around for a few years. It was part of a motion-sensing security feature built into Linksys Velop routers a few years ago, and Signify also uses the tech for its Wiz lightbulbs that turn on when you enter a room — and off when you leave. The Motion plugs are available in a three-pack for $59.99, so you can place...

The fraudsters allegedly used multiple trading bots for the wash trades.

A 40% reduction on an Apple product is historic.

Microsoft is greatly improving its support of passkeys inside Windows 11 soon. A redesigned Windows Hello experience will allow you to select how you want to save your passkeys and even sync them to your Microsoft account or store them with 1Password, Bitwarden, or other passkey providers. A new API for third-party password and passkey managers means developers can plug directly into the Windows 11 experience, so you can use the same passkey from your mobile device to authenticate on your PC. Right now it’s possible in some apps to do this through QR codes and other ways to authenticate from a mobile device, but Microsoft’s full support means the passkeys experience on Windows is about to get a lot better.

In Lebanon, health workers and medical facilities have continued to be hit and killed by ongoing Israeli bombardment, a week since Israel sent troops and armoured vehicles into the south of the country and issued evacuation orders, UN humanitarians said on Thursday.

Atlus’ Persona franchise is largely a console series, but it has a strong history on handhelds. There were excellent portable versions of Persona 3 and Persona 4, and Persona 5 Royal on Nintendo Switch was great, too. Metaphor: ReFantazio is a new fantasy JRPG from the team behind those beloved Personas. And while the game takes place in a different universe, many of the core elements are present in Metaphor — which means that it’s just as great of a handheld experience. I might be understating it to say Metaphor is Persona-like. The game’s UI is exceptionally flashy. You’ll spend a lot of time talking with your allies and improving your bonds with them. Days tick by as you navigate sprawling dungeons and spend time with your companions...